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With modern C++ you can still easily shoot yourself in the foot and trigger memory-unsafe behaviour.

Whatever your opinion of Codes of Conduct, lots of projects have them now. And IMHO not having a Code of Conduct encourages its own sort of toxicity.
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Indeed, this isn't meant as a knock against Haskell in particular, merely an observation on unfamiliarity. :)
That does seem to be the argument. It's a slippery slope fallacy. There is no reason to assume this sets any sort of precedent.

And it should be pointed out that point A never existed. Apple's device is not fully secure, or they wouldn't be capable of complying with the FBI.
>I'm really trying to figure out what this case is really about, vs. what the players are saying it is about.

If the government hacks the iPhone themselves, they don't get the legal precedent they are so desperate to establish in this case. This paves the way for legislation that forces technology companies to install backdoors in software/hardware. This case is not about the data on the phone itself, the government is simply continuing the crypto wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Gates sides with the FBI on the iPhone case
Haha, it doesn't work that way, unfortunately. If you have any strategy that's statistically different to zero, you have a winning strategy; if it's loosing money, you can just trade the opposite strategy yourself!

The problem is, that most strategies are zero, on average. You win some, lose some with your trades, but what eats your capital is the trading costs. Then even trading the opposite trade would still diminish your capital.
A few years ago, the FBI was able to catch a hacker by examining the EXIF metadata in an image posted by his girlfriend: http://gizmodo.com/5901430/these-breasts-nailed-anonymous-ha...
i think ur parent assumed without saying that both translators were equally (well?) versed in the source language, so ur example does not compute.
Yes and no. In the context of Assange's goals, NSA involvement is very interesting.

To Wikileaks, the credible threat of future leaking is probably more important than the single leak of past infractions, because the threat impedes the flow of internal communications, which makes an "unjust" organization's internal "thought processes" more costly and less efficient.

Proven NSA involvement basically means there's no cheap way to keep high stakes secrets safe from leaking. The NSA has the bigger budget and better technology, so you can't defend against this path of leaking. Yet NSA leaks too, so it seems NSA can't defend themselves, either.

Taken together, this says nobody can defend against leaking: That's Wikileaks' most favored state of affairs.
What if you put a bullet in one chamber of a revolver (leaving the other 5 empty), spin the cylinder, point it at someone's head, and pull the trigger. If no bullet comes out, have you committed a crime?
...and it's an entirely reasonable position to say that they should get it, if they have a warrant. Especially if the case as cut-and-dried as the San Bernardino one.

The public debate on this has reached truly sad, nigh-Trumpian levels of hysteria and uninformed commentary. There is no "back-door" here. Encryption is not being compromised. This has very little to do with encryption at all, really: if the criminals in question were to use a strong password instead of a four-digit PIN, Apple could just shrug, say "not possible in our lifetimes", and that would be the end of it. But these criminals have easily brute-forceable PIN codes, and the investigators want to brute force them.

This situation is about a legal fight of very narrow parameters: should it be possible for the government to compel a company to help extract its customers' "secure" data, via this specific, very old law. Reasonable people can disagree on this point.

Unfortunately, the public debate has gone completely round the bend, with famous people grandstanding on totally irrelevant things (like "encryption back doors"), which have no bearing on anything at all. Moreover, as it turns out, Apple has been doing this for years for police investigations, and the empire has not yet fallen. If you're worried about the slippery slope, well...we're already well downhill, and our bottoms are wet. Perspective.

I realize that it's not popular amongst the tinfoil-hat set that has set up residence here, but I think that there are times when we want our government to be able to do things like break into a suspect's phone. There should be safeguards (like warrants), of course, but it's a perfectly reasonable position to say that privacy is not absolute.
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Tried the Golang cheatsheet, the rendering is broken. lots of <br> tags

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=golang+cheatsheet&ia=answer&iax=1
Very cool; I can imagine this could be used to create a nice website background, just set a corpus you like and have it cross itself a few times...
This is so ignorant, the worst part is "there would have to be rules in place to limit how they can access that information."

How did those rules work out for telecom/internet traffic data... The government can now access anyones data, often even without a judge ruling whether it is necessary.
Agreed. I never got to enjoy Delphi but some of it's beautiful capabilities found their way into C#. I only hope it's old architects either work on something new and interesting (like Rust) maybe a more approachable alternative to Pascal or contribute to FreePascal (would be great).
You could certainly reduce some of the attack surface, but you couldn't eliminate it entirely.

I think a more reasonable option is to design phone in such a way that attempting to load software on the phone when it's locked bricks it and causes the encryption keys to be destroyed.
Think about it this way.

Case 1: SRC->TGT (fluent) gives you a grammatically correct text that may have bits that are lost in translation. Misunderstood idioms and connotations. A reduction in nuance.

Case 2: (fluent) SRC->TGT gives you an incorrect text that contains errors of syntax and semantics, that doesn't use natural sentence construction. It'll reads like it was written by someone with less than a perfect grasp on the language, which will be true. They won't be able to accurately convey the meaning because they won't have an accurate grasp of the target language.

Also in case 1 you can consult expert quality reference texts to make up for your lack of knowledge in the source language. Not so in case 2.
There is no minimum mass required to bend light. Why does bending light suggest something "so heavy" to you?
Cool product. Nextel back in the day showed that there's a market for rugged phones like this. I'm curious why the low resolution though, seems like the cpu should be fast enough to handle 1080p.
Have you seen the CppCon presentation?

About 1% of the audience answered affirmatively to Herb's question about who was using some kind of static analysis tools.

Outside HN and Reddit circles, very few C and C++ developers, at least the typical enterprise ones, don't really care about such tools.

Back on my C++ days, just one company cared to pay for Insure++ and I was probably the only one using it.

This is way I am looking forward to use it eventually, but don't have high hopes for wider adoption from other C++ vendors.

I guess need to update to Update 2 when it goes to RTM ready.
The site is at Must Hill Quarry. Previous finds include pots containing meals that were apparently abandoned when the fire started.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35280290
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Is the currently produced insulin by 'big pharma' as you term them, significantly different from the original formulation?

If it is, then it cannot be termed abuse of the patent system.

If it is not, then our current situation can be termed a side-effect of a broken patent system.

Yet all that is orthogonal to the above poster. Even if pharmaceutical companies were only using the original formulation, they would still be entitled to make a profit under any capitalist mode of thought.

Simply because something is required for life is no barrier to morally or economically, for allowing someone to profit from it.

Granted, anything that is required for life will be tightly regulated by the government. For instance, I'd think its impossible for farmers to collude to withhold their produce and simply starve a country.
>this is also a brute force attack

The other times weren't though.

> they don't even understand the debate

Look in a mirror lately?
I haven't written enough ES6 to answer this for myself, but doesn't the dynamic nature of the language mean that constants can be at risk of invalid LHS operations at run-time? (At least, those positioned high enough in the scope to be subject to the necessary operations, which could be a lot.) I'm thinking of eval specifically, but perhaps there are other ways of doing this.
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I know. But you can't expect countries and people to be ok with it, just because the USA wants it. In an ideal world there would be no boundaries or wars and we would live in peace. But fact is that I don't like being spied by NSA. And while this may be expected by a government, what pisses really off is the way HN, eff.org and USA-oriented blogs speak about non USA citizens. From their point of view we are either terrorists, non-humans or some kind of evil, deprived of all kind of rights.

From the point of view of democracy the USA is the worse.
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I wish the size gradient be smoothed more, to avoid accidental spikes.

Add (semi-)transparent png generation and you get a useful tool for designers.

Very cool otherwise.
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Wouldn't that require pulling in the OCaml garbage collector? Much of the reason people use glibc or other low-level libraries rather than a managed runtime is so they don't need to link in a managed runtime.
The master key they have is the ability to sign firmware updates for all phones that could disable security. The point is, it isn't a new master key. If the key was somehow lost, Apple phones would be vulnerable, just like in the dystopian hypotheticals being thrown around here.
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Ironically I found this title on Medium...

A self-righteous open letter to people who write self-righteous open letters to people who write self-righteous open letters

http://bit.ly/1Rk2XWg
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I don't think you need a plugin for that? Anything typed in the address bar which doesn't look like an internet address will be sent to the default search engine by FF, so if that happens to be DDG you're ok.
> For example, they could be forced to first publish an update to all devices (through the third parties) which disables the third-party-checks.

And the device wouldn't accept it. If I subscribed to an organisation over which USG has no sway, say Computer Chaos Club from Germany, then my update wouldn't be accepted unless additional signatures were provided from them. Unless USG forced Apple to abandon such scheme for everyone then they would be powerless to backdoor individuals. I'm also not sure how relevant this is here, but in US it's been established that software is speech and is protected by the first amendment so there are limitations to ways in which US can influence Apple.
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Type I diabetes is a complex condition where restricting carbohydrates may not necessarily reduce hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) events. There is a dangerous downside counterbalancing the negligible benefits. The dieter significantly increases their risk of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose). Serious symptoms of hypoglycemia include heart palpitations, dizziness and coma.

I'm guessing a no carb diet could also imply high protein, to replace the carbohydrate calories. Too much protein (>20% of calories) is bad for Type I diabetics leading to a state known as microalbuminuria. In layman's terms: increased stress on your kidneys. More on this at: http://journal.diabetes.org/diabetesspectrum/00v13n3/pg132.h...

In summary, almost every (if not every) diabetes publication & specialist advises heavily against low/no carb diets, instead recommending a balanced diet.
What we need is a way to coordinate the effort I suspect. Given we have glibc as a standard interface, a site which matched up function tests with implementations and made it obvious where to jump in could build a decent community.
This is a valid pointing out of a common fallacy, and I do not think merits the downvotes.

The OP is using fallacious reasoning, even if it is accurate reasoning :-)
I think Hydrogen Fuel Cells are the future of the automotive world. No range limitations exist once the infrastructure for refueling is in place. It's going to be interesting to see how the next 20-30 years of automotive technology plays out between these alternative fuels and the autonomous driving technologies.
Here in the Netherlands the CAT branded phones are very popular among construction workers, even though they have low resolution screens, Android versions that are a couple of generations behind and (surprisingly) batteries that can't be replaced. Raw specs are not that important in this market.
Yes, they were. Apple installed software which brute-forced a four-digit PIN in those other cases, same as what's being asked here.
Since when does bending light require distorting the fabric of spacetime? All you need is two transparent materials of different densities, they don't have to be heavy, and you will bend light as it passes from one to the other, it's called refraction.
Really pleased to see this, I hope it works out and attracts more foreign tech sector investment into Wales. For anyone visiting the UK for the first time don’t forget to put Cardiff on your list of places to explore! Go Cymru!
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Very interesting. Thank you.
Unfortunately it is completely different, by cutting this ribbon you allow potentially anyone access to the banks disk drive - this aspect of back doors has been discussed ad nauseam. Its sad to see someone of such public stature deceive the uninformed masses with examples like this.
Fully agree with your comment about the discussion going full on hyperbole but at the same time agree that it's not Apple's job to intentionally weaken the security parameters of their firmware.
Asking for encryption back doors is just another step from this, are you confident enough that it's not a risk worthy of consideration?
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On one side, I support Odersky's decision to focus on Scala's simple and modular next version, Dotty (the present one became a Flying Spaghetti Monster, without the flying part). But as for now, Scala is effectively dead.
The local Gauls might have lost a forest, but I am sure there was no shortage of forest at the time. It would have cost JC nothing. The real cost was borne by the grunts who had to chop the trees down, move them, dig trenches and erect the walls.

The Roman army was very adept and building, and then tearing down, temporary fortifications.
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Yes, would be nice if you could connect it to aws iot. Any chances amazon would add tls 1.1, or would that maybe jeopardize their security certifications? (https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/published-certifications/)
No employee at Apple is going to call him out on it, and everyone else can be written off as speculating.

Additionally, that letter is written with very carefully fuzzy language so as to remain true-ish.

As in, Apple can't make this change and guarantee that nobody else will use it. In the same way that any software change (which they do regularly) could open up a security flaw. That doesn't mean it's likely, or any more likely than any other software update.
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So can I receive this Mazarbot by SMS too?
"the FBI said they are not seeking to set a precedent in the case, but to get the company to help them open a single phone that may hold crucial evidence to help explain the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001."

What qualifies this as being a terrorist attack? Is it because the colour of the perpetrator's skin wasn't white? Sandy Hook had double the number of resulting deaths and so is technically more deadly.

Virgina Tech was done by a South Korean born man with even more deaths than Sandy Hook.

Poor reporting WSJ
What I'm not seeing people talk about is whether the FBI should be allowed to force someone to do something unethical, immoral, and/or criminal. Generally speaking, breaking into a system that you aren't authorized to access, or creating and distributing tools that allow other people to do so, is considered 'bad'. Shouldn't Apple have every right to say no, that's wrong, I'm not going to do that?

Governments have ordered people to do bad things before. How do you view those who justified their evil actions with excuses like "I was just following orders" or "just doing my job"? Is it right for our government to put people into that situation -- not just government employees or their targets/adversaries, but neutral 3rd parties?

If a policeman ordered you to do something repulsively bad that would harm your family, friends, and neighbors, would you not want to be able to say no?

That view doesn't require any great technical knowledge of cryptography or hardware/software/etc. Pretty much anyone could understand it. Yet no one seems to be mentioning it.
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Besides. Even if companies are forced below their break even point by strong consumers so that they need to stop selling to some market and even if they die because of it then it's still ok.

Companies unlike people should be allowed to die. That's one of the ways market evolves. One of the way market avoids local optima. Companies dying because they cannot provide the market at the prices market expects is the normal thing.

People dying because cartel prices essential good above what consumers can afford is not.
Are you saying that Yelp should pay more in SF, to allow any number of people to come to SF to work? (And not live in dorm-like conditions?)

Yelp is (now) saying "come to Phoenix" and you can have a livable wage.

If the govt doesn't mandate certain pay, it's hard for the board to justify paying them. Shareholders want max profit. Not saying I like this...
And non English queries, those don't work at all. But g! makes me happy user anyway :)
Failing? No, Hillary and Obama are giddy participants, eager to push forward the exact same agenda you're talking about. They are the political creators after all, directly responsible. Hillary couldn't be more of a hawk and Obama has pushed forward on spying at every opportunity. Ailes? Laughable compared to real political power in DC; Obama is the head of the US military and NSA, he's the one choosing to push the actual programs forward. You might as well try blaming Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, they're sideshow clowns next to real power.
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from my brief reading about hydrogen fuel, that infrastructure is going to be crazy expensive and going to be political suicide for anyone who wants to write policy supporting it.

Let's just pour all that money into making superconductivity at room temperatures a reality!
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> The fact they released proof the NSA was spying on a foreign leader isn't the story here, nor it that really a big noteworthy reveal considering the endless Snowden leaks

even aside from Snowden leaks, this exactly what those guys are there for. if they weren't doing it, they wouldn't be doing their jobs...

and i agree, the specifics are the interesting part of this.
I do not understand why Bill Gates would take a contrary position to Silicon Valley / tech community on this issue. Any insight into why he is taking this stance?

What I have found even more confusing is why the FBI hasn't asked the NSA for help. The NSA's thousands of skilled hackers simply can't break into an old iPhone?
Okay, so what I read from others is that stopping is gonna be a PITA -- so maybe Mars isn't the best target.. Why not send some huge telescope in the direction of that solar system that looks like it has an Alien Megastructure- - get as close as we can to that thing and take closer pictures of it to find out what's really going on (and other parts of the galaxy) -- imagine having a telescope like a couple solar systems away sending back data to us? -- we may to create some sort of galactic internet though - maybe using lasers and relay stations? (I honestly have no clue... we'd want to get data back and it to NOT take 50 years per data dump.) ..
Woah, this is amazing! But I'm somewhat baffled, I really want to switch back to Fedora but I can't even get it installed on my Macbook Air ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282244 ), anybody have tips? So I'm somewhat perplexed how they managed to get it on a phone - still, pretty cool.
Extra-lingual static analysis tools are OK at finding bugs. They're not good at proving the absence of whole classes of bugs; that is what we should be striving for, and what Rust and other languages can provide.

So what I'm looking for from Herb Sutter is not just a set of good guidelines and tools to check for them, but also a proof --- or at least an argument --- that if the tool finds no errors in a piece of code then that code cannot be the source of memory safety bugs.
It's the opposite; the Rust community feels very welcoming, well-behaved and indeed – non-toxic.
Same here, anyone could share a screenshot of what we should see?
> "cool attitude"

Do you actually use this much, though? I had to double take because I'm not familiar with the phrase and I'm a native speaker. Typically you might use cool to in this way to describer an action or gerund, or with a prepositional phrase, or as an adverb.

Heck, if anything, I'd say a "cool attitude" is a calm attitude—as in, the person played it cool.
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I've worked in construction and I use a Nokia dumbphone. The reason for it is that I need to answer calls quickly while at work. So the phone has to be in a pocket close by. And it's likely that most pockets "close by" also have some sand in them.

Nobody has money to buy new iPhone every two months. But it's manageable to buy new dumbphone once a year.