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Car companies are terrible at making software. I'm not surprised that they want to lock down the ECU code, since it's probably awful and full of subtle bugs as well, and they don't want to get hit with tons of lawsuits when people find a bug in the firmware.

Really wish they'd just use CarPlay / Android and go back to analog knobs to control HVAC stuff. Opening a modal dialog to adjust fan speed (in a 2015 MDX I've been in) is terrible UX and very distracting to do while driving. The 2nd gen Prius is no better, and the control panel UI in it looks like something from Windows 3.1.
We chose LaTeX too for those exact reasons plus:

* macros allow us to produce integration-specific installation and user guides

* ability to generate HTML and PDF versions

Lately though I'm beginning to regret this choice. The owner of the docs isn't allowed to commit to our repo (for good reason), but this means I get changes via the wiki which need to be cut and pasted in. Also, the HTML output was never really good enough, so we've stopped doing that. Getting long tables to look good takes a lot of rebuild-and-check cycles. But my biggest issue is that having a common source for each document with minor version-specific changes sounds great until you try to adjust the page breaks. What looks good for one doc looks bad for another, it's a real nightmare.
There doesn't seem to be any information about her views on Copyright or the DMCA, but she's definitely been a vocal proponent of privacy rights:

As ALA President in 2003-2004, Dr. Hayden was vocal in her public opposition to the Patriot Act, leading a battle for the protections of library users' privacy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Hayden)
This will not stop a SINGLE terrorist. This will have an impact on free speech. 1984 is here.
Me too keep getting spammed by recruiters. And the handful number of recruiters I'm connected actually don't bother spamming me LOL
Setting up a company in the UK - sure. Opening a business bank account when you're not a resident - nowhere nearly as easy.
But basic ultrasound machines have been with us for decades. From a quick check, since the sixties! I have no hard data yet, but I would be surprised if a Pi couldn't do it.

3D scans are another matter, but this is a thread about low cost scanners, so that's out of the picture.
U.S. Seeks Help Fighting Terrorism from Tech and Entertainment Industries
It's a bloody hard job.
Bad hours.
Dangerous.
Low social value.

This article comes across as if they are getting paid too much for being 'lowly' garbage men. So what if they don't have a degree, It's hard work that is vital for a functioning society and they should be compensated accordingly. Good on them for etching out a living without having to get a degree doing so.
These days evil is the goto vim-keybinding package - viper is unmaintained IIRC and hasn't been for some time, and evil works tremendously well.
> I mean, how can you have power without rights?

Quite easily. "Rights" are the moral (in the case of idealized views of rights, including natural rights) or legal (in the case of legal rights) authority to make a decision and expect it to be respected by others. "Power" is the practical ability to make a decision and have it take effect (whether or not others respect it, though others respecting it may be part of why you have that ability.)

Power can be a result of legal rights which may be the result of a cultural agreement on moral views of rights, but its possible for any or all of those three to vary from the others rather than reflecting them.
They're presumably already 99% of the way there. If the Secure Enclave can be updated on a locked phone, all they need to do is stop allowing that, right?

To me, the more profound consideration is this: if you use a strong alphanumeric password to unlock your phone, there is nothing Apple has been able to do for many years to unlock your phone. The AES-XTS key that protects data on the device is derived from your passcode, via PBKDF2. These devices were already fenced off from the DOJ, as long as their operators were savvy about opsec.
Just curious, where is the "toggle switch" in the "settings" that I can turn "off" to disable GWX?

Oh, there isn't one?

I thought so.
Sounds like a "greatest hits of terrible development practices". Hey, at least everyone won't have to bring their vehicle in to a stealership to get it updates if they ever release a fix. Wait.
As someone working in this field particularly on the product front and academic front - a major concern I have with this study is the lack of work done to establish what the clinical significance is in these variations. The methodology is well controlled enough to indicate that a statistically significant difference does indeed exist in the variations on the drop-to-drop level between venous and capillary samples, but what's missing is a detailed analysis of whether or not these differences would result in clinically different outcomes - from my work, the range of identifying an anemic, leukocyte spikes, etc. is large enough that the spikes in deviations in capillary samples ultimately become inconsequential. Furthermore dozens of studies [1,2,3 are just a few examples] in the past have found essentially the opposite outcome. A discussion is necessary - but suggesting that all drop based diagnostics will forever be inaccurate is both unbased and dangerous given the growing importance of this field. If anyone has specific questions feel free to drop me a line at ttandon[at]stanford[dot]edu

[1]http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2012/508649/
[2]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23294266
[3]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
That's such a bullshit spin. The people are not wary of terror; governments are using it as an excuse to whisk away liberties.

In Spain, ETA had been active 1960s–2010(ish)[0], in UK, the IRA waged a (victorious) bona fide terror campaign 1960s–1998[1]. Many Western-European countries faced domestic terror organizations, and life went on.

The only difference now is that the threat is mostly imaginary, victims counted in units or dozens instead of thousands, and the measures are draconian.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ETA_attacks
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
The perspectives here are from teachers it would be also interesting to hear from the learners.
On somewhat aside, While it's true that most "Traditional Project Management" implies waterfall, it's not quite true that "Water can't flow up the waterwall". At least for the last few editions, PMBOOK explicitly indicated that planning, execution, and monitoring are iterative and feed into each other.

There needs to be, and is, more to Agile than just the idea that you can (re-)plan during execution - no sane traditional/waterfall framework would insist on an unalterable "steady as she goes". There's always the urge to learn and improve from execution experience as early as possible.

To Article's point then, if your organization's issue is that you're not learning or implementing lessons, TPM is not the only problem. There's something in your company's organization or culture that prohibits it - and will continue to do so.
You're replying to the guy that wrote HolyC.
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I wasn't trying to dimension the challenge and skills needed to be a developer. I'm more so questioning the use a label which traditionally has a certification process attached to it.
One aspect of what all this comes down to is that governments don't want to have to do real work or even prioritize their tracking and surveillance.

What encryption and security really does is create scarcity of access to information and data in order to force a market solution where government groups have to prioritize their efforts and apply them deliberately.
Given the typically early hours, possibly awful conditions, and nature of their jobs, I'd say they're also paid fairly.

Additionally, my assumption is the garbage collection industry is similar to ISPs – meaning options are limited based on location and prices are therefore not as competitive.

Edit: I'd add lack of upward mobility to the first sentence.
If you store photos, Microsoft has a free product called photodna that will match filed against illegal images.

Take a look at the Center for Missing and Exploited children and perhaps call them. They operate a tip line to report this kind of activity. Sad that we need to think about these things.
I could put a sign on my living room wall that says "Anyone who sees this sign owes me $100." Do you think that would hold up in court?

Of course it wouldn't. Asserting something does not make it true. Your example is as trivial as mine, from a legal point of view -- you can't create constitutional rights that don't exist simply by asserting them. The courts decide where people have an expectation of privacy; you can't just create that expectation by writing it down.
They can read the mail through the seal using the shirt off tech used by archaeologists to read rolled up scrolls.

Surely the point is when sealed there user expects privacy just as seven using Tor a used expects privacy - in both cases there is a system in place to protect the content from being simply read. That the technical solution used can be overcome doesn't change the users expectation that the 'seal' will mean the content is carried without being read.
Oh Man-drill . . . I wish they would have went with a lower limit on their free plan or even low cost plan that replaces current free plan. I use them on lots of client sites with low volume emails. This is going to take some time to sort out.

SendGrid's interface and dashboard are horrible.

Plus they don't store the message text for recent messages like Mandrill where it's viewable from the dashboard.

Any other options out there for free or low cost or with a decent dashboard.
I don't remember signing such a contract. So I would say these are not consensual
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They'd have to be crazy not to. Weird that no one else who makes phones seems to give a shit, though.
SJW tumblr-hippos dropping some malformed CSS and complaining about the shortage of "women in engineering"
If you're looking for to use a distributed architecture with F# it's worth checking out Akka.NET:

http://getakka.net/
> "and in general things only look stable for routers that are at least two years old, with newer routers having regular, massive regressions."

Yep. New hardware is shipped first with proprietary drivers, then shitty open-source code dumps. When the hardware vendors don't participate in the open-source process, it takes the community quite a lot of time to clean things up enough to be merged upstream. Usually by the time that happens the vendors will have secretly changed all the guts of the model with completely incompatible hardware at least once.

Just requiring a new model number for new hardware would get rid of most of the confusion. If the router and chipset vendors would actually maintain their operating systems as flavors of current OpenWRT instead of 5+ year old private branches, most of the problems wouldn't exist in the first place.
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This would be a deal breaker if one has kids or old parents or someone with medical condition at home :( In all other cases, it is very much possible to live without a smart phone
Fast radio bursts finally identified as being very far away
Worth noting one of the previous posts, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262846

I raised some questions there related to your last concerns. I'm really interested to go through the current state and see how things have evolved to mitigate them.
I mean...yeah. They do the work no one else wants to do, hence the supply is low and demand is high, so the employers have to pay more. Makes sense.
This[0] is an example of how it's usually done. It might not be "efficient," as a == comparison perhaps, but it's more correct regardless. With FPs in computational stuff, there is usually an associated scale with a calculation, so you use that scale (rtol=0, atol=scale). Other times, it makes sense for something like

abs(a-b)/(avg(abs(a),abs(b)).

[0] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.0/reference/generated/n...
On-The-Fly Video Rendering with Node.js and FFmpeg
Mid-sized companies too.

We have a large content team and use WordPress across our company (several dozen websites) because it gets the job done for that content team. Our sites are ultimately just landing pages for ads and feed into our sales team as leads.

With our small 3-4 person devteam, we make our own themes and build into our WordPress sites all of the features that you'd want to host a site that's just content and a pipeline into our CRM (lots of handrolled plugins, custom functionality). We use modern ops practices (shoutouts to Pantheon for being a forward-looking PHP host) and write great code on a platform that's honestly not used to it. Some of the most interesting work that I've ever done.

As our team grows and our tools get more robust, we may explore using Wordpress to generate static pages for better performance. We also use other tools (Laravel, Rails, Node) when it makes sense to. Seriously though with good ops practices and developers who aren't lazy running the show, Wordpress can be a fantastic platform. This is absolutely some of the most interesting work that I've ever done.

WordPress runs 1/4 of the internet and not because 1/4 of the internet is cheap (though WordPress and PHP in general have fit that niche for a long time) - it's because training content authors to use custom/other tools costs money.
That's a common thought on Wall Street. Activist investors frequently push companies to separate from real estate holdings (and frequently succeed).

This particular deal makes a lot of sense, the type of investor who wants real estate is not usually the same type that is interested in a struggling tech company.
Link to Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZgZSNNQkhncRVj6lmNpWw/vid...
Because getting a decent camera, standalone GPS, music player, ebook reader and phone is quite expensive for many of us, and the marginal benefit is often minimal (Offline OSM maps? Try OsmAnd. 128GB of storage? Most smartphones accept SD cards).
One advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clients).
EU style grants much more in terms of data ownership for an individual. So, comprehensive vs. patchwork coverage.

From the EU DPD (1 of 2 key documents),

"Pursuant to the Directive 1995/46/EC, the data controller should ensure compliance with several principles relating to data quality. These principles include: (1) the collected data should be processed fairly and lawfully; (2) the collected data should be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes; (3) the collected data should be adequate, relevant, and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or further processed; (4) the collected data should be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, and; (5) the collected data should be kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data were collected or for which they are further processed."

* http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/differences-privacy-la...

* http://politicsandpolicy.org/article/european-union-and-inte...

* http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15221111/ns/technology_and_science...

* http://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.com/2014/how-do-eu-and-us-...

* http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873243386045783283...

PS. This is not a wholesale endorsement of EU style privacy, there are things that need to be fixed too but IMO is much more respectful of the individual in general.
We're actively working to improve the dashboard and standardize UX across SendGrid - that's the design team's big push this year.

Feedback would be very welcome. Shoot me an email (it's in my profile) with the details and I'll make sure it gets to the right people.
"It's impossible to replicate" especially if you don't want to.
There always was and still is a very strange negative fervor around this topic on hacker news and if everything goes well I think we should probably dig up all those excessively negative and accusative posts and ask for a follow up. I still remember those "This is a scam ! Rossi is a fraud !" even if no one was asked to invest and no one complained of being defrauded and all the public demonstrations were "obviously flawed" and everyone knew how to measure excess heat better than Rossi.
What is to stop the DOJ from requiring them to produce a phone that has a hardware backdoor? If they are required to produce a software backdoor then building an iphone which is immune to such vulnerabilities seemingly solves that problem but I don't see the leap towards compelling Apple to build vulnerabilities into hardware as a large one.

I'm not well versed in security so excuse me for my ignorance but what if there were a way to solder chip onto the board that allows access to the secure enclave. Every time an iphone is made a companion chip is produced that contains some kind of access key which only works for that device and someone is required to foot the bill for storing them.
that's the endgame of government surveillance requests: it's increasingly in a company's best interest to have the best security possible so they can't be compelled to hack their own devices.
Don't they just need to tell people to switch away from 4 or 6 digit pins and use longer passwords?
If you work in research like that - how can you sleep at night?

This is a real question - I haven't been able to ask someone directly involved in unmasking users like that.
Boston Dynamics' Marc Raibert on Next-Gen ATLAS: "A Huge Amount of Work"
There's no point to holding to the purist ideals of the document because the authors didn't uphold it fully? That's illogical.
are you going to tell me that if I did did same thing I wouldn't be accused of hacking by the US government. That seems doubtful.
> if you use a strong alphanumeric password to unlock your phone, there is nothing Apple has been able to do for many years to unlock your phone

Is this true even if you use Touch ID?
Oddly enough, working at a startup is pretty similar to coding on a whiteboard with a gun to your head :)
Which means that Amazon should be excoriated for their misbehavior as well as Microsoft, yes...?
Any good examples on using templating with variables in SendGrid? The docs are not very clear on that (you call them tags is that it?). I think you can get a lot of users if you show one to one mapping of API and common processes between Mandrill and SendGrid.
It's probably also true that the "geniuses" historically did a lot of pretty constrained rote work in photography to pay the bills. To the degree that work goes away, it becomes harder to fund the truly creative work.
Thing is Microsoft is already developing a lot of the stuff that makes Xamarin tick in the open source under liberal licenses - a lot of the legacy Mono tech already got replaced by CoreCLR equivalents, some are in the process or will be in the future. Eg. stuff like LLILC - IL -> LLVM static compiler will make the AoT for iOS story work instead of using mono AoT - but that project is not usable right now.

Binding APIs are some work but not impossible for OSS community to replicate if the CoreCLR and friends provided a portable platform with liberal licensing - so even if Xamarin disappeared it could be replicated - but I see no reason for them to shut it down.

And the third part of Xamarin is tooling which they can roll up into their own product offering.

Basically acquihire is a good scenario in this case because Microsoft is already moving towards these areas, Xamarin brings in talent and a bridge with working tech to provide transition.
I used to use it everyday before I moved to the US 4 years ago mainly for sports results, quick overview of news, weather and stock numbers.

Now it is of course different with apps and smartphones everywhere, but the simplicity of teletext was amazing. It was so clean information without distractions, you just went on page number and the information you were looking for was there. Without ads, quite quickly. I remember checking NHL results every morning exclusively on teletext.

The simplicity of it is unsurpassed till these days
It's much easier than that. Just a text file that I keep in a git repo (so I can sync it between systems).

First, I assign string IDs to storage locations following a simple hierarchical pattern. For example, `H` might be the hallway. `Hc` might be the cupboard on the hallway. `Hc3` might be the third drawer in that cupboard, and so on.

Now if I put my old external harddrive into that drawer, I write into the inventory text file: "Hc3 external harddrive". It's the storage location, followed by the asset name. If the thing might have many names, I just chain all of them together.

Now all the queries come down to simple grepping, for example:

- "grep '^H' inventory" gives me all the items I have stored in the hallway.

- "grep Windows inventory" shows me where I put that old Windows 7 DVD.

My system also includes optional "intents" to be appended to the storage location. There's "#s" (sale), "#o" (offer = give away for free), "#g" (garbage), and "#e" (evict = move to a less accessible storage location if space is needed).

So I can just show the output of "grep '#o' inventory" to my friends, and they can see at a glance what stuff I have to give away.
> On somewhat aside, While it's true that most "Traditional Project Management" implies waterfall, it's not quite true that "Water can't flow up the waterwall". At least for the last few editions, PMBOOK explicitly indicated that planning, execution, and monitoring are iterative and feed into each other.

What is apparently generally regarded as the first published description of the waterfall method, from 1970 [0] (and which is, like most descriptions, critical of it) observed that in practice all the steps were iterative (and that the feedback was in many cases non-local.)

[0] http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate...
That seems like a slightly different legal argument that breach of privacy though.
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Surely it is a company's best interests to have 'good enough' looking security to serve their PR purposes while also secretly providing government access to maximise government kudos and all the benefits that would entail?
TouchID disables itself after 48 hours and requires the password again.
That makes a lot of sense! On the backend, we've already built a way to view content samples (for compliance reasons, e.g. if something looks spammy and we need a human to confirm). It would certainly be possible to expose that functionality to users. I'll run that by the PM on the relevant team - you're not alone in wanting that feature.
I wish Apple would start pushing passphrases. Easy enough to remember, plenty strong, already usable with the current system on iphones.
So you're assuming that the channel this tomb raider wallpaper came through is able to transmit a virus? Or do you have knowledge that it's true?
Governmental attacks against press in Myanmar
What if another agency already has an NSL in place requiring exactly the same (backdoor, weak crypto params, weak by design secure enclave) and they simply are under a gag order to talk about?
The counter-argument would be that that opens you up to catastrophic exposure when Snowden 2.0 releases the data.
Bye Mandrill, Hi Mailgun