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iOS cracking tools reportedly used by FBI released to public
About that, I'm not really taking sides here but when US drives an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranian or sets up a military base in Turkey right next to the Russian border everyone thinks that it's totally fine. If Russia did the same it'd immediately be reflected as an "act of aggression" in the western media.

I really don't think Russia is how the western media portrays it. And I live in a country with a "bad" history with Russia.
I would like to learn Latin. Does anyone know any good free online resources?
If 47% of the American voters can't be wrong, why did a similar number of voters choose differently?

It's entirely possible to be racist to some degree while still being a good person overall. That doesn't mean racism is okay, or that it should be acceptable. But suggesting that opposing racism equals branding almost half of the American voters as terrible people is a strawman.
> Rep: "It's a criminal offence against the copyright act, mate. We've got technical protection methods inside the box so exactly this thing can't happen."

Ah, yeah, so "exactly this thing can't happen". Logic 101. Guess DRM was a terrific success then.
I feel like increase in inequality between the 1970s and now alone could be enough to make a new Concoard succeed.

Once the powerful are hooked there will be no going back.
Maybe I'm a bit pessimistic, but these 'might' headlines are never followed up by the real thing. It helps me to read these headlines a bit different: might = won't. In casu: Supersonic passenger jets won't make a comeback
The Concorde was an incredible achievement considering the time it was built and a very beautiful airplane. It was very fuel inefficient, both because at the time of construction the oil crisis had not happened yet, and the limitations of jet engines back then. However, modern cheap air travel is mostly possible because modern jet engines are so much more efficient than their ancestors from the Concorde times. So it is very unfortunate, that the Concorde was built but that it did not trigger any iterations of the concept, just picking up all the advances in jet engine and body material construction.
Well Google does business in every country , so still better to be compliant with one country with better privacy safe guards than a company which has to please every government
It's important to note that with all these "X requests per second" benchmarks, they're almost never testing actual performance, but rather just less features. The architecture (event loop, forking, threading or any combination of those) also matters a lot, but they serve completely different purposes.

For example, they're using Apache as a reference point, but Apache does so much more than their code example. For one thing, you'll want to try disabling .htaccess support and static file serving so Apache doesn't actually hit the disk, like their code example doesn't.

I've found it trivial to make Python perform on the order of dozens of millions of requests per second, and I can keep scaling that basically indefinitely. But all I'm really testing, as is the given code example in the article, is a bit of looping and string manipulation.
Isn't the 2015 Pixel laptop a good fit except for the limited storage ? I'm guessing that it supports coreboot out of the box, probably has all drivers upstreamed, and has a great display. If there were a way to upgrade the storage, that would be the ideal laptop. Also, Google might release a new Pixel laptop this year too.
Or for simplicity (and somewhat for warantless search protection...) a diary?
After completing the basic tutorials I hit a mental wall when I want to gpu adapt some "real" code. The hard part isn't going from CPU to GPU but making the CPU code branch-free and friendly to a GPU before actually adapting to the GPU.
Something that is fairly straightforward in normal CPU code such as a tree traversal becomes a nightmare of sparse execution masks and inefficient lone threads executing.
I noticed that when using the touchpad on my laptop (Thinkpad E545, Slackware64-current, Firefox 50.something). The trackpoint + physical mouse buttons seems to be less sensitive, but still registers direction really weirdly.
I've noticed that bug too. It persists throughout mobile site and mobile apps.
I see some notable omissions in my area.
> people won't stop wanting things that make their life better, and in general will continue to buy such things.

This is nonsensical.

You can only buy something if you know that it exists for sale and where.

The process by which you acquire this information is, by definition, advertising.
They were quote characters in email before they were used in memes :)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html
Define "top". Having a lot of money does not make you a top businessperson any more than it makes you a top athlete. Also, define "ahead". Having a lot of resources doesn't necessarily mean you're "ahead" of anything. And isn't the thought process that someone should try to "get ahead" sort of the root problem here, anyway? Who do you want to get ahead of, and why do they deserve to be behind you?

Hard work is important for many reasons. Hard work can be involved in getting access to a lot of money, but it isn't necessarily involved in it.

And there's nothing wrong with that, because monetary resources are just one aspect of an individual's overall circumstances and it doesn't mean anything in isolation. Like many other personal circumstances (including health, much, much more valuable than money), reversal in fortunes are not uncommon. Seeking to maintain a positive position for the people you care about to rely on as needed is good, and they should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their forebears' labors without undue judgment or excessive expectation.
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If people aren't willing to pay money for a service then they probably aren't willing to pay with integrity/information either - if they can avoid it. So failed paywall and micropayment experiments are probably a sign that the web site has an unsustainable business model.

A better system for micropayments would certainly help here though - most people who won't pay likely don't want to register an account at a third party service just to pay a dime to a web site.

I think this problem will be solved simply by the fact that traditional ad (network) revenue will dry up.
> Judges seem to be very split on the issue, so it's a matter of who you get.

This is generally when the Supreme Court starts to consider getting involved: it is the venue to resolve discrepancies between lower courts.
> This is why U.S. tech can't be trusted.

Including operating systems, and any other sort of software developed by American companies.

So are we prepared to create our own stack for everything?

Note you can also not thrust FOSS software developed in American soil without thorough review of what it is actually doing.

And those that happen to live there, like in other countries, will need to create their own safe systems as well if they want to be safe from government and any future state police.
> They would likely by $166 lower (assuming 3-year straight line depreciation).

Only if they consider it as an asset, in which the $500 moves from the 'liquid assets' column to the 'fixed assets' column and is then depreciated away over time at $166 per year.

The other method of accounting is to immediately deduct that $500 from assets as a cost in the year of acquisition. There's then no need of depreciation or spreading over several accounting years. Any residual value gained by resale at the end of the printer's life can then re-enter the accounts by means of 'other income'.
I can't imagine the controversy.
> As far as I'm concerned, the author(s) of any website who auto-play any audio content need to be shot, hung, drawn, quartered, tarred, feathered, and then burn in the lowest level of hell for all eternity.

There are worse things in this world.
What, you don't have electrical sockets on trains? In normal 1st world countries we have sockets in all train seats and even on inter city buses.
True for most of the US but the Mirai is only sold in California which doesn't use more than 6% coal.[1]

Fuel cells seem like they'd be good for vehicles that can't have charging downtime. But then again hydrogen seems obnoxiously difficult to store what with all the escaping and the catching fire, so maybe we can stick to ICE and synfuels?

[1] http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/tracking_progress/docume...
Ask HN: How do you access journals outside of academia?
Journal subscriptions seem outrageously expensive if you have a broad range of interests. Outside of illegal access, what are some cost-effective ways of accessing a broad collection of journals outside of academia?
Seems like an open and shut case, no?

The guy streamed from his personal Facebook page, and answered the call during the stream, what could his defense possibly be?
Title should read '..suing people who broadcast the event via Facebook'
Well, it sounds like they did eventually cut his access, so that's one measure. Presumably they relied on Facebook having his real name in order to know who he was, though it's also possible that they have some stenographic watermarking.
> I've found it trivial to make Python perform on the order of dozens of millions of requests per second [...]

No, no you haven't. This is not a cluster of servers, this is one single thread serving 1 million responses per second. Inside of Node.js.
> I've found it trivial to make Python perform on the order of dozens of millions of requests per second

Really curious. How did you achieve that? When you say "dozens of millions", it implies a minimum of 24+ million requests per second, which is quite unbelievable.
Looks like it would make a nice glsl/WebGL fragment shader (might be even shorter as the vector operations are predefined). Can't see one listed on the page, but then it's mostly from a few years back.
Did you take the Front-end or the Full-stack course?
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If you believe the human experience before modern technology and economics was good enough, why aren't you living it? What in the world are you doing on a computer?

Yes, many people lived and died in an era when there was no time for economic activity beyond extracting dinner from local fauna or the land. The process by which they first learned about and acquired farm implements, giving them the time to do other things, is called advertising.
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They could also pay their manufacturing workers higher wages
As far as my knowledge goes, that seems to be completely made up.
Where do you draw the line? If he was streaming something else that was going on in his home and happened to have the fight on in the background, would that be OK? What if you only caught a glimpse of the fight? What if it was just audio?

I think it's dangerous to let Foxtel sue this guy for streaming something that's going on inside his own home (albeit, a view of his TV).
I have every right to feel provoked if I believe someone else is intentionally wasting my time. That user, from my point of view, did not seem genuine in his interest in what I had to say.
I agree.

My point was this: will you not create such a trust yourself, for your kids, if there does not exist one that is available for all, if you had the means?

I hope Bill Gates starts a trend. I'm sure he'll give away all of his money except for that 100M trust fund for his kids. What if they then turn that measly 100M into billions and then repeat what their father did? That would be pretty cool. How could laws about inheritance stop that from happening, I wonder.

I think laws about inheritance are mostly good because they protect the inheritor. The money would go that way either way, unless the parents and their kids ave afalling out. If a child has a falling out with his parents, parents could easily cut him out of the heritage if it were not for laws protecting those children. I think those laws are mostly good. Because rebelling against your parents is mostly a good thing, to society that is, because there is a very good chance you are smarter than them.
> People don't suddenly become less obnoxious, more mature, less possessive, just because there's someone else around.

In my experience the opposite is true people DO become more mature in the presence of others. In general people tend to take a breath and try not to lose face by becoming upset in most social contexts. Also a third party can mediate conflicts, couples therapy comes to mind. Sure that's not the same thing as romantic involvment, but I can imagine conflicts deescalating just by having a third person around who can see both sides or take side or point out that the arguing parties are both behaving as idiots.
> It was very fuel inefficient

my understanding is that Concorde engines are among the most efficient built to date - they had something like 70:1 compress ratio. It is juts the nature of high speed flying that you have to burn much more fuel.

>modern jet engines are so much more efficient

because of high-by-pass. Wouldn't work for supersonic.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_specific_fuel_consumpti... :

"For example, Concorde cruised at Mach 2.05 with its engines giving an SFC of 1.195 lb/(lbf·h) (see below); this is equivalent to an SFC of 0.51 lb/(lbf·h) for an aircraft flying at Mach 0.85, which would be better than even modern engines; the Olympus 593 was the world's most efficient jet engine.[2][3] However, Concorde ultimately has a heavier airframe and, due to being supersonic, is less aerodynamically efficient, i.e., the lift to drag ratio is far lower. In general the total fuel burn of a complete aircraft is of far more importance to the customer."
How will people know where or how to buy what they want without advertising?
I enjoyed the use of 'mate' in that conversation. No mistaking what country that conversation took place in.
That's nonsense. Please get tested by a real doctor.
I could sign up just fine from here in India.
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Wherever you draw the line, it's nowhere near "I've got 78,000 viewers that aren't gonna be happy with you mate"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvoJju4B11s
There was a real chance that Obama (as US president) would declare war and start bombing Iran.
Yeah, I'd say video playback is no longer a benchmark because if I'm going to watch video, I'll be doing it on my iPad, not on my laptop.

Or if they're going to make video watching a benchmark, at least make it use modern streaming services like YouTube and Netflix. Who downloads a movie to their drive and watches it from there anymore?
And details on the wrk (load gen) setup too, please.
Just so you know, wind in Spanish is "viento", and "ventusqui" is an informal way to call the wind. So yep, they've copied both the concept AND the name of windytv.
Ok so it's an inmemory product, sharded no less.

They speak about compressing the data before "storing" it.

I don't have a lot of experience with inmemory anything, but are we talking about retaining the compressed format in server memory here? Ie, RAM is your datastore.

Then, at some point, to serve requests/queries for the data don't you have to get it "out of" RAM and uncompress it, also an inmemory operation?

Did I get this right?
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This is what judges are for. In this case it's fairly easy to determine what his motive was. Broadcast a pay per view fight to thousands for free. Or do you think an audience of thousands would have been watching if he'd been talking with his family with some barely audible audio in the background?
We've been here before. There was Aereon[1] They announced they were building a $120 million supersonic bizjet back in 2015. It was going to cost $80 million in 2007. Their web site hasn't been updated in more than a year.

It's not impossible, but the market is small. The total number of known private jets in the world above $100m is about 10. There's one guy with a private Airbus 380, and a few Boeing Business Jets, including Trump's. Boeing has about 12 more Business Jets on order, but most of those are 737-based.

[1] http://www.aerionsupersonic.com
The FCC under Pai could start by starting to support local municipal broadband efforts. That wouldn't solve the problem, but it would be a start.

This wouldn't get anywhere in the US in the current climate, but I think it's time for public broadband ISPs to start being created/funded at a national level.

My personal dream is to see something like this being undertaken through the auspices of the USPS. The handwringing over the USPS's relevance in the age of the internet, when there's such lack of competition in ISPs, seems short-sighted to me. I think the original founders would have supported broadband being offered publicly through federal programs, especially given that the internet was a publicly developed product; the Postal Clause in the US Constitution arguably was intended to address this issue, as there's no way constitutional authors could have anticipated the internet. So, when the constitution enables congress "to establish post offices and post roads," I think public ISPs are what they had in mind. It seems natural for me that the USPS would become a point of development for public ISPs.

I love seeing small private ISPs--there's some in our area--but, at least when I've seen them, they often seem to be holdovers from anomalous circumstances during the initial boom of the internet. They started when it was possible to compete, and have maintained a foothold by doing things well, but haven't been able to expand.
I've recently had to deal with some code that did this for work (and also used operator* for dot product) and it made the equations incredibly difficult to read. Please don't make the mistake of doing this in your own code.
If you have an ASN in North America you can get settlement free peering with most networks. That means all you pay for is the hardware/power cost to transport your content. Usually this is fairly unbalanced, and providers will compensate eachother (reach a settlement) if data is too skewed in one direction, almost always in the datacenter's favor (as ISPs are really upstream light).

Comcast, Verizon and others have recently tried to turn this on its head by witholding peering upgrades to Netflix, who wasn't even charging them a dime for all this data that their customers requested! This is not net neutrality, and performance degradations like this made Comcast uncompetitive in my neck of the woods since I have Fiber available by rare happenstance. That being said, my fiber provider (Centurylink) has even worse peering with Comcast, such that loading xfinity.net is a chore on gigabit fiber, let alone the Xfinity Go app. These performance issues caused me to cancel my TV service with them and get a different provider that worked better on my kids tablets, and so long as providers play games to throttle eachother, stories like this will be common.
You have misunderstood the figures. If they spend more than they make on shipping, they are losing money on shipping. If they then do more (losing) shipping business, they lose additional money. Net negative value is not made better by increasing volume.

Additionally, the fact that you don't realize that you're paying for shipping with other vendors, because it's not listed on the bill, does not mean that they aren't recognizing revenue from shipping.
Cool, we have the technology and know-how to replicate a 1984 video game using the hottest JS framework.

Does no one care what is the result as long as the developer put the "right" abstractions in making it?
The pipelining benchmark is identical to that of Japronto (another, very similar thing posted here on HN a few days ago). Japronto's repo on GitHub holds the wrk pipelining script used.

I haven't had the time to add configurations for every server tested (esp. Apache & NGINX) but the main point here is to showcase the Node.js vs. Node.js with µWS perf. difference.
Ftfy:

How to spell Gitlab
I of course know that, just wanted to say that a saying it's just a saying, nothing more. You can think that all is nice and stable and then a guy like Mao and his army comes along and all the sayings attached to the old order of things don't mean anything anymore.
I didn't know the Chromebook Pixels ran coreboot, that is indeed a very interesting option!
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> Won't the inheritance stop their children working so hard?

Any evidence of the income from labor of children that came from wealthier family is very likely to point that the highest income jobs go to people with richer parents. That points to the exact opposite: the inherited capital allows them to pursue higher education and more perfectioning of skills, even if they dont need that labor.

But even if at some point of inheritance, people developed a significant dissuasive to work well paying jobs, it would be a drop in the bucket. The labor of the people who's inherited capital allows them to never work, and not only that but never for their children to work, is not a significant population and clearly, managing the capital is worth a lot more than their labor.

But lets say that even then, we want to squeeze as much as possible. Why stop at life? Lets just confiscate everything at any point in a mans life: someone that IPO'd and made 50 millions by 30y-old is tempted to never work by that same assumption, shouldnt we tax it all away? Of course, we know that taxing in that way is not only not to the liking of many, but it has economic consequences. SAme with the inheritance tax.

> Isn't spending better than hoarding for the economy?

I need more context for this, im not sure i get it. Spending by itself is not good for the economy, its actually terrible. Frivolous spending is not good for the economy: it creates jobs that have limited use beyond basic wealth transfer. If you spend your money on maids and people to afford luxury to you, once the capital is spent, all that value goes with you when you die. But if that capital goes into something that lasts after you perish, the economy gets richer. For example, if you buy 200 cars, at least after you die ,there are more assets in the overall economy.
As a pedantic note, BBC America shows British TV including programmes from non-BBC stations.
I don't know anything about Tezos or blockchain implementations sorry, but I suspect that it is primarily focused on the processing of data, rather than the modeling of the concepts in a domain – a specific area of activity or knowledge.

As such it is more of a Type 2B project - "Information, data science and analysis projects, systems often focused on the processing of data." (http://aryehoffman.com/entry/project-types)
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So the file indexing services that you mentioned, often you have to go out of your way to install these, these would not be part of default file/folder management like pcmanfm?

I see Arch mentioned a lot. I used to be Linux Mint > Debian > tried Slackware > Ubuntu.... Slackware kind of sucked just because it was harder to setup/a lot of things didn't work like video playback. Not blaming it on them. Ubuntu I primarily switched to because they had drivers that Debian would sometimes not have like WiFi. Seems to make sense if more people use Ubuntu.

Anyway thanks.