lazaroclapp

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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
> How long is "reasonable" relative to iOS? I recently moved from Android to iOS mainly because of this. 4 years, basically. Nexus 6 was supported for all security updates from launch in November 2014 to this month (November 20
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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
A microphone and some basic ML? Sort of tongue in cheek, since I don't know the range of state of the art acoustic side-channel taps. I guess you'd also probably have power fluctuations and network timing channels to exploit. Plus
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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
Ok. But then, which Mac would you use as a build server? Mac servers no longer seem to exist, iMacs and Mac Pros are not stackable, you can't build iOS/OSX apps on a standard linux box, and laptops have the same issue as the Mini.
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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
No. But could they prove it with the standard FB app either? I mean, you are typing your user name and password on that phone, if you assume the manufacturer is outright malicious, then official API access doesn't really matter one way
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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
Suppose that you are, say, a security researcher, running purely static analysis tools on the code from every git repo that you can crawl, specifically looking for malware or common bugs without running the code (simple example: you are g
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by lazaroclapp 8y ago
Depends where you live. California law renders those clauses null as long as the IP is generated outside of work, without use of employer equipment, facilities, internal knowledge or other IP already belonging to the employer. There are som
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
As We May Think[1], anyone? Or self-driving cars, which go back to at least 1984 in CMU, and yet are still "[near] future tech" now. Neural Nets were a half-century old idea[2] before they became actually useful... I mean, the que
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Sure, but it sometimes is useful to remember that those fictions are indeed fictions, and can be changed. Doesn't mean they are not useful fictions. Doesn't mean they should be changed. Saying they are meaningless because they a
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Unfortunately, I don't believe they were.
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
> If the government is worried about trojans, malware, etc., then they can easily hire an auditor to audit the code and vouch for its authenticity. Not that I disagree with the general idea of democratizing this sort of big government co
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
> Annotations are just metadata, and managing semantics of that metadata is pushed to the programmer: to configure a static analyzer to act on them, to figure out the differences between different backends, make sure it's enabled in
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Note that at least one of the features described, (static) Null-Safety, can be achieved in Java via annotation processors. For example, by a tool such as NullAway ( https://github.com/uber/NullAway ). Yes, adding '@
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
In all fairness, at scale. it takes one incompetent recruiter out of literally hundreds, or one badly managed case from an otherwise very competent recruiter, out of thousands a day, to get something like this to happen. Any large enough sy
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
The fun thing there is that other than photovoltaics, maybe (I don't personally understand them well enough to say for sure), the other two alternatives you are mentioning are also "nuclear -> heat -> mechanical force ->
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Not completely untrue. But if the model is a paid subscription the same pressures apply: doesn't matter why the user keeps paying their subscription, so long as they pay. Incentives are almost never perfectly aligned between informatio
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Guess the point is: All else being equal, someone with a relevant degree will have an easier time being a successful entrepreneur (and, not less important: a reasonable backup plan) than someone fresh out of high school. Likely they will ha
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Sounds like a post-scarcity utopia to me, depending on how large the set of "all businesses" is and what we do with the surplus in production :)
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Would be willing to bet you less than 1% of Amazon shoppers worldwide know who Jeff Bezos is...
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
I mean, China is not small either. In terms of doable, there is still a higher density of wealth per square mile in the U.S., even if the population density is less. But at any rate, you don't need to have the entire country be one hig
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Others are giving better replies to this than I can. I will just note two things: 1) This is a particular case where making immigration difficult to the people involved directly results in less jobs for Americans, as observed above. Yet tha
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
> Are we really extracting from a talent pool of 7 billion? No. Or rather we are doing it badly. But we don't do any better if we geographically segregate people who otherwise might want to work together. It is an orthogonal (albeit
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
The U.S. should be doing their very best to have the strongest possible education system for all its citizens (and non-citizens living in the country long term). As should any reasonable country. But the fact remains that, unless you are co
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
To be fair, naively and given the use case you described, that sounds to me like in this particular instance they are trying to ensure that the encryption being used is "secure enough" for the govt. rather than "not too secur
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
I am not sure "it seems like no one else could have done it" applies to Nobel Prize type discoveries or Moon Landing like feats of engineering, much less to software companies. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to say tha
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
With the caveat that for anyone actually looking for a nuanced article, that headline is far more likely to cause them to dismiss it than to click through. But I suppose there will always be other information sources targeting that demograp
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Working on border security because you want to keep armed groups out is perfectly reasonable and admirable, working on border security because you want to keep poor and terrified people fleeing armed groups out is pretty detestable. Unfortu
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
That's a valid point, I think, but I am not sure the line is as clear as you make it out to be. What is your definition of 'directly' here? I can think of ways in which e.g. hunting endangered species, owning weapons or eatin
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Hell, a few countries will provide tuition free education for foreign nationals too. The challenge is that Americans interested in that will have to prepare the corresponding entrance exams instead or in addition to SATs and have sufficient
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
But there are things we do ban other people from doing (e.g. murder or owning slaves, to pick uncontroversial examples). There are some principles that are personal, but also some that are agreed on collectively, as a society or civilizatio
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
You could eventually make UBI a constitutional right. At that point the government controls it in the way they 'control' your right to free speech or to life. In material terms government coercion could deprive you of either, but

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