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Overall, I don't disagree with much of what you said.

> ALL of your comments are about men's rights.

Yes, most of my comments are about gender issues. And interestingly, despite the vast majority of comments in any given thread disagreeing with my own, my median comment score when discussing those issues is around 10 to 20.

Clearly, there are quite a few people here who don't feel comfortable speaking out, and for good reason! They don't want to be bullied for weeks, having their names permanently dragged through the mud: http://acko.net/blog/storms-and-teacups/

I don't want like-minded visitors to this site feeling like they're not welcome to speak their mind.

> [T]he caricature of sexist tumblr-warrior "feminists" (that do indeed exist) are a distraction. The fact that people like this are taken seriously probably bothers me as much as it bothers you. However, these people are misrepresenting feminism.

Let's ignore the social justice bullies on Tumblr. The top (western) feminist websites are probably Jezebel, Feministe, and Geek Feminism. All three of those are notoriously bigoted against men. Yes, those three websites lack the "I want to watch men burn to death" comments, but that's not saying much.

Every time I hear someone claim that real feminists aren't like that, I must ask: Where are the real feminists?
With T-Mobile you now can though
xmlstarlet is a very nice obscure utility which you will love if you touch moderate amounts of XML.
Although I agree with the initial premise that college rankings are flawed, I still believe they serve a purpose: to inform students and parents of the schools that are the most popular. Brand recognition plays a paramount role in getting hired at certain companies, and the HR/hiring departments definitely keep an eye out for lists like this. It would be in someone's best interets to find the school that is most compatible with their future goals, but also keep in mind that going to a "top 20" school can impact their future signficantly.
That's a pretty smart argument, must say I agree and it's along the lines of a train of thought I had afterwards. It's all about friction, and how they can minimise it, take the iTunes Store for example and how people used it. We know they sell a lot of music through it, most likely to people who pirated because who wants to buy a CD and rip it, and make sure it has the right tags and art when it's there for a reasonable price. They decreased the friction and it paid off. They did it again with the App Store, and created an ecosystem that allowed a cottage industry for indie developers that only vaguely existed 8 years ago.

Apple excels at reducing friction for users to achieve what they want to achieve, I wouldn't be surprised if they had this in mind even more so than improving security.
I agree with you. Like I mentioned in another comment below, it is not that these phones are not going to be successful. They will be. For sure. And I understand Apple is a business.

My biggest problem with the latest form Cupertino is that I have not been able to find inspiration from their products. When I am looking for inspiration, Apple is simply not there anymore for me. It might for other people.

I guess the feeling that I am looking for when I am talking about "Innovation" is "Awe", "Inspiration", "Excitement". That is not there anymore when looking at Apple products.

This doesn't mean that these phone will be less successful, or worse than their previous counterparts. What it does mean, is that I will not be looking to Apple for inspiration in the future. I'll looking more to Google and Tesla.
Get hired by a good company that wants you, and wants to pay you well. Then have them hire a good lawyer to get you into the country.

Alternatively, there are lots of those west coast companies opening offices in Toronto. Get hired there, then get a transfer.
New Snowden Documents Show NSA Deemed Google Networks a "Target"
I also want to mention that I retract the part about leaflet. I think you guys have wayyy more features than them, but they are the new kids on the block so we can cut them some slack. Also, their controls are the best designed for aesthetics and usability IMHO, which is no small matter.
wwdc 2013, they're in iOS7 which was not yet released - hence to real applications and just a few examples of hardware
T-Mobile USA has decoupled devices and plans. You can BYOD, or buy one of their phones by putting down money and then paying a portion monthly until it's paid off.

For example, the Galaxy S4 is $99.99 up front, and $21/month for 20 months totaling $519.99. At the end of 20 months your bill will be reduced by $21.
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The only times I use my iPhone for music are on long drives and airplanes. Not a good use case for iTunes Match. I do have Match, but mainly just use it on my laptops (which don't have any music on them).
My Desire HD has a 32GB SD card now because the 16GB was full with music, videos and game ROMs. That 32 is pretty close to full now.

My younger brother has filled up two 16GB iPod Touches (second gen and fourth gen) with music and videos.

My extremely non-technical father has filled up the 8GB SD card his phone came with, with just music. I'm sure if he could, he'd use more space but a €30 microSD card is more than he's consider spending on phone extras considering he paid €90 for the phone on prepay.

People use more storage than you think. If it was not a big deal, why would phone companies use it as the sole upsell towards their more expensive phones?
What about DigitalOcean? 2x the RAM, cheaper.
BMW Readies To Take on Tesla with i8 Launch
However, if you only have solid B students, you end up teaching less material than if you have a class of A+ students (looking at HS grades).

The depth of coursework is reduced the less esteemed the student body goes.
I'm imagining they are using a data set of fingerprint points (statistical anomalies), and then using machine learning to get a good statistical model of it when you first set it, and every time after that. I doubt they're image matching directly every time. Add some matrix math for 360˚ transforms and you're in business.
Neo4j 2.0.0-M05 release adds some neat features
Stealing? Really? The content is free to consume by anyone, or it goes behind a pay wall in which case the user decides whether it is worth paying for. Advertisements ruin layouts, can often not be trusted and scream for your attention. I have the right to set up restrictions on which hosts my network adapter can connect to and I don't feel like wasting bandwidth on stuff I didn't ask for in the first place or does everything it takes to track my behaviour. I do use services for which I pay granted they are worth my money.
Nokia to iPhone 5C - Imitation is the best form of flattery
Yes, why I keep it in airplane mode most of the time.
Ask HN: Health insurance for self-employed?
I recently graduated from college, moved to the Bay Area and I'm currently bootstrapping my company. I have let my Student Health Insurance expire (I know, I shouldn't have).

My question is, what are some of the Insurance plans / companies that entrepreneurs opt for? Is there anything in particular that should be considered before finalizing a plan?

(I am also a foreign national on F1 visa so I do not think HSA is an option for now)

I have looked at old posts on HN but these are several years old. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199651)
"We looked at Freescale and ARM too but decided on using Quark"

Interesting that he doesn't say why here. There's no "it simply had better performance", "it did more with the power budget" or other reason.

I suspect Intel were quite eager to have a customer and case study to launch with.
Google has a rapacious appetite to collect data of every kind. They also seem to have a casual and lax attitude to the collection of that data. I really don't think they take privacy that seriously at all (security and privacy are not always the same things).

Just to recall some facts about Google's wi-fi exploit : various regulators around the world have mostly agreed with Google's assertion that it did not deliberately plan to collect wi-fi data. Yet this incident also suggests a lax internal culture towards gathering data. This incident occurred without consequence for Google until it was discovered by external investigators.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when they were investigating Google over this matter, said that Google had "deliberately impeded and delayed" the investigation for months.

Earlier this year, Google were given 35 days to delete wi-fi data by the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Google had earlier pledged to destroy additional discs containing private data but had failed to do so. Does this sound like a company where privacy and data collection are treated with high importance?

Let's not forget that Google collects a phenomenal amount of tracking data. Sure, they take security seriously, but do they take privacy seriously?

The facts above are taken from the following BBC report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166
Central Asia, Ukraine/Belarus, Transcaucasus countries, Moldova.
It takes 30-60 seconds to get a read the first time.
also your child can make purchase on appstore using this technique. that is why we have "pin" aka "something you know".
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> Will there be exploits? Probably.

Not just probably, but definitely and easily.

> Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO.

They may have thought of them, but they didn't solve them for the very simple reason that it's impossible to solve them.

A fingerprint is only secure for causal use (someone picking up your phone), but it's worthless for any more security than that. It's like the face recognition on an android phone - good for causal use, but easily defeated.
>Leafy greens are ideal, ready to be consumed as soon as they’re plucked [...] The most outlandish crops would be wheat and rice. [...P]lants that need processing make less attractive candidates for space travel.

Well, these "outlandish" cereal crops currently provide the bulk of calories for almost everyone on the planet. If you're serious about feeding astronauts in space, they are exactly the plants that you need to start with. And don't tell me equipment to grind wheat or hull rice would be complicated, compared with other stuff that's in orbit already.
Fingerprint readers have been out for a while for the desktop and hasn't taken off. Some laptops have a sensor as well, and I know few companies that actually use it. I don't see it as an important milestone.

But to be fair it is innovative because of the size and form factor. But I expected more from Apple.
We do support that, your cursor needs to be on the right to go forward and on the left to go backward.
Memory bus bandwidth has nothing whatsoever to do with CPU word size. You'll have to wait for LPDDR4 for an increase in memory bandwidth.
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I wonder if there is a clandestine trade in Russian veg up there.
Oh give me a fucking break.
Notably, all indications are that Google collected the data (which, remember, was being broadcasted unencrypted into the air) by accident.
Do what? This really doesn't have anything to do with NSA.
Who says you have to actually use your finger?

Why not something disposable you keep on your keychain/ring/necklace/tie/earlobe that looks like a finger to the reader?
Stick a piece of tape over the home button. Problem solved.

It's your hardware after all. If you're worried about it, take steps to protect yourself.
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I'd really like to see how such an exploit would work before losing sleep over it. Fingerprint tech has moved a long way forward in the past few years. If it doesn't work, we don't need to use it.
- I hope and pray he keeps up the good work and stay out of trouble.
You can look at it as a kind of validation of the community - there's commercial interest in it.

Also, just because someone starts on this app, doesn't mean they won't move on to something else later.
Since security researchers managed to fool the bank... banks have to prove that a transaction was PIN verified

Did banks actually make that change, though? I didn't hear about that part of the story.
Ok, there can be valid uses. But they haven't happened in my 9 years together with my SO. Probably depends on the habits - I don't call/SMS that much anyway; I know her ATM card code, as we needed that some times, but I've got no idea about her phone/other passwords.
I'm definitely out of my depth here, I guess I just wasn't really convinced 32-bit was ever a ceiling on the iPhone. I'm sure Apple have their reasons though, and maybe massive files and 4GB arrays and really do matter to iPhone users more than I thought. I'm sure Apple have some reason beyond marketing, since I doubt the general consumer really cares.
> "Instead, the data factories get free labor. They distribute what seem like useful services to the world, things like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Etsy, or Kickstarter. ...earn tons of money for the tech giants without forcing them to do much work. That money stays concentrated around the data factories and their limited staff instead of distributing it like traditional factories."

What? In what universe do the employees at YouTube or Facebook or Etsy "not do much work"? How do these only "seem" like useful services -- is somebody saying they're not? How do traditional factories "distribute money"? If Twitter is getting "free labor" please tell me how, so I can get in on it too.

Sure, there's a shift towards concentration of wealth, but paragraphs like the above one make zero sense.
How to Fake Fingerprints
I, too, was a child, and so I have my own counter-anecdotes. Most taunts from kids don't have wider cultural implications. Sexist insults are an exception--as are racist insults, you certainly wouldn't be so dense as to claim that a kid calling another black kid a nigger derives its power from 4th-grade-power-dynamics would you?
These sites aren't for candidates, they're not intended to test a candidate's skills and they're definitely not intended to help a candidate get a job. They are intended to filter out candidates. If you have to ask a question, if you get stuck, then you buckled under the pressure and how can you be expected to do real work with bosses and clients giving you vague specs and yelling at you? We only want A players. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

But the corollary to this is that the industry is really not measuring or even very interested in skills other than interviewing-under-pressure skills.
Not trying to be an ass, just putting this in perspective. It's cool that you got hired for this position based on what you told us, but it's a crappy customer service position relatively speaking. For me personally I don't care if you did CS for some big name company, if you have a good attitude and grammer skills, jobs yours. Besides this is predominately a tech forum so unless you're writing about how you got that software development position then probably no one cares.
The scanner scans subdermally, so it's a little trickier than just lifting fingerprints.

I don't deny that it's replicable, just saying that the hacker would probably only have info on one finger.
Stripe API just added.
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Is it called technology or hierarchy? The business models are radical pyramids. This is true even in rareified industry like finance and academia. Lots of jr people dong the work, a few at the top scaling all of the leverage to extract outsize rewards. The "social model" is just farming out the funnel, increasing the size, and the competition, to shift the dynamics of supply and demand. The technology is allowing this, but the motivations and the structures are nothing new or "technology" driven per-se. Its just the logical outcome of the current process.
FWIW http://barelyenough.org/blog/2009/05/push-or-pull/
case closed
I imagine there could be a similar reputation market along the lines of the write-my-college-paper services, in which you sell the bug to someone who can then take credit for it.

Certainly I'm sure you could find some people who'd be prepared to pay for a valid Knuth error, although exactly how you'd advertise/seek those who have such things would risk wrecking the value of the thing you seek to acquire.

Stepping up from that, there are clearly existing markets for exploits, and you might be able to sell potentially exploitable bugs in the same way.
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Oh this is true for any announcement. Buy the rumour, sell the news.
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Allowing websites to pull in revenue with advertisements isn't worth it if I get dragged through optimized layouts for better ad-CTR, links which look like generic website content but are ads, all sorts of pop-ups with hard-to-find close buttons (this bold red cross which looks like it will close another Javascript pop-up? Here comes browser tab #43, maybe this advertisement interests you!) and other nasty tricks. It might be selfish but it is part of the freedom I have.
> Apple laughs at numbers-based ads when they are behind, and play up the numbers when they are ahead.

Shame on them. They should be like the more well-behaved companies, which emphasize numbers when they're behind and ignore numbers when they're ahead.
Keep in mind that about immigration perception in Russia:

Russians don't consider most Ukrainians/Belarussians immigrants (I assume americans would not consider canadians who just happened to work in the USA immigrants as well)

But peoplemov.in statistics wildly understate the number of immigrants from Central Asia who often aren't properly accounted for or just live here illegaly because of porous borders.
IPhone Remix: "edit and 3D print models from your browser"
Universities should issue the loans themselves so that they have an incentive to deliver a quality, useful education that has value in the marketplace to guarantee their repayment.

Or make the education free and a % of each graduate's future earnings (up to some max $ amount or limit it to 20 years after graduation) are paid back into the endowment to fund future students.
I agree that Apple is missing out by only making 4" screens on the iPhone 5s/5c. If they really want to keep the 4" screen, they need to add another phone with a bigger screen, ie., 4.7" screen.
>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.

why does Dynamic Systems 101 goes out of the window when it comes to proponents of supply/demand economics? Positive feedback in a system - like rising prices increase supply - is not necessarily leads the system to equilibrium, in many cases it is a recipe for the system to swing even more widely out of equilibrium. What do they teach these days in colleges?!
ls | cat is also useful because it forces single-column output.
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Apple being added to PRISM would, from what I read, mean that content on Apple servers could be searched, not information stored on phones.

If iPhones phoned home information on stored on phones, I'd expect there to be a huge shitstorm and ample evidence of suspicious traffic. Do we have any evidence _at all_ that this has happened?
I think Apple's strategy won't be to just go all-in on payments out of the gate. I imagine they will seek out a handful of partners where speed and ease of payment will tangibly affect the bottom line across millions of transactions, and negotiate aggressively to get long-term and deep commitments to the Apple payments system. Think: Starbucks, gas stations, large (large) restaurant/fast food chains, etc. I have a hard time seeing a path where they take in small to mid size businesses as customers.
"Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO."

They certainly didn't seem to test whether a phone would get acceptable reception if held in a rather common way.
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Banks can't do it, legally, but in the U.K., at least, they've tried anyway: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-2215223/Vi...

I am not very optimistic U.S. about banks acting in a strictly legal manner.
You can't compare San Francisco salaries to a national average. National median salary for a Client/Server Programmer II is $67,776 [1]. I chose that specific title because it covers programmers working in the kind of DB-backed work that enterprise consulting firms do, with 2-4 years' experience and a bachelors' degree, which is probably pretty representative of the H1-B Computer Programmer. As others have pointed out, more senior H1-B programmers are not going to be in this DoL 'Computer Programmer' bucket.

[1] http://www1.salary.com/Programmer-Salary.html
I've made tons of games in Game Maker. GML was my most proficient language up until mid last year.

The tossup with making games in Game Maker is how much you hate the language versus how much you like the standard library. I have encountered absolutely nothing that has the ease of use and breadth of the Game Maker stdlib for making 2d games. Maybe Unity's 2D support will change that, but we'll see.
All of which that 'someone' would need to pick out of the thousands of smeared / other people's fingerprints on the same phone's surface.
> I'm thinking about how chip and PIN has been cited as a way to move fraud liability to the consumer.

Not since 2009, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN#Banks_originally_...
The author doesn't think that reputation is just an academic number with no significance? Regardless of any metrics used by ranking agencies, if you go to a school that people hold in high regard, that's going to open doors for you.
All been done before.
iPod Shuffle: http://images.apple.com/euro/ipod-shuffle/images/hero2.jpg
iPod Classic 2009: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18mm44f9lif04jpg/ku-medium.j...

Surely this form of personalization must go back to the 1950s
AFAIK capacitance of your skin can change very frequently and rapidly. Drink too little for two days -> skin dry -> resistance goes up steeply. Even using a touchpad for an hour might dry your skin up (sidenote: I sometimes even have to moisten my fingers so my MBP touchpad registers my touches well).
Not true... there is so much still left to do in smartphone arena: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352045
If you marked shadows and associated them with their source, could you then recover the light source(s) and be able to remove the baked shadows and recast them in real time?

Also, with the shiny objects, could you specify the material properties and have it "back out" the reflection such that the reflection was recomputed as you moved the shape around?
This is sorcery!

This technology is awesome. If it's as user friendly as they make it looks, I could see a lot of application for that!
How about the Mailinator model: ask them to name their account. Give them a pre-populated randomly generated name in the dialog box, even.

The conflation of naming with personal data capture is a hidden assumption in the conventional signup. You want my email. You want my unique identity. But why collect them at once?

Edit: in fact, even better, pre populate the name with something random and quirky from instant zero. So your work starts out when you click "new" being named something like "goldfish-apple-gasoline" and it supports an obvious "rename" operation if they want to take control of it.