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Are there any good articles on the difference between iPhone 5, 5c, 6, and 6c in terms of security? Also, has anyone covered why NAND Flash clone attack vector would not work? I had many people tell me that is definitely, for sure, certainly would not work, and yet no one I spoke with could explain exactly why that was the case.
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Thanks Scott! I've got my Insider builds turned on with the Fast level on this test machine, so will hang tight and wait for updates.

Well, actually my "test machine" is a Windows 10 14295 VM running in Parallels. So if this ends up working (no reason it shouldn't) I will be running Ubuntu on Windows on OSX! :-)
I miss Windows software while on Windows.

In every release there is something removed and a new replacement to relearn.
Winter has come. It's sad to see companies that are providing real, important products getting hammered for not meeting potentially impossible expectations.

People have been talking about Dropbox struggling to meet its valuation for a while now. I'm a little more surprised at the Cloudera markdown, they seem to be a pretty important company in a sector that only keeps growing. Any insights as to why Cloudera was marked down?
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While you are correct that methane is quite potent, when discussing climatological effects it's not as important as CO2. Especially when discussing ice sheets and sea level rise, the long term (1000+ year) effects are what's likely to reduce Greenland and Antarctica to points where feedbacks will prohibit their regrowth (thus dooming them to complete melt and us to deal with the unfortunate side effects).

Again, not disagreeing in any way, just looking to provide some context in relation to the subject matter in the original post. In fact, I think climate change and environmental stewardship are issues that go hand in hand and should definitely be taken more seriously.
> I wouldn't be surprised if eventually 'GNU/Linux/Windows' ultimately ended up with a majority share of developer desktops.

As funny as it sounds, it's GNU/Windows. No Linux there - they made it work by emulating Linux.
10M lines of code, protected asset or inventory with a carry cost?
Those who want others to take climate change seriously must take these models with a boatload of salt. Be definition these are models based on data we don't fully understand and has very bad record of proving completely wrong.

These models are very much life stock market predictions of boom and bust which seldom come true yet both booms and busts happen regularly.
Been using visualgdb for this. Intellisense, debugging and all other stuff. Works both for desktop linux and cross-compiling for embedded devices.

Hope those guys don't go out of business... They were really helpful
Very clever publicity hijack but no, this news is irrelevant to SmartOS.

Btw, FreeBSD runs Linux binaries for years, which is also irrelevant.
Your perspective is perfectly valid, but I'd like to add another. It's possible to care about user freedoms and still think this is a good thing. It doesn't create any dependencies on Microsoft, just opens up opportunities for more full-featured free software to run on more computers. If Microsoft ever decided to pull support, nobody would be left unable to run their software. These are the same Ubuntu binaries that run on Linux, and anyone could move over to that if they wanted to.

There's a stereotype that the open source people are practical but don't care about political issues and the free software people hate everything proprietary with a passion, but of course that's not always the case. Big companies like Microsoft aren't monocultures. They have some really amazing people, even if not everyone is perfectly enlightened. The path to more user freedom is allowing those good people to continue to push technology in the right direction. This is a step toward more freedom.

Many of us don't just use one computer. I use every OS on different desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, servers, and consoles. They might not all be equally free, but I only need one to be fully free to know that I have freedom that can't be taken away. Even for those who don't have a fully free system, the most important thing in my opinion is that the option always exists. If they aren't served by proprietary software, they have somewhere to go.

GNU won against all odds. It's here to stay, proliferating across so many devices. I'm happy to welcome people who might not have ventured outside Windows into the family!
It depends on what you do. It's terrible for media things, but it's the best OS for programmers and I don't have to go along with every UI trend Microsoft/Apple are implementing this week.
Containers, because they can be made simple enough to not require having a specialized sysadmin, and they give you full control - it's your network, your data and your machines executing code. No third party can suddenly disappear, "update" to add "features", get acquihired, etc. I understand that the benefits of SaaS is that it is easy, but if you step back and look at it from an engineering (or security) point of view, the current obsession with it is simply insane.
It doesn't. It's outdated and not free. This should be way more known: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
‘There’s nothing left': Crew demolishes wrong home, blames Google Maps
> "Meanwhile you are missing the fact that people don't want to avoid automatic updates to fix security holes."

You are right. My english is not very good and I did not read what OP wrote carefully about this. Maybe it was the silliness of the word "slave" being used like this that threw me off ;)

Those third apps updates can be annoying but I honestly cannot complain about all those problems you talk about, like processes sucking up resources, popups, and adware automatic installation on updates. I do not even see this happening with (very) non tech people around me. So I think it is a very suspicious argument. Even worst would be to suggest that those are problems are Microsofts blame. Maybe you get those adwares exactly because you think UAC is annoying. Can we blame Google when a user get a virus ridden app from a place other than the official store and ignore the OS warnings?

But if this is the reality, it is another good argument for the push for windows 10 update and the adoption of UWP. In fact, I think microsoft should push even harder for windows 10 updates, it is the right move.

Also, I think that the idea of maintaining a Windows machine updated with only the parts the user wants is hilarious. And I do not know who are those people you talk about. I love to test OS previews and I have never heard a person who already do not liked Microsoft for whatever reason make a big deal about a UI update (windows 8 "metro" mode was shit but easily ignored, windows 10 UI is better and amazing).

The more updates and innovation, the better. I am not afraid :)
I suspect this technology is out for a while, because I can't attribute most of the calls to various tech-support centers to the intelligent human being.
Why wouldn't /dev/random work? Doesn't sound like something impossible, considering that they already support /mnt/c.
These features are here now! We're fixing a broken link to an old version of our API reference. In the next hour or so, you can check here for version of the documentation as of 3/30/16:

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For the celebs category, you may also want to read:

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...

Thanks for checking out the APIs!
It's because unbeknownst to you, the sites you visit are requesting javascript or a tracking pixel from these other domains.
Yes.. white board problems and some go even a step wilder and share google docs (coding in google docs is really an art that needs separate mastery)
This comment someone posted in reply to my query on another article might be of interest to you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11387909
>Uh, any company that sells niche or upmarket offerings of commodity products, for one. I.e. Apple, Tesla, a bunch of watch manufacturers.

SMS to iMessage?
A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension on Sparse Data
Please don't go on about getting downvoted in HN comments. The guidelines explicitly ask everyone not to do that, because it's tedious.

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Thanks Eric, MemSQL is pretty awesome but I can't really begin to consider it when:

1. Backing up your data is somehow an Enterprise feature?

2. No pricing anywhere on the site, which usually means:

2.1. Sales calls. Nothing I hate more in this world than sales calls.

2.2. $$$$$$$ (which is fine, but I like to know roughly how much $$$$$ before 2.1.)

As far as functional indices, I don't see that here:

http://docs.memsql.com/docs/create-index

What I mean is specifying a WHERE clause on the index.
AFAIK TBB doesn't create per-domain circuits for every subresource on a site (that would kill performance on many sites with 10s of third-party trackers, CDN hosts, etc.), but rather one circuit per "URL-bar domain". That domain doesn't change when a CloudFlare site renders reCAPTCHA.
Python is great for writing scripts, but not so great for doing interactive maintenance.
I didn't hear that, but according to this article[0], Curry didn't want to go to Golden State either and didn't work out with them. Even still having two picks there and picking two point guards... why? Just terrible overall.

0: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-story-of-how-stephen-curry-...
Please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
That was a famous result Google published. The finding is based on their study of their existing employees.

Similarly, the correlation between height and basketball ability is attenuated for people who are currently NBA players. But it's quite strong for people overall.
Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.

You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. The customers aren’t quite getting value out of the product, word of mouth isn’t spreading, usage isn’t growing that fast, press reviews are kind of “blah”, the sales cycle takes too long, and lots of deals never close.

And you can always feel product/market fit when it’s happening. The customers are buying the product just as fast as you can make it — or usage is growing just as fast as you can add more servers. Money from customers is piling up in your company checking account. You’re hiring sales and customer support staff as fast as you can. Reporters are calling because they’ve heard about your hot new thing and they want to talk to you about it. You start getting entrepreneur of the year awards from Harvard Business School. Investment bankers are staking out your house. You could eat free for a year at Buck’s.

I am also a part of a startup and owned by a website http://resumeplus.us. I think this answer helped you and I wish all the success for your bright future.
I'm using Twilio and a simple API I wrote for formatting the messages, both of which are connected to TermAlert.me.
You're both right! He's talking about getting hired, and you're talking about interviewing. The degree can have a significant impact on whether or not you get to the interview stage... and then rarely matters past that.

So, all else being equal, you're less likely to get hired without a degree, but you're just as likely to pass an interview.
> 2. start gaining momentum (e.g. why should I use Linux, when on Windows I can run both Linux and Windows applications)

Remember OS/2 2.x? It could run Windows 3.x binaries, including GUI programs. The result was that noone wrote programs for OS/2. Windows programs would run both on Windows and on OS/2, so why write another one for OS/2?

Why should anyone port Linux programs to Windows now? Just write for Linux and it will work both on Windows and on Linux. So now you actually have more reason to target Linux.
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> Soon they incorporated an expensive licensing program that third party apps had to use to interoperate with MSN Messenger, endlessly doing technical fixes to block third party access.

I remember this clearly as if it was yesterday, because I tried and failed to build a Messenger-compatible client. They defended exclusive access to the API fiercely.

Their attitude seems so petty now in retrospect.
Hello, i made a usb hdd drive and selected the Windows installation. I then saw a loading files bar and then the screen goes blank. Not sure if this is the same backlights issue you are having on login. At this point I am stuck. Any help is welcome. This is a MacBook 1,1 with 2gb ram and for the moment a 500 gb hdd. Might consider and ssd if I can get Windows running. Thanks
Ask HN: Constant backup tool for Mac/Win/Linux?
I have been looking for a self managed, preferably open source, backup tool that could mirror the contents of my MacBook hard drive to a local NAS running Linux. My current solution involves BTSync 1.4, but I do not like this solution because it's no longer supported, and BTSync 2 is a mass, as far as I am concerned, and I do not like the direction it's going in. Basically I want to pick some directories on my laptop and have them constantly sync to a location on my NAS, when ever the NAS is accessible. One way sync would be just fine, as it's for backup only, and no versioning is necessary, as I can implement that on the NAS separately.

Rsync is a fine solution, but I would prefer something with file tree monitoring, so changes could be propagated immediately. Any ideas? I looked into crashplan, but again, it's a closed source solution that requires creating an account, and I would prefer my backup solution to be "Zombi Apocalypse" ready :)

Mac and Linux only solution would be fine, but something that supports windows would be nice too.
iPhones 6 and up have a "Secure Enclave" https://www.quora.com/What-is-Apple%E2%80%99s-new-Secure-Enc...
You can and should argue Chomsky's positions, writing ideas and such. In my opinion you must do this, else no progress is possible. That said - I did read him, I have a very high degree of respect for his ideas.
I think nobody, esp. in the social "sciences" should become an "orthodoxy" (lacking a better word here).

Me being "seriously ridiculous"? Maybe - but I see Chomsky (and others) being thrown around as a killer phrase more and more. Not to further any discussion, but to end it with a final bang.

So no, I will not refrain from comparing these argumentative structures to religious arguing like it happened in the medieval times during different fractions of "the faith" for example. Great thinkers were back then also used as pars pro toto of their writings. And were also used as "arguments" - so yeah, I (on purpose) showed the flaws in your argument.

This last part by the way is just me interpreting your own argument against you. Probably totally misrepresenting you in the process and misunderstanding you as well. As you by the way did with my argumentation.

I totally agree with your view, that western intervention in the middle east did make matters way worse on the whole. I do strongly believe that we should reign them in (will not happen) and should not hail them as the source of freedom and democracy in the world (will also not happen). I am cynical and I do believe that the western (so called) democracies will be further doing their thing and we, the western people will further be supporting these systems without knowing most of what happens in the dark and unknown to us.

I do not agree with you calling me ridiculous though. As I strongly believe every "well respected" scientist has to have his writings and thinking strongly challenged for progress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perf...

I don't have access to the works that Wikipedia cites, but the correlation is positive and between 0.2 and 0.6 for every job studied.

And I agree, there are a lot more things that influence job performance. IQ probably isn't the most important thing - a malicious programmer can cause millions of dollars worth of damage, so probably the most important thing is trustworthiness. That said, learning about someone's IQ helps you predict their future job performance, basically regardless of what job you are talking about.
Man moves to San Francisco, pays $400 a month to sleep in wooden box
Asana Raising $50M for Work Tracking
Can someone tell me where I can get a B.S in Javascript?
Not only editor. VS has extensive debugging facilities. You only need to write glue code between VS and GDB like "VS asks what's inside variable X", or "GDB hit breakpoint, here's the stack trace".

Source: I have written a Nodejs debugger for VS before MS released their NodeTools to the public. If you have a couple of such great tools (VS+v8 or VS+GDB) it is just a matter of time before someone brings them together.
Slow news day at the WSJ.
Helicopters Are Unlikely Victim of Oil Downturn
The price of spot blocks still varies (so in this case, trying to create new ones would likely have been very expensive), are limited to 1-6 hours, and have a substantially smaller discount. When you add the hourly billing vs per-minute, it's very rare that spot blocks comes out ahead. Don't get me wrong, if you're on AWS and know your duration, use them!
I'm enjoying fidelity's releases as a public company they have to release financial information. Gives as close a proxy as one can get to the health of these "Unicorns" remember that term?

I wish fidelity or some other financial company would've taken a stake in the front runners of this cycle, Airbnb and Uber.

On that note does Google Ventures doesn't have to give updates on how their investments are doing as alphabet or is that just lost in the noise.
Wearing out a welcome
> The company’s slogan, according to its website, is “We could wreck the world.”

What a slogan.
They even marketed NT's POSIX compliance as a great feature.
> I would start here: https://www.aclu.org/cases/doe-v-holder

That case has nothing to do with discrediting someone as a terrorist or gang member, charging them with any crime, forcing a confession out of them, and really anything to do with criminal charges or jail time at all.
TrueCrypt isn't open source, it was freeware with the source available.
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What's amazing is that people think questioning means you aren't scientific (and thus an idiot). Believing in science MEANS questioning everything.

Our society questions nothing. If we find it on the internet - it's true. Very few want to be a contrarian or go against what's popular at any given time for fear of others shaming them in mob-groups for having a different viewpoint.

We've entrusted too much credibility in people with science degrees and their models. I've done some interesting things with machine learning. It's extremely easy to develop predictive models that confirm what you want to confirm. That was probably the first thing I learned and if you aren't humble - you'll use a model as a crutch and be proved a fool.

Some of the greatest minds in history have been proven wrong. Science is not a democracy.

Our country isn't either but people forget that. They think 50+1 should dictate everything. Me-first.

If only they understood the other side - they could unite. But they haven't advanced beyond their tribalism and self-righteousness.
Why would the place you live in have any baring on your knowledge of the effects of sea levels rising? You aren't handed a geotechtonics degree when you move there.
No. The vulnerability probably existed (and therefore was available to whoever had the resources) before; FBI helped to make it headline news.
Good (excellent) article on IOS security: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

See Page 12 on advantage of A7 or higher processor, but, in particular:

"On devices with an A7 or later A-series processor, the delays are enforced by the
Secure Enclave. If the device is restarted during a timed delay, the delay is still
enforced, with the timer starting over for the current period. "

The question still outstanding, is whether the Secure Enclave can be modified, and also, whether it can be modified without a passcode.
30 Days with Asana
Just booted this in a vm. Pretty cool!

editor is use-able. python on there, Asteroids is working fine, too. Will be following the progress. Well done!
"Apple is just as proprietary, commercial and anti-competitive as Microsoft here."

The big difference is that Apple actually doesn't fk their users in the ass.

People always complain how Apple products are so expensive etc. but you know that's how they make money and they actually invest in to the privacy and security of their users (good example: the FBI case)

I will happily keep on paying high price for the Apple products in the future too as long as all of my personal data is not being broadcasted to hundreds of spy servers, as long as random ads are not being slammed to my face while I'm developing and as long and I AM in the control of the OS and not the other way around.
Maybe some people enjoy being slaves to MS but at least some people wanna decide THEMSELVES how their hosts-file work and when their computer should restart to install the updates.

I'm sorry but Microsoft has been, is and most likely will be horrible company in the future too. Unless they completely stop this BS and start to respect their users and keep it that way I can't believe any rational developer considers MS platform as an option.
There is a big difference between the way Google postures it's atittude towards the developer community and the way they actually go about things. Of course Google wants developers to think that they don't care about degrees and such but at the end of the day most of the people they hire have degrees. Those prospective employees that had no degree and failed the interview process go about thinking and preaching that Google gives everyone a fair shot when in reality its just not true for those w/o a degree
We've banned this account for using this site exclusively to promote a political agenda. You've been doing that for a long time, quite egregiously in fact, and it's not what HN is for.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11385444 and marked it off-topic.
Why Slack and its army of bots is the OS for your office
I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative.

Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn't care less about the name. But apparently I'm in a minority...?
There is no workaround, patching the site association file only prevents the issue for new users. Everyone else still has a non-functional browser for a week - I'd say that warrants an urgent patch.
Thanks for replying :)
Big successful tech companies don't have this problem. Eng recruiting is it's own org, who works extensively with engineers and engineering managers.

Recruiters basically keep a database of engineers and contact them to get them into the typical interview funnel. Interviews are done by engineers and their managers only and then everyone gets together in a meeting soon after to give a hire/no hire. Then recruiters (and managers) attempt to close the interviewee. This has been my experience after interviewing at dozens of companies at various sizes, from small to huge.
Business and behaviour
Longtime Cypherpunk Zooko Warns Bitcoin Community About Overconfidence
I think it has more to do with mutual fund regulations than public company regulations. I'm not sure how much Google has to disclose about its internals but I think it has a lot of discretion.
That's all useless. A person in my school had her husband do the work for her. She probably has a degree by now.