skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Command line globbing! For the uninitiated:

Let's say my pwd is `/home/projects` and i want to edit `/home/projects/a_huge_sprawling_app/940j_394/lol/flight_controller.rb`

`vim **/flight_controller.rb`

opens our flight_controller.rb straight away. In terms of effort, this allows you to basically omit a `find -name` when you're in a rush to edit some damn file where the hell is it again damn we need to reevaluate this directory str...

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Double bang to re-use your last terminal entry. One great use, taking all the pain out of forgetting your sudos

`rm -rf /var/log`
rm: cannot remove `/var/log': Permission denied
`sudo !!`

All evidence of wrongdoing is now destroyed.

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Ok, here is an awesome one for users of the ultimate cloud IDE: Vim.

In your local ~/.ssh/config:

`ForwardX11 yes`
`SendEnv WINDOWID`

In your remote server's /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

`AcceptEnv WINDOWID`

In your vimrc:

`set clipboard=unnamedplus`

This has the effect of seamless yank and paste between local and remote vim sessions, no need for ctrl+shift+v.

I love linux.
This makes sense. However, the cops already have many peoples' fingerprints once they've been booked, and in general if someone wants your fingerprints they can usually get them. I think the question of fingerprint forgery is an important one but I would assume that in a real trial the evidence presented also considers the likelihood the fingerprints were forged.

That said, I can see how this could potentially dramatically increase the availability of public fingerprints if it were hacked. More importantly the fact you can't reset your fingerprint is something I overlooked. I do think that in general though anyone building a system that relies exclusively on a fingerprint as a highly hack-resistent security measure is foolhardy regardless of how prevalent fingerprint data is. In other words, your iPhone passcode isn't protecting your data anymore than your fingerprint if someone gets their hands on your phone, so I don't really see how this point is material to if it's a good idea to use fingerprints to unlock phones.
The same argument can be had for any individual piece of information. It's the amalgamation of all your personal data into the digital system of the internet that's dangerous, so it doesn't really tell us anything significant if your fingerprint by itself is valuable.
You're assuming that these cuffs are being applied by law enforcement. That's not the scenario I'm discussing.
The State Department has it. Second row on the second page of this PDF:

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY12AnnualReport-TableXVIB.p...

The rest of the 2012 report PDFs are listed at:

http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/statistics/statistics_5861....
I stopped having to worry about them keeping my fingerprints private when I turned 14. Turns out you need a license to drive a car down the road! How was I supposed to know?
Not mentioned: You might now be able to hire a much wider variety of people who couldn't come work for you before because of healthcare worries.
Ok, I've just re-read the article, I missed that bit - but for general purposes 65k is the number touted around - it's not of huge importance though... but it still doesn't explain the relation between the colums (maybe I'm being slow today...)

Infosys
Applications Submitted: 4837
Employees Hired: 24060

Why is there such a big difference here? What does "employees hired" mean - their total workforce in the US, those on an H1B application EVER or just for 2012?

EDIT: Thanks, along with another explanation below I think I get it now...!
Well, there has to be some kind of interaction with a Point Of Sale device.

Either Bluetooth 4.0 or NFC would suffice.

NFC has enough Point Of Sale inroads (esp. in the rest of the world besides the US), that it is a more natural choice.

It's possible Apple didn't want to radically redesign the 5S case and internals in the manner necessary to include NFC.

But if Apple hasn't implemented NFC by next year's redesign, then they must have something else in mind.

Personally, I'm betting they put NFC into the new iWatch. Authenticated via the new fingerprint reader in the 5S.

I'm also betting that new M7 chip shows up in the iWatch.
Ha. It would be easier if they could go by your name or SSN.
I honestly can't tell if that comment is meant ironic or not.
Nor would they bother explicitly highlighting that it's kept local...
The Chaos Computer Club in Germany got tired of a certian minister proclaiming that biometrics were perfectly secure and fool-proof. So they published his fingerprint in a little piece of plastic, with instructions on how to leave his fingerprints everywhere. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/hackers-publish/
They are already on it :)

https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672
The iPhone 7 is really great.
Keep in mind, to a great majority of voters, $64,000 is an enormous salary. When told "We cannot find high-tech talent, even after offering $64,000" most voters (who make much less) will agree with the statement, "We need to look outside our borders for high-tech talent".
Github: Click the "Fork" button, branch, modify, push and send pull request.

SourceForge: ???
Most companies don't want to be associated with pr0n...especially big companies whose market base depends soccer moms and children
I think you may have missed my point; I think the idea that women have any sort of cognitive deficiency is absurd. I believe that the reason there are so few women in tech has to do with systemic disincentives, rather than that they "aren't good at it" or "don't like it."
Travelling through the SE US recently, moving in and out of LTE, 3G, EDGE and no network areas with Maps as my guide, I really missed both LTE and 3G when I was stuck in EDGE territory. Where I live now, my apartment is not a fun place to spend time, I'm not always able to be on a wi-fi network, so having fast data service when I'm out and about is also fantastic.
They probably already have your fingerprint. I believe you usually have to give it to the DMV to get your license.
Salt the hash. Then it only has meaning to the phone.
Yeah, wow, it's pretty bad. Here's a picture from the Apple store: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple....
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In the announcement, they said the feature was aimed at people who don't have a lock screen enabled at all. It was basically "fingerprints: better than nothing!"
>Now that Jobs is gone

Seriously, what does this have to do with the point you're making?
Jailbreak device, steal fingerprints, spoof purchasing with valor!!

I'm sure they've put many hours and much thought in to this, but it won't be nearly enough.
xargs. Can't tell you how many times I wrote quickie C programs and awk scripts to do what xargs does.

http://sidvind.com/wiki/Xargs_by_example
They split "premium" and "value" as soon as they released the 3G, and started offering an older model for half the price. This makes a lot more sense, because the value line is no longer just an old model. Now buyers of both get to have something to look forward to.
The insurance companies selling through the exchange are the same insurance companies who'd be "losing you", so I don't think that's it. Since businesses aren't subject to being excluded for pre-existing conditions, group plans already have that risk factor built into their pricing. Difference being they discriminate more based on age (55-65 year olds pay 4-5X what a 25 year old pays) than they will be allowed to in January (I think the cap is 3x).
I'm not disagreeing with you; I also think the Nexus line is a great buy off contract but that the iPhone is better subsidized ($400 value for $200 on contract or $650 value for $200? The Nexus 4 on contract was stupid).

I'm excited about the Nexus 5, but if the rumors are true that it'll be based off the LG G2, I have a hard time seeing how it'll be offered for $300 when the G2 is the fastest phone on the market.
In terms of raw sensor performance, certainly. The new camera moves the software stack forward in a way that Nokia didn't though - extremely high frame rate to "catch" the best moment, programmatic selection of said moments, merging of exposure information across multiple consecutive frames, etc.

As a photo enthusiast that part of the presentation was a lot more exciting than the (rather marginal) improvements to lens and sensor.
history | grep <keyword>

I use this for <keyword> rsync or rdesktop when I have forgotten the long list of options & directories etc

I also use ctrl R <keyword> at the bash prompt but that only gives me the most recent match.
That is the case! It's actually a hard concept to get across in words (we've found). If you have or see an example that really resonates with you, do let us know (and we're open to pull requests https://github.com/zapier/resthooks :-).
one thing i don't get: if i google someone and find their brandyourself.com profile, wouldn't i (if i'm familiar with the service) conclude that they're using it to bury results and search harder?
Aggregating public transit delays. In NYC the current solution is text message alerts and/or paper notices in the subway. If transit apps (Google maps, Transit, etc.) had this information, they would serve as better channels to distribute the information to the public.
I did some progress after trying and failing for 2 years. I read a lot of stuff on this issue, not blog posts but research materials. What I found is that these "tips" can hardly work as blueprint, because we are all different and have different triggers and motivation types. However, some "tips" are more universal. For example 5, 7, 10 work for me, 1 and 4 don't, 6 is not a "tip" and 9 can be a very bad advice for some people.
I've dropped my iPhone 4 dozens of times and it never broke the back. I dropped the Nexus 4 once and it cracked all the way down the back of the device.

Nexus 4 is still a great device overall (especially for the price), but the iPhone build quality is seemingly worth the premium.
I'm very disappointed with the price. 599 euros. Holy F. That's a lot of money. Wasn't it supposed to be cheaper?

I guess it makes sense, profit margin-wise. But I was really hoping for a ~400 euro iPhone. That would have been something man... Instant panic at Samsung/Google/Microsoft. Too bad.
my favorite is apt-file
Do you remove the battery from your phone before talking in person? The NSA could very well listen in to your phone's mic/s. Your phone probably has a camera or two. Even if you have no phone, everyone around you likely does. If you live in an urban area, your entire walk to the bar is likely on camera, the bar has cameras, your cab ride home has cameras, the transit bus has multiple cameras, the transit station has cameras, if you live in a high rise it likely has cameras, in a suburb atleast one of your neighbors have cameras. Most all of these cameras are now connected to internet enabled DVRs with questionable at best security. This is reality now. Privacy seems to be on it's last legs.
I've been told before that `od' is the most portable, although I prefer xxd in virtually all situations.
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That ticket is going to be a year old soon.
Ahhh, ok, so along with @agilecoder comment above, this makes sense. If I have this right then nn LCA sounds similar to an LMO (Labor Market Opinion) in Canada, you need that to prove you are skilled, after which you can apply for the H1B visa.

Then the heading "Companies with the Most H1-B Visas" is misleading. It's a very poorly written/explained article IMO. Thanks for the clarifications.
There's nothing wrong with selling picks and shovels, but blog posts like this are often exaggerated.

There is no way to confirm he actually made good money using game maker. If he made 80k, no doubt people here would give it a try, but what if the real number was 10k? People probably wouldn't bother.

Because there are so many blog posts that sound like this (I made lots of money doing X and now you can do it too by buying Y I am selling) I tend to have a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Muchas personas están en la búsqueda para conseguir una tez blanca y estarían dispuestos a hacer todo lo posible para lograrlo. Incluso las personas con tonos de piel clara, siguen tratando de eliminar las manchas oscuras que les salen en la cara. Hay varias maneras de hacer que la cara se vea resplandeciente, pues existen numerosos tratamientos, lociones y cremas que están disponibles en el mercado.
They could also be pointing out that the device color matches the OS color. I'm pretty sure Apple has never done that before.
You don't need to fingerprint to get a license, at least not in my state.
Calibrating the screen and supporting embedded profiles in images are two different things.

It would be nice if images with embedded profiles rendered correctly to the screen, e.g. with Safari on iPhone, using a canned profile that assumes that Apple has correctly profiled the mean iPhone display and that the variance between particular screens isn't too high. From what I can tell the iPhone doesn't do color management at all and the display resembles sRGB enough to call it good enough for a consumer device.

On the other hand I'd assume that the number of people who would want to use an external colorimeter and make a profile for their particular iPhone was not a market big enough for anyone (let alone Apple) to bother with, and since the iPhone has no mechanism to actually use that profile, it's pointless except for the purpose of converting images to iPhone in a desktop app, but in that case why would you care about your particular iPhone?
... and thank you for demonstrating exactly who's-to-say.
Agree with you. If the audience is developers, give it to us in black in white instead of some new jargon and marketing blah.

I looked through several pages (waste of time) and I still can't figure out how this is real time without websockets, polling, server side events. No way I would use this service if they don't know who their audience is.
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I think Apple's app review guidelines help somewhat in this regard. They specifically forbid apps from requiring registration in order to work. I have had several apps rejected for this reason, and am now careful to always offer a path into apps that can be taken without signing up for an account.

Of course, they seem to enforce this irregularly, but at least their policy indicates they seem get it.
That is over generalizing though. Computer Programmer is a term widely applied to everyone ranging from higher end Systems Programmers and embedded programmers to lower end Web Programmers. Then there is also the living costs - you couldn't make a decent living in SF for $63916 but in Detroit suburbs that might be decent wage.

The reality of it is that there is a need for "program assemblers" - people that can read up the APIs/programmer guides and cook up a working app OR maintain such an app. The need for such people is significant and it isn't always in sunny SFO - often times it is at a place where not many would relocate to.

That's why you need H1-Bs at the lower end of the market with lower salaries- it works because no one else who is already in the US with student debts and location preference is willing and for the guys coming from EU/India/China - it is a great start and an opportunity to try and get permanent residence to get up the chain.
I dont think it is as hard as it it sounds.

Consider, for example, hooking all fclose function calls and testing on every call whether

* you have write permission on the file,

* its an object file,

* its in an architecture your exploit supports,

* it uses the fclose function (or the corresponding system call, if it is linked statically)

* and your exploit is not already present.

If those conditions are true, hook the fclose calls in the object file before actually closing it, otherwise just close it normally.
I can think of examples of most of those or similar services where either anonymous or test-account demos were available. Which is also, incidentally, a good way to test/check your own code.
We need to get rid of H-1B and replace it with a green card program. Win win for everyone.
If you're part of the Global Entry program, they have all 10 prints as well.
Do you really fail to see the difference between disclosing user info already on the servers to the NSA under legal orders and announcing a new product after the leaks, claiming it does not send any data, and doing the exact opposite without any additional benefit? Why would Apple do this?

I don't recall reading NSA can now force companies to include finger sensors, and then force them to collect data they wouldn't be collecting otherwise.
Racism? What's that? Isn't that what Morgan Freeman said we need to ignore?
It isn't just the colors, the shape and the plastic back look quite similar to the Lumia 620.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lumia+620&tbm=isch&tbo=u
Is it too late for Canonical to rescue Thunderbird?
Debian GNU/Linux. It's the 'ascii' package.
Which offers a perfect chance for cross-referencing!
I hardly doubt cutting them off is the only option. Tissue damage is definitely required, but burning (such as a chemical burn) would also work.
This is incorrect - we do not know any particular products which are backdoored.

edit: Also, there is a difference between a subtle crypto vulnerability and sending data to a server that, according to the announcement, is designed to be protected in its own enclave and never sent anywhere. The latter would be far more obvious in the code and easier to spot.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Unless you have a compelling idea about why having been born a woman makes you not want the best available job in the current economy, what are we even talking about?
Or keep you in custody at the border until you reveal your password.
Press-on sensor is obvious because it mimics the current home button perfectly.
I am not sure this is a good example. It was two-part attack. First, they compromised account information at the debit card issuer. Second, they linked new cards to these accounts (mag stripes makes this simple). How hard it is to program a 'blank' chip card (or a phone with NFC) to link to the compromised account?
It offers a fundamental improvement to the instruction set architecture, more registers, advanced SIMD, AES in HW.
I am not suggesting carving up a /64, but rather just allocating a /64 to every customer. Then I can allocate addresses out of the /64 to my own instances. I can further instruct them to not communicate on certain ports with anything outside of my /64. For example, I could tell my DB servers to only serve my /64, etc. I suppose if you are doing something cross data center then you want a larger allocation.

Linode currently allocates 1 address per instance I think? It's better than nothing, but really they should do a /64.
The class action lawsuit would be brought based on the fact that Apple sold the device on a lie. The government can't grant immunity for that.
Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?
Fair enough, I imagine there are some edge cases where paying half as much for cell service doesn't justify the marginally lower internet speeds during the occasions when wifi isn't around. It's definitely working out fantastically in my case.
As a corollary, I can't distinguish good piano playing from great. The nuance is lost on me.

Interestingly, I can also recognize the 'lip' of particular trumpet players. Each one has his unique sound, despite playing identical instruments. Herb Alpert has his casual elegance, Al Hirt's in-your-face aggressive style, and Maurice Andre his amazing tone.
This does make me curious how much the government subsidizes some of their health care plans. I'm on Tricare Young Adult right now, and switching over to an equivalent health plan would probably double my monthly premiums and add at least $6,000 in deductibles.
And Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy). I doubt Apple will ever do NFC.
> let's stop advancing technology now because you think it's fine where it is

Nobody ever said that.

> What do you want from Apple?

What is that question? I said what needs to be done: Stop downgrading my product with so-called "upgrades". It's just common sense, really.

> Four years is old.

Yes, for rich people who don't care about resources because they are not affected by the scarcity. A phone is old when it doesn't fulfill the consumer's needs.
There's a feeling of déjà vu about this product approach. Take yesteryear's technology, repackage it in a safe design that follows trends established by others, sell for a price that is more than twice what the competitors charge because, hey, you're Apple and your customers will happily pay for your increasing margins.

At least this time around, the MBAs didn't get to name it "iPhone Performa 551c".
Not in the US, no. I ended up sending them my life story to convince them I was who I said I was, but they did not ask for fingerprints. I've never had to be fingerprinted for any reason. There is a palm geometry scan on file for me with a datacenter, but that works on a different principle.
dsh (distributed/dancer's shell) is a wrapper around ssh which provides that capability. Plus you can define hostlists.
I think 2014 is going to be Apple's big year. If we don't see the watch or the TV next year then I'll be worried.
How do you know if your deal is truly hot or not?
Not sure what browser you are using, but Apple apparently doesn't test their site on firefox. It's not the first time I've noticed something broken on their site. Seems pretty lazy when the browser has a 20-30% market share.
Never mind it is illegal to use H1-Bs as a source of cheap labor.

I've actually reported a company who posted a H1-B notice for a software engineering position that I happened to see while visiting that was clearly 30% below market rate.
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Controversial issue for sure and will continue to be.

Encourage folks to Google the IEEE articles lately on the 'worker shortage issue' and statistics. Interesting stuff.
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Ooh, massive privacy violation on one side, and on the other side Google is getting in trouble for grabbing data weev-style without having to hack into a network.

The discussion here should be fun one way or the other.
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the probability of a false match + you being in the area with no alibi is very slim
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First, Dancing with the Stars is one of the highest rated shows on TV; the fact that it has a 2/3 women audience indicates that very many women will make the time to watch it.

Indeed so, but it doesn't follow that they are watching it instead of writing code, which implication was what I objected to in the first place; although it wasn't malicious, it was a lazy piece of stereotyping that I didn't feel was appropriate in the context of a discussion about sexist stereotyping.

Second, setting aside households with two TV's, only one spouse can enjoy passive entertainment at a time.

???

Third, political correctness is a phenomenon of white liberal prigs who go out of their way to take offense because they have nothing useful or productive to contribute to the public discourse.

Oh noes, you have outed me! I shrivel up in the face of your freethinking ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.