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Apple never has/never will release a Meltdown fix for Yosemite.

Keeping macOS (or any OS, really) not updated, is not really an option... unless you're going to keep your computer airgapped.

You might accept to keep unpatched systems, or manage to use them in an airgapped environment. But for a lot of businesses that deploy fleets of Apple hardware, the problem is going to be much more tricky.

(then again, I can see this being an issue only for internally-developed VB6-style apps, which would take a lot of effort to be updated... commercial software like Adobe CS, or even specialist software is going to be upgrade, if not immediately in 1 or 2 major releases, and Apple backports important security patches)
The U.S. but not just the U.S. It's not programming per se; if the United Way wants some DB code done, that could be charitable since the effort isn't to build infrastructure but is part of, say, helping kids in hospital.

I hope this rule/ruling goes away for BSD type open source, but it's real.
4 digit code on 144mhz -- just sending a code alone triggers alert? Wouldn't it need a payload to describe the msg?
Hooray for gifted amateurs. This post made me very happy. I especially liked the scientist who replied to the article saying they have experiment on the sat, and would love to see it wake up.
It's entirely subjective. To some people it is a perk, to others it is a downside. If you don't consider it a perk, I would say so. Tell him that you appreciate the flexibility, but don't consider remote work to be an advantage.
Also see http://goughlui.com/2016/08/05/diy-build-a-70cm-band-yagi-fo...
I think you can say they are rarely correct. Scientific Papers that truly advance our understanding are rare indeed. The rest are either failed hypothesis or of little predictive value.

Note that this is not at all a value judgement. Incorrect hypothesis are important steps in the way of learning new things, and papers of little predictive value can in volume lead us to new solutions.
DIY: Build a 70cm Band Yagi for Amateur Satellite Tracking
If you think governments are bad you should see what the private sector is doing with your data.
Businesses are accountable to local government.

While local government is accountable in elections, I don’t think that is a reasonable stick for day to day operations.

I find your contexting my comment as a “mistake” to be arrogant to the point of almost irredeemability. Are you trying to be that obnoxious?
> children who can't handle responsibility

Isn't the real concern bad actors? e.g., LOVEINT
Yeah, seriously. "We never expected this" while, say, hacking Angela Merkel's phone and spying on friendly countries in addition to installing backdoors everywhere...

This list is an exaggeration by someone with an extreme position but every one of these had US involement: https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peopl...

It also is missing the ironic involvement of the USA dispatching people to help Boris Yeltzin come back from losing to winning the Russian elections in the 90s (it's not even a secret, see the movie Spinning Boris).

Can someone tell me exactly what the word "hacking" means when people say "Russians hacked the election" over and above what was continuously happening by many countries the whole time?
I contacted support after finding an old email from the ICO a few years ago. They got me access to my account within a couple of days.

https://launch.stellar.org/#/login
You are right about Google's future valuation back in 2004. But we also have to think about the comparison here - we are comparing a software and manufacturing company.

Even if we ignore different sector we need to look at the financials. Google dint have much debt. Tesla on the other hand has lots of debt. Their financial leverage is 5.97 which is high.

Then there is also about the interest rate climate. We have seen years of unprecedented low interest rates. Feds now have started to increase it slowly. If it rises too high Tesla's interest obligation will balloon as well. If they are not building cars fast and selling them even faster, they might be a deep hole and hence overvalued.
Because government overreach is always a risk.

It is easier to throw business people in jail than it is government employees.
The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) do not define the rights we have as citizens, but are restrictions on the Federal government. Even the 10th says as much:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the people."

But the Federal government will argue what "unreasonable searches" means (IV) or the citizens will argue what "a well regulated Militia" means (II).
"To help us serve you better, please say the reason for your call..." - this provokes violence
Non-paywall: https://archive.fo/f4ABQ
Live India's Republic Day parade and cultural show
Find and analyze any reachable server and device on the internet
America's new deadliest drug is fentanyl
My opinion as a Westerner who has spent a lot of time in Japan: as in any crowded place, a key coping skill is the ability to ignore people who are in close proximity to you. When you’re riding on a train with people crammed up against every square inch of your body, you kind of zone out, avoid eye contact, and definitely don’t strike up a conversation. I get the strong sense that people who are alone can go though life with very few meaningful interactions, even with neighbors who live only a few centimeters away (note that the apartment in the story is 200 square feet, I’d bet that a lot of American homes have bathrooms bigger than that).

Being collectivist means not taking up unnecessary psychic space in the lives of others.
Great summary. I spent a full New England winter hitchhicking to work and rode the edge of being fired for erratic late arrivals. Survived it, but just pure luck. I was often 2-3 minutes from being fired.
Similarly I did not want to sell my shares in Google to buy shares in the Facebook IPO (even though I felt Facebook would generate better returns) because I would have to pay capital gains tax.

This shows why a simple model for capital gains tax leads to inefficient capital allocation.

Instead, the CGT rules should be cumulative like this: Let's say you buy at $1 million and then sell at $10 million after 10 years: That is an annual return of 25.9%. If the annual capital gains tax rate is 20%, that would leave you with a return of 20.7% per annum. So after 10 years your $1 million investment is worth $6.56 million after tax. That is, you must pay $3.44 million in capital gains tax.
Alamo Drafthouse does this consistently without a problem.

http://www.ent13.com/entertainment/movies/alamo-drafthouse-m...

Cell phone use = kicked out, banned forever. No oddly spelled startup needed.
I also suspect that moving to a new location and throwing yourself at the mercy of the locals worked a lot better when there were fewer people.

(Warning: unsupported speculation follows.)

The more crowded our environment gets, the more we feel that helping someone in need is someone else’s problem, and the less likely it is that the random person who might be able to lend you a room, for example, feels confident the community will back them up if you turn out to be trouble.

The kind of charity you need as a transient is harder to come by at an individual level than it used to be. You’re more reliant on institutions, and that’s a thin safety net to rely on to throw yourself across the country.
One of the reasons I don't use the autopilot that much in my Model S is that it is trying to be "too perfect", in the sense that it seems to want to stay right in the middle of the lane.

You may be thinking: why would that be bad? It seems like a reasonable approach.

It is reasonable, but not good enough.

In the Bay Area, potholes abound, and the car - if left to its own driving style - will happily go over every single one of them. Same if there is any hazard on the road (tires, debris, etc): no avoidance at all.

The second thing is that it will not adapt to lane sharing traffic: the car will happily go back to center, even though a motorcycle may be passing it to the side. Even if the sensors detect it, it's still a bad scare for the motorcyclist who will believe that I tried to run him/her over.

At the end of the day, I end up having to take over too frequently to be very useful. The cognitive load of maintaining a lane is so small that it doesn't feel like offloading it is a big benefit.

Once we reach full autonomy (with an algorithm that minimizes damage to the car from potholes and other elements), it'll be different I think.
No, Apple doesn’t need to know your backup key to reset your password and retain backups. I explained why in my previous comment. If they’re not stuffing it in iCloud Keychain (yet) it’s not because the infrastructure can’t support it in principle. See: iCloud Keychain recovery. It’s probably just a matter of maturity; they still haven’t rolled out iMessages in iCloud which is a similar case.
I've used Thrift on a project in the past and one feature gRPC has that Thrift doesn't is the ability to use streaming semantics. This would have actually been very useful for the project I used Thrift on. If I were implementing it now I'd definitely use gRPC.
Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so
Likely multiple codes, each one triggers a specific hardcoded message.

I'm assuming this was from the past ("when i was a teenager") when the messages were much more generic and fixed than they are today.
This is so cool! :-) Not that I would understand the slightest of the technical mumbo-jumbo, but it is fascinating, that hobbyists can do such things, these days.
This is just a great post. Very inspiring. And now confirmed by several others, and the original IMAGE teams are all excite.
The service certainly isn't new. But Scoop, Lyft, and Waze all have different monetization models. Waze is ad-funded, plus its traffic data provides value to Google Maps. Lyft takes a cut of the money paid to the drivers. Scoop is apparently getting funded by the employers and office parks where they are providing service. These are all different models, and the fact that Lyft shut down their carpool service indicates that it's not a good fit for their business model.
"poka yoke"

Wikipedia: Poka-yoke [poka joke] is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "inadvertent error prevention". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a lean manufacturing process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka). Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.

https://www.google.com/search?q=poke+yoke
By now pretty much everyone knows the technical reason for mishap and probably excessive resources are assigned to fix it.

Mandatory witch hunt is failing apparently due to good union/legal firewall.

Wish we could see that more often.

Too many good people fallen to that.
> possession, shoplifting, public intox, loitering, driving with no insurance, etc. No violence, no real palpable victims other than themselves

I'm with you on all but one of these -- driving with no insurance seems like a seriously bad idea, and should have consequences. Two tons of steel, even at moderate 35mph speed, is a lot of damn momentum and can do some real damage, and most certainly should be insured.
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In a simpler system yes. But they’ve developed a sophisticated system for syncing secrets called iCloud Keychain. Apple never knows your keychain. Once a new device joins your keychain circle it would in theory be able to sync backup keys and then restore, all without Apple ever knowing. They’re about to roll this out for iMessages which are also not readable by Apple. Backups are probably in the pipeline if they’re not doing it already.
> The core philosophy is that a well-run system should never rely on perfection from the operators

A well-designed system, in this case, could be simple enough that it barely requires the operator to be awake.
I could have a shorter commute if I lived closer to where I work, but then I would also run into higher rent. A one bedroom closer to work would be double my current rent and I wold also lose a bedroom in the process.

Honestly I enjoy my commute. For me it's not long and I get time to get into and out of my work mindset on the way to and from work. Most of the time I end up listening to classical music or books on tape during my commute.
Paywall...what's the main points made?
Twitter is working on Snapchat like video sharing tool
These are common misconceptions from speculators.

1. Crypto-assets like Bitcoin/Ethereum/Steller/Ripple, etc, are created simply by typing some numbers into a piece of software. There's no underlying value, it's a number in a database.

2. Stocks have measurable value, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio

3. Anytime someone sells a Bitcoin or whatevercoin it requires a buyer. Similar to baseball cards, beanie babies, or other artifitially scarce yet easy to produce asset, the market is subject to supply and demand. In the case of cryptocoins, the supply is created and distributed to a small group of users who horde it, in the hope that new users will come in and purchase the coins for more than it cost to create them. This is a hallmark of a typical pyramid scam, which collapses once no more investors can be found, leaving the late adopters holding now worthless "coins".

4. Stocks in Amazon and businesses grant you legal rights, and if the company goes bankrupt you are entitled to compensation from their assets.
If you are going into the city anyway for work, you can drop off your passenger near a subway stop, and continue into work. The assumption is that you were driving anyway, and so the cost of adding a carpooler and dropping him or her maybe 3-5 minutes out of your normal drive.

You're right that if you need to go out of your way at pickup or dropoff, or if you weren't going to drive into the city anyway because parking is $$$, this isn't going to work for you. But then that wasn't the intended target audience. If the goal is to get cars off the road, and you weren't going to drive, but take light rail as the saner way to commute into the city --- then by all means, continue using rail or light rail for your commute!
New sign:

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS ANYONE TO PRESS THE "SEND REAL ALERT" BUTTON.
I also feel that using the bitemporal pattern on a Postgres DB is the most pragmatic choice. What are some advantages to using a specialized timeseries DB? I can’t really think of any.
He's probably doing that on the advice of his lawyer, and I totally agree. Politicians are in witch-hunt mode, and as he stated, he already gave a statement and doesn't want to get goaded into making a statement that might be used against him. I think that's smart.
Some Lessons from a Failed Startup
IMAGE: https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
"Just like people use popular search engines to find relevant content on the Internet, Censys allows users to discover the devices, networks, and infrastructure on the Internet and monitor how it changes over time."

"Censys was created in 2015 at the University of Michigan, by the security researchers who developed ZMap, the most widely used tool for Internet-wide scanning. Over the past five years, the team has performed thousands of Internet-wide scans, consisting of trillions of probes, and has played a central role in the discovery or analysis of some of the most significant Internet-scale vulnerabilities: FREAK, Logjam, DROWN, Heartbleed, and the Mirai botnet."

How does this compare with shodan.io?
I'm not a security expert, can someone explain to me how this product is used and why it's worth $1000 a month (or even more)? What's the alternative?
From personal experience: PostgreSQL's COPY commands aren't really all that performant, indexes or no.

Our project saw SIGNIFICANTLY better performance with batched multi-threaded INSERTs. If you can run a few hundred load threads and manage the concurrency correctly (not trivial), it will chew through big loads like a monster.

If I ever have the time/excuse, I want to go back and try a multi-threaded COPY. But if you need speed and have a choice between multi-threaded INSERTs or a single-threaded COPY, go with the INSERTs every time.
US plans to end support for International Space Station by 2025
This is amazing. Great post for HN.
You underestimate the impact that people using their phones - as cameras in particular - has in a performance setting. To say nothing about ringers going off. It ruins the experience for everyone, so some inconvenience is well worth it in my book.
Why do we (or anyone) need a platform segregating people by the age (or gender or color or whatever)?

This is plain stupid idea.

Hire people based on their abilities and skills to help you to build (or execute) what you need.

Who cares about the age of a person who can help you?
If the policy is clearly stated during the purchase process, sure.

If it's something that's just announced at the door, after you've bought the (generally non-refundable) tickets, no.
California Rocked by 3 Earthquakes in One Day, Scientists Expect More in 2018
Last time I checked, I still couldn't control the max heap free ratio, because apparently that option/flag just doesn't work with Java 8's default GC.
> Currently, none of those rights you mention that are enumerated in the Bill of Rights are guaranteed through absolute means, they are preserved via checks & balances among branches of the government.

The idea that private use of encryption is any different than that is the recent propaganda.

If the police have a warrant then they can place a bug in your house or trojan your device, which gives them access to everything starting on the day they execute the warrant.

Which is the same as it is for anything else. A warrant isn't a time machine. You can't get one today and use it to read files the accused shredded five years ago. Nor does the government have the right to make everyone submit copies of all their paper files to them to put in a locked government room for hypothetical future access with a warrant. But that is what they want to do with encryption.

What encryption actually prevents is warrantless mass surveillance of content, which is exactly the sort of thing all the other rights categorically protect people from the government doing.
The USA is now the lone superpower. The standards are (and should be) different from 1990s Russia.
Cryptography with backdoors means humans with knowledge of said backdoors in both industry and government. Even if it were theoretically possible, I have no faith in humans to protect this kind of information.
It's unreal.

> “We asked (Hawaii Emergency Management Agency) for a screenshot and that’s what they gave us,” Ige [Hawaii Governor] spokeswoman Jodi Leong told Civil Beat on Tuesday. “At no time did anybody tell me it wasn’t a screenshot.”

So the governor asked for a screenshot and they sent him a "mockup" instead of the actual interface?

I can only assume the actual interface was somehow even worse than the fake.
My co-founder and wife is dyslexic.

Just like you say, because she had to work so much harder than everyone else, she basically got really good at working hard and never giving up.

Here's a piece she wrote about being a dyslexic entrepreneur:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ugly-dyslexic-duckling-misa-c...
>...really shouldn't almost the entire focus be on the terrible design and the people responsible for it in the first place?

I was just thinking that!

I can just imagine (in my own head, of course) that this guy has been banging pots and pans talking to executives and those above him to set aside the time and/or budget to fix the terribly archaic and sensitive system. Now he's sitting there looking guilty as possible and his only way out is to throw everyone who ignored him under the bus.

Why do I assume that things are this way? I feel like I've dealt with 20-30 different situations like this in my ~12 years programming and of course they were WAY smaller in comparison but there is no "clean way out". Feelings are going to get hurt and the work place's fabric could be torn to shreds. Nobody wants to be responsible for that.
> apparently not.

Just becasue one blog post making it seem that way makes it not known ?
Burger King Trolled Customers to Perfectly Explain Net Neutrality
I actually pad it to avoid coming up short :)
You can likely take every public IP your organization has, run it through that, and see what your attack surface looks like. Very useful if you have an unmanageable and public computer network.
Maybe it's hush money.
I think its quite likely there are system design, procedural, and other problems with both how the alert happened and how it remained uncorrected for as long as it did that have not been revealed yet; the reasons they haven't been probably involves a mixture of people not interested in exposing their own failings (and those people certainly have an incentive not to correct the public narrative) and even the involved people not individually being aware of the whole picture and no one having yet put all the pieces together.

I suspect that the picture of the UI problem that has become public is likely accurate as far as it goes, but is also far from a complete picture.
This is good news. NASA does not always tell us everything. They keep it a secret stuff like intergalactic drive research, ECT until they can prove it works, so it does not fall into the wrong hands.
Isn't that something nmap does for free?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't VS Code Electron-based?
For one, you can avoid double-writing to disk by only having the log instead of the WAL/log + table. You can save space by using a more compact binary representation. Basically all performance/efficiency related.
Wow, no droids allowed! I guess Star Wars was right.

Jack White is a luddite.
We (I) use it a lot in the Amateur Radio and Amateur Radio Astronomy community
It would be nice if there were a visualization of this. Perhaps watts on the x-axis, distance on the y-axis, and baud rate of specific technologies or wavelengths as dots connected by contour lines? Probably on a log/ log scale.

(Sorry I don't care enough to make it, but I promise to look if someone else does ;)
I get the impression you are talking from an abstract understanding of all these options. Have you ever tried moving to a new city and accessing public housing? In most cities there's a closed waiting list. Or even buying a $1 bus fare? (A while back, for my own curiosity, I ran a webscraping tool that collected the current fare data on boltbus to track how often the advertised $1 fares actually showed up - I think it turned out to be approximately one trip every couple months. I don't know if megabus offers them more frequently.)

Aside from the dubious reality of the support you describe, for someone with no economic capital, it's a big risk to move away from whatever social capital you may have. Social capital gives you access to job referrals, loans, couch space, bartering favors, social recommendations as replacement for a nice reliable job as surety when looking for a roommate, a vastly improved safety net and, it is increasingly recognized, mental and emotional health benefits.

tldr: people have been freezing to death for lack of resources for thousands of years too.
Tensors for beginners
Thank you for this comment. I checked my email, found out I had 40K, and cashed out half.

We live in strange times.
Everyone is talking about interfaces and clicks. Yeah, we know he clicked the wrong item. I'd be interested to know if there was a paper manual sitting on his desk with procedure instructions for this type of situation and whether or not his mistake was either not following the procedure or following it incorrectly. For all we know, there could be a control to avoid a false alert, even given a shitty interface, that should have been followed.