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Office pretty much doesn't work on the Mac either...

I kid but the latest version of Office is really crashy on OS X, specifically Excel.
I feel the same way about Doctorow, and I couldn't even get through more than the first chapter of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. It had an interesting setting, but was focused on a boring guy with a boring job.

I'm genuinely curious, if any of his fans are reading this, what is his appeal? Is it the political messages and well-drawn near future settings?
When you indict things like ASLR as being little more than bait for exploit developers, and later suggest that part of the solution might be a hack involving free() create zombie addresses, you give the impression of having said "exploit mitigations aren't working, unless they're my exploit mitigations".

(I also don't think yours is a good plan, but I'll wait for you to publish more details before criticizing it further).
The Decline of Sears
The book is excelent. Nick Lane also has many YouTube posted lectures that cover the topic. Eg. Alkaline hydrothermal Vent origin of life[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxAB4Weq0U
Global wind power capacity tops nuclear energy for first time
Imagine a later hardline: "FBI Ordered to Reveal the Code Used to Backdoor San Bernadino Suspect's Phone"
Everybody will have different reasons. Free private repositories is a damn pretty compelling reason for me and I suspect many others.

It isn't even the free part that matters, it is that you can create a new project or add a friend without having to mentally think about how many projects/collaborators you have left.
I think swiss watch producers should respond by producing dumb phones.

Let me explain: As every bum these days owns a smartphone that keeps him connected day in and out, there is a nascent need to differentiate. Smartphones have brought internet addiction, increased stress levels, and bad body posture. I believe freeing yourselves from these effects, freeing yourselves from being a slave of technologies and virtual social networks will be increasingly sought after as the millenials start aging. At the same time, you don't want to be completely cut off. So today, the only choice you have is to buy one of the remaining shabby feature phones.
The watch industry, on the other hand, is extremely good in creating an emotional experience for a commodity. They would be in the best position to turn a simple phone into an experience, into a device that reflects value and status.

The only instance I've seen so far is from the Swiss company Punkt. But when I look at their designs I go "meh". I think there is space for more variety.

Also, I do think that a phone today needs to come with a global phone book, which means basically Google Maps. So, it will probably still be a smartphone under the hood. I could even see reverse pricing applied - a basic version that can do everything, and as you go to a silver, gold, and platinum version, functionalities get locked down.
So the headline uses the word "pedophiles", but in the article the word is nowhere to be found. Maybe that's because this sting isn't necessarily about pedophiles, but about people watching and trading child pornography. Using "pedophiles" only serves to reinforce the stigma of a already heavily stigmatized minority.

The word "pedophile" should be defined as someone with a sexual attraction towards children. It doesn't describe behavior: people can choose to not act on the attraction, and many, invisible as they are, in fact do not. Also, the people operating and visiting that hidden service could have had other reasons for visiting. They are not necessarily all pedophiles.
The problem is that there is no one to bluff at this point, I'm still not sure what exactly happened but apparently some one "changed" the password, the reports conflict as to whom actually done it and very between LEO techs (mainly FBI) to the IT department of the county pretty much unlinking the device from the Apple ID used or initiating a password reset in which case the old password is no longer valid for the backups of the device.

I've tried to go over the documents that the FBI submitted to the court and I couldn't get a clear answer who owned the device, but it seemed that it was at least partially managed by the county.

The FBI had the original Apple ID password and could access the device in theory but it seems now that after it's been unlinked or some one has changed it to a completely random password (as it doesn't seem like some one did it intentionally to interfere with the investigation) so there is no one to really socially engineer.
Note: Capacity isn't the same as production, but interesting nonetheless. As far as I remember from other articles, 63GW of newly installed capacity is well above predictions made even a decade ago.
Is this state-wide? How does the system know which lot you're parked in?
I find very little merit or pleasure in reading fiction where the author has an underlying agenda which they constantly grind as the novel progresses (I find some of Le Guin's otherwise good novels marred by this trend). Ayn Rand is absolutely the worst offender though, her characters are shallow to the point of ridiculousness, the plot is obvious 100 pages in for the next 500 - but she's going to serve up 'profound world changing philosophy' to you for the next 500 pages anyways. But hey - America's answer to communist ideology!
"Beholden"? How so?

It's not about making connections so that people will give you a job as a favor. It's about making connections so that you have social proof of your competence, plus to take advantage of the fact that someone telling your target "hey, take a look at this person" stands out much better than sending one more resume to a poorly monitored email account.

Which, in response to your last question, also means knowing someone who knows someone where you want to work is almost as good as a direct connection. You really don't need to know all that many people to have a usefully large second degree network (doubly so if you're in a tech hub).
So when the fact is the government has another phone they want decrypted, and the precedent is that if you lean hard on Apple, they will make it easy to brute force, then the result will be another phone unlocked. And another. And another. And then they'll start leaning for something harder. If you think that this has a chance in hell of being an isolated case, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Except for the Find feature that never works right. Cmd-F and try to paste into that box, for example. I use LibreOffice daily but that one is annoying. It crashes once a week too. I think LibreOffice is close, but I don't think most people are going to give up Excel for almost as good as Excel.
And for the Cambrian Explosion, although somehow dated now, Gould's Wonderful Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
There's this fun screenshot that Snowden posted which makes you wonder why all of this is happening in the first place:

https://twitter.com/snowden/status/700823383961792512
Who exactly is "the defense" right now?
Snowden's analysis is rather lacking.

He claims that the FBI already has all of the suspect's communication records as retrieved via service providers, but ignores the important detail that iMessage uses end-to-end encryption, rendering any such records unobtainable by the service provider.

Yes, the last backup was six weeks prior to the phone being seized, but this only means that the phone may well include six weeks' worth of pertinent evidence. And there is nothing to suggest that the FBI is only interested in messages between co-workers.

Ultimately, the phone's data would need to be decrypted and analysed to see if the first four assumptions that Snowden makes are actually true.

The final assumption is that there are other feasible technical measures that could be taken to crack this phone. This would perhaps be the most interesting point, but Snowden chose to not expand upon it at all.
8 Big Business Tenets That Don't Work for Startups
After all, Ayn Rand would call Silicon Valley libertarians "moochers" off the tech welfare state. http://marianamazzucato.com/the-entrepreneurial-state/
Are your team's salaries so low that $25 a month is a noticeable cost?

I can't think of any situation involving multiple paid employees where $25 is anything but a rounding error.
Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
> Google's Web Crawlers are not "bypassing" paywall. It's the paywall that let's crawlers through. I.e. exactly the reverse of what the author implies with their headline.

Don't nitpick. It's just a shortened version of How To "Be" a Google’s Web Crawler to Bypass Paywalls. You get it. I get it. Everyone gets it.
Warrior Cop - Radley Balko is interesting read. There was observation from LAPD official that created the some of the first SWAT teams that the people most enthusiastic about being in SWAT most often are the one you really don't want there.

I guess it gets even worse in the private sector - you may get a person without the needed background or training to resolve the situation in the optimal way.
Because that'd be extremely transparent and cheating the U.S. Government in a legal matter isn't going to help anyone long term. They'd just use it as more evidence that they need more control.
I always recommend Italo Calvino. An underrated Italian writer IMHO. The Baron In The Trees or the Invisible Cities are a good start.
The good security guys don't work a hospital security job. As with everything else, you get what you pay for. The calm, humble, balanced types go for greener pastures.
The article didn't state that. The article stated they are rolling out soon. The new dashboard will be an open source project. So you'll know when that gets released. There is no link to the project yet so assume that part isn't started yet. So the microservices should be released in a timely manner. Let's hope with the new focus on transparency if there are any delays they will keep us posted.
It really is some of the best content on youtube.

To further convince anyone reading this: He has videos on making huts, axes, drills, baskets, and more, all completely from scratch and all with (to my taste, at least) extremely good, no wasted time editing.

Well worth your hour to watch them all.
The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia (2012)
Nobody is going to read a book to reply to a forum comment. You should be articulate enough to explain what you mean without pointing, "there, that, that's what I mean."
I also read just far enough in to find something to sneer at so I could post a comment!
Ask HN: Swithing from tech position to business one
Hey there,

I am wondering what are your experiences with switching your career from "doing" position like engineer, developer,designer,whatever where you doing the job... to the upper position where you are managing, leading directing like manager,C*O position,business developer etc where its more about softskills,presentation and you are representative of business.

I would like to know where are you more satisfied with job as itself,workload,isues your are solving,sallary etc.

My humble experience is...i have tried to change position to PM (project mannagemet) in IT area, but PM positions in corporates in my country are about resending email and chasing people. In SME is more interesting but financial evaluation is very bad. Poor base salary with better (not awsome) yearly bonus which vary on company results lied on your shoulders. Other story are your possible coworkers. As nontechnical man you aren't forced to be up-to-date with last technological updates at so deep level.

I am also trying to do my own business but its quiet hard find similar people with same attitude to build thing together,another point is doing technical and business staff in one person is difficult at least from beggining.

I don't wanna move to different area since i moved 6 times during 9 years,mainly due to job.
50% of 2...?
Oh no, I didn't developed this "Theory of Toxicity", Riot Games did.
It has already begun and if someone against all odds posts a pro-Rand comment it will be downvoted to oblivion. The HN hive mind is strong.
All we need to do is run out of energy and looms will be in vogue again, the industrial revolution is on the verge of collapse? If the computers shut down, I'm not going to be doing anything anyways.

I find solving problems also improves my efficiency in solving similar problems even if I solved the first problem originally using stack overflow. The mind is incredibly efficient at generalizing from experience, and you really get none of that generalization poweress by reading the manual rather than just doing it.

This feels kind of like the difference between western and eastern educational systems, the latter placing more emphasis in memorization and preparation, the former moving towards a more solve problems paradigm. Lots of practice solving problems is good enough as long as the details needed to solve problems are readily accessible.
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How could they ever prove the difference between a bug and malicious intent? If they want control over the process then don't ask Apple to do it for you.

Also, Apple wouldn't be able to test it well because the custom OS was written to only work on that specific phone (not the model of phone, the defendant's phone).
"a certain kind of people goes to work in law enforcement or security"

Those people you have observed, did you know them before they went into that line of work? Were they more likely than your other, less aggressive/superior-feeling/authority-seeking acquaintances, to go into that line of work?

I'm not saying your hypothesis is not true (there may be something in it) but there is danger that (i) we mistake the cause for the outcome, and/or (ii) judge people's personality based solely on the way they behave whilst doing their job.
Can someone explain why it is not possible to simply ignore Canonical's aberrant behaviour and carry on as before? They aren't a court nor do they have any law enforcement powers, it's just a company expressing a preference.

Canonical: "We require that you remove all trademarks entirely even if using them wouldn't be a violation of trademark law."

The rest of the planet: "Go pound sand."

Isn't this a more logical response than submitting to their request? Are developers concerned that Canonical will haul them into court for an expensive legal battle, regardless of who is right? This can happen I suppose, but I am not seeing the down side to ignoring their demands.
Normally I don't like Snowden, but in this case I think he raises great points all around, the biggest being that the non-work phone (Operational Phone) was completely destroyed. Do you think with that sort of OPSSEC that they slip up and use a work phone? Doubtful.

But hey, the FBI exists to turn over every stone. The real story here is that they specifically chose this case to go after Apple because they suspected the backlash if Apple tried to fight it would be more than they could handle.
Want to start Magento 2 but I am totally lost
Hi Guys,
I don't have any magento experience either 1 or 2, tough I have extensive experience in PHP and related frameworks. I see that magento 2 has been recently launched. But its documentation seems incomplete. I also bought Magento 2 Developer's Guide but it also seems very high level overview of magento. Seems like the author assumes that the reader knows everything. Does anyone has magento 2 experience here? Can you tell me how can I get started?

Regards,
Is any of this news? This company always hypes stuff that is years away or unfinished and buggy for years, there API documentation is deliberately incomplete to have an competitive advantage in case they want to change private API bits in front of their competition, etc. It was bad, it got better and now it is worse.
So why can't he replicate the setup with another iPhone 5C and prove what he's claiming?

Or is he asking for the raw forensic image of the phone's mass storage?
Thanks for the comment, we'll look into it!
It's basically the reductio ad absurdum version of arguments in favour of capitalism.

For those that haven't read it, it involves rugged, noble and pure capitalist innovators getting so upset at government overreach and not being able to enforce patents on their genius they go and form a commune.
(which isn't really a commune, because when a billionaire industry titan offers you a lift, you pay him a taxi fare to prevent him from feeling guilty about his altruism)

Which is a bit of a shame really, because a satire about entrepreneurs vs corrupt governments could have been really powerful in the grasp of someone that actually understood enterprise.
Actually my understanding is a bit different.
Flannel uses VxLan and acts as a overlay network (packet inside of packet) while Calico is a pure Layer 3 routing solution.
This means some performance gains but less protocol support vs VxLan. I think it would be quite interesting to test
Am I the only one getting angry at iOS when reading the fictive example? Just let me put the damn button wherever I want.
I use wine to run windows games on windows...

Microsoft broke the Dx8 and below emulation in windows 8, some games just run slow, but some are unplayable ( Arcanum for example render most of the sprites and map solid black without Wine )

Since I am using Wine more and more to game, and new releases work on Linux natively, I am thinking of experimenting not installing Windows at all on my next PC

EDIT: To use Wine on Windows you just paste wine DLLs on the game folder.

Not all versions of Wine work with all games, you might need to try several, currently the site with the DLLs is this one:

http://adolfintel.com/index.php?p=wined3d/index.frag
I send a couple into Pocket using IFTTT
For me, the article points at a specific instance of a general phenomena. The bigger potential issue is googling by default rather than a last resort: increasingly, it is looking like a short term expedient and long term dependency for me, personally.

Yesterday as I was fooling around with Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. One of the great things about that book is that Glickstein figures [correctly in my case] that someone learning to write extensions might not have a good handle on other aspects of Emacs...such as help. It hit me how googling tends to drop me into the emacs manual or other high level references and how impossible it is to drill down on specifics in the way the Emacs help system allows. I mean I can google up a list of the top 150 Emacs keyboard shortcut, but I can't google up "C-x n".

While I love StackOverflow, the overhead of "What does 'C-x n' do?" is astronomical...even if such questions were appropriate.

I've trained myself to break flow and look at ads every few minutes because Google seems great. I'll even google knowing it will have some StackOverflow links under the ads at the top instead of going to the site directly. What I won't get is the great local resource that sits on my machine.
I would guess the high crime statistic is just a quirk of the fact that Colma has very few residents, but many more people visit from neighboring communities for shopping.
Those were the days.

I remember moderators pointing everyone to the search-function of the board and if you used it the first 3 pages of the search where threads where the moderators are pointing people to the search-function.

This behavior shaped my opinion about moderators permanently...
What's the MLA format for word of mouth? :)
I don't think the backups they got are viable because apparently the suspect's employer changed the iCloud password.
This seems to be the original game, which zer0.io clones?

http://www.tozer0.com/
> Too often I see developers copy/paste directly, and just change variable names.

Yeah, I don't think StackOverflow is your problem. I mean, if they're going to blindly paste code, surely doing that from community-curated examples is better than whatever junk they'd find.
Scalia's opinion in Heller is a good example helping to restore the 2nd Amendment as meaningful along with the 1st and 5th.
Fascinating, correct and well worth the read!
What's the name of that community college, so others in your area reading this can know to avoid it? :)
Nitpick: I just don't like seeing the name written out butchered, but it's Wine not WINE (and the latter looks a lot worse IMO)
I am not an expert on this stuff but hardcore conservatives are falling in line with law enforcement on this issue. I'm not so sure he would have sided with Apple here.
Not necessarily a contradiction for capitalist-entrepreneurs to advocate communes. After all, the mutualists and 19th-century individualist anarchists were pro-market, though coming at it from a labor theory of value.

Then again, it depends on how you've loaded your definition of capitalism.
Buzzfeed Twitter “like to hear from you if you are not white and not male.”
I am more concerned that there is no limits to what they can do in regards to a honeypot (trap/etc). You would think child porn would be one thing they would not go this far with.

Regardless, I think someone with expertise should be allowed to review any code developed by the government in such operations only to ensure it does not somehow violate the rights of innocents
On the '5D' claim: "The information encoding inside the disc is realised in five dimensions - the size and orientation of the nanostructures, in additional to their three-dimensional positions inside the disc." Those nanostructures are generated by a laser which alters the polarization of the material.

Is that even five dimensional? Polarization is one more, but can each point in space contribute to an arbitrary (or even just large) number of different polarization? I do not see where the fifth might come from.

The billion year claim does not seem to be validated, unlike similar research which used tungsten and silicon carbide[1], i.e. two different materials. The million/billion year durability was verified by substituting long periods of time with higher temperatures, i.e. heating the storage medium, and then checking the error rate.

[1]: https://doc.utwente.nl/74827/1/Vries2010MME.pdf / https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2013/10/141415/a-mega-to-gi... (not peer reviewed?)
Working in hospitals over the last ten years, I have noticed an increase in how violent patients are. I believe the increasing use of synthetic rec drugs and the failing mental health system is to blame.

Previously many of these dangerous cases would be locked up until they were safe. Now, everybody just tries to treat them as an outpatient. That with the easy access to guns makes hospitals very dangerous places these days.
There's probably some truth to this. But another thing happens. Law enforcement and security personnel spend a lot of time dealing with imbalanced individuals. And that probably colors their behavior and attitude quite a bit.
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