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>Apple has bricked iPhones during iOS upgrades if those devices weren't using genuine Apple displays.
>Apple has bricked iPhones during iOS upgrades if you replaced the touch ID, regardless of whether it was a genuine part or not.
>The iPhone X camera module is a separate part form the display yet if you replace the display genuine or not while keeping the original camera module, it stops working for facial authentication.

This is incorrect and a complete oversimplification of what actually happened. In every single one of the cases you mention, the device was bricked because having the part displayed broke the chain of encryption from the secure enclave to the device in question - Touch ID or Face ID. If you can't verify the chain of trust, there's no way for the device to accurately tell that the security measures that are in place are working correctly with any kind of certainty.

In fact, Apple reversed the Touch ID issue by simply notifying the user that a third-party display had disabled Touch ID (because the Touch ID module key no longer matched the key in the secure enclave). The software simply wasn't designed to allow insecure use of the device and it was fixed within less than a week.

You're either simply ignorant of how these situations came to be or you're being disingenuous because the inaccurate click-bait headline is easy to use to confirm and support your suspicions.
The president is supposed to get approval from congress before entering into war. As citizens who are subject to a draft, we should care greatly about this...
I fear that's a low estimate - this entire situation is messy and complex and everyone ran out of not-bad options long ago.
Not that it makes it right, but Russia essentially did just attack Ukraine one day in order to annex Crimea
When was it clear to allies to enter WWII?

Should we have waited for the rule of law there too?

I agree we should disengage from the nation building nonsense Bush and Obama got into, but when Pol Pot copy cats come along, root them out.
Though there is undoubtedly value in such a feature, it is upsetting because it further concentrates power. Presumably Google, and likely powerful people in organizations that use gmail, will still have access to the expired documents, but low level employees will not. The information asymmetry leads to real power asymmetry. </tinfoil>
what are you talking about? Russia has troops on the ground there. They invaded the Ukraine as well. They shot down a plane full of Dutch people flying to Malaysia.

We have a rule of law. It's called the Geneva Protocol and Assad violated it!
Great, it's 2003 again. Even have good ole' Bolton back in there just in time.
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This is pretty clearly a case of the mean conveying little useful information. Children, elderly, and the unemployed skew the data way too much for the average to be a meaningful summary.
There was never evidence shown that the attack was executed by Assad. There has not been any evidence shown that Assad still has WMD. This all started winding up right after the Bolton appointment. As is well known, Bolton was a Neoconservative architect of the Iraq war, and has been pushing hard for an attack on Syria. Also well known is that Assad was almost in full control of Eastern Ghouta, and Trump announced that he was planning to pull out, so why on Earth would Assad do something so dumb as to pull the west back in?

Think about who is most invested in keeping the west involved. That would be the rebels/al queda/Isis who have been armed and supported by the Saudis and the US to fight Russia and Assad.

It was even tweeted that insurgents were going to stage a chemical attack false flag before it happened:

https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/973535840646434816?s=1...
Take out Saddam and get this over with! It'll be over in 9 months! We'll be greeted as liberators!

Good grief, how much of a goldfish can you be?
Granting access to outside computers means you can't disprove that outside meddling hasn't happened. I would expect a certified forensics lab to maintain a strict firewall for all electronic devices.
Probably too early for anyone to have any substantial comments anyway.
Mattis recently admitted that there's still no evidence of the chemical weapons usage from last year.

Chemical weapons inspectors are supposed to be starting their work on the 14th.

And we start bombing with confidence the day of?

Nothing is adding up. LET ALONE THE LEGALITY OF IT.

Sorry, I'm mad.
New account ey? You don't happen to work for IRA [1]?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Where's the rule of law for the Syrian civilians who were subjected to a horrific chemical attack?

It happened, and Assad did it, whether or not you believe it.
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FWIW Gentoo uses multiple algorithms plus file size in package checks, see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/package/Manif...

I recently made an argument to add a new one, Streebog, and you can read the discussion at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597736
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Good.

I gotta say, I was skeptical of a Trump presidency at first, but when I look at in retrospect so far, things aren’t really all that bad, if you ignore all the media circus around Trump’s character flaws and the stupid election conspiracies, which in the grand scheme don’t matter.

Trump is a random chaotic president, and when his presidency is done the effects of his presidency will linger and new precedents will have been set, some good and some bad, but I think the good will outweigh the bad in more important ways. He is the mutation in the status quo’s DNA.
May this be quick and not boil over. My heart goes out to my Syrian friends, may their loved ones remain safe during these continually troubled times.
Sorry. No.
> He brought the iPhone to me, put it in my hands, and asked: “Alan, is this good enough to be criticized?”. My reply was to make a shape with my hands the size of an iPad: “Steve, make it this size and you’ll rule the world”.

I find this especially telling after Apple's recent education-focused announcement[1], where Apple continues trying to push the iPad as an educational tool. Is this Tim Cook trying to continue Steve Jobs' vision of Alan Kay's vision? Or do Apple seriously believe the iPad as it is has a business chance in the cash-strapped education market?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/03/apples-chicago-events...
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Right. And russia was sanctioned and attacked mercilessly by the media and the international community.

That's my point. Russia was wrong. And so are we.
He called the iPad at the time a glass keyboard. Because he didn't want to give it away.

And let's not forget that a Microsoft guy provoked him into creating a tablet called the iPad.
> Who tries to get a Ph.D. in six years?” said Marguerite Waller, a Phud who became a professor of comparative literature and gender and sexuality studies. “It’s insane.”

This isn't explained well, but I guess they meant getting a PhD while skipping/racing through the bachelors?
And how do you know this exactly? By listening to the same media WMD drum beat that caused the Iraq war?
"Younger generations don’t have much use for device that can’t fit in a pocket."

They do when they're trying to create something more complicated than a social media post.
Yes, for all of us sitting at our computers talking about war and international law, Syrians are dying and have been dying. It's a humanitarian disaster. No one deserves to go through something like this.
Well it's already been going on for 7 years with 500k+ dead. US has already been there quite some time. The Kurds we support have many enemies as well. They will not exist without our support.
The article says even the latest version of iOS is vulnerable. Apple hasn't patched it yet.

But if you have a strong enough password it won't work against you. The exploit only lets them try to guess your password more quickly. It doesn't let them bypass your password.
Well, maybe it's just 2003 again, if we are lucky.
Considering I am saying russia is evil, I don't think I am. Russia attacking ukraine was wrong. Us attacking syria is wrong.

Now, can you tell me what organization you work for?
One only needs to apply basic game theory and skepticism to come to the conclusion that Assad has no incentives to gas citizens. He's winning the war!

On the other hand who would benefit from a gas attack? Obviously, the "rebels" (read islamists). They have been losing ground for the past two years and if the US pulled out (which was planned) and a peace settlement is reached then they would lose.

Now consider that the exact same sequence of events happened almost exactly the same time last year -- the US announced that "regime change is no longer a priority" and a few days later we saw reports of a gas attack. See http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/04/timelines-of-gas-attack...

For the game theory see: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2018/04/from_game_theor....
That's not allowed here, even in an off-topic political flamewar. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That's certainly interesting, thanks for expanding on your experience. How many years of experience did you go in with? That's the other standard route that doesn't involve a degree. For example, if I was interested in working in the U.S, I'd either need a degree or 12 evident years of experience.
Don't forget:

1) Healthcare costs (especially for a family)
2) Non-compete & IP assignment agreements (unless you are in CA)
Good point.

Edit: removed personal attack.
Haven't US special forces been in Syria for years now?
Heh, thanks. Didn't find it in a quick search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi

The previous version was a 14nm CPU that was haswell instruction compatible. The 10nm version has been canceled.
Yeah, didn't have Russia on the other side last time, I make light of it but it is honestly terrifying. Unbelievable how few people see history repeating almost identically though.
The reason you are not following that is because I never said it was and nobody except for you was asking whether something was “right.”

The original discussion was about whether:

> [product counterfeiting] is a major problem for amazon
Look, we can only go by what we're told. We, the people, have no ability at all to ascertain the veracity of assertions of this nature made by our government. It's not that we're naive, it's that we are in no position to go to Syria and watch every second of the hostilities so that attribution can be made independently of government agencies and the media.

If Assad did do it, then we are simply responding to what he did. If Assad didn't do it, well, it's not the first time our government has lied to us. Either way, this military action will not have much effect on the outcome of the conflict so it's not as if we're messing anything up too bad.
I know multiple instances where Apple made false claims about infringement - I wouldn't trust that figure unless I see independent evidence.

I myself would estimate 10-30% of chargers sold are counterfeit, I see some sellers that are obviously selling fakes but 90% seems extremely unlikely.
For me videos are about personality and creativity. This is usually conflicts with technical tutorials, in which I don't care about the personality. Plus:

- Not searchable
- High bandwidth
- Visually overwhelming sometimes
I know students who have written essays, put together presentations, etc solely on their phones.

If you really believe that the only thing “younger generations” do is post on social media, I suggest you spend more time around high schoolers (for example), particularly those with limited financial means.
Isolated airstrikes won’t save Syrian lives: what Trump can do to help
It’s not my money but it’s pretty clear by Amazons behavior that they are fine with it.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Or another way of putting it - it gets you an aesethetic balance between nature and this austere artificiality.
Most commonly I see a “substitution” notation for that, S[V/x], but unfortunately there are dozens of variations in use, including: [V/x]S, [x ↦ V]S, [x ⇒ V]S, [x → V]S, {V/x}S, {x ↦ V}S, S_(x → V), S[V|x], S[x := V], S[x/V], S[x ← V], S[V\x], S(v/x), S{V/x}, S{x ↦ V}, S{x := V}, S{x → V}, S⦃x ← V⦄, S{x ← V}, …
I'm not remotely Bulgarian, but White Mountain is absolutely my favorite yogurt. When I lived where I could obtain it, I would regularly eat my way through one of the really big jars of it. I think it was most of a gallon? Good with everything, tangy, delicious. By contrast, the Greek yogurt craze resulted in a lot of sour, oddly gummy, weirdly pasty products. White Mountain is a whole other food.
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I'm pretty much working alone too and I refactor often! There are pros and cons to working alone to be sure.
This is plain wrong. You don't need to create a billion dollar company to be a successful entrepreneur, even though that's what investors want you to think. By Steve's definition, you just need to make more than you would at your corporate gig.

1) The world is moving towards remote work. You don't need to be in a rich country with talent. So long as there's good Wi-Fi.

2) If you have debt then you'll have to raise money and take a salary.

3) You don't need to do a friends and family round, or raise at all. We're bootstrapped, never raised a dollar.

4) I've met many entrepreneurs with young children or wanting to start families. Certain startups (eg. SaaS) can have very reliable income once you get your first several customers.
The company I work for just started the process of completely reworking how the development team's impact/effectiveness is measured (along with each member of the team as you would imagine), so your comment really peaked my interest.

What did you end up measuring? How did you measure it? We've been debating for the last few days on how to measure the outputs and their real business impact without getting caught up measuring the inputs that may or may not really matter (commits, loc, story points, etc...).

For context this is an org that has been, historically, in the dysfunctional area of the operating spectrum, high employee churn, lots of technical debt, no testing to speak of in flagship product, high concentrations of knowledge held by single individuals.

We have somewhat coalesced around the idea of dynamically assigning business impact metrics on a per feature/product basis (if we build this thing we would expect to see metric x, y, z go in said direction). In addition to those metrics we are thinking of also doing something along the lines of an NPS (net promoter score) score that would be given to the feature/product by the end-user. Taking both of these into account would then score the development teams effectiveness/impact.

In addition to the outputs mentioned above we would also be tracking the inputs, but more as a historical data set, to see if there are any correlations between our inputs (commits, loc, story points, etc...) to better NPS and business impact metrics.

I'd love to hear any feedback, experiences, advice.

P.S. Team size is 10 devs, core team of 4 in U.S.A co-located, all others remote international.
I felt sorry for the author. But then I reached the bottom of the article and see that site has that most awful and obnoxious banner advertising there. Now I don’t feel bad.
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Hey guys,

I was wondering if you had any great papers in mind on business in general (management, marketing, sales, innovation, ...)?

So far I mostly read blog posts / columns but I would be interested in learning what is available in papers too.

Many thanks!
The most common place for me to see iPads these days is point-of-sale, everything from sales at small cafes to the front desks of car mechanics and childcare.

(The second-most common place is as a distraction device given to three-year-olds.)
It's tragic to see RAM moving in the opposite direction of other positive technologies like USB. Going from being difficult to reuse between devices to fixed and impossible to reuse, making entire devices disposable.
That's a horrible way to go about modeling reality.

What the government says is only tiny portion of the information we have on any situation.

We also have what 200 other governments say, what academics say, what thousands of different journalists say, what historical precedent says, and what your own logic and intuition says.

Your obedience to the government narrative makes you the perfect tool of those in power.
Would you mind explaining how your proposal could help mitigate the effects of agricultural runoff?
Like always on HN when the topic is US militarism. This one immediately got 40+ upvotes and managed to last what, 30 minutes? What a disgrace.

EDIT: same fate for this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835364
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Good business move, very Uber. Kill, get hacked, pay off hackers, repeat.
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War is great for business, why stop now when there are contracts to renew and weapons to be built and sold? Just dress it up in enough appeals to emotion and political drama and people will do their patriotic duty to believe in the effort.
I feel like that example counters your claim in two different ways.

First, (1, 2) only makes sense if you assume that x is first and y is second, or in other words that they correspond to X_1 and X_2 for some vector X. This is probably a reasonable assumption for x and y, but what if you have some other arbitrary choice of variables?

a ρ + 2 = 0

Then the only unambiguous way to write a solution is with explicit labels: a = 1, ρ = -2.

Second, another way to “solve” the equation “x y + 2 = 0” is: “y = -2/x, for any x ∈ ℝ \ {0}”. You could argue that this is also a different kind of “equation” than the one you started with: the reason it can be seen as a solution is not (just) that it’s simpler than the original equation, but that it provides an algorithm to enumerate the set of individual solutions, as well as the set of solutions given some proposed x value. (That is, a set with one or zero members depending on whether x = 0.) However, even if it is a different kind of object, there’s no way to represent it in standard notation that doesn’t conflate ‘questions’ with ‘answers’. If you really want to use tuples, you could go for “{(x, -2/x) | x ∈ ℝ \ {0}}”, which avoids the equals sign – but the ∈ is playing a similar role, an algorithm (enumerate all members of this set) disguised as a test (is this value a member of the set?).

edit: Upon further reflection, I might actually just be expressing violent agreement with the point you were trying to make. shrug
Technically "microblogging" is the generic term for Twitter's service, as I'm sure you know, but given how quickly they dominated the space it's a bit obscure (like saying "ice pop" for a Popsicle). I'm curious about the polarizing. I've never seen the word used that way before; does it refer to screening certain types out, or to attracting only certain types in? Is the idea to avoid the misogynist and alt right types who have ruined Twitter for a lot of people?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2F...
And that is the simplistic answer. At some point you will probably figure out how a micro biome works in concert and either engineer a super organism or populations of organisms to do some specific task(s).
Speaking of subject, I find it helpful to have awareness of changes in agent/patient, and not just object/subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_relation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_(grammar)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_(grammar)
> Apparently lots of my tax dollars are going towards purchasing a temporary license

Depending on where you live, maybe 16 cents on the dollar is going to “defense.” And I’d imagine that $15k per license is a tiny fraction of that.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-w...
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It's nice that people care, but yes, I've just been telling people ever since that this is the business model of the web, except this time people seem more interested in listening.

I suggest you try to use the fact that peoples interest has piqued to educate them slightly about how data correlation and advertising online works.
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many VC investment firms are just arms of the Chinese government

As a serial entrepreneur in China I am really interested in your source here. Care to share?

IMHO based on experience to date I would say there is usually a very clear distinction between government and VC firms.
Not exactly legal: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-military-strike-on-syri...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-inside-trumps-secret-war...
I did a little testing about ~4 years ago and found most of the speed increases were in the netstack, but I didn't do any computational testing either.

As for your last question, I think largely due to the fact that it's just not mainstream yet.
Just part out your MacBook Air. I just parted out a mid-2011 and got about US$600 for it, excluding the useless battery and frayed power cord.
Could you please share the script :)
Obligatory responses:

https://qntm.org/abolish ("So You Want To Abolish Time Zones")

https://qntm.org/calendar ("You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform")
I mean before this in various regions it's been fine for the west to pummel places yet when one small attack (which I also disagree with) happens it's a "red line". I find it a little hard to swallow their concern for innocents driving this action.
You just described Perkins, a diner chain in the upper Midwest.

So basically New York diners are available in rural Iowa?
Who would flag this? This is a pretty major development.
There's no vague about it. MD5 collisions have been possible to generate for over a decade now.

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/

A sha256 or sha512 would be more appropriate.
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A few years ago I wanted to try this as a local Minecraft server but it was 64 bit only and the spare machine I had was 32 bit. Glad this post came up because now I've got a 64 bit machine sitting in my basement I had forgotten about until now.
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The iPad that could rule the world hasn't been made yet.
Once iOS and OS X completely merge, then we'll see.

It's sized for creating things, but running the OS of a device made for consuming things.
Tesla has likely built 80-90% of an autonomous car enough to fool those who use it into believing it can be trusted. But as with all engineering endeavors that suffer from the Pareto principal its going to take far longer to get close enough that it's better than a human whose paying attention.

Its foolish to oversell thru marketing the capabilities of AP, as it's fairly easy to conflate reliability with observed behavior.

As long as the system mimics enough of the capabilities of full autonomy and it's oversold as such customers will underestimate the risks and become victims of an unfinished product
No mobile support? Hopefully that's coming. I'd download it in a heartbeat.
I don't think people realize how serious this is. For those of us who vividly remember the events leading up to the Iraq invasion, this is extremely unsettling. I can see younger members viewing this as just more tripe from international news or whatever though.
Wow. I was just sorta giggling quietly at what seemed to be a mild case of blogs-about-weird-things. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went
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