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> How many criminals are you willing to let get away with their crimes? Apple has currently built a system that allows child abusers and some rapists to be all but immune from conviction.

Nonsense! Believe it or not, prior to the existence of smart phones it was possible to convict people of abuse and rape; in fact, it happened quite regularly. The evidence against such criminals need not be on a smartphone; after all, there are the victims; there are witnesses; there is forensic evidence.
I seriously wonder if self driving cars will really ever happen given how little new car technology is absorbed particularly in less wealthy countries (ie countries in Africa).

Given Africa's rate of population growth a random person picked in the future is probably going to be from that continent. I have serious doubts poor countries will have the infrastructure and/or resources needed to support self driving machines.

That is future less than law abiding hacker (the author's term.. not mine) could probably avoid problems like this by moving to less wealthy nations.
Your site looks very nice, are you not running it any more?
> yes, all important things for those of you that speak Spanish or Portuguese

What do they mean by that?
Ask HN: Moving to an unrelated role within a company?
I was recently looking at my company's careers website to find a friend a job posting, and noticed a very interesting opportunity in a new part of the company. I'd like to be considered for the role, but it's entirely unrelated to my current role (I work in engineering/product development, this position is more financially focused). Because of this, I think it's an outside shot that I would get the position. I'm worried to tell my current boss about my interest in the role, as he may assign me to worse projects if I don't get the position. Who should I talk to about the position: the internal recruiter, hiring manager, and/or my current boss? Should I even consider it, or should I just try to find a similar position outside the company?

For some context: I'm currently at my first job outside of college (been here for almost 3 years) and it's a very large company.
HARQ loop in LTE is tight = 3 ms(3ms for ENB, 3ms for UE, 2 ms for air/RRH = 8 ms in total). It means that in those 3 ms you need to decode ack nacks in PHY, run scheduling and then send the data on other side of PHY.

LTE PHY requires a lot of algorithms that doesn't fit well on x86 or general purpose HW like FFT or turbo decoding. Those usually are done in HW accelerators of baseband SOCs.
x86 lacks also complex arithmetic ISA, where wireless DSP do many complex multiplies in on cycle and complex ops are ~80% of signal processing done on DSP (not accelerators).

Second things is energy consumption, take e.g. Ceva XC4500 DSP core and a equivalent Xeon - it is magnitudes more efficient. In case of FFT or turbo it gets even worse.

Lastly, IQ data streams requires a lot of bandwidth ~1Gbps per one carrier in case of 20MHz. FDD LTE uses mostly 2 or 4 antennas in each direction, where TDD is good with 8 antennas, and this just one cell(sector). Newest ENB can handle up to 96 cells (with 2 antennas) in one box.

In theory you could run non-PHY layers of uplane in a server and use ENB as a L1 server, but still the lower MAC and scheduler needs tight latencies so server with DPDK is a must, but ARM/PowerPC/MIPS parts of the basebands SoCs are left idle (not really useful for PHY).
PDCP layer seems reasonable to run in SDN because of carrier aggregation and not so tight latency requirements, but this layer is very simple.

Of course you can run whole control plane in a cloud, which actually makes sense but this is not a great achievement ;-)
> As someone who has been on the job market for a long time recently,

That's too bad. Have you done anything to increase your skills?
Why can the FBI just create a modified operating system?

I haven't seen this question answered anywhere.
This is a pretty cool UI!
They're not ineffectual. They set up natural and integral contradictions whose resolution provides a useful narrative device for an author seeking story ideas.
Photoshop is awesome for stuff like this, and its so simple. I had this picture of my dad sitting on a tank in the middle of the middle east, but you couldn't see him and it was really faded. I googled how to restore it in photoshop, and it took me less than 5 minutes. All the sudden there is this clear detailed face and you can see my dad is there smoking a cigarette as usual. My dad died young almost 15 years ago and restoring that image meant a lot to my uncle as well as the rest of my family. When I first got the picture my mind was thinking, I wish I knew a professional that could restore it. But all you really need is the software and google..
Are you speaking about libraries or the language itself?

Please detail what in C++ would take 10-15 years to be able to do, that would be possible in 2 years in other languages.
That would have eliminated their ability to fix bugs in the firmware, though. They literally did this last week with the "Error 53" patch.

There are tricks to allow this, but broadly no: what we're talking about here is Apple engineering a snoop-proof architecture that remains resistant when the attacker is Apple itself.

And that's just not going to happen in any practical way. Eventually, if the government wants to compel an backdoor in iOS encryption there will be a backdoor to iOS encryption. Arguing otherwise is just fooling ourselves.

And it's a silly issue anyway. If you want snoop-proof encryption on your personal device, install Linux, select "encrypt my drive", and memorize a secure pass phrase. Done. Relying on a third party hardware vendor to do it for you won't ever work.
So I have this question about 'victim blaming': How do we distinguish genuinely blaming the victim, and bringing a spotlight to the culpability of the alleged?

We don't have 100% of the background facts of this situation, so that question isn't meant to suggest or imply completely that Ms. Jane is at fault completely for everything that took place here. It's just something I've often wondered when contrasting claims of "blaming the victim" and looking at the information being sold to me by the agent of dissemination.
The reason I say we don't get to judge it is because we don't know _anything_ outside of someone digging up two twitter posts. That's it. You're evaluating a strawman to subtly twist this.
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Ick. I wish we could kill SMS/Whatsapp/Wechat/LINE already and just do everything over e-mail or some other cross-platform, multi-login protocol.

I hate being tied up to one device to message people. I change devices on the order of minutes, move over the course of a day between a few locations that all have devices I own, and don't regularly carry or look at my cell phone if I am already staring at something bigger (e.g. tablet/laptop/desktop/TV).

I enjoy e-mail/FB/skype/et al.'s ability to freely switch devices, switch OSes and continue your conversations extremely smoothly without any barriers. I want information to move with me, not with a silly phone.
Propulsion is provided from the earth /LEO/GEO (imagine blowing on a kite with giant fan).

turning the kite around will not make it slow down/return to you while you keep blowing on it.
Mark Zuckerberg: Virtual reality can become the most social platform
lost connection after STARTTLS from so254-240.mg.gitlab.com[198.61.254.240]:35308

I have to register or sign in to post a comment. I can't register if I can't get the confirmation email. :-)
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I was speaking in-story. Is that not clear?
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> I can't imagine anything else being easier or cheaper.

If your tax forms are simple, the IRS could do it during your electronic filing (providing pre-filled forms with the information they already have and recomputing on the fly if e.g. you add dependents or non-salary income). That's how much of europe works.
Contrarian opinions can be useful and valuable. However I don't see much substance in this article. Could someone list what this person has done to make their opinion worth something?
If the vast majority were employed, then the proposal to require able-bodied individuals to work as a precondition for receiving welfare should only affect a small minority of people who have chosen to live off the system. Why is that ridiculous?
This is really, really not true. Or at least it depends a lot on what you mean by "change." It might be better than it is in Russia, but it is not good at all for most people in the U.S.
1 - To whom do you suggest the government should be accountable?

2 - I believe a search warrant is a completely valid and enforceable way to compel information, including in this case. But if Apple cannot comply without endangering every iPhone owner, then the other owners of iPhones have a stake in the outcome. The government's right to investigate this crime doesn't expand to the right to endanger millions of people's privacy and security.

3 - Torture would be a crime against the individual agents, and punishable as a crime unto itself. Libertarian philosophy doesn't suggest that you have a right to hurt other people, unless in self-defense.
You would be surprised how few people think about this.

Keep in mind Ubers success is the market it addresses (personal transportation) is huge and do not require any interest in technology to be either using or working for.

The driverless cars aren't evil but the fact that Uber is using some of those money they make on the current drivers to ultimately replace them I would claim is a form of "evil"

Especially given the circumstances they work under.
The blog relies on some negative quotes about AI from the paper. The hypothesis is that AI will make most workers obsolete.

The paper is not a definitive declaration of what will happen, rather it is a survey of CxOs and HR managers. These people have expertise but their expertise is not predicting the outcome of AI.
MWC 2016: Sony Xperia puts AI assistant in owner's ear
Finally, disruption of the basic SMS system for all users on the protocol / carrier level.
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I'm Brazilian and needed a few seconds to understand what they meant. I kept reading it like to-do(s). In the end they're just playing with the word:

https://translate.google.com/#pt/en/todos
To a first approximation, everything I have ever book marked to read later has never been read. I'd guess the rate is probably around 1:400 over 20 years of web browsing.

I still bookmark stuff anyway. I just don't worry about reading it.
Hey, good question!

Here's a bibliography we're still working on. More to add, but a good start so far: https://www.brain.fm/pdfs/ResearchLibrary.pdf

We've also done our own research that is pending publication:

https://www.brain.fm/pdfs/EEGFocusAnalysis.pdf
https://www.brain.fm/pdfs/EEGSleepAnalysis.pdf

Here's an independent study on HRV using our tech: https://www.brain.fm/pdfs/ElioConteHRVandBWE.pdf

We're planning on following that one up with a more robust study, because our users do get great results with HRV and it's an interesting topic.

One of our former neuroscientists published a meta-analysis, but it's a bit outdated now re: what we're doing. Still, it's on our site or in the journal if you're interested. :)
>Not only have we increased performance for everyone, getting to what is important is now super quick with Todos

todos means all/everything in Spanish and Portuguese.
The FBI is after a legal precedent.

Surely they have enough evidence to convict the accused. The phone likely wouldn't give them anything essential to the case. It's already a wrap.

However, the legal precedent would be invaluable for future 
rights violations
legal proceedings. They have 1. Nothing to lose in this particular case. 2. A maximally effective situation for getting this ruling, complete with irrational fear-based public support ("bcuz turrists!1!").

Seriously. If your goal is to create this legal precedent, go ahead and try to imagine a better scenario under which this could rule in your favor. I'll wait.
> this is how it should work. Very nice.

Yeah, Caddy is amazing. Matt is doing an awesome job with it.

> I wonder how caddy works with the very low 5 certificates per public suffix and week limit. Does it automatically bundle domains and request a single certificate with SANs?

I directed Matt to this discussion so I hope can answer these questions for you. I unfortunately cannot.
It's a Spanish/English pun.

Todos means "all" in Spanish, so "all important things"

But also Todos as in multiple Todo items.
Yes, many things. Interviewers are often ecstatic about my skills and experiences, but ultimately say they would prefer to hire people less-skilled who are cheaper and (especially) more willing to sublimate away basic human needs (such as for privacy or vacation) while still working for lower wage.
It needs to be signed by Apple in order for it to be loaded.
This article is an embarrassment to the IEEE.

Look at this paragraph:

"So what’s the big deal? Tim Cook, in his message to Apple’s customers, said the main issue is that the order would require Apple to create a specific new software file or bundle for one specific phone."

Tim Cook never, ever said that is the main issue. Or even any issue. It's a red herring.

This is such a huge mischaracterization (or perhaps misunderstanding), it truly boggles the mind. Where does IEEE find these people? I'm now worried that IEEE is either staffed by incompetents, or is being subverted.
What would the NSA's motivation be for creating this? They are mainly SIGINT. This software is only useful when you are in physical possession of a phone.
“In the middle of the pyramid, a restructured class will serve and secure the domination of the top."
To be clear, that was relaying the supposed position of Trump supporters, not my own.
And if you're like me and too cheap to pay for a Red Hat subscription, the CentOS-announce mailing list also announces all the Red Hat errata - you should absolutely be subscribed to this list if you run CentOS in production.
I didn't ask why we don't get to judge. That wasn't part of, point of, or component of any of what I just said.
Orin Kerr has written about the implications of that case specifically:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

A potentially important factor is that the phone companies used pen registers themselves all the time, whereas Apple has no desire at all to write the software that the FBI wants.

It's worth noting that despite the outcome of that case, Congress still had to pass CALEA, which seems to imply there are limits to what can be compelled under All Writs.
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We have reasons to keep it enabled by default so package maintainer will need to disable it by default anyway. Personally I wish to eventually provide better option to everyone, but that launcher is so unimportant that it's unlikely I'll have time on it in foreseeable future. So I think community of debian provide good option for people that need it.

Also it's of course not a case for our project, but I suppose there is developers who simply don't care about things like privacy or security as much as debian community do and I see no reason why they must spend their time on that instead of actual development.
Apple do not have the ability to unlock the phone. They have the ability to create a tool that could unlock any iPhone. That is not a starting point.
Sometimes I have a better experience looking up something on Amazon, finding the site of the merchant and ordering from them directly. Especially when things are not fulfilled by Amazon.

I let my prime membership lapse last year as I realized I was picking Amazon by default for a lot of things that were cheaper elsewhere.
"Preaching to the choir". Since the government is not going to spend significantly more on science because most citizens don't want it, can you come up with a different solution that might work? For example, a Kickstarter for science that actually works. Crowdfunding X-Prizes, YC (incubator) for basic science companies, etc.

The US economy is $15 trillion. How to redirect some of that into more research?
Would love to see what you are offering, I can drive many NPs to your business.
As mentioned by maintainers in the thread there is already a flag to catch unsigned overflows

Too bad such a flag doesn't exist.
I think you must be logged in to see the complete UI (with search field)
But they can hire people to work for themselves and build a business around that. Uber drivers can't. This is one of the core principles of being able to run an actual company. the ability to delegate work out to others.
https://archive.is/qNa9T

>An unemployed dad stabbed himself twice through the heart when his family faced losing their home to housing benefit cuts, an inquest heard. Desperate Richard Sanderson, 44, drew up meticulous suicide plans after learning he could no longer afford the flat he shared with his wife and nine-year-old son. The family had received a letter stating their housing benefit would be cut by £30 a month, leaving them with ‘nowhere to go’, Westminster Coroners Court heard. Mr Sanderson was found dead in the bath by wife Petra on Sunday, May 29 with three stab wounds to his chest and abdomen. A diagram showing the position of the heart in the body had been mounted on one wall and three kitchen knives were on a folding table next to the bath. Suicide notes addressed to his family and the police had been placed on his bed, along with more anatomical diagrams. Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Fiona Wilcox described the case as ‘particularly tragic.’ She added: ‘This appears to have been done by a man who was fully compos mentis and was not suffering from a depressive illness. ‘He carried out a considered act in response to his inability to find employment and the fact that his housing benefit was about to be cut and the family would have faced having no-where to live.
I think there are millions of people in the US who "want" to change their situation. I don't think the US you are describing actually exists
Her blog post talks about living off of a single bag of rice plus free food at work because she couldn't afford to buy groceries. Do expensive booze deliveries not count as groceries?
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The author of The Martian started out publishing it as a serial on his own website. Seemed to work out pretty well.
Please send me an email at saurek115 @ googles email service. I would love to help you with a site.
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> Lubin supposes that the system could propel crafts to an "unheard of" 30 percent the speed of light.

> "There is no known reason why we could not do this"

Yeah, no. There is a known reason. What do you think happens to a spaceship hitting something at 30% c? What do you think happens to the front of a spaceship or craft hitting something the size of bead or pebble at 30% c? The ship will disintegrate.

Granted, the ship could be shielded or employ some sort of plasma/magnetic deflector technology (still in proof of concept stages of development), but now you're talking technology that's just as far away, if not further than the propulsion system they're talking about using. It's also why things like project Orion really never got off the ground or are feasible in their current forms. Sure, we can get up to those speeds, it's surviving at those speeds that's the challenge.

Also, they talk about the weight of a ship being ultra light. If you had to shield it to survive the impact of tiny particles and other space debris you'll inevitably encounter on your trip, it's no longer going to be ultra light.
What the article misses is that Alabama's constitution is a complete cluster fuck and all kinds of things that one would assume about the legal structure of state and local government simply doesn't obtain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Alabama
Their performance graph shows response timings up to 25 seconds [1]. GitHub's mean web response time goes up to 200 milliseconds. The difference is two orders of magnitude. Is GitLab really that much slower?!

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/images/8_5/issue_timings.png
[2] https://status.github.com/
Very few people in the U.S. see the value (and necessity) of production. Classical economics is dead and in it's place people seem to think wealth can be created through consumption. It is absolute madness. Unfortunately government benefits from this mass delusion and is happy to oblige it. This isn't going to end well.
Maybe so. But there's a lot more to it than "want". And the playing field is by no means level.
You're way off base on a bunch of your points, but here's one I'll address:

> The "All Writs Act" doesn't apply here because...

The All Writs Act appears to be somewhat frequently used to compel assistance with things like bypassing phone lock screens. It's not at all clear to this amateur law nerd -and appears to be not entirely clear in the professional law wonk community- that the attempt to use the AWA to compel Apple to break their own crypto scheme is inappropriate.

I get that you're mad about things. Bad argument motivated by anger rarely changes anything.
To add what Jerf said, the edit to my original comment says:

>On a small note, this is "finalized" pdf but in reality it will change when implementation occurs.

It's one thing to say, here's the specification, however like construction you get to the site and then you realize oh shit, this isn't going to work. So they amend changes to make it work.

In a perfect world they should have gone back to the engineers/architects and reported their findings so they can make the changes to the white paper accordingly. But this almost never happens, same thing in the tech industry.

That's why when they go back on site to fix a pipe leak they drill into the electrical conduit because they moved the whole line to the right 3 feet and never told anyone.
I switched this year from TurboTax to FreeTaxUSA, as I we fed up paying $90 for a simple return, constantly getting up sold, and supporting an evil company. FreeTaxUSA was $12 for state and federal, and worked just fine if you understand how tax forms work and don't mind manually entering your 1099 data from your brokerage firm (turbotax can login to your broker in order to automatically populate this data, and is admittedly better at explaining the various questions that you need to answer to do your taxes). For this crowd, I highly recommend switching to something other than turbo tax.
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My mom worked at GTE and when I went to college in 1997 she got us a WATS line so I could dial 1-800 to call home.

One of her jobs in the early 80s was to calculate the bills for WATS lines. There was a room full of mechanical counters, like odometers, that would increment while people were talking on their line. Every day she'd write down the new counts, subtract the previous day's counts, and they'd bill the difference.
Did Hermes use a solar(laser) sail?

I know the ISV Venture Star from Avatar did (with antimatter engines for the Pandora side of the trip.)
Not really. Copyright in the US at least permits a base-level of protection, and should domestic or international plagarism occur, then having the original file(s) and correspondence would be excellent evidence. 'Copying ideas' like gets brought up often in lawsuits against movies are essentially non-starter cases. Ideas can't be copyrighted, simply the telling of the story.

In my circle of people, self-publishing is simply still a 'vanity' project and commercially not viable.

Being part of a reviewed, curated, and edited publication benefits the writer and reading public much in the same way that certain record labels (ex: Hospital) release materials that fit within their mold of quality.