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> Under the old operating system, Apple could execute a lawful warrant and give law enforcement the data on the phone. [...] The policy switch doesn’t stop hackers, trespassers, or rogue agents. It only stops lawful investigations with lawful warrants.

Incorrect: under the old operating system a human at Apple could give anyone the data on the phone. Apple had procedural safeguards that aimed to ensure that no one at Apple would do that without proper approval, but as anyone who pays attention to the news should be aware, procedural safeguards of data do not always prevent humans who are motivated to violate those safeguards. (Including, inter alia, "hackers, trespassers, and rogue agents" -- as certainly the US government is aware; its hardly as if the NSA didn't have procedural safeguards that applied to the data that Edward Snowden released.)

The change (which is a technical change, not a policy change) means no human at Apple can do this, and the phone user is protected from humans who might violate Apple's policies, including "hackers, trespassers, and rogue agents." It incidentally means that any warrant for data on the phone will have to be served on the only person who has access to that data, the phone owner.

It doesn't "stop lawful investigations with lawful warrants", it reduces the number of people who can access a phone, and therefore the set of people on whom a lawful warrant can be served. But law enforcement has no inherent right to expect that some third party will have access to my private property (whether physical or virtual) that enables law enforcement to serve a warrant on a third person, and that third person having access is always a compromise of my security that makes me more vulnerable to rogue actors. It is not simply a convenience for "lawful investigations with lawful warrants" that provides no risk to me outside of such investigations.
I agree, its hard to find decent non cheap beer (PBR, Coors, Bud, etc) that has lower alcohol content, it seems. Even on the West Coast, where we have tons of microbrews available in seemingly every store.
Let's be honest, improved encryption is going to restrain the government's ability to enforce the law. Beyond pedophiles, there are definitely going to be cases where innocent people get hurt as a result.

I'm okay with that. The whole idea of our government and society is that the mass of law-abiding and decent people are stronger than the criminal and malicious minority. People are by and large responsible, which is why they can and should govern themselves. Limiting the government's ability to snoop and intrude on citizens is a crucial check on the very real (if long-term) threat of government over-reach.

But let's not kid ourselves that our privacy, and its constraints on the government, is without consequences.
While this is a one-of-a-kind case, there are a lot of people who live with lesser variations of it.

Some friends of mine were involved in a serious auto accident about 20 years ago. The husband was driving when a drunk driver crossed the median. He had only minor injuries -- bruises, scrapes, a sprained wrist. Two of his sisters, in the back seat, were killed instantly. His wife, in the passenger seat, was in a coma for several months. She started walking again a year later, and talking a few months after that. Her personality is similar to her prior personality, but not the same. It's not like my friend is married to an entirely different person, but he is married to someone he had to re-teach to walk and talk and think about the world.

Another friend of mine with lifelong mental illness experienced a change in symptoms when she went to college, and a change back after she had a baby. Her husband had thought her college personality was the "real her" and was devastated when her parents said she seemed more like the "real her" of her childhood.

I think a universal truth about marriage is that you're never married to the exact same person over a long period of time. Sometimes the changes are extreme enough that you really do have to re-learn who you're married to.
Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun
Except it isn't. When the FBI has a warrant they are legally entitled to break into your house even if you don't want them to.

Edit: downvote all you like, but this is a simple factual statement.
Not saying I agree with GP, but "the power scripting brings" can be part of the problem. Scripting is used as a means to execute arbitrary commands on a single level privilege (that of the user hooking the scripts, very often root or some high-privilege user) as opposed to a limited set of application-specific functionality. This adds a whole level of complexity to the system, which in security terms is typically the kind of thing that will give you trouble.
This largely applies to companies with high burn rate (pmarca acknowledged as much in a later response).

Even at the seed stage, you're not on any death march if making it to break even is a priority (rather than just continually raising more money).
I was reading a book yesterday where one character offers another one a drink. He declines, and the guy says something like "Come on, the sun's over the yardarm somewhere."

This struck me as a very odd phrase, so I looked it up.

The yardarm is the horizontal beam on a sailing boat. Back in the day, once the sun rose above the yardarm, the Royal Navy would start issuing the first of the rum rations for the day. There were several throughout the day.

This was about 11am.

The U.S. Navy had similar rules. George Washington's army pounded back quite a bit as part of their daily rations. The first major uprising in the U.S. was due to alcohol production. Foreigners traveling to the states were always impressed at the amount of booze the colonists could put away. Even folks who mostly teetotaled kept a cider barrel and took a good-sized cup to get the day going.

Some anthropologists believe that the natural state of man up until a hundred years or so ago was intoxication, it just wasn't spelled out as clearly in the literature, mainly because it wasn't unusual. In fact, some believe that civilization itself started with the fermentation of grain.

I'm still trying to absorb those numbers, which I feel are inflated. But I note that excessive consumption in the states is certainly not a new thing. So who knows? Maybe the stats are true.

I note that another commenter is pointing out that addicts will enjoy these articles because it tells them they are normal. Beats me what normal is. Are we supposed to all agree on a definition here? Is it okay to bring up what some of the stats and historians are saying about alcohol consumption in a non-judgmental way without either having to endorse or condemn it?
> Why don't you group humans into 'suffered lots of disadvantage', 'suffered a medium amount', 'suffered none'.

First, how does one directly measure disadvantage suffered? It's not a trivial thing to do. Hacker School doesn't have a lot of resources. Measuring race/gender/etc. is easy and correlates strongly with disadvantage. It's also a hard measure to "game" or fake.

Second, race/gender/etc. problems are (as pointed out) systemic in our society and in programmer culture specifically. That is to say, there are cultural habits, assumptions, attitudes, institutions, etc. which disadvantage people for no other reason than being nonwhite/nonmale. One thing that is enormously helpful in fixing these kinds of problems is simply having more nonwhite/nonmale people in the culture.

Helping a person who was disadvantaged by a mere quirk of fate helps only them. Helping someone disadvantaged by their race or sex helps them and helps everyone like them, in the long run. It reduces stereotype threat; it wears away at unfortunate cultural assumptions and attitudes; it provides positive role models; etc. etc.

Third, and most speculatively, I think these are the kind of problems that an organization like HS is particularly well-positioned to tackle. I believe that (e.g.) simple poverty and other forms of "brute disadvantage" are serious problems in our society (and indeed there still are some lingering class prejudices against poor people, so it's not an entirely "brute" disadvantage either). But I don't think that HS is likely to substantially help these problems by, say, merely offering grants to poor people. Poverty is too big, too general a problem to solve that way. But racism and sexism in programmer culture is a problem where HS actually has a shot at making a (small) difference.
Well CPython is an interpreter not a compiler so that's not really hard to do.
Basecamp/intermission: “hold” requests while deploying
Bent iPhones, Broken HealthKits and Eating Your Own Dog Food
If anyone from Stripe is watching the thread: any chance of this supporting subscriptions?
Such a cartel would still be possible even without patent protection (the article doesn't go into enough detail on whether patents where still only available through GE after WWI). Cartels are always possible when you have massive economies of scale. The (mass) production of light bulbs in this case is sufficiently difficult and expensive, so that any cartel could easily thwart new competitors - even without patent protection. The expertise in the production of light bulbs doesn't lie within the schematics of the light bulbs themselves - it lies within the exact production process, the selection of the suppliers, refinement of materials, etc. Those are enough hurdles to make an entry into this market very difficult and the establishment of a cartel so easy.

In my eyes this article is a very good argument against a pure laissez-faire economy.
> Some people tested the claims (using a DSLR with the infrared filter removed

I don't know if the video is faked, but that is a horrible way to test the claims. Regular image sensors only detect near-IR and not the mid to far IR radiated by hot objects.
In fact, thinking about this particular antitrust case, I think a tutorial regarding the layout of Google search result pages might be a good idea as a settlement.
he had a really great one for a long time but sadly i don't think its up anymore.
Hi, thanks for the comment. I agree about caching and did not intend for the example to indicate otherwise. This chapter is meant to lead the way to later chapters that outline ways to avoid performance issues and to promote best practices. Thanks again!
> Can someone tell me what changed?

At a macro-level: The Federal Reserve started tapering the amount of money being printed. They have also signaled that interest rates are rising. Both of those things affect the money flow to the VCs, as well as the exit options in the public markets.

In truth: People should be happy that the party has gone on for as long as it has.
Agreed.

I probably hit the 20-25 drinks a week mark with one to two 22 ounce craft beers a night during the week and maybe 3 on a Saturday.

I stock my beverage fridge like a Dr Dre video, but with good beer.

I love a good double/triple IPA. Having one makes me want another.

Of course on strong beer alone I could never hit 75 drinks. I'd be in the bathroom the whole time. In my distant past I had a buddy that would drink a twelver of bud light nearly every night. No thanks.
I highly recommend NLee the Engineer's reviews on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AOEAD7DPLZE53?filter=re... (you can also get it as RSS)

Heavily covered are various light bulbs and rechargeable batteries. That includes checking power against manufacturer claims, noise, dimmability, power factor etc.
if there was a terror group operating in the US, killing 10,000 children a week in all states with bombs, chemicals, and biological weapons, and you tried to stop the government, police, army, and other federal agencies from doing everything possible to stop that and save the lives of 4 year-old kids, you'd likely find yourself in jail or dead.

People in America who grew up on Nintendo and Xbox don't have a clue how stupidly brutal the world can be. This is why these "highly educated people" are "actually for it".

I will grant you that these activities should be under the oversight of the US government, State governments, who represent the People of the United States. The FBI is such a federal government agency.
> Android and iOS are variants of Linus

... which is, in turn, a variant of Richard.
Bad news about Shellshock
THE HUMAN INFANT PROJECT for hackers expecting babies
Well if they have a well-formed wallet they actually do have that right. The constitution contemplates the issuance of warrants precisely because there are circumstances where seizure is entirely appropriate.
My guess would be you would want Cassandra, specifically to incur less overhead for empty values. I haven't built finance backtesting/monitoring infrastructure - which sounds exactly like what you're building - but in this case, I think you'll get real value from triggers, even if that's only being supported experimentally right now.
Build a site that turns http://site/@twitterhandle into a blog compiled of tweets from that Twitter user that start with [0-9]*/ , and maybe he'll fund it, if you don't spend it all on Herman Miller furniture.
Sorry to go offtopic but since the you mentioned emscripten I though I'd ask.

Can you explain what emscripten is used for? I'm fully aware of what it does, just not why someone would want to use it. How do you use things like jQuery or access window or document from C and then compile it to js? Or is emscripten specifically for js that doesn't interact with the DOM?
Woah, that's a bold statement.

Cannibis can easily be as debilitating as alcohol.
Who said anything about a single patent?
Maybe he is trying to explain why so many people in his department have recently purchased Apple phones. Latent criminal tendencies are the only possible explanation.
Try the Stone Go To IPA.

It has all the flavor of an IPA at 4.5% alcohol. Good drink on a hot day.

http://www.stonebrewing.com/gotoipa/
Not the original commenter, but:

Not difficult. File folder full of receipts, sorted by "action" date. Cost of gasoline is trivial (~$0.20/mile). Time doesn't cost anything (if you wouldn't otherwise be working).
http://avc.com/2014/09/burn-baby-burn/

More on the same topic (USV, a16z, benchmark etc).
Except that we still expect them to break in, not simply waltz through the front door after unlocking with their skeleton key.
If someone poured me the 'just enough' glass at a dinner party, I'd be having words...
Yeah this is because I encode from json string > interface{} > final data structure. This is so that I can process any psuedo-types such as times.

I am now looking to do this whole process in a much simpler way in the next release which will solve the issue mentioned by evmar. I think its also worth mentioning that both RethinkDB and my driver are not yet production ready but both projects are getting there.
It's >15 drinks per week, not per day. Let's call that 3/day, which is significantly better for your health than not drinking at all.
Thanks! GJ on the latest release.
> and that third person having access is always a compromise of my security that makes me more vulnerable to rogue actors.

You distill it well, a broken security solution is not a good security solution. Foreign intelligence services, "hackers", etc... they all want our trade secrets. We need real security systems to defend against them.
Anyone got a mirror? The .gr site is toast.
Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup
The ridiculous lightbulb practices of today are even more offensive.

You cannot purchase a 100 watt bulb anymore, because the government says so. You can buy a 250 watt outdoor bulb, or a variety of CFL and LED bulbs with a bunch of additional things to worry about (light color, directionality of the light, warranties, shape, etc)

Consumers manage to make rational decisions about car purchases (15mpg SUVs aren't as popular in the era of $4/gallon gasoline), but we must be protected about the incandescent bulb.
Except many of us on the C++ side think of it as a good decision.

But as someone pointed out to me, things seem to have changed a bit more than I thought.
$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable'  bash -c “echo this is a test”
Bill Gates has a kickstarter now
Holy shit that is scary. Package this on an android phone and you can wreak havoc on any random network
It's implicit in your singular use of the term monopoly, implying a lack of competition. A patent gives you the exclusive right to manufacture something for a period, but it doesn't protect against competition from people with patents of their own serving the same market. Issuance of patents does not lead inevitably to the existence of cartels as you are suggesting.
> I'm afraid that making a drug un-patentable would make it /less/ likely that it goes to market

This is definitely a possible outcome.

http://biz.yahoo.com/p/5qpmu.html

generics manufacturers make ~ 6% margin, which is basically "what most businesses make". "Drug manufacturers - Major" make 20% margin. Keep in mind also that big pharma spends about as much on advertising as they do on R&D.
Likely because some users may be consuming/outputting JSON in a different structure from how they are storing it.
And this of course is a non-issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369443

right?
More like, the inkjet printers from the 90's that aren't in landfills yet are very durable.

There were lots of 90s era printers that were just as trashy as the ones made today.
It did have some interesting ideas, but too much "proof by handwaving" and not enough actual proof. (It's fine if he's presenting ideas that he can't prove, but he seemed to be trying to use enough words to give an impression of proof, rather than admitting that he couldn't prove his ideas.)
> Isn't being a functioning alcoholic the same as, um, say, a foodie? or anyone with a dedicated hobby?

Alcoholism tends to have a far more damaging long-term effect on a person's health than most other hobbies.
Shouldn't we be valuing privacy over throwing people in jail?
I have a drink maybe once in three months. I though I was unusual given so many people around me drive much more. Now I realize I'm closer to the medium.
It seems I can't edit it. Sorry, it didn't cross my mind (and the link text is clear enough for those that would otherwise need the NSFW tag).
Agreed. "Why do these kids keep emptying the bowl of candy that I keep out on my porch?"
Alcohol's also very good at preventing dementia later in life.

If you can't drink, then don't, but if you can then moderate drinking is far better for you than not drinking at all.
Fifteen drinks a week is not problem drinking. Fifteen drinks a week is -depending what you drink- under English government safe drinking limits for men and only just over for women.

Problem drinking anything over the current safe limits which are "two to three units per day, without saving units up for the weekend, with some days drink free (for men)".

To give some context: Alcoholism detox medically assissted treatment starts when the person is drinking forty 40 units per day unless you have a comorbid mental health problem when they drop it to 30 units a day unless it's a severe enduring problem when they drop it to 20 units a day. Under those amounts you get outpatient treatment. You're going to struggle to get treatment for fifteen units a week unless you're under 18.

40 units a day would be one litre of spirits with an ABV of 40%.

Every day.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/QS11/chapter/introduction-an...
Agreed. When in security classes we were taught to use e.g. execve() instead of system(), it wasn't because shells were thought of as particularly vulnerable. You just want to use a tool that has the minimum possible feature set, so you can be sure that no one malicious will be able to trick you into using even correctly-functioning features (e.g. through shell injection).

Sort of a special case of the principle of minimum privilege, when applied to the feature set of your tools.
Here's a decent visual of what 5 oz looks like in a given glass: http://www.healthytippingpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...

The baby bottle was used as a measuring cup, but initially confused the hell out of me...
Hello fellow BC startup! I've brought your tips up with the team, thanks for your feedback!

We use Jinja templates behind the scene, which doesn't autoescape by default -- so you're free to inject HTML through a variable. You can manually escape template variables with {{ my_var|e }}.
The flaw lies in the combination of 2/3.

The HTTP_ environment variables are user input.

The PHP (or whatever CGI script) should be sanitizing user input before using it.

If this was PHP scripts doing something like this:
system("/bin/sh ".$_GET['x']);

Nobody would be freaking out... because that's just stupid.
yes because it is impossible for network-manager/networkd/systemd to have vulnerabilities
I'm reading the faq^1 and I'm having trouble figuring out why I should use this over MongoDB (even after skimming the very detailed comparison page). From what I gather, it seems like they are pretty similar in features but rethinkdb is easier to administer. What am I missing?

Sorry to be so curt, but I've spent over 15 minutes researching and by now I feel like I should have an high level understanding of the advantage of this database.

^1: http://rethinkdb.com/faq/
The problem is very specific to bash and bash only (a hacky feature via environment variables so shells can inherit their parent's functions)
Good question; lemme check...
oh wow, THANK you. I had made that page invisible, and was wondering how people were being redirected to a page where they could be put on the mailing list... Gah.
> Links that actually detail the changes made to the algorithm

That's a joke, right?

> links to the Google Play certification requirements would be useful substantiation

Irrelevant. You should re-read News Corps' claims, which is what Google is responding to. Google Play certification was not a complaint. Android certification was the complaint - and you can't link to something that doesn't exist.
Inside the building where Apple tortures the iPhone 6
Free Software Foundation Statement on the GNU Bash “shellshock” Vulnerability
Let's do an exercise.

We say we're interested in targeted outreach to demographics whose attrition rates are especially high, and whose entrance rates are especially low.

You come up with the normative claim. Because the normative claim should be obvious.

Ok, now that you've made your guess, let's see what you've written down. If you guessed that the normative claim is that "we should consider it bad to have an industry so vile that (e.g.) competent female engineers exit the field at many times the rate of male engineers", then you win your gold star.

If you did not guess that this is the normative claim, then it is time to retire all this philosophy and set theory that you have going, because you clearly don't have the basics down.
I don't really see much need for it. Others are welcome to create such an integration, but I probably won't do so myself.
It's more about having a third party look at it rather than the credentials of the authors being in question.
By "summer", I presume you mean summer below the equator - December, January, February.

(When Australia hosted the Summer Olympics, it was actually winter in Australia.)
A complete non-issue people jump on for political reasons?
This site describes the artifact (and links to the Greek site): http://antikythera.whoi.edu/artifacts/antikythera-mechanism/

Also, the blog is tracking the current dive to claim more artifacts.
Hey if the FBI were obeying the law, then I might have some concern for them. But they aren't. They're going out there, organizing groups of people, setting them up with terrorist plots, providing them with material and financial support, and then busting them. Whether that's entrapment or not, I don't care--- it is a violation of anti-terrorism conspiracy laws.

Not to mention the NSA, and I believe FBI, conducting illegal spying operations.

Government has proven it cannot be trusted, now complains when companies stop trusting it?

Plus the iPhone is sold globally.