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0.x.x makes sense if you explicitly keep a "the ABI is fluid and will break at any time" rule while using it. It basically means that no downstream project can consume a 0.x.x release—which makes sense. 0.x.x is an exploratory phase, and should be passed through as quickly as possible. 1.x.x is then the first "ABI contract": the point at which you can make a call to the project as a library, and know that that call's semantics won't change or break throughout the 1.x.x series.

(You could determine something like this mechanically pretty easily... if your platform had anything like "ABI specification files", the way many platforms have "dependency specification files." 1.0.0 would then be the first time you generated an ABI "lock file", that would then be used by your toolchain to fail builds that violate it across the 1.x.x series. To delete-and-regenerate the ABI lockfile would be to bump the major version.)

The real problem, though, is that many projects are too big to have a single version sum them up. People need to break components down along stability boundaries—places where rate-of-change changes—and then give versions to those components. NPM libraries are a sort-of-good example of this, though I think there might be better.
That warrant isn't targeted and affects Apple customers who are unrelated to any criminal investigation. I see no reason why it would be granted.

Consider more traditional warrants. The police ask for a warrant to search your house. They get that warrant. Then afterwards they ask for another warrant, this time to enter everybody's house. Does the precedent set by the first warrant make a judge likely to grant the second one? I don't think so. Certainly I've never heard of any such warrant being issued by an American court (excluding the ridiculous FISA court, anyway), even though police would surely love to have one, and the precedent of search warrants for individual houses is extremely long standing.
Do you have hosts you would suggest? There are so many hosts out there, it's hard to know wheat from chaff (to put it politely).
I don't find it unethical, but it's most likely against the law with the DMCA anti-circumvention clause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#Circumventi...

Also, telling people how to do it is probably against the clause also.

Most content I enjoy I'd be willing to pay for. For example, I'd be willing to pay a few bucks a month to Hacker News, if that's what it came to for support.
Are you being sarcastic? I ended up disabling javascript just to read that article.
You might like to try to map a Ctrl key to the Capslock and use Ctrl + [ as ESC.
It depends on the article. Some of the articles it works for, others it doesn't.
It's a push because of the presidential election.

The republicans like it because "business is going to be terrible if you elect a democrat" (or a commie!)

Sanders likes it because "big business hates me! A vote for me is a vote against the establishment!"

Clinton likes it because anything that makes Sanders a legitimate opponent means a longer and more active donation cycle, and more young people and black people voting come the general election (and despite what they say now... they are all going to be clinton supporters in a few short months.
Everybody I've seen here saying that Apple should assist the FBI in unlocking the device takes the same stance in both cases. If Apple doesn't like it, they should either secure the device in such a way that it isn't easier for themselves to compromise than it is for a third party or stop doing business in that country if they believe the requests are unreasonable.
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Accepting higher credit limits actually improves your credit score over time, assuming you do not actually use the credit. In my opinion, you should accept the credit limit increases when offered.
You only need to do <!DOCTYPE html>, without the 5.
I don’t get the _fear_ of releasing the 1st version of a library at `1.0.0` and then doing major bumps whenever needed. That’s why semver exists in the 1st place.

There seems to be a lot of FUD around this subject.
$50 is not free. I worked at a print shop- a D&D module would take like 10 minutes to scan.
> Judges are fully capable of distinguishing before different circumstances. This case is decided on the merits of this case. Tomorrow's case is decided on the merits of tomorrow's case.

The US legal system is heavily based on following precedent.
Kuhn's Paradox
Apparently the "Ice Age Effect", which has caused rotation to quicken by making the planet more spherical, dominated over the last 20k yrs. More recently, "polar ice sheet/glacier melting" has moved water mass from the poles to the ocean, causing rotation to slow. It isn't clear from TFA how these phenomena can be differentiated: in both cases ice is melting in polar regions. However they seem to have opposite effects? I'm sure Mitrovica has a way to tease out these opposite effects, and I'm sure they're not exactly offsetting, but without those details TFA is just confusing.
House of cards exclusive rights are not owned by Netflix in many regions. Look it up. "Netflix Original" is a misnomer.
Slow down there, you're moving the goal posts way too fast.

If you have an argument, stick with it.

If Apple doesn't want to look bad complying to FBI requests, they shouldn't have put a backdoor in their software.
oh ok. good.
Most of the old (valuable) stuff is saddle stitched- pull the staples, scan, restaple, no one would know.
Radeons work without kernel blobs, just binary firmwares that are loaded on the card.
You've got to write about something when you cover tech. It's like pulling a magic rabbit out of a hat.
>> We put more anger against human agents rather than the impersonal forces of nature.

That too is a very american thing these days. "Natural" disasters are seen in religious terms. Things from nature come from god and are believed unstoppable. Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes... even the suggestion that they can be mitigated or prevented is derided. Many take the suggestion that man is more powerful than nature as an affront to deeply held religious views.
No, this would not reduce the net security of anyone at all. The FBI isn't asking for a master key to everything, or a backdoor to all iPhones. They're asking for the data on this one single device.

In other words, if some other party got the modified software, it wouldn't do anything. The software was asked to be device locked, which is trivial to do.

The reduced security you worry about already happened on the iPhone.
The Illuminatus Trilogy is a couple of guys getting stoned and screwing around with various goofy ideas. Like a lot of postmodern stuff, it doesn't take much of anything, especially its subject seriously.

Foucault's Pendulum is a very smart guy who knows a lot, pointing out that, if you peel an onion you won't find anything in the center.
Couldn't have said it better for the most part. I think, though this isn't a bubble, the land of fairytales and unicorns (i.e. Silicon Valley) is finally coming to terms with the economic reality that the rest of entrepreneurs in the U.S. live in.

It was inevitable at some point for this to happen - just look at railroad technologies in the 1870's and dozens of other examples since then. The internet, and associated technologies, are beginning to mature, and thus business models must begin to rise to meet a new standard - a profitable and sensible one.

Silicon Valley did a lot of great things for this country, but it gets out of hand when, for instance, relatively simple apps coded over little more than a few weeks start to command hundred-million-dollar valuations (or more) with no revenue and no path to profitability just because of the geographic location of the company headquarters.
Here's how I would explain it to a 5-year-old - when you make laws like this, you make everyone else not want to do business with you. This means that you only get to business with people in your own country. 7 billion people with ideas is going to be much better than just one billion people with ideas. The 7 billion people have more money, more ideas, and more people to make cool things, and you're stuck with your one billion people. You will be left behind.
I watched PagerDuty leadership run out of the room when Amazon completely shit itself during a conference in 2011, and I heard a few months later that they'd signed up with Linode at some point after that. I could probably put two and two together there as a reliability strategy to back up against AWS failures.

Keep in mind Linode had a pretty good rep at the time. I wouldn't second guess them on the call, as I probably would have made it at the time, too. They didn't dig in or lock themselves in with debt, and bailed when the time was right, too.
I loathe this about Android and OS X. I know that Marshmallow is thr latest and greatest but when I check my phone tells me that it's on 5.0.2. I have no idea what to do with that number. I need to Google the version to see I'm still on Lollipop.
SourceForge is down
http://sourceforge.net/ (if it isn't blocked by your ad blocking extension)

The status page is at http://sourceforge.net/sitestatus which also seems to be down

Nothing posted on https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops/with_replies, either.
I have also read and successfully applied Dave Ramsey's debt snowball method (suboptimal yet effective). While I was reading the article, it confirmed to me that Dave Ramsey's method falls in line with a large portion of the general public's tendencies. No wonder he is so successful, he has a large market already psychologically primed to believe and apply his method.
As someone who does devops for a living this feels like it could be a replacement for s3 inside an aws vpc, without connecting to anything outside of your private network. You could just have nodes register with consul when they come up.
Hey, I coauthored the audit report you linked to, and I want to clarify: our policy was to list findings without editorializing on how severe you should judge them to be. We didn't intend to claim one way or another about "a reasonable level of security".

I don't speak for Least Authority (and don't currently work for them).
It might come out, but then go back in and out a few times before sticking. Survival would be path-dependent.
How would that give them the ability to use it on any iPhone in the world? You think they put the same software on all phones in the world? Same hardware?
To paraphrase Borges, they should have died on the same day.
The phone in question is a government issued work phone? Hadn't heard that before. Pretty big detail that isn't mentioned often.
It's the feeling of total entitlement amongst those six-figure engineers that is the issue, not necessarily the salary. Take, for instance, the whole 'tech bro' debacle and others like it.
Yep. It's his employer's property. The shooter intentionally destroyed his personal iPhone before the attacks.
The point, which you missed, is that the FBI already can look through your sock drawer with a warrant. And they already can get your private information from a company's server. If you want that not to be the case, it's an entirely different argument.
There are many things suspect about the "prequel", but at face value it demonstrates Harper had exactly Gladwell's critique of Atticus Finch in mind all along, and the jokes on the rest of us for propping Finch up as a saint.
Great going. All the best guys!
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> Eventually everyone will realize that it's not a tech bubble, it's an asset bubble that was intentionally inflated to buy us time to prevent a depression, but we didn't do much with the time.

Seriously. Overlay the S&P 500 over that graph of "Median valuation of U.S. startups". They look mighty similar.
This reminded me of both the amazingness of the culture of Tumblr and a lot of the reasons about why I left. I could create useful, informative, viral things there, but there was no way I could make a decent amount of income on the large amount of work I was putting in.

I never went so far as to do any of the things mentioned in here—no raspberry ketone treatments ever came from ShortFormBlog—but the closest I got was a one-time sponsored post deal I did with Federated Media. That was nice—and the advertiser was also legitimate and high-profile—but it was just a one-time thing.

By choosing for years not to do anything to help creators make money off their websites, Tumblr created a situation where some of their best users did questionable things just to make money from their websites. It's too bad—had Tumblr been more decisive, it could have been a YouTube-type situation—allowing both them and their users to make lasting revenue.
Ahh I remember using cryptocat long ago. Almost 3 years ago. Thanks for providing the service man! Hope to see more updates in the future
HN is looking for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. This is on the celebrity gossip side of things; please don't post those.
> Are you using React and voicing your concern?

Yes.

> Every three months might be too often for a tool like curl.

Why should a tool for creating dynamic HTML be held to a lesser standard? I wouldn't expect the level of stability that curl has yet, but I would expect it to be an eventual goal of the project. The reason why we build abstractions is so we can eventually stop worrying about a problem; that can't happen without stability.

> You might want to ask a few people who use React to draw the conclusions. I talk to a lot of people in the React ecosystem, and so far the feedback I heard is that updating React has been the least of their worries, compared to some other libraries in the ecosystem which are far less stable.

That's because you talk to other enthusiasts who are happy about changes. Try asking people outside of the React Slack channel for a wider perspective.

I've had people complain on my projects about upgrading apps using APIs deprecated 2 or 3 years prior. And I feel genuinely bad about it, because if they are having to justify spending 3 or 4 days refactoring their app (which is hard to do in a lot of companies) because I made an API mistake 3 years ago... I feel bad about it. We should strive for better stability.
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I would like to see some clarification on point #5. The only other option I see for the FBI is to continue manually bruteforcing PINs, the arduousness of such a task being why they requested Apple's help in the first place. Is he talking about 0days?
And laptop on a silly stand right in front of every person, while they have two perfectly fine screens and separate mouse and keyboard.
when I see China being the second to the last in the list, I have to say Beijing is doing the right thing to keep this kind of BS out of its boundary.
He is suggesting that the FBI sees this as an opportunity to set a precedent and doesn't care about the data?

If so, in FBI logic, in the future there could be a more legitimate need for Apple to comply because a suspect could have a WMD. But so far no such threat exists.

However, let's distort the issue and exploit this opportunity now knowing few will go against law enforcement tactics against the San Bernardino killers?

Because they will need the power in the future but the public has to be scared into acting now to prevent the real hypothetical future attack?
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And not to be condescending, but if you have no network after 9 years of experience, you might want to think about what it is about you that is causing that.
The same big microcode resulting in small use of logic resources trick is also often used in software emulation. For example this classic Bisqwits NES in C++ with extensive explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIUVSD3yqqE&t=4m40s
Umm, this isn't an "I have nothing to hide" argument. It's a "the government has a warrant to search a house" argument. It would be pretty dumb to argue that the FBI can't search a house if they have a warrant. In this case, they have a warrant and apple is refusing to open the door.
> This key is generated by combining the user's passcode with a key baked in to the hardware in a way that is designed to be difficult to extract.

Difficult doesn't necessarily mean impossible: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/519201/tamper-proof-chips...

Is it publicly known how the key is physically stored in the chip and if there is active tamper resistance?

It might be a lot of work to break out the tiny probes and the tunneling microscopes or whatever and get the key that way, but at the current level of terrorist attacks in the US the FBI should be afford the resources for that.
I produced David Hume's arguments, which, I think, are a pretty good starting point. If you're not willing to familiarize yourself with them, that's a shame, because he's a pretty smart guy.
You haven't heard of Glassdoor?
More confirmation, as if anyone needed it, that this case is not about the months-old data on one particular phone, but rather about breaking the security of all phones.
There is so much misinformation floating around.

The FBI wouldn't get a backdoor to all phones. It would literally only work on this one phone.

Or put another way, the backdoor is already there and Apple is being compelled to open it for this phone.
> Azure replaced Linode very quickly after the July incident.

Bah. More virt. Throw down some cash on a cage and fire up AWS Direct Connect, man. It's bliss, you get more choices out here than I did with us-east-1, plus you guys can afford it now.

We plopped in physical gear for a couple parts of our AWS infra a few employers ago and cut our Amazon opex by like, two thirds. Not helpful for your using Azure as a reliability strategy, but worth thinking about for your write-heavy databases, for example.
This looks perfectly playable to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUOEAsCNZiA
Off topic, but this is exactly the scenario that Twitter wants to replace by expanding the tweet size limit. Instead of a picture of text, we could expand to real (presumably searchable) text.
yeah that's what jumped out at me too... Shouldn't it affect both?
Unless there are some major technical advantage in doing so, Apple is unlikely to move away from ARM. The ARM architecture license is far cheaper then the design license. ( Since you have to do more work to design it yourself rather then buying the blueprint )

And according to RealWorldTech, ARMv8 is simply a work of art.
Fair call. I had the entry level Linode with 1GB RAM and 1 vCPU, and moved to the t2.micro, also with 1GB RAM and 1 CPU. I'm aware that cost me SSD's, but nothing I do is IO relevant.
The intelligence community never lets a terrorist attack go to waste.

I'm convinced they have a wish list in wait for every tragedy. Next on the list was getting a back door on every cellphone.
If your goal is to make money, you're much better off with a blog where you own the content than you are with Tumblr.
There's an RFC for IPv6 addresses in Base85: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924
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Yup, thank you. :)

I like Github, but I've had Gitlab repos for a few years because they allow me to keep some projects "off the books" without having to pay. So, thank you again for this.

I've also used your CI, which is great. I've recommended it to a few clients, so thank you again!

You guys have done a great job for the community and I wish you all the best!
This simply isn't true.

if (deviceUid = 12345) {
openBackDoor()
}

Cryptographically sign code. Done. We know it's secure and will only work on devicd 12345 because we trust cryptography.
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Just wondering, are those special Mac Mini Builds, Custom WiFi integration hints of something to come?
Putting up walls in the form of code signing, TPMs, rate limiters, password hash functions designed to slow down iterative guessing, aren't vulnerabilities in waiting. The government changing the rules by claiming they're entitled to coerce a company to code changes causing these walls to be removed, does not make them pre-existing vulnerabilities.

If the Court rules Apple can be compelled to do the work to create significantly weaker software, and then authenticate it with their signing key, it's pretty reasonable Apple will look for ways to further hard code these walls into the hardware. It's not just in their marketing interest, although that's a factor, it's to get themselves completely out of the business of even having these arguments almost every time they come up, when governments around the world say "gimme!" with a court order. If they refine this so they really can't comply, even by hacking their own products, then the only thing governments have left is to destroy the company. If they go down that road, we have much bigger problems.
I think it's simpler than that, as you get older you recognize patterns, and you then associate those patterns to things, negative or positive.

I see this with myself and people who are aging with me, we have so much to do as we get older that we have automated thinking around certain subjects.

I think the younger people lack this conditioning to things as they are and can see better methodologies for approaching the situation.

But we old farts have created our pattern and understand it, and so block the young from testing their theories, in a small community this would be a fairly ideal situation, but when scaled to countries, it's slow and inefficient.

We need a more scalable thought process when it comes to large scale humanities.
Same. I have been using it for a cheap freebsd website instance, for just over a year now. So far, I have needed very little interaction with support, so I can't speak to how good it is.
The precedent is already set (the FBI can demand information about a person from a company).

In the future, Apple could make a phone that is actually secure. For example, requiring the phone to be unlocked before updating firmware.
For much of history, religion and culture were one and the same. As Santa Claus is a cultural icon, future scholars wouldn't be too far from the mark.
> You know that. Don't be disingenuous.

> And you know it.

That's unduly personal. Please remain civil.
Manually bruteforcing PINs is actually not a way to get in here, the phone will wipe the keys that the pin protects after 10 attempts.

I'm not sure what method Snowden has in mind for decrypting this device without going through Apple. It seems like it must be a 0day.
I didn't read any of his novels (yet), but this I consider one of the most important documents I'm aware of.

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

If we still think of the totalitarian governments that ruled Europe before the Second World War we can easily say that it would be difficult for them to reappear in the same form in different historical circumstances. If Mussolini's fascism was based upon the idea of a charismatic ruler, on corporatism, on the utopia of the Imperial Fate of Rome, on an imperialistic will to conquer new territories, on an exacerbated nationalism, on the ideal of an entire nation regimented in black shirts, on the rejection of parliamentary democracy, on anti-Semitism, then I have no difficulty in acknowledging that today the Italian Alleanza Nazionale, born from the postwar Fascist Party, MSI, and certainly a right-wing party, has by now very little to do with the old fascism. In the same vein, even though I am much concerned about the various Nazi-like movements that have arisen here
and there in Europe, including Russia, I do not think that Nazism, in its original form, is about to reappear as a nationwide movement.

Nevertheless, even though political regimes can be overthrown, and ideologies can be criticized and disowned, behind a regime and its ideology there is always a way of thinking and feeling, a group of cultural habits, of obscure instincts and unfathomable drives. Is there still another ghost stalking Europe (not to speak of other parts of the world)?