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I graduated in the mid-90s from UW and I can say from my classmates and friends from a variety of faculties most had $20k+ loans to repay (though that first year after a lot was forgiven by the govt program).

At that time, in the mid-90s, the majority of students weren't in co-op at UW. Even those in Math, CS, Eng, Sci and Actg who did get co-ops usually it was at breakeven or a slight net positive for the experience, given the extra expenses of travel to Ottawa, Toronto or other cities with accommodation, plus 4-month rentals in KW were more expensive than 8-month.
I'd like to teach the poor to code
Backdrop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QZW1mexhQ

I'd like to buy the poor a home,
furnish it with love

grow apple trees, honey bees, and snow white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the poor to code,
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i'd like to teach the poor to code,
in perfect harmony

i'd like to give the poor a chance,
and help them to succeed

that's the song i'd sing

i'd like to give the poor a chance,
and help them to succeed

.....

I don't pretend to understand much of anything, but I can make some time to do something like this and it has been one of those recurring thoughts that passes through my head regularly - and has done so for the last decade or more. If you are in the LA/OC/San Diego area and know of people and/or organizations with whom I can connect to give this a shot, please let me know.
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> "Finding them is a bit more difficult, but talent retention is much better."

As an employee this seems alarming to me. My impression of the Canadian tech scene is that you've got a small number of innovative companies with great work environments amidst a sea of sweatshops and incredibly mind-numbing code outfits. When your alternative is that, of course retention is better.

For an employee it means you've essentially got them over a barrel. Don't rock the boat, don't ask for too much, because it's this way or work at some soul-sucking enterprise shop on Bay St.

I'm not sure I can ever return to an environment like that, where my employer holds all of the cards and I hold practically none.
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The lesson is, don't trust commercial security products. Only trust open source peer reviewed products like TrueCrypt, GPG, etc.

If you want your data to be secure, use your own layer of encryption, preferably on your own physical disk or at the very least have the encryption executing in an environment you control. e.g. Not someone else's package of TrueCrypt running on their server, rather your verified package on your machine and then upload it.

Encryption is a major strategic issue and few governments will lay down and accept that their citizens or other countries have the ability securely store and transmit data. I was at an NSA show and tell recently and they had an original enigma machine on display which speaks volumes.
Yes, but even on devices where the baseband has full access to main system address space, the baseband device is something that varies from one Android phone to the next; on the other hand, the Android Market is a constant across almost all Android devices.

So which would you rather develop: a different backdoor mechanism for every Android baseband out there, or a single mechanism for all phones equipped with the Android Market?
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UW engineering tuition is through the roof now. It's so bad now that I'm not sure what I would've done had I had the unfortunate luck of being born 3-4 years later. Breaking even with co-op is out of the question for a lot of students, though it still helps a lot.

After all, without co-op, for most UW engineering programs you're now looking at $40-45K tuition + living costs + supplies/books... A $80-90K loan is not at all out of the question.
This is primarily a link-sharing site. Why on earth would you choose to share a link through the non-link-sharing feature of the site?
I'd probably argue that this is not only an unsolved research problem, but an unsolvable one.

I mean, do we have any evidence whatsoever that given a corpus of photos of almost a billion people, there's any way to pick out photos of a given person without a very high probability of (many) false positives?

I've seen probably five or six people over the years that in certain photos I wouldn't be able to distinguish from myself, especially in real world situations with crappy lighting, poor focus, etc. It's rare, sure, but with a billion people, "rare" means you'll "only" see, what, a thousand cases? I think there's just too much ambiguity in photos (and looks in general), not that we necessarily lack the right algorithms or anything like that.

However, I do believe that the meta-data that Facebook has on all of us is probably enough to get damn close in most cases, even if people don't have friend connections. Especially if they've got some location data...

Besides, for the purposes of what this article is talking about, I'd guess that if someone looks similar enough to the person you saw on the subway to falsely trigger a face match, you'd still probably be interested in following up on that "missed connection".
"It stands to reason, therefore, that Facebook’s algorithm could scan any photo from any of its 800 million members, and recognize you if you’re in it. So, let’s take that one logical step further. Imagine you take a photo of someone and upload it to Facebook’s servers. Facebook can analyze the photo and tag that person’s face."

This could work for a mutual friend at a party. But if the face recognizer is given a low-quality subway photo and has 7 million people to choose from (NYC residents) of equal probability, the chance of current technology getting an accurate match is nil.

The author may be a bit confused how Facebook's technology works. Yes, it recognizes faces, but it also eliminates ~99.9999% of members as possibilties by leveraging the social graph.
You have fouled up in the marketing department. You need to geo-target. You need to focus on a geographically dense close cluster for you initial release. Probably a business district with lots of small offices where there should be plenty of people who have lunch alone. Market with flyers in and around this office and probably go and volunteer for lunch yourself. Release and solicit feedback from real users , iterate, market to other such dense locations and improve based on feedback.
If you like ruby there is a similar project for JRuby and I believe you can access the whole Android API:

http://ruboto.org/
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I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way.
> Because Android is open source and each device manufacturer has its own build, it isn't really plausible to have a single backdoor within the core operating system

I doubt they would be asking Google to put in a backdoor. They would be asking the individual device vendors to do so. After all, it is the device vendor, not Google, who has to get the particular phone approved for sale in India.
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I'd just like to point out that "But it's in 240p!" wasn't entirely serious. I transcribed it because I thought it was a really good answer to the question and more people would see it that way, and I'd gain some karma a Less Wrong to boot.
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It's interesting to listen to stories like this because they make it truly difficult to access your own feelings. You want to dislike or even hate it but a moment later you realize, in order to do so, you'd have to pass those judgements onto yourself. And so you kind of brush it off or feel like you're somehow doing the right thing by just hearing about it. There is no option other than simply not using electronics, or maybe only buying used electronics claiming the recycling karma offset. And whats kind of crazy is that I love programming. It's not only my job to use these devices, but I love to make them do new things. If I'm to continue to love it I have to live in a mind with forgetful acceptance or forced ignorance. I don't see a 3rd option.
Yeah, and they're fast enough for a lot of things, but I'm doing DSP at 44.1k/sec and even C++ virtual functions are too slow for that. But I can use an STL vector at no penalty over a native array.
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This code probably doesn't vary that much. Across all the qualcomm phones I looked at (Smart and feature phone), it's clearly the same basic operating system. So this one underlying OS that's almost identical across all phones smart or feature that use the same chipset (in my case, they are all CDMA phones). So what's easier to develop, a backdoor mechanism that works for every phone (feature or smart) in exactly the same way using the same code or a different mechanism for each phone OS?
You don't develop either. All you do is tell whoever wants to sell the phone that they must include a backdoor. That means the backdoor almost certainly gets implemented in vendor-specific code (whether their firmware, their add-ons, or their branch of the core OS).
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If you're scared of your government, you shouldn't be using any form of communication without end-to-end encryption that you control fully. This much should have been obvious for decades now.

Criminals and revolutionaries are surely just as aware of these simple facts as we are, so these systems will likely mainly be used to spy on the innocent for political or personal gain.

If you make secure crypto a crime, only criminals will have secure crypto.
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I do believe the US and UK governments have access to cell phone traffic (Echelon), so part of this is no surprise.

But what I don't necessarily believe is that the government of India is in on it. Or that they are intercepting memos written by the United States about some confidential stuff. I feel this whole thing is a hoax and not real.

Has this been confirmed by anyone? I wouldn't necessarily trust some "hacked memo" posted to Pastebin. Also, the title bothers me. Memos are leaked, not hacked.
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an archbishop or some other dignitary of equal rank.

To which Sancho made answer, "If fortune, sirs, should bring things about
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So there's clearly a problem here, and the only solution seems to be to use a 100% open-source device along with 100% open-source software.

I mean there's pretty compelling evidence that others now have access to what we're doing on our (closed-source) devices. Would it now be totally irrational to go the Richard Stallman route?
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Unclear. "Aug 4, 1998: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept."

However, it's probably not good to assume that anything goes through congress unanimously without being sure: http://www.theonion.com/articles/ron-paul-promises-to-return...
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ATMs in banks and train stations, sure, but not the ones in 7-11s. (You'll notice nandemo said "in convenience stores").
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This guy is dancing his future-millionaire-dance in advance. Can't blame a guy who designs a nice little product like that.

Can we put out better apps now too with something like this?

There's a significantly higher chance a user [whom is using this case/multi-widget] will be able to control the touch interface more efficiently (and dynamically).
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Yes, that would seem to be the obvious reaction. But that's just because you're a "normal", someone that has, on occasion, interacted romantically in a fairly standard and direct manner with members of the opposite sex.

Now, imagine that you're a forever-alone that spends most of his free time (well, that minuscule portion of free time that's not consumed by LoL, SWTOR, Skyrim, Minecraft, etc. [1]) on Reddit complaining about being "friend-zoned" and fantasizing about that magical girl that looks like a fashion model but "gets you", who likes you just for being a "nice guy" that's "smart", breaking from her natural tendency to go for "bad-boys" because your awesomeness was so obvious to her despite your awkward creepiness and social ineptitude. It's a very different world, one where the idea of semi-passively stalking randoms on the subway without any fear of direct rejection seems a lot more appealing...

[1] I say this as someone that wastes an awful lot of free time on Reddit, as well as playing LoL, SWTOR, Skyrim, Minecraft, and many more, including some Facebook games that I'm far too embarrassed about to cop to on HN (even if I do work in the field and have the ostensible excuse of "market research")...
recycling karma. I went through this phase a few years back in Shanghai. I refused to buy anything new and would call a friend for his old iPod in a drawer when mine died. This worked for a bit but has limitations.

I'm back in China now, after a two year break to the U.S. Ten years in Shanghai was too much for me. I needed some perspective from home. Now I'm back, in Chengdu. My rules are simple. In all aspects of my life, where I can, I incrementally raise the labor bar and try to provide more than just a job. The IT projects I do, I tell my clients I only do high-end work and pay my talent well. And I do pay them well; generally 50% to 200% over their prior jobs. I also get to cherry pick the best talent and have very satisfied clients. This approach has its limitations and I'll adjust my approach when I reach their limits.

For you, there are two things you can do:

1 - Choose wisely who you give your money to. If you feel you can't easily raise the bar in the electronics you buy because all suppliers are playing the same game, do so in other aspects of your life. For many, there is choice in food and other local things you buy.

2 - Get involved more closely in who your elected representative are. These guys set the global and local trade rules. Let them know at the ballot box what you think.
Completely agreed. Even out of a million people, this is probably impossible. I'm quite sure humans couldn't do it.

To test humans:
Take city of million people. Take photo of one person.
Proceed to ask every person in said city "who is this?" Most likely answer is "no idea", so only consider labeled answers.

You will obviously get multiple answers for the same photo due to look-alikes. I suspect the look-alike problem is so great that even the best training optimization could not achieve >= 50% system labeling accuracy for a picture of a single person with no other context.

You may be able to achieve 50+% labeling accuracy when you present many photos of the unknown individual to those million people, especially if that individual is pictured with other individuals.
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I lived in the US most of my life. The health care system there is pretty messed up - in my opinion. But when I moved to Hungary I realized I'd been quite naive about how things are here.

I assumed it was a rather cut and dry fact that health care would be better here - and it isn't as simple as I had assumed.
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> to me its a simple math: Apple produce stuff in China saving 40% of production costs, then sells its goods in America putting 40% profit margin on it. I smell greed, regardless if people accept to be ripped of or not.

So, you expect Apple to manufacture in the States, and then sell it to you without a margin (over production costs)... And how exactly are those poor Apple engineers and Apple Store Employees are supposed to make money?

If some day Apple manufactures iDevices in America, then an iPad would cost $799, or Apple would go out of business.

This is not to say I'd like Apple's partner (Foxconn) to enslave chinese workers so I could buy an iPad cheaper... I'd be happy if my iPad would be $549 (instead of $499) AND those workers were receiving more money for their hard work.
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Unfortunately, the parent poster was pretty clearly advocating Ron Paul for president. This makes citing reasons for not wanting Ron Paul for president fair game.

This back and forth tedium is one of the reasons why Hacker News tries to avoid political posts in the first place. I'm afraid that legitimate criticism of the post requires you to actually debunk the claim.
I don't consider that a "perfectly valid approach". It precisely matches what the US wants to do with SOPA: regulate foreign sites in absentia and block them if they don't comply.
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As I couldn't find the date it was published, I deduced it must be written in 2001 from copyright at the bottom, as you pointed out.
Also observing the rule everyone does here at HN while referring to old articles, I added the year.
Even I have the same feeling about the modification of the article.
It might still work if it could narrow down the possibilities to, say, a hundred photos or less. The user should be able to go the "last mile" and pick out the one they're looking for.

I'd be curious to see if Facebook's facial recognition technology is this good.

Also, lots of people out in public (especially in NYC) aren't necessarily residents of the given area, which potentially makes this much harder.
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It can work but both finders and graders would definitely need to get some reasonable education beforehand. Something like a code academy/treehouse of IP would be the go. Also, the amount of time it would take/amount each gamer would need to or be willing to commit to get decent results would be interesting.
Back at uni in an "business model/startup" course, we had to complete an assignment essentially doing what your suggesting. We had had 6-8hrs of prior classes and a fair bit of course reading (at least 4hrs if you did all). We all got a brief for the technology we had to investigate which was an device for completing eye surgery surgery! Everyone found at least 10+ patents that could have been seen as prior art as there was competitors in that space (some of which was found by others, some of which was totally misunderstood and crap) - In the end, no one found anything new that would have impacted the new tech and our lecturer (a VC) was very happy with the additional free research! He went on to use those who got the best grades for some paid work - a good way to outsource any initial research his firm had to do on potential investments