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I upgraded from iPhone 6 to iPhone XS and if I am 100% honest I don't feel a massive difference. New screen is really nice and I am surprised that I actually like face id much more than the fingerprint scanner. But on a day-to-day activity scale ... browsing facebook, reddit, youtube, playing games, etc. ... I often struggle to notice any real difference, even in how quick apps start. I don't regret it because I know I won't have to worry about upgrades for another 2-3 years.

But I can highly recommend the battery replacement for the iPhone 6. I was luck (unlucky?) enough to get the discounted battery replacement due to mine failing. After I got that it was a significant improvement.
I too toured the boat.

> The windshield wipers on all Ospreys (those dank helicopter/plane things, think Ghost in the Shell) have been disabled/removed because their motors would catch fire in inaccessible places near the pilot's feet.

Well, this is not related to the main point about cyber security. If true, it's just a piece of equipment that was found to be flawed. It is a non-essential system that was made INOP.

The Osprey is a marvelous piece of engineering that is difficult to replicate by other nations.

> Every system runs on the same network. This includes radar, weapons systems, anti-air, emergency comms, in-ship cameras...

Physical network or logical network?

> The only thing preventing access to a boat's network is standing orders and the threat of punishment. You can just plug right in.

And then do what once you are in? Unless we are assuming there is zero security, this doesn't mean much. Besides, you have to be on the ship already.

I'm not saying that the systems are adequately protected, they may not (as the article states), but there's too much information missing for us to play the role of security auditors.
I mean, what is it at this point, 2 days of bad press? All Murdoch properties I'm aware of covered Facebook and Equifax for a lot longer than that, and certainly didn't pretend that what they did was okay.
What if the bloomberg article was a sort of false flag?

The Trump administration has been consistently escalating retoric against the Chinese, and it's not hard to imagine the CIA/NSA/etc intentionally leaking facts to bloomberg that would make China look like a national security threat. This could even be done in a way where the security agencies don't leak anything actually false, but let the non-phds at bloomberg run wild with speculation to create a sensationalist story that's not really true. A recent WSJ article [1] has called particular attention to the Trump administration's escalating anti-Chinese rhetoric, calling it the start of a "second cold war". We know for a fact that these sorts of operations happened during the first cold war [2], so it's not at all hard to imagine they would happen now.

A false flag attack fits with all the information we have so far about the event: There's no direct evidence of the attack, and if the bloomberg article is ever proven to be false, then only a small number of security researchers (and HNers) will ever learn about the retraction. The vast majority of Americans will only remember reading about how "China hacked major US companies" and create an anti-Chinese atmosphere that will help fuel future anti-Chinese policies.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-pence-announces-cold-war-i...

[2] https://fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/re022502.html
Medications are usually dispensed in amber-colored vials and bottles (my Dad used to work for a company that manufactured them).

Also, amber used to be a common color (though maybe not as common as green, from my experience) for monochrome terminals and computer screens.

I still see the word used often enough that I don't think it should be declared dead quite yet...
> The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence
> ... said Appleboum, who accompanied them for a visual inspection of the machine.

So can we at least get some photos of tampered hardware from these "evidence"?
I think all of those apps have an auto upload feature for your photos
> Perhaps by LED they're referring to LED-backlit LCD displays.

That's conventional for how LED-backlit LCD displays are marketed to consumers.
Yes, but Essential was teasing the notch for months at least.
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Apple didn't come up with the notch. Essential and Sharp (both Android phones) were first:

https://www.phonearena.com/news/history-of-the-notch-and-bez...
Ignorance is not a defense, especially for a director of security. Lying about knowing how the organization you lead operates is a bad as directly lying about how your organization operates.
I have to assume we'll start to see a rise in American high tech manufacturing for security purposes alone. Some of these companies may want to manufacturer these critical components themselves, maybe even hand deliver them from their US factory to their customers in the US too.

I know that some refineries do direct delivery for some of their large customers, especially industrial lubricants and other by-products. If the order is big enough, or someone wants to pay the premium, then direct delivery could be very feasible for tech too.
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You're conflating rationality with propriety. China wanted Meng Hongwei to make it easier to use Interpol to track down Chinese dissidents, directly in conflict with the Interpol charter; and merely two years later they kidnap, disappear him, and charge him with disloyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. He was supposed to be their stooge pigeon, but was clearly ineffective. Again from their point of view, entirely rational to have him removed because he wasn't doing what was expected. And that's what's so conspicuous, they openly admit China was his master, not Interpol.

China, Xi, and the Party are in a sense all one in the same thing. There is nothing more important than loyalty to the one Party, and the concept of one Party rule. And Uighurs are a threat to that, so they're labeled terrorists. If you accept the idea that one party rule is necessary, it's entirely rational to aggressively, perhaps even violently, ban all possible opposition. That's the nature of any autocracy.
Ask HN: What is the best smartphone for privacy conscious consumers in 2018?
It seems for a normal consumer in the present day it is extremely difficult to evaluate phones on the privacy criteria. A lot of people suggest to simply buy from Apple. Having seen the recent posts on HN about OnePlus sending a lot of data home, there are a lot of reason to be skeptical. Which phones would you recommend to a privacy conscious audience and why?
I'm familiar with OpenIPMI (I use it for remote fan control a lot) but I'm not clear on what exactly you want me to try?
Maybe I've just reached curmudgeon age, but how exactly is this an improvement on: FTP to server, upload files?
> I’m not calling a top to the market, or a crash
> not sure how these are better than buying a 2-year old pixel

Because a 2 year old iPhone will continue to get support for as longer than the new Pixel and doesn't have much resale value.

Don't get me wrong, I currently own a Pixel but owning one is not a value-conscious decision.
When a threat is discovered it can be very helpful if the attacker does not know you've discovered the threat.

Now you can observe them and only intervene when absolutely necessary, thus giving you time to learn more about the attackers and their methods.
> As a general rule I find that people who want to celebrate with you when something good happens and are happy for you are more likely to be a better friend than the ones who show up when you're in trouble.

I agree with you that if a friend does not feel joy in your moments of happiness and accomplishments the friendship is probably not very deep or sincere. But there's the fair weather variety. I am not sure those are the only kind one would want.

I recently bookmarked a lovely quote on HN.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. -- Adam Lindsay Gordon
I'm building a Tradewars (old BBS game) clone in Go. It's fun trying to reverse engineer how certain things worked.
If possible, it is better to have separate hardware that can continuously compromise the firmware. That way your exploit continues to exist even if valid firmware is flashed directly onto the memory module.
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XM3 has a usb-c connector with fast charging, so it's better than XM2. Going to 100% takes a while though (maybe about 1 hour) but charging it for about 10 min is enough to get you going for the whole day. I charge mine about once a week.

As for the noise cancelling, I haven't noticed much of a difference with XM2, but I'm not an audiophile anyway, so I'm not sure.
Right. So, if this hack is real, the attacker now knows we know.
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> soft circles and curves evoke something natural & familiar

> the products we create become so natural in your life that you don't think about them as technology anymore

This is bad! People should think of their technology and the implications it has on their lives. Encouraging people to sleepwalk even further into 24/7 surveillance fails the "don't be evil" test in my opinion.

Call me a cynic but damn if this doesn't stuff doesn't sound creepy coming from a company whose business model is based on surveillance.
I've been saying this for about a year now: Google has lost the will to live, the culture is dying because they are willing to betray their own at a moment's notice, and their first priority is no longer to make money building products people want to use. They would rather spend time engineering their brand image and HR stats than the products which keep them aloft, which is a shame because I have found them to be very generous and competent, and chances they won't be either for long at this rate.

You can see this in the quality of most of their products: they're rotting from the inside out, and meanwhile they're being given a fresh coat of paint to distract you from this dereliction.
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Well, the grass is always greener. Funny also how many ex-eastern blocers say they preferred those times though...
I think it's more likely bt will die off before it becomes usable for audio.
Sure, but you could have a network of affilited ~100 person groups.
I run destinysets.com, a companion site for the video game Destiny 2, and I cannot say how much of a life saver it has been for me. Not only are deploys as simple as a git push, but I also get next-level things like "preview environments" for pull requests _for free_.

The PR preview environments are super important to me because there's a lot of curated data that powers the site, as JSON files in the repo, and I accept user contributions. The Preview environments means I can check what it looks like without having to pull down and run it locally - I even preview, merge and deploy from my phone sometimes. It's amazing.
These guys are absolutely great. Well deserve and super glad they will be able to keep growing.

We're running Standups.io frontend ReactJS app with them, and for $0 / mo, which sounds nuts. Sometimes I wish they'd even charge us.
The Bloomberg article specifically claimed that Apple themselves discovered the chip in a random spot check. If an Apple employee discovered it, it would have been communicated all the way up to the executive level prior to notifying anyone outside the company (such as the FBI), which means you can't just chalk this up to a handful of lower-level Apple employees being covered by a gag order and the executives not knowing.
I'm not sure what you mean by your Google Photos example. I use it on my iPhone and the photos all show up on the Chromecast I have plugged into my TV. I can't think of many features I am missing by not running on Google Photos on Android.

And that's what I think the OP was getting at. If Google's main differentiator is services then I have little reason to buy an Android phone. I can get the built in security and privacy associated with iOS and dip into the Google ecosystem as and when I want by downloading individual apps. It works great for me
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I was an operator on a weapon system within the last decade that did not use encryption. I was horrified, naturally, but the explanations were:

1. Well, this is rapid deployment, we can't have everything.

2. The enemy here is fairly low-tech. Shouldn't be a problem.

Needless to say, I'm not surprised by this report.
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Built by data scientists for data scientists, SigOpt’s Optimization Platform is fundamentally changing the way models are tuned. For machine learning models in particular, this represents an opportunity to make optimization better, cheaper, and faster.

But machine learning is noisy, so we need a Machine Learning Evangelist to be our signal. As the public face of optimization, you will be the advocate for data scientists who deserve a better way to tune and an expert ambassador to constituencies that stretch across industry and academia. With an optimization first and SigOpt second attitude, your efforts will spread the tuning gospel and build a community of users that push the envelope on its potential.

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You are: -A quick study, who builds on 2-5 years of technical machine learning experience to translate complex subjects into concise explanations -A student of AI/ML who has a technical degree and a proficiency in computer science, machine learning, and the technology stack that enables it -As comfortable speaking in front of a room of a hundred as penning a blog that nails a critical point. -Driven to start and build something -Frequently caught reading and engaging too much in AI/ML banter
I higjly doubt the last part, but I don't have any numbers. Just as some added cintaxt, the actual ciats are also quite different between European countries. And treatment is not the only cost driver, the way the system is set-up also has a big impact. One of the reasons why Germany is also constantly among the most expensive countries.
The only US Telecom that did not allow NSA direct access to vacuum up transmissions was Qwest, and their CEO was sent to prison.
I have no idea what the codebase is, but I immediately jumped to "Inverse Modified Discrete Transform, ermmm L3 ... Oh, probably Level 3, ... gr ... probably MP3 or H.254 ... MP3 maybe granule?"

That name is better than 99.99% of all function names I deal with, actually.
Not to be tin-foily, but it is also possible that Bloomberg has been deliberately fed or seeded with "bad" information -- it doesn't have to be an organic echo chamber. But no, I don't think Bloomberg itself set out to deliberately make a false story.
Getting close to two decades, at a minimum. It depends on whether you want to go farther back than the iPod (2001).

Obviously, it works for them. An important, if sometimes overlooked, factor of their strategy is that it's not just borrow and iterate, it's a) identify device that will blow up, b) borrow well before it blows up, c) use that lead time to iterate and leap-frog the competition in polish, and d) release right as the market is poised to accept the new device as mainstream.

They can also misjudge any one of those items a bit and still power their way through, especially now that they have such credibility.
6.5 years from launch: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
The proof of guilt is on the accusing party though. Still lacking hard evidence here.
Smaller public sector than e.g. Denmark. But worse management.
I've also found success with a solution like this (earmuffs + earbuds) for travel and certain office environments.

I've tried a few different earmuffs, and this model from 3M has been the best for me. They're low profile, (more) comfortable, and as effective as any:

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-...

Wearing glasses underneath earmuffs meant for high noise exposure environments can be uncomfortable, as the cups are meant to press into the side of your head.
Why is it called LambdaSchool when they teach "JavaScript, Python and C"?

Clicked hoping to see a functional programming oriented bootcamp. We need one of those.
Why the false dichotomy? I’m sure it sounds pretty to you but it’s pretty silly...

Do most gamers who shelled out dollars for the top of the line gaming CPUs of their day care about framerates? Yes.

Does that mean they don’t care “actually playing games”? Apparently you think so...
Ask HN: Has the trade war caused your costs to rise or customers to flee?
Talking to a systems director at a large organization and she said vendors have been sending notices of 5-10% price jumps because of tariffs. Have others seen this?
Google Call Screening: a personal robot that talks to, hangs up on spam calls
A big gap for some people is that the wireless headphones can't be used on airplanes.
100% agree. In your view, what would you say are other interesting companies at the moment?
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Maybe I'm naïve but I really cannot imagine Google shutting down Photos with no notice. So if they say they are closing it, I'll just downloaded them en masse and upload elsewhere.
Not in Rust, and not in any language where you can put resources in objects with shared ownership (i.e. any remotely popular general purpose language).

Throwing exceptions isn't a particularly good solution either, for the same reason. Exceptions are hard to reliably handle when you can't easily reason about where they will be thrown from.
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> The story literally quotes the general of the NSA

Ah, so he pinky-promised? Well OK then!
> The part of this that I don't understand is: since we will always know more information later in time, why not defer such decisions until runtime?

Latency vs Throughput. And cost of optimizations vs win of optimization.
> A little? It's obvious they have an ideological axe to grind, even stooping to name-calling.

It's called understatement.

The Exile never tried to hide their ideological bent or claim any sort of objectivity. You can read their work, disagree with their point of view, but still respect the reporting.

> What about the history of the prize is accurate?

The purpose of starting the prize.

> The Nobel Prize in Economics has existed since 1968 and, like I said, is awarded by the same institution as the other prizes, in the same ceremony, and in accordance with the same rules governing the awarding of the other prizes. What's dubious about that?

Sure, but it is not a Nobel Prize. It is parasitic growth on the Nobel Prize reputation.

> What discipline is questionable?

Economic Sciences. There are great economists, and great economic research (see the Akerlof and Romer paper I linked to above), and some even win the prize. But it is not a science.
> So what will happen to your photos when Google decides to "sunset" Google Photos?

I'm pretty sure you can export your photos from Gooogle Photos via Google Takeout:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
I’m not just talking about one manufacturer on the Android side though, I’m talking about compatibility in the whole ecosystem. Google is including headphones that work with their phone, great, it would be embarrassing it they didn’t.

If the headphone cable breaks and you buy replacement USB-C earbuds from another manufacturer, will it work with Google’s phones? Or will Google’s earbuds work with your partner’s non-Pixel phone?

The point I want to make is that’s not a question you need to ask with Lightning or 3.5mm headphones. With USB-C you do.
For example. I cant, in facebook messenger, pull a photo from google photos. Everything has to proxy through iOS photos. First I have to go download it, then upload. Google photos is tacked on top of the OS instead of being a part of the shell. The share/passthrough/permissions menu is the gatekeeper. Google Photos isnt a SOURCE that can be accessed from other apps on my phone.

In the future, I imagine, at the upload screen, I will be able to type in a friends name, to filter all the photos of a person. In the future, I expect to be able to use voice to be able to say things like "hey google, send my mum the latest photos from bob and sues wedding, that have Molly and I in them" and I expect Google to remember my preferred communication app is different for my Mom and Dad, know which Molly I mean, know what latest means, and act accordingly. Do you imagine Siri will integrate well with Google Photos and Facebook messenger?
because all it takes for it to be discovered is someone checking the SPI flash contents
They started pretty similar, and have traded in expensiveness depending on the year and which size phone you're comparing. These are all base storage size prices in USD, ordered from cheapest to most expensive.

2016:
Pixel -> $649;
iPhone 7 -> $649;
iPhone 7 Plus -> $749;
Pixel XL -> $769

2017:
Pixel 2 -> $649;
iPhone 8 -> $649;
iPhone 8 Plus -> $749;
Pixel 2 XL -> $849;
iPhone X -> $999

2018:
iPhone XR -> $749;
Pixel 3 -> $799;
Pixel 3 XL -> $899;
iPhone X -> $999;
iPhone X Max -> $1099