skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first batch of space-ready lettuce is something of a tease for the NASA crew — once harvested, it will be frozen and stored away for testing back on Earth. No one is allowed to eat anything before the plants are thoroughly vetted for cosmic microbes.

These space germs are often fairly benign, akin to the natural bacteria that build up in any moist root bank. Russian crews are allowed to consume vegetables grow on their side of the space station, but microbe standards are strict and unwavering on U.S. space missions.

That is the strangest part of the whole article. It's amazing how much science the USSR did on long term space habitation (including growing plants) that just gets ignored by NASA. Unfortunately I can't recall the title, but I read a book on the Soviet space program maybe 10 years ago that detailed all of the progress the USSR made prior to the US SkyLab program, and honestly they were 10-15 years ahead on that stuff compared to NASA.
Ah, I was expecting an "article" on CNET about it. Totally see the ads now.
Considering most private schools are going to be significantly smaller than state schools, that 1% difference is quite likely a few dozen people tops.

1% at my private undergrad would be 18-20 people now.
Much more likely: "Do it, or your datafeed of intel from industrial espionage will run dry."
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It's still surprisingly broken (as a whole) despite everything else on the web moving forward leaps and bounds -- Wish I had an answer, as it's a bazillion dollar industry just waiting for a cleaner solution
TechCrunch TL;DR: Here’s Everything Apple Announced Today
Power Quotes that wade deep in the waters of evolution
Apple is plenty petty, too. Remember when they blocked Google Voice because it "replicated existing functionality"?

Why is it not frowned upon when it is exhibited by a group of people operating as one; as a corporation?

Because who cares, aside from Apple fans? When an individual is petty, the target of that pettiness is a person. When a company is petty, the target of that pettiness is another company. Why become personally attached to that? It isn't your profit at stake.

Besides, if we judged companies that way what would Walmart be? A sociopathic killer, or something...
> I'm thinking about how chip and PIN has been cited as a way to move fraud liability to the consumer.

Banks can't do this. Since security researchers managed to fool they bank into believing a transaction was PIN verified while not actually being the case, banks have to prove that a transaction was PIN verified, and I believe physical access to the card is required to do this.

> To dumb it down: I'm envisioning a crappy future where you'll end up with fraudulent charges on your credit card (via your Apple account) that you can't contest because the credit card company will say "Hey-- your fingerprint was used to authenticate this charge. Therefore you did it." I don't think that line of thinking is too cynical.

This is not going to happen unless there is an unimpeachable way to prove that the transaction was signed with a fingerprint. Since Apple have said that fingerprint data will not leave the device and is stored separately in a HSM-esque manner, I'm interested to know how this could be done.
This is typical of the previous 's' updates: 3gs, 4s. Both offered a better camera and faster speed, and not much else. The 4s had siri, which ended up being mostly just a gimmick IMO.
And those things are ridiculously hard to get across in the traditional cover page + resume + online "application" that more traditional companies would use. This was a great way to screen applicants for this kind of role.
Because it's unusual for VC firms to invest in startups?
I remember hearing that Samsung devotes a fixed proportion of its sales revenue to advertising, so in boom times they end up with ridiculous amounts of money in their marketing budget. This smells to me like their ad people literally have so much money now they can't work out what else to do with it.
Buy an Arduino/Launchpad/MSP430/other prototyping kit and start plugging things (motors/LEDs/other devices) into it. As long as all of your devices will work at the same voltage -- as long as everything is 5v or 3.3v or whatever -- they plug into breadboards like legos.

It took me 3 months from buying my first Arduino to using an ultrasonic distance sensor to control an RC car motor. http://gilgamech.blogspot.com
So you make sure that you've multiple RabbitMQ servers or a RabbitMQ cluster so there is no single point of failure :)
That's why I love iTunes Match. I'm able to take my complete music library around with me without actually using up all my phones storage. As long as I have network connectivity, the song will be downloaded to the device on-demand.
> Wasn't it supposed to be cheaper?

According to who? I find never-ending post-launch criticism of Apple products that fail to live up to random Internet rumors tiresome.
There are. edX has an authoring tool called Studio. It's part of their open source platform, usually hosted right alongside their LMS, and pretty straightforward for non-technical users. Of course, the farther you go into building custom problem types (e.g. an autograder to run on student-submitted code), the harder it is to do things in that basic wysiwyg interface. Still, it's very powerful and opens up all the basics (video, text, simple questions) plus some very rich experiences like peer and ML grading.

The original courses that edX hosted were authored in a rather tricky XML format. Authoring and QA in that system was time consuming for developers and borderline impossible for non-technical users.
An entire new security system centred around a fingerprint scanner is not considered innovative?

Give one idea which you'd consider more innovative. Go on. Just one.
Some heavy handed "duck and cover" from the "leadership" a Business Insider today.

For once. Just for fucking once. I'd like to see a company stand up and say, "We didn't have clear guidelines in place, but frankly, guidelines don't change culture. Guidelines don't make responsible leadership. Guidelines don't change the fact that programmers take the flak when HR and management fuck up. Every. Time. That some issues aren't about discrimination or sexism. Some issues are about poor judgement and poor leadership. Plain and simple. That was the case here and we're going to make an effort to not just put policy on the books but improve our culture. Not through seminars or mind numbing training courses, but by hiring people with good judgement and encouraging diverse perspectives and open door policies. We're not going to use HR or PR to cover our asses. We're going to be a better company.

Keep digging knuckleheads.
Great example of try first, signup later that I coincidentally just discovered is Litmus' email rendering preview system - https://litmus.com/email-testing

They go quite far with it, which was really nice for my specific use case, allowing me to share the results with my team before proceeding with registration.

Now it begs the question whether or not I'll come back later to signup for the service, but regardless they've left a fantastic impression on me as a potential future user.
Under Jobs Apple released many versions of the MacBook/Pro which had nearly the same external design. I'm not certain Jobs would have loved a gold iPhone, but I can imagine he'd have understood the business reasons for it, and it's not an unattractive device. He was large and in charge when they introduced the flower power iMac after all.

Innovation is a difficult thing to quantify, there wasn't likely to be an innovative step on these iPhones anymore than there was an innovative step to occur on the MacBook Air. The product line is now about absolute refinement. What's innovation? Having a 64bit processor in a phone is a new leap, but expected, but a massively improved motion tracker is innovative in it's own way.

Apple comes into new market segments/product rethinks on a very stretched out basis, from the iPod to the iPhone was a long period of time, they used that time to develop a product that was 'revolutionary' as it hit the market. They've not been in a hurry before, so why rush now? It wins them nothing, but could cost them everything.
Yeah, that's part of what I mean.
At first I tought "And where are the ads? I can't see them".

But I don't use AdBlock, just NoScript. If CNet wanted to serve me ads without random code that I must execute, I'd see them, no problem at it.
InterviewStreet, Codility, and Hackermeter may not be the right tools to test a candidate's skills. During the in person interview or phone interview, if a candidate is not clear what the interviewer is asking, s/he can ask questions. If a candidate gets stuck on an online site, who should s/he talk to? If a candidate does not understand the question, how is s/he supported to answer it?
That's a good illustration, but rsync, if available, would generally be preferred for that use case:

rsync -az $bigdir host:$bigdir
For someone who's been looking for an easy point of entry into learning this stuff (me), this looks awesome.
A stolen phone is likely to be covered in fingerprints. A small piece of sellotape and the thief has your world at their fingertips.
Yeah, I was thinking about impersonating rather than identifying. Good point.
It's not always that bad. For example, Google Wallet doesn't run on Android; it actually runs on a separate secure chip. I don't know what Apple is doing but I wouldn't be surprised if it's similar.
Azure supports private VLANs, any number, between any virtual machines or cloud services, with the possibility to VPN to that.

Other major cloud providers provide similar functionality as well. This is common in a cloud environment and taken for granted with dedicated hosting.
This is the argument people made against Chip and PIN credit cards yet they are widely used all over the world with no problems. You don't use them, that's cool. But a lot of people do and it works great, and more importantly it's more secure than the pure magnetic stripe cards.
My wife and I have each others' unlock codes because sometimes we get info from each others' phones for one another. "Hey hon, I've got my hands full, can you see if Jane replied to my text yet?" or "Can I use your phone to look up X? Mine's about to die."

We don't feel any particular need to check up on each others' communications, though. It's just a practical matter for us.
Once your fingerprint is compromised, you can never rely on it again.
Why does Economics 101 go out the window when it comes to labor supply and demand? Rising prices increase supply until supply and demand reach equilibrium. The "sustainable salary expense" is whatever the market decides it is. Remember, prices affect the demand curve too. The specter of businesses not being able to afford labor is wholly fictional. If the market price of programmers is $300k and some businesses cannot afford nurses at $300k, that doesn't mean there is anything wrong. If the market price is $300k, that means there are companies who get much more than that in value out of each programmer, and so all that happens is that programmers get shifted from companies that generate less value to companies that generate more value.
"What the fingerprint sensor may actually deliver is the biggest leap forward in mobile payment technology that we’ve seen since the credit card."

This article is saying that though that's all it does now, it will be the new payment process. I just don't see that happening.
Are you similarly worried about the GPS in your iPhone that you presumably keep in your pocket wherever you go, which is tied to your credit card and billing account with the telephone company?
Do you think it's petty when a grocery store puts their own bottle of blue stuff next to the Windex?

Is making their own blue stuff petty, or is it when they display it next to the brand name blue stuff that it becomes petty?

Good for Samsung, good for smartphone buyers, and even if it's not good for Apple's bottom line this year, this sort of competition should be healthy. If they can't compete with the knock-offs, it's time to stop buying Apple products.
This isn't worth it.

What isn't worth what, exactly? The content isn't worth the ads? Then don't read it. Deciding that it "isn't worth" supporting web site owners is a fantastically selfish way to look at things. If I find a site with obnoxious advertising I close the tab and go elsewhere. It's not like there aren't other sources of iPhone 5S release news.
I'm sure there are some brilliant people working on Wall Street right now who'd be happy to come work for you at the right price.
How the iPhone 5S Stacks Up Against Its Biggest Competitors
The Go Oracle: a source code comprehension tool for Go programs
The fundamental difference is that a privilege is something given while an advantage can be something inherent. Privilege isn't something you're born with, it's something someone else has given you (and there's a strong implication of it being earned rather than simply handed out). Language is important, it does no one any good to try to subvert a word to a new and contradictory use because it paints your argument in a better light because of its existing connotations which do not apply.

Regardless of all that I wasn't actually attempting to address your argument at all and my comment wasn't aimed at you. I was simply stating that it annoys me the way privilege has been subverted from its actual meaning by a minority with a particular political motivation. Similarly I'm also annoyed with the way the term organic has been subverted to mean food grown without pesticide even though the actual meaning of the word has absolutely nothing to do with that.
Each time you virtually plug something in the program's breadboard, generate a random number. If the number is lower than a threshold, prevent the connection from working. Change the threshold at every program loading and randomly during use.
Neither of those has ever fingerprinted me.
Wanna offer me one? Perhaps you live in a part of the universe blessed with a cornucopia of jobs offers. I do not.

Snark aside, did you know losing your "new" job while on an H-1B means getting kicked out of the US within 15 days? Not a very comforting thought now, is it?
Agreed, and my problem with even the usage above is that I often realize too late that "whatever" is not going to finish before I need to unplug. Then I have to kill "whatever" and restart with nohup and logging. tmux/screen always has me covered.
...to stop your competitor getting it?
Yeah, seriously. That was a really tough imaginary situation and his answer was perfect.
Comes off as smart to me
Unfortunately, so much IT work is centred around metro areas and property is very expensive.

So you need a satellite uplink and a second dome covered in video, wired to a telepresence drone made out of a cheap tablet on a broom handle stuck to a roomba.
Google loses appeal in Street View privacy case
If you were a open source user you would not visit the web sites at all.

This is the flip side of the open source credo. So if you consider the "You have two choices, user our free software and let everyone who you give it to also use it and modify it, or don't use it."

Web sites aren't there yet, but they will get there which will be you can view our site with ads or you can not view our site, your choice.

In both the FOSS case and the web site case, the organization is trying to leverage their 'value' (working code, information content) into a desired 'behavior' (giving away code, seeing ads). As more an more web sites shut down and the choices narrow, the value of good content goes up. And at some point they will be confident enough to disable your access to it in response to disabling ads. (Ars Technica did some interesting experiments in this space).

As the web matures, and moves past the 'browser experience' I expect you will see more and more of that.
Have you had any issues with folks who switch browsers or computers not seeing their localstorage (which doesn't sync/migrate, IIRC)? I suppose highly-privacy-oriented users would prefer it that way...
How does it work now when you have to type in your iTunes password to authorize an in-app purchase?

I thought the password got hashed and sent out to Apple's servers to authenticate?

If so, wouldn't a new fingerprint based password have to do the same thing?
The Verge Live: Apple's 2013 iPhone event on Livestream
I remember a few of us developers resisting a push for 10-12 hours days at a company I worked at. It was easy to find precedent in research and blog posts about how it wasn't sustainable.

It's been interesting to see what my wife experiences as a medical resident lately, in contrast to what I'm used to in the software world: 10-16 hours a day, 6 days a week, and it's incredibly normal, necessary, unquestioned. Today's residents have it easier with the lower 80-hour restrictions in place. When there's talk about the workload, it tends to center around how the lower limits might actually be bad (eg, this recent New Yorker piece http://nyr.kr/15hELxF).
Apple claims that the fingerprint data is never transmitted to any servers and is kept only on the phone for the purposes of authentication.
Apple iPhone 5S and 5C handsets unveiled in California
Well, every non-x86-compatible processor anyway. And the article states that the Quark is x86-compatible.
Actually, the price increases are most likely not caused simply by the availability of loans.

In the case of public schools, the evisceration of public subsidies has left them operating as public schools in name only. Even in my very liberal state, state support for colleges and universities was cut in half as a share of budgets over two decades. Most states fared worse. At the same time, medical insurance costs for faculty and staff have been increasing by ten percent per year on average, causing this expense to crowd out other necessary costs.

In the case of private schools, the rising cost of public schools has contributed at least as much to their ability to charge more. For profit schools seem to be able to get away with ridiculous claims, leaving graduates jobless and defaulting on large loans. However, they would not be able to justify their prices if public schools were too much cheaper.
Yes. Among several queuing systems we played with RabbitMQ just worked out of the box with features we wanted such as reliability, confirms and the queueing patterns (routing, topologies, fan-out etc.), it was easy to use and deploy. 0MQ gave us no message persistence or broker implementation (having a broker decouples our producers and consumers), if we were to use 0MQ many features we wanted would have to written which RabbitMQ provided out of the box. I think 0MQ is more like a framework than a queueing system/platform like RabbitMQ which just works.
Updated the URL. If you can find a better wrapper, please let me know :)
people use cnet ?
Is this based on Fritzing (fritzing.org)?
IPhone4S goes FREE
Agreed. There is a reason I actively participate in StackOverflow and have Quora in my Google search block list.
I have this in my .bashrc:

function lc() { if [[ "$#" -gt 1 ]]; then for DIR in "$@"; do echo -n "$DIR - " ; ls -AU1 $DIR | wc -l ; done ; else ls -AU1 "$@" | wc -l ; fi; }

Then "lc dir/" will print the number of files in the directory, and "lc dir/*" will print the number of files in each of the subdirectories. This exactly what you're looking for because it doesn't descend into the tree. If you're working with directories that may have tens or hundreds of thousands of files in them, it's useful to check first.
He should have went with a blog on Medium and a more HN-worthy title; "How GameMaker shaped my life, career and start-up".
Ever done a road trip? Amazing how many places out there on major interstates have like no data coverage. On-device storage is important for cases like these.
The "paying money" is just the means of the "hack", not the "hack" itself. The hack is recognizing that there is a great, targeted opportunity to keep your product in customers' minds on one of the biggest marketing days for your biggest competitor. If anything, Samsung saved money by using it efficiently.
This is now illegal in Palo alto. Yay, silicon valley!
More seriously, though, props to him for having the backbone to keep at it for even three months. Fundraising is stressful enough with a roof over your head...
What is the Gagging Law? (UK)
But you have ten fingers...
Mopidy - serve music from multiple sources
> But if there actually is a shortage, all that does is move the shortage around.

The shortage should then be eliminated organically by more people being attracted to the higher wages. Therefore I tend to agree with the GP, if you are hearing about a shortage, it is probably just that employers are looking to avoid raising wages, so they are trying to make the market correct more quickly.
Ad blockers are tools for theft. Do you avoid all websites that rely on advertising for all or part of their income or are you perfectly fine stealing their work/services by denying them the opportunity to make a little money during your visit?

Alternatively, do you only use services for which you pay a fee?

Which search engine do you use?

Email?

Social sites?

Just trying to understand this position. Unless someone explicitly gives a product or service away (HN being a good example) the correct moral and ethical position is to not tamper with their revenue generation strategy or otherwise not use their product or service. Anything else is theft.

Being annoyed does not entitle you or anyone else to steal. It doesn't magically make it OK.
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The 5C is plastic though, and anyone who owned an old plastic iPod can tell you how quickly they got scratched.
When I say 'model it', I mean that loosely, perfect modeling of electronics circuits isn't realistic anyway, any modeling worth the effort will assume a range of possible values for anything under test. A simple example would be if the software warned the user that an active filter design was dangerously close to instability and thus had a decent chance of oscillating when real world parasitics are present.