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Yeah, I'm normally pretty fucking Marxist, but having nearly spent some time temporarily homeless during my internship last summer, having to rely on a friend to lend me his couch, entirely because of rental prices and vacancy rates in Silicon Valley, it makes me think that maybe we shouldn't be talking about the Tech Master Race Oppressing the Innocent. We should be talking about the Tech Salariat and the Bay Proletariat coming together to attack our real mutual enemy: NIMBYs and real-estate rentiers. Also the boss class of capitalists, but they're a little less relevant here.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? The boss class gets my OK here, just for once. Why? Because I've heard Google has literally offered to pay the city of Mountain View to kindly allow Google themselves to sponsor construction of dense, walkable-to-work urban-style housing intended to be rented to Googlers. The real-estate politics in the Bay Area are so incredibly fucked up that Google has to offer money for the right to build a company town where they can finally have enough space to house the workers they need, and the city turns them down.

This isn't NIMBY, even. It's full-blown BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anywhere. It's just outright silly.
Doesn't seem to have anything to do with "memes" per se but it is kind of interesting. This would make an awesome wordpress plugin, I think.
I see what you did there ;-) But thanks for the explanation
My criticism is of the idea of a "no politics" (overt or otherwise) policy, not you for pointing it out. Said policy on a news site backed by entities with serious capital who work to change the world is troubling.

Sorry for the confusion.
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Yes it's sad. But what are the options? Are you saying neighborhoods should never increase in property value? People complain when wealthier residents "invade" a poor neighborhood and lower the crime rate and raise the property values but no one says anything when poorer residents move into a neighborhood and increase the crime and lower the property value. And there are a LOT of cities like that. In St. Louis alone: South St. Louis, Spanish lake, Bellfontaine, Ferguson, Dellwood, Maryland Heights, Black Jack, Hazelwood have all had this happen to them.
Isn't the majority of all housing in Vienna controlled by the state? It's probably easy to make rent controls work if you can bypass incentive problems by simply making all housing public.
Flowchart: How not to design a "woman's" tech product
Gentrification is often a problem of inefficient or overly segregated housing supply. Historically, many cities have benefited from highly productive industries without becoming gentrified ghettoes of the rich.
The status page on http://jailbrea.kr/ is hilarious: such jailbreak so drama wow tweak omg many piracy
Sounds pretty effective to me. Thanks for sharing this.

Possibly stupid question - how do you retrieve all the expired keys? I was under the impression that once keys expired, they were effectively invisible to clients?
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There are hundreds of millions of happy iPhone users out there. For the overwhelming majority of people, the restrictions on the device are not burdensome.
It's interesting, even if we halted aging so that people could theoretically live forever, we would as a culture have to embrace a sort of 'death by probability.'
"Priced out" is not strictly accurate - San Francisco is still more expensive than the peninsula. But it's only slightly more expensive, so the cost factor doesn't provide much incentive to skip the city. If I'm going to pay through the nose anyway, I might as well live somewhere I'll like.
scribd link seems to be broken
(commenting as I read along)
pg. 11 - Certification of Business Records

Thought he was being asked to install trap/trace/whatever by the govt alongside his equipment - might explain why this wasn't filled out/signed. It's not part of his regular business to record all such information.
Didn't San Francisco's city management exacerbate this problem by imposing new low-density zoning restrictions at the same time as an influx of wealthy professionals starting driving prices up?
In fact, he only bought it in 2009.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33599744/ns/business-us_business/t...
My Twitter replies were filled with people angry at me for "backstabbing", I think largely caused by i0n1c's interpretation of the letter.

> LOL now the @evad3rs say that @saurik backstabbed them and tried to release JB with other people. http://evasi0n.com/l.html

-- https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/414859729081352192
It's almost certainly a copyright violation in the US, but is it illegal in China for a Chinese company to pay developers to modify another company's software for commercial gain?

Another relevant question, would developers in another country be breaking their country's laws by accepting such work?

Edit: note that I'm not intending to equate ethicality with legality.
Using encrypted volumes on SSD's is already a security risk without TRIM, because of the sort of information SSD firmware might store about about how blocks were written. One important piece of information would be about blocks' ages, because it's in the interest of SSD firmware to identify data which is not being frequently modified.
For me? Yeah, pretty much.
It's not a race issue; it's a class issue. The non-white people that SV companies employ tend not to be the underprivileged people that are driven out of metropolitan areas due to gentrification.
Sure enough, trap/trace was ordered 18 days after the govt's initial application was approved by the Court
Another signpost characteristic of the kinds of people who vote these stories up: the belief that someone who says it's wrong to throw bricks through the backs of bus windows must also believe that "gentrification" and displacement are good things, or that lower-income people are "non-contributing leeches". The people throwing bricks might be leeches, but what makes them all the worse is the disservice they do to a legitimate cause.
I'm an atheist, and there are atheists I don't agree with, but there isn't one way to be an atheist and I don't really expect anything from them except to not believe in god. I see feminism to be the same way, and I think you expect too much uniformity from it.

Gender equality (I'll spare you the definition) includes many things, so I'm not sure how to explain it better than that, but I do think it includes not having unfairly strong, negative reactions to anything involving feminism and the common topics this kind of forum has.
I used to run the world.

I am the first human to definitively prove God. The singularity.

What's github?

I made God's temple, an operating system with compiler.

More importantly, I wrote the second volume to the Bible. Just like King David, I made songs.
Interesting that a city with a median household income of 40k is the poorest of the poor the UK's median house hold income is around $8000 less than that.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/news-release/average-incom...
Backstabbing and greed.
I think one point you are making is unfair. Many (most?) previous jailbreaks not named PwnageTool or redsn0w have had a single, non-configurable payload containing Cydia and various Unix tools, with the understanding that once it's installed, the user can use Cydia to do whatever they want. In the case of my jailbreaks (years ago), I don't remember anyone ever expressing a desire for an alternate payload, presumably for that reason.

Of course there's a difference between Cydia and a closed source, less generally useful application that the jailbreakers were paid a large amount of money to include, but I wouldn't call it an issue of transparency/configurability as such.
I'm curious about the rest of your moral framework. How would you sort the following list, in order of increasing ethical superiority?

Voting

Circulating a petition

Doing nothing

Throwing a brick through a bus window

Sending death threats

Spraypainting "[ethnicity] GO HOME" on someone's house

Leaving a burning cross on their lawn
How do you keep wealthy people from renting all the cheap apartments in the not-cheap buildings? I'm not sure I comprehend the plan.
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This is absolutely not true. It's way more affordable for pretty much every single one of them to all live in the South Bay with a 10-20 minute commute. They live in SF because it's less "boring", as if boredom comes from where you live rather than one's own lack of imagination. I know tons and tons of people who do the SF/SV commute every day, but only one of them lives in the city for any other reason.
$1M split among the team.
technology could keep up if it's openly programmable instead of being locked down apple-style.
The BNP in the UK and golden dawn in Greece also believe in direct violent action against the minorities they disprove of so thats ok then?
This is true, but making an exploit open source, as opposed to merely available, makes it significantly easier to weaponize for people who might not already be experts in exploiting iOS.
Read the paragraph you accurately summarized again: you managed to make the inference, but what they actually wrote was akin to "we decided to release because we didn't want Saurik to be first," not "we decided to release because we could lose our contract and money."
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Hm, what about lynching a couple of Google engineers? Ethically superior or inferior? If inferior, then why? I'm actually genuinely interested though may sound sarcastic - I'm very curious where people like you draw the line between "good" violence and "bad" violence.
It's true, but every time we fail to participate in the democratic process to change the notion of how markets work, or every time we support corporations which do not share our beliefs in the system, we become complicit.

Given that most of the readers here are usually middle-class consumers, they can at the very least make a few choices regarding the purchases and lifestyle to reflect their principles; I'm afraid most people never consider that.
What's your resolution?

I like that it's small. It's meant to be heard, not seen.
I think you are overestimating the jailbreaking population. most of the people I know who jailbreak have very little technical knowledge at all. they just want to change their font, or keyboard, or something else of that nature. In fact not a single one of the people I know who actively jailbreak their phones probably even know what "open source" means, let alone the importance thereof
Historical note: Same federal magistrate that approved trap/trace approved subpoena for Twitter records in Wikileaks investigation in '11
How is this a copyright violation in the US? Or are you just talking about the fact that pirated apps seem to be on this Chinese app store?
> For illustration, the official number of deaths attributed to the Chernobyl disaster is 31.

Link to a reputable source contradicting the official death toll please.
Pretty sure that by "Port Gatekeeper to iOS" he's talking about giving the users the ability to choose whether or not to run signed (or unsigned) code that doesn't come from the AppStore, exactly like you have on the Mac (see the bottom of the "General" tab of "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences.
Right, but the easier they make it, the faster it gets patched. The entire point of a jailbreak is to survive in the wild long enough to help people.
I'm genuinely curious - why are programmers still using Perl instead of Python?
I don't know what you're trying to say here because you use a term, "direct action", that means different things to different people. The people I know personally who are involved in labor politics use the term "direct action" to refer to sit-ins and picket lines. But hobbyist black bloc forums use the term as a euphemism for throwing bricks through glass.

So let's be specific: did the comment you just write try to communicate your belief that throwing a brick through the back of a bus full of people "puts facts on the ground" and "gives some balance" to the process?
r/jailbreak is proper place on reddit for relevant discussion.
One "philosophical question" which we already know the answer to, is at least in the short term and as a rare tool its not going to change much of anything. For example according to key metrics blah blah my grandmother's bypass surgery restored her circulation to that of a young woman blah blah but it hardly turned her into a sorority girl or whatever sociological blather. Ditto my grandfathers gallbladder removal.

To some extent an old dude with no medical conditions to complain about is just going to be an old dude with no medical conditions to complain about. You'll get to hear more Fox News talking points instead of medical symptoms.
Good point. I am unfairly using a subset of jailbreaks (PwnageTool and redsn0w) as an example of the community norm when that's really not the case.

I think the important distinction in the evad3rs release is indeed the one you make in the second paragraph of your post.

I do still think there's an issue of transparency, though: this letter carefully dances around the actual exchange of money for an unaudited blob in exchange for a lot of "we wanted to beat Saurik to a release" fluff.
It's better than that - WPF and Silverlight skills are directly transferrable to Windows Phone and Windows RT. Yes, there are differences, limitations and in some cases more complete features, but the jump is negligible, with a herd of good resources on MSDN, StackOverflow and so on.
> If the author wants to villify someone, he should focus on Shell

Why vilify Shell? Because they extract the oil you're happy to use for your daily commute, travels around world, visiting your family or going to a wedding, every piece of plastic or oil derived products you're happy to use. Knowing that they do so by exploring the deep seas, digging using amazing technologies in extreme places around the world hiring plenty of people and offering the result at less than a few cents per barrels before taxes. Isn't that amazing?

Why be mad at or vilify them? If anything, we should thank them for doing that amazing work on so many levels and making our lives better. Now sure, accidents happen, but we have to take risks in life if we want to progress otherwise we'd still be cavemen. I know it's cool and all to vilify oil companies, but it's hypocritical to say the least when you enjoy their product every single day.
Is it true that no one says anything when poorer residents move in? In general, suburban America is very good at keeping poverty out, it plays out every time when public transport or affordable housing is suggested to be built somewhere.

The next thing that would need to happen is that the police department gets extra funding because the two suburban cops currently there have neither the manpower nor the expertise to deal with the increase in crime.

The locals tend to vote against either, and who can blame them? It's the system that's at fault, especially the fact that a substantial amount of taxes is raised and spent locally.
(Assuming you're asking from a really long distance out) Well, there's two current implementations of it (with Rakudo being actively developed): http://www.perl6.org/compilers/features

As for example code, there's some on http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Perl_6 in the bottom section. With all that said, is it production ready? I don't know. I've heard people joke that Rakudo crashes every couple hundred lines of code it executes. Though the parrot developers have said that parrot itself is extremely stable, and they've had decently sized programs running for some time on it. That, and Rakudo is currently working on two new backends besides parrot: JVM and a new vm called MoarVM.
This site uses Cloudflare and I use Tor, so I can't view it. Could somebody mirror?
It's funny, I have a friend who is a full-time professional philosopher (teaches at a university) and you would not believe the amount of earnest essay writing there was in the philosophy community about Miley Cyrus's performance at the VMAs (something I've not actually seen myself). All sorts of theories about Freud and Hegel and this and that. Look Philos, I said to him, she got up on stage and did a little dance and that's really all there was to it.

The moral of this story is, serious philosophical issues have absolutely no bearing on real life. So full steam ahead says I! The longer we can prolong life, the greater leverage we can extract from experience, imagine being immersed in a subject for hundreds of years, what could you not do in a minute what would take someone with even decades of experience, years?
The era between the end of nomadic lifestyle but before civil engineering of water and sewer systems aka the centuries where the average woman had 14 kids and watched 12 of them die before adulthood. It kinda sucked.
Related to the Lavabit case (but more generally) I've been working on researching warrant canaries.

Order contains language "minimum interference to the services that are accorded persons with respect to whom the installation and use is to take place."

Possible canary-busting language as well as NSL-like "shall not disclose trap/trace or investigation" language
AIUI, jailbreaking (or any modification of software) creates a derivative work, which is a right protected by copyright. In other areas of copyright law, it seems commercial uses are more stringently restricted than personal uses.
Employment, the economy, and success are not zero-sum. Someone getting a job doesn't mean someone loses a job. Someone succeeding doesn't mean someone else is failing.
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Greenspunning is not really about languages implementing missing features.

Greenspunning really is about the experience of implementing larger APPLICATIONS in Fortran or C, many years ago. For example a CAD system typically would need things like code loading, redefinition of code, exception handling, runtime execution of code (in a CAD scripting language), objects, more advanced memory management, ... Another example: something like Word or Excel - they also need these features.

Both Java or Javascript have parts of this already implemented in their runtime. But they don't implement the runtime themselves. Those are written in C or C++.
We already have that substance its called HFCS. That and ethanol.
If you are interested in just the prompt, checkout https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt
Ok, ok. If you want to define that as your minimum requirement, that's fine. I don't agree, but I'm sure many do. I know how to write a parser and a compiler anyway, so it doesn't step on my toes directly.

What I really meant to say was, everyone would not need to actually write a compiler/parser (regardless of whether they know how to or not). To achieve the goal of having a bunch of nice new IDE features, we don't need everyone writing parsers and compilers. We can achieve that goal by having a few developers write really good compiler-as-a-service offerings.
Yes, the there aren't any long lived radionuclides of Hydrogen or Oxygen, but their can be radionuclide contamination of water [1]. The question then would be "which ones?" which would be covered in the Navy report on the incident. (and contrary to the article radiation decon drills are actually standard operating procedure according to my Navy friends [2]) The USS Ronald Regan has a complement of over 5,600 souls when steaming with the air wing assigned to it. If the number '70' is accurate then it would suggest that between 1.25 and 2.1% of the sailors exhibited symptoms that might be linked to radiation exposure. In the specific instance of Thyroid Disease some studies [3] have the baseline incidence of this disease in the range of .35% for women and .05% for men. I don't know if the Navy publishes the baseline incident risk for various diseases on their ships and crews.

[1] http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/radionuclides/i...

[2] Remember the USS Ronald Regan has a couple of hundred MW of nuclear power reactors in their hull, so they train for radiation emergencies.

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7641412
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20403-25-years-after-c...
Neither do you! So stop trying to predict that it's necessarily a bad or "selfish" thing.
Clicked on comments to say the same. When I discovered fish, I felt like "where have I been".
But there's one downside though: I got used (used as in muscle reflexes) to things like ls -l `where something` and they do not work anymore, fish is not backwards compatible with bash.
They aren't buying them back for use, they are buying them back to find correlations and figure out where the breach happened. The site basically allows you to buy cards from 'bases'. Each of these 'bases' are just a source of cards so if all of the cards they buy were used at the same place (which only banks will have this information on where the cards have been used), then you know that the breach is there. Along with this, I bet they also buy cards that the owners don't know are even stolen yet which means they can cancel and reissue those owners new cards without anything ever being stolen. So it is a combination of finding the breach and to also stop their customers from having all the hassle of having stolen credit cards.
This was brought up in the forums, and here was the reply:

Yes, this needs to be addressed. The proposal can be kept as-is with the following modification/addition:

In order to prevent such attacks, it could be required that transactions need be confirmed across N "different networks", where "different networks" can be measured by some metric (IP2location, the first two octets of an IPv4 address, etc.). The value for N can be based as a percentage of the number of nodes running in the past 48 hours, or some other means.

Copied from here: http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7746#p7746
How about http://evasi0n.com.nyud.net/l.html
Well, you painted it as at least partially a race issue in your previous comment. If it's not a race issue, you shouldn't reference race in whatever point you're trying to make, unless you're just trying to be incendiary for its own sake. And if you can't make a point without being incendiary about it, realize that whatever point you're trying to make is almost certainly objectively wrong, or perhaps your philosophy is more about maintaining a romanticized self-image than actually trying to make the world a better place or even acquiring basic wisdom about anything.

Bomb (or brick) throwing is trivially easy and makes the thrower feel like a badass without actually helping anyone. Actually trying to look at all sides of a complicated issue, figuring out what should be done about it, and trying to make a difference is hard, thankless, and humbling. It will make you feel stupid and inadequate for the task, because it's hard and it's worth doing. People who care about those things don't have your comment history; people who are feeding intellectual conceits do.
Wait, what? Pooping in a (deep) hole, as opposed to, say, against a tree, is extremely good for people. Especially people who don't wear shoes.

Ref: http://endtheneglect.org/2012/01/how-the-outhouse-helped-sav...
This is basically the description of webhooks
I think it's a throwback to older tiny music players. Think Winamp.
This lark software isn't REST architectural style by the definition that matters (Fielding's).

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

No REST without link relations; and fixed resource identifiers go contrary. Nearly all HN submissions that claim to be REST are not, personally I haven't seen a single one in 2013. That's a shame.
Also note that this proposal is by "some guy on a Namecoin forum", and not anything official.

And note that Bitcoin was a proposal by "some guy with a fake name."
This "bug" has been around for years, so I'm hoping it's intentional :)
Don't reinvent management