skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have. However, my fear is that it will either not work when it's needed, or that they may have some manner of technology that allows them to scan for such things, or possibly the footprints left behind by such software, or logging them into an OS that looks like a fresh install might be enough to illicit some suspicion.

Politely declining to share your password is within your rights at the US border. However, giving them a "fake" password seems like it may be a crime. And even if it's not, it will certainly get you detained and your laptop taken.

Thankfully, I don't need my laptop that much when traveling overseas and my stupid non-global Verizon phone won't work anyway. Much safer to leave it behind.
More likely he's referring to the services people use to see where on the internet their ads are being displayed.
India is 19-31 years old
Huh, that image looks familiar.... Apple, 1999: http://i.imgur.com/McRhNgK.jpg
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Alternate hypotheses:
1. There's more waste in the system now.
2. The money is paying for people that weren't being treated before.
3. The money is paying for risk that wasn't being assumed before
I have problems getting paid on time like everyone else. I think this problem is more of a psychological one, one of communication and setting expectations with one's clients. I think this service is overpriced, and I question why anybody, not just me, would pay to use it.

Stripe costs 2.9% + 30c per transaction (no monthly fee) and has example code you can copy and paste into your site (for free). I can type email reminders to clients myself, or setup a script to send stock messages automatically (for free). And when I get paid, I get paid directly to my bank account (where I have full control over it, which I can use to pay bills and eat food).

https://stripe.com/ca/help/pricing
https://stripe.com/docs/examples

I'm not trying to rain on your parade. I'm just curious what the actual benefits are. Maybe I'm missing something. Please explain it to me. From the little information on the webpage, I currently feel it isn't worth it.
Since Jobs died there have been countless stupid things people have pointed to as evidence that Apple has changed since then. This is the first one I actually buy, this is the exact type of thing Jobs would have flipped the fuck out about.
There we go again with the Jobs reference.
Imo, it makes sense to offshore concretely defined software tasks not part of your core infrastructure framework.

For example, if you need to research a new API, I would offshore that task in it's old self contained project.

When the results come back, your developers can learn from the research and spend the time integrating that work into the project.

For myself personally, I use fiverr.com to outsource a bunch of small tasks I don't have time with. Since I am more of a backend software guy, I tend to source weird javascript and css problems. Occasionally I would outsource some small Ruby work.
considering NSA...

ARM Holdings is a French company. You probably don't need to worry about drop-in masks from them.

only 2 versions behind OpenGL...

It sure doesn't make sense why they didn't announce support OpenGL 4.4. I mean, the spec was released 6 weeks prior to the announcement- that's practically forever ago!
As others have mentioned, I'm sure we'll learn much more when the jailbreaking begins. Just reporting the facts we have.
This is the money line:

Job Description Applied Received Avg Salary
-------------------- ------- -------- ----------
Computer Programmers 55922 52342 (93%) $63,916

We need H1-B visas because there is a shortage of computer programmers living in the United States who will work for $64,000 a year when the average salary of all programmers is $94,000 [1]. That narrative gets lost though.

[1] http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Computer+Programmer&l1=San+F...
Water boarding, sensory deprivation, drugs, electric shock and such all seem popular and are supported by the very best democratic governments - so that must be OK.

Me - I think privacy needs to be at the forefront of everything we do for a long long time (maybe for ever now). So no confessions and "no comment".
Yep, of course. Which is why I don't understand when people act like this is something weird. Talk up your strengths, talk down your weaknesses. If a point that was a weakness last year has become a strength this year, you emphasize it even though you de-emphasized it last year. That's just how it works.
I generally agree, it is easy to define good human rights for a country.

But this gets hairy when you start evaluating how bad a non-perfect country is.

Consider press freedom.

Today, e.g. Turkey and Russia keeps the press down and stop dissenting voices. How much worse is that than e.g. Sweden, where the press goes in perfect lock step in certain areas -- few dissenting voices are allowed. (Most of that is self censure. Who choose what is censored and how? Only journalists know. Maybe. Part of this is cultural, too. How much? I have no clue.) Note that this one-way thinking is quite a bit different in the rest of Scandinavia.

Or a very intolerant country might be OK to live in, for a homosexual or someone of the "wrong" faith. Live and let live, the "different" would just get lots of curious questions.

Compare that with my present home country, which is a bit homophobic. The only openly gay guy I've met was a friend of a work friend. He seems to exercise to be a good street fighter. I hope that is just a coincidence. :-)
there is a hard limit of 65,000 H1-B visas per year,

Not quite - the article actually explains the ways that this limit can be exceeded. That said, I find their numbers pretty odd - 150,000 applications leading to 300,000 approvals? For a post that is showing off their charting/presentation capabilities, it's very poorly presented data.
> Third, "politically correct" is a label principally used by reactionary dullards to dismiss arguments or objections that they see as excessively leftist. It's equivalent to calling someone a commie. Mind you, some people are communists, some people are knee-jerk excessive leftists, etc... but if that's true in a particular situation, you can just explain why it's true. Calling it "political correctness" is just a lowbrow dismissal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358263
Intel announces Quark X1000 SoC. 1/10th the power consumption of Atom.
> LTE is overrated and not worth it since I spent about 98% of my life on wifi

Not worth it for you
Someone with just a hash can't impersonate you.
Funny to see this specifically w/ Joyent, the SmartOS zone gurus.
http://www.collegeanswerz.com/colleges is returning the Heroku error page.
I don't think that you are in the target market. Apple is more on a two-year cycle than a one-year cycle. Those who switch year-to-year are pretty rare, I think.
It means that whatever you put into the ssh process's STDIN gets sent to the STDIN of the remote process. For example you can do this:

tar cj $bigdir | ssh host 'tar xj'

That creates a tar.bz2 archive on your machine, sends it over ssh to the remote host, where it's unpacked. Ad hoc compressed and encrypted file transfers made easy.
IPhone 5s
Aren't swipe sensors considered more secure than press-on ones? There's all kinds of very simple recipes out there to trick those.

A swipe sensor would have needed less space to boot.
Instead of debating your legal right to keep your password secret... now someone can grab your hand and force your finger onto the home button!
aha, that explains why there are 300,000 approvals for the year. Thanks!
Not sure I agree with Nokia's formulation of the saying. I prefer "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", which makes a lot more sense. Imitation isn't the best form of flattery - it's actually quite an irritating form of it - but it is the sincerest form (since, unlike verbal flattery, it's rarely feigned: you imitate because a thing is worth imitating, not to flatter the imitatee).
Fingerprint sensor + NSA chip? Wow, that'd get banned in multiple countries fast. Mark my words.
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The problem I see is that if they have a copy of your fingerprint, and then their computer says that matches a crime of sorts, what do you do then? You have to consider the false positives.
That's still expensive for a two year old phone. E.g. the Lumia 920 is being sold here for 289 Euro (32GB, great camera, 4.5" retina display).
There is not a "hard limit" on H-1B visas. There are various exclusions from the cap. Apparently there were over 135k issued for 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Congressional_yearly_...
Apple will not compromise on this. Will not happen.

I personally think it’s a completely appropriate price. All I wanted to make clear is that this is not a cheap phone. Doesn’t mean it’s an overpriced phone or somehow worse than the S4. I wanted to make its place in the market clear, that’s all.
Win8 here. Chrome, FF, and IE work beautifully with the mousewheel. Chrome/FF no scroll bar, IE has vert scrollbar.
My college president, Bill Destler of Rochester Institute of Technology, has decried these rankings too. But he knows it's going to be promoted heavily by all the colleges that are not in the top 50 or so.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-destler/the-ultimate-absu...
Can you plug your iPhone into a couple of 30" monitors, and use it as a workstation?
Finish one thing today
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Have a look at Spyne: http://spyne.io

Specifically: http://spyne.io/#s=sql&ser=Json&show=Data
The O visa is only for people who can demonstrate "extraordinary" capability. This usually means published, well-known, etc. Not all artists and musicians qualify.
Contribute, become valuable to the project and then pitch your proposal. See how democracy works in action.

Or fork to github and see what happens?
How odd, I feel the opposite, re: vision... Google is leading the way with progressive developments in many varied fields.

Expecting more today from Tim Cook, the Apple announcement left me flat. Understand, that while I'm a long time Apple user, my Android phone(s) have offered features to which Apple is still playing catch-up. Apple is the reactionary these days; they may have introduced the iPhone as a ground-breaking product back-in-the-day, but Android is outpacing the iPhone with each new release.

<opinion>Aside from the MBP I use for work, I won't be purchasing another Apple product anytime soon, FWIW.</opinion>
Nokia is full of it here, it's not like Apple has never released multicolored versions of their products before:

http://cdn.cnet.com.au/story_media/339291893/apple_ipod_2008...
http://images.apple.com/ipod-shuffle/images/hero1.jpg
http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPod_tou...
LTE is overrated

ha - I had 6mb dl on 4g w/ AT&T iPhone 4S and moving to the iPhone 5 w/ LTE made it 24mb dl. Overrated? Maybe for you but, whenever a company triples my service and doesn't charge me more money, I'm happy to take that deal.
In this case, the L2 cache is part of the A7, so that would be fair. I would guess this means it's also only stored in NVRAM local to the SOC and not persisted to the general flash filesystem.
I visualize this: husband is sleeping deeply, wife picks up the phone and taps the home button while he's sleeping and unlocks the phone.

Release the kraken.
Yes, you're right. Don't they ask for your fingerprints when you make a passport though? They do in France.
A related point, that's $64K salary for people often going to a high income high cost state (California).
It is most certainly not a "I have nothing to hide" argument. It is a "what exactly is the value of a fingerprint in terms of identity theft?" It's a question of how dangerous, really, would access to the world's fingerprints be for a nefarious hacker. I'm not asking to be facetious, I honestly don't know the real answer relative to more standard security measures like passwords.
I think they meant that 67k applications were approved. Then a random number of those were actually given visas.
The Daily Mail is not considered to be a reputable news source by any stretch. They have a strong political agenda and are known to play very fast and loose with the truth.
What about the iPod and iPod Mini? The Macbook and the Macbook Pro? This is nothing new.
Well then, let's stop advancing technology now because you think it's fine where it is. Let's stop writing more feature-packed programs because hey, features cost resources. I'm sure you're using a recycled computer running Puppy Linux or something else ridiculously resource effective but lacking in features, am I right? I doubt it. But if you are, you're in the MINORITY.

What do you want from Apple? For them to support every single phone in different ways? Security patches for the first iPhone but no new features? Same for the 3GS? And if customers with the 3GS complain about having no new features, well then, let's do ANOTHER fork and do security patches + features. Why then, let's do that for every single model.

Four years is old. That's the difference between having a kid and watching them go off to school. If you can't buy a new phone after 4 years, then don't. But quit bitching that it isn't rainbows for you.
Or, it might depend on how you use it. I love LTE, and I instantly miss it when I travel to somewhere without it.
Well, you can sniff packets in/out I guess and know if the process will or not send info to the internet.
They'll grow back eventually. So cutting off is the only option.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply!

It's definitely getting much much better, as you described it - but it still has a long way to go. I do tend to hang out more in very FOSS-centric circles, so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed by this.

(and I do agree with you re:startups - I wish we saw more open source product code. Gittip is doing a great job with that: https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/ )
Saying "make me a sandwich" doesn't have power. The environment of "the majority are singling me out" is what has power, the words are quite literally irrelevant. Sexism would be if the boys in the class thought they were better than girls and thus a girl shouldn't be in the class. That is without a doubt not the motivation, but rather the standard "we can pick on this person so we will". There was only one girl in one of my programming classes too. She was part of the group picking on me, because the group felt I was an easier target. That really is the root of it, and attempting to address nonexistent sexism will not help solve it at all.
What if you have the legal right to not give up your password to your phone?

Now, instead of waiting around for lawyers, your finger will be physically forced onto the home button.
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Does anybody but apple embedded quicktime on their site?
You're forgetting how price sensitive people can be. I suspect it will do exceptionally well, even though the smart money is spent on the 5s.
The normal selling price was $299 and that was for an 8 GB device. $349 for a 16GB device (which is what Apple is selling).

Google presumably only dropped the price to clear out the inventory before the new Nexus phone is announced.
But would they still go about implementing it? I mean, it sounds crazy from a business perspective.
Yes, obviously the PC/Laptop side of the business has always had this kind of differentiation (also the pure-Mp3 player business), but the iOS stuff has avoided this since the inception of the iPhone. The iPad, iPod, and iPhone were just "size only".

Now that Jobs is gone and competition has heated up, we're seeing Apple back away from that with the iPad mini and the 5s. It feels like a big shift for Apple.
A garden variety capacitive sensor can't tell the difference between a human finger and a hot dog.

How do you propose it would beyond attempting to measure the amount of capacitance and mapping it to an accepted band? Attempting that is way too fragile a solution due to variability in humans and local weather conditions.

And even if you did put in the effort for that, an attacker could still fairly easily match the dead finger capacitance to the correct band pretty easily.
That's what I was curious about, thanks.
Universities are who's really going to take the hit here. When the free money dries up so will the number of students able to pay current prices for degrees. The effect on Academia and as a result research, innovation, etc. are still up in the air.
The 16GB Nexus 4 is just 45% the cost of the 16GB iPhone 5C.

The new Nexus 5 will likely start at $300 as the Nexus 4or5 did when it first went on sale a year ago. I'm not sure what market the iPhone 5C is targeting. On contract, you might as well buy the 5S.
It's important for grepping and sedding - the colors are escape codes and would mess with your regular expressions otherwise (you want to find foobar , but bar was blue so you got foo\e[1;34mbar\e[0m instead, and it doesn't match with foobar).
It's not clear that this is thermally possible.
Two points:

1) Crayola got there before Apple did.

2) Rounded corners patent.
I'm glad Amazon has a patent on one-click purchasing because otherwise I'd buy too much stuff.
I've been thinking about getting a withings pulse or a misfit shine... now I'll wait to see what the 5S itself can do.
What is the barrier?
Not my experience but rape is the scenario and it's far from hypothetical. Do a little googling if you can stomach it.
About 17% of the US workforce is officially "underemployed"; that's a very large number. I would think a large chunk of that are young, healthy people who work one or more part-time jobs without benefits. They're to be forced into the health insurance marketplace as well, with government assistance if they can't afford it -- essentially, there will be a tax dollar transfer to insurers that could absorb much of the extra cost of also insuring people with pre-existing conditions. It really is hard to predict how it will play out.
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The cool thing is that I have to go through a legal process?

If someone doesn't pay me, production stops, servers go offline, and IP is definitely not transferred.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your data.

There is something about having to put in a little effort up front, and giving up a little, that commits a user to try harder to use a service.

I wonder if this phenomenon is a cousin of the well known characteristic that non-paying users tend to be more demanding and less appreciative of a given service than those who pay (premium users).
Ask HN: What Apps Will We See Using Apple’s Fingerprint Sensor?
I think some elaboration is in order. Given that it's a feature and you can still use those good old 4-digit codes, I don't see why it could backfire and turn into a marketing nightmare.
fair enough; I updated the title.

I still think there is value in understanding the model, and that requires hysteresis. I also included the link (2013) in my comment for that purpose.
While I springboarded off of your comment, my comment is my own. And I absolutely think that Apple will "compromise" on this (where compromise apparently means "compete in the market"), and the whole "this is not cheap" line is absolute hubris that the Apple-sphere is inventing: This phone is designed to be cheaply manufactured, and you can be absolutely certain that Apple plans on doing what is necessary to maintain marketshare, and the price you see today has little to nothing to do with how it will be priced in China and elsewhere, or even in the US in a few months on no-contract plans.
Then change your password to something that you don't actually know.

Generate a random password before your trip and print out a few copies. Take one with you and secure the remaining ones. Before you fly through the UK, change the password on your computer to the random one and destroy the printout. When you get back home use the remaining printouts to change your password back and then destroy them.
I had to give my fingerprints when I got my drivers' license. I trust Apple's encryption way more than I trust the DMV's hack protection.
There is no middle intermediary, its just two servers. For example, Facebook & your app.

Instead of polling `facebook.com/api/posts` every 2/5/15/60 minutes, you'd set up a subscription for Facebook to ping you at `yoursite.com/hook.php`. The subscription would be managed under `facebook.com/api/subscriptions`.
Right. The rankings aren't the last word on an institution. They aren't even close to it. But that doesn't mean they're meaningless. Similarly with countries. These metrics refer to real data corresponding to the actual, real-life experience of people living in these places. If the number of emergency rooms per capita in a country is low, for example, that corresponds to actually higher likelihood that you'll be unable to get to one if you live in that country and are in an emergency situation. The data is real - the author might not like that it seems like a simplistic representation and glosses over a lot of nuances, but then why else do we measure and quantify these trends than to tease out meaningful information from an otherwise incomprehensible, highly complex system?

Even though a single year snapshot of college rankings isn't completely meaningful by itself, you can glean a lot from the movements in the rankings, even with small movements. If a college goes from 200 to 190 in a single year, you can probably determine precisely what changed how by looking at the changes in the internals that they used to derive the number. And sometimes even a small change in ranking does reflect a significant, concrete change in the experience of students attending these institutions.

Similarly, with countries. The dynamics over time of these metrics is what gives this data meaning - not any single ranking.
So your argument is that because this product does not help with every situation in which a person can be bound — it is useless? I don't understand. That's like saying that having a spare tire in your car is useless because you might overheat.
That is not fair on several points:

Society as such is the one offering medical care to people who can't pay. You don't get then to blame the individuals who can't pay.

He cannot obtain catastrophic coverage (the only medical coverage that makes sense), thanks to the new rules.

He cannot pay a fair prize for that insurance, as he is forced to subsidize the old people who should have saved up when they were young and healthy.
It's the first smartphone with 64bit CPU, it's a significant achievement, and they are rightly proud of it. I thought comparisons to the original iPhone were very silly though.
Interesting that the 11th largest employer of H-1B workers is the NYC Department of Education, with 5219 H-1Bs.

Also, there's some invalid data in the database: "Brooklyn, NY" is listed as a city, but it's not (it's a borough of NYC). That also means that the numbers for NYC are wrong, since they apparently don't include Brooklyn. This brings into question how reliable the rest of the data is.
Hacking Fingerprint Scanners
Having analyzed Trinet plans against readily available group plans, I don't think PEOs are necessarily better in terms of health insurance, though that probably depends on how good your broker is.
Reminds me a bit of the Badland mobile game... It has a powerup that clones your character many times, but they all get the same player input. You need to ensure that a certain number survive and, in certain levels, get to different goal locations. The only differentiating factor is the noise that the physics engine throws in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BcB...
there's airdrop instead of nfc
This sort of stuff is very interesting. A swarm of a few thousand small, cheap drones in a confined area like say, the Persian Gulf, could radically alter the balance of power. If you're an aircraft carrier, how do you defend yourself against that?
Who has the decryption key?