skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now with fingerprint sensor, so when the NSA politely asks Apple for it, they'll be able to send them your fingerprints, a log of all activity and voice print (siri). Such a cool technology (harder to steal phones), just wish it didn't come with this catch.
Unless you have very small wrists, they're quite good at this. I do have small wrists, but it's quite easy to make a handcuff tight enough that I can't wiggle around to it. The lock isn't placed on a particular side, it's up to the person putting the handcuffs on to turn them the right way up. And they do - police officers train in and practice this, because their lives may depend on it.
Wow yeah, that is very unlike Apple. Especially if you choose the same color case as your iPhone, the black letters really stand out. With case, it looks like ‘non’.
with no LTE and no MMS Text Messaging.
Powerful idea, should be made a specification. Simple enough too - what they describe is almost trivial to implement in /* insert your web framework of choice */. You wouldn't even need a library. Handle your HTTP verbs, store subscriber state, and call them out on events. It's nice.
The Nexus 4 16GB (the 8GB model is sold out) is $250.
Looking at both the 5s and the 5c they definitely have some cool features but I don't know if it's really enough to prompt me to change from a regular 5.

The fingerprint sensor seems like a very nice touch but I still don't see any NFC features (I guess apple isn't betting on this tech) which I love with the android phones. No wireless charging.

I just really don't see a killer feature in this phone that makes me want to upgrade. Am I missing something?
I was about to use https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs to get cross-browser content script injection but it would not be in the least easy to setup for users. This completely supplants that need for my use case. I have been a Forge customer and will be again in the future, so it's great to see the solution to an unrelated problem come from you guys, nice surprise, thanks!
The motion coprocessor stuff sounds a lot like the Moto X.
Well as long as they specifically stated it! We can totally rely on their word.
My personal (though admittedly not dire) experience with college rankings hurting students was with artificially constricted class sizes that were strictly enforced in order to impress the rankings by having classes numbering fewer than 19 students.

It seems that this is yet another consequence of the bizarre split responsibilities universities hold—balancing the long-term goals of a large institution with the needs of its students, for whom the experience is much more ephemeral.
I'm pretty sure, when they jailbreak it the truth will come out. And I doubt Apple would take the risk for lying about that.
Indeed. Obviously this was in the works before Snowden et. al., but now it could catastrophically backfire.
Anyone ;)
> I've read that in some cases fingerprints between left and right hands can differ.

Aren't they different in all cases where you actually have a fingerprint? They might, in some cases, be approximate mirror images, but that's still different.
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Technically $249 since they're out of the $199 8gb and have said that they don't plan on restocking.
Just speculating, but I would guess that the discounting will be hard and fast: Apple doesn't want to scare investors outright (there is a paranoia about any drop in the ASP, which has the longer-term effect of barring Apple from adapting to markets), but it is likely that Apple will do what is necessary to make this very price competitive.

It will be interesting to see what the imminent Nexus 4/5 is going to bring. I suspect that it will dramatically improve on the terrible camera in the original Nexus 4.
A $549 phone for developing markets. Seems like Apple is giving up on those markets.
Windows and Firefox - two things most "cutting-edge" web developers have long since stopped caring about.
Here is another link specific to Docker (from the Docker blog):

http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/containers-docker-how-secure-a...
I can speak for this, my daughter has already shunned programming in any capacity. While my wife and I have spent our time encouraging our children to excel at math and sciences, where my two older boys sailed through, my daughter (who used to love math) feels so isolated that half-way through high-school she now is talking about how she sees no value in the knowledge because of the social repercussions of showing math aptitude as a young woman.

This seriously pisses me off.
Nope, it's fucked up in both cases.
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Apple has had premium and value lines before. Indeed, during the heyday of the Macbook, it was split into a premium aluminum and a cheaper polycarbonate model.
The problem is that I can't change my fingerprint. If it gets out by some third-party abusing the secret backdoor (or just abusing whatever other place you have your fingerprint stored), then they can potentially forge your fingerprint when committing a crime or when otherwise attempting to access resources you have access to.

When a third-party loses your password, you change it and life goes on (you are not reusing passwords, are you?). When a third-party loses your fingerprint, what do you do? Cut off your fingers? Grow a new hand?

Yes. The fingerprint information is supposed to be irreversibly hashed. But so are passwords. And yet we still see them being stored unencrypted. No. I'm very careful with my fingerprints.

Also, the data on my phone must be some of the most valuable data I have. When I lose my phone and you gain access, you immediately own all my online identities. My phone has SSH keys, it has the password to my Email account stored in its keychain (very handy for all these "I have forgotten my password" features on all the sites), it has my 2 factor authentication tokens - I can't even begin to imagine how bad it would be if somebody had access to my phone.

Yours is probably as valuable to you.
That's true. But there are already tough ABS plastic keys for this very purpose which are sold in bulk to military/law enforcement for cheap.
So it's an API to configure webhooks on Server A?
Far too many thought the C was a price reference instead it turned out to be C as in Colors.

Regardless, very disappointing price point they have for all their phones. Apple apparently sees no need to compete on price.
On that note, I feel like the OculusVR could provide for a really illuminating experience as to what it's like to go through life in a wheelchair in the first place.
Yes, exactly - the said men from the government assured us this was so. :)
You think that's bad, try the $450 price tag for an unlocked 4S
I am not the person to ask about Verizon. I'm with AT&T because of my unlimited data plan and their excellent coverage in this area. That said, I'm considering something similar for upgrading to the 5S, NextWorth was just a place to look at prices to gauge what I should try and sell it for. I also only have the one data plan on AT&T, never got one for my iPad (wifi only).
The government has given legal immunity to telecoms that collaborated with NSA spying in the past, I'm sure they'd extend that immunity to Apple if need be.
It's hardly ubiquitous.

NetBSD has had it for 11 years. FreeBSD has had it for three years and six months. DragonFly doesn't have it, OpenBSD doesn't have it...

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/cal/cal.c?re...
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=204697
The Lumia 1020 will be hard to beat for the title of "best mobile phone camera ever created".
Man, what argument are you talking about? That it is up to you and to US to make the case that bombing Syria will actually lead to less casualties than not bombing it? Not up to me. What do you want me to oppose? The case that has never been made?

Either I have misunderstood you, or you have some severe problems with the basic logic itself. Let me explain again:

1. You propose the goal (e.g. reduce the number of civilian deaths in Syria, topple Assad, make a point for the World that it is bad to use WMD and that America is going to take action)

2. You state the actions that you're going to undertake to achieve it.

3. And you make the case for your own experts, lawmakers, the World an your citizens that the stated actions are the best to achieve your goals.

During the aftermath of WMD use US has sequentially stated multiple confronting goals (e.g. help people of Syria, but not topple Assad; topple Assad; that there is no threat to US, that there is threat to US; yesterday Hillary Clinton has said that the reason to go is to make a point to scare off worlds dictators not to use WMD). So, there is no clear goal.

There is only the first action stated: the bombing. So, there is no clear stated path for stopping conflict after the bombing. And, respectively, no reasoning behind undertaking it.

No clear 1., only the first step of 2, no 3. How do you suppose me to argue with the things that are not even being stated?

I can only support arguments that the _supposed_ goal(1.) is likely to be achieved with other actions than bombing the country. And that all the stated goals are different from the real goal.

I have contacts all over the World, and since no one has said to me that I'm in any way dishonest, for now I would go that it is you who is wrong in your assessment.

After the blatant lies about Iraq, it is hard for me to conceive how can you be so uncritical to the statements of your governments.

BTW, Tom Malinowski, the director of HRW’s Washington office, has been nominated by Obama to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. For a number of years HRW is known to be very selective in what human rights violations it was to report in the Latin America. Currently the HRW is calling for the bombing of Syria (and, obviously, doesn't make it's case too). I think it is understandable that I'm skeptical about it's reports and goals. I'll wait for the UN report, at least, UN is a truly international organization.

Here's my final message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6362643
The biggest thing to know about these data from the US Department of Labor (DOL) is that they DO NOT reflect visas granted. They reflect Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) granted. denied, etc. This is only one part of the application for a visa, and every year the DOL certifies far more LCAs than there are available visas.

It is impossible to tell from the LCA data what companies actually followed through with the rest of the process and fees and were able to sponsor a foreign worker before the visa cap was hit each year. That information would come from US Citizenship and Immigration Service, and as far as I can find they do not release that information.
you can rub off your fingerprints, it does occur, however is not very practical (though better than cutting off your hand)
They don't want you to upgrade. They know you will when 6 comes along. This is for people on "s" cycle.
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The iPhone 4 had a glass back, bad example there.
That's pretty much exactly whats going on. It renders it to a frame and then uses deferred rendering for the lighting. Static objects (i.e. terrain) are not re-rendered until the camera moves, but dynamic objects (like the grass) are rendered in realtime (unless the grass animation is turned off, which I have included for weaker machines).
Humans are pretty powerful conductors, are you sure that a sensitive capacitance sensor couldn't tell the difference between a finger and a finger attached to a body? I don't know it for a fact, but I'd be surprised if not.
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I acquired a passport in 2010, and left the country that year, and the year after, and was never asked for my fingerprints. You may be thinking of a program that applies only to non-citizens.
Nokia tweeted this: https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672
pushd and popd are very useful too.
A better way (in my opinion) to ask the question of whether or not your business model is sustainable/ethical/scalable is to ask the question: are you adding value? I think in this case, the answer is clearly yes. Dealing with freelancers (and especially international freelancers) can involve a lot of time and effort; you're taking care of that end of things. It's clear that your clients could go out and find and hire their own freelancers, but that involves work they would rather pay you to do.

As far as scalability is concerned, consider raising your prices. Don't think of it as rent seeking; think of it as providing a valuable service (managing a team of outsourced talent), and price accordingly.
iPhone? Sorry I was a little distracted with the interesting HTML scrolling design for the page. It's very novel.
There are some improvements in iOS7 that should improve battery life, though it's hard to say by how much compared to decreases from introducing more multi-tasking. This includes batching LTE network access from multiple apps. Though we can't know the full impact of the new APIs until apps start taking advantage of them, many who used beta 4 and 5 claimed better battery life than on iOS 6.

For me being able to very quickly turn off wifi, bluetooth, and lower brightness via the control panel has probably made the biggest positive difference. I'm more likely to leave bluetooth off most of the time for instance since I know it takes less than a second to turn it back on.
I'd like to add a little data to this discussion, from the perspective of someone with a minimal landing page that makes you sign up.

We (https://workflowy.com) built a try-first sign up flow, and a/b tested it against our current minimal signup page, which is a lot like those you describe.

Unfortunately, the try-first performed FAR worse. Not only did we get fewer signups (which we expected). The engagement rate for users who had tried first was significantly LOWER. Exact same product. Same first time experience. One group tried before signing up, the other didn't. They liked it less. Isn't that odd?

From my understanding, other services have experienced this same phenomenon. Why does this happen? It is hard to explain. It could be some aspect of our try-first design was flawed. But, my guess is that it's something psychological about signing up.

I had expected and hoped that the try-first flow would improve word of mouth. I think many do. But it didn't. So I'd encourage as many people to bring data to the table as possible. I've found through doing tons of a/b tests that metrics often don't obey my logic.
This is just another iteration of the "I have nothing to hide" argument, but now you're making it with f-ing fingerprints? Get a clue, nobody needs to have this argument again.
:)
I invented the Hadamard transform once. Only later realized it had been invented couple of decades earlier.
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As I commented above these data reflect Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) granted. denied, etc. This is only one part of the application for a visa, and every year the DOL certifies far more LCAs than there are available visas.

To find out what visas were actually issued that information would come from US Citizenship and Immigration Service, and as far as I can find they do not release that information.
The price gap is in a way even worse subsidized because it is still just a $100 discount up front but the same price per month for the same contract length for a lesser phone.

The 5C doesn't make much sense to me beyond people that really want more choice in the color of their phone.
> That's not really a theory, you're just deferring the question.

No, it's still a theory. It might naturally lead to the next question, "why don't they wanna?", but so does a lot of theories/explanations (just ask Socrates).

> Why wouldn't women be interested in this kind of profession? Do women not like comfortable, creative, high-paying jobs with lots of perks?

I don't know, but there could be a lots of reasons, since there are a lot of things other than comfort and money that people consider when they choose a career. Indeed, money is probably relatively unimportant in a more egalitarian, developed society than a society which is less developed and more (gender) unequal: nations with a higher degree of gender equality tend to have a more gender-segregated labour market. Why don't you explain that 'paradox' (it's not really a paradox), with your initial, limited dichotomy?
I agree about the build quality / material. But having a nice case helps mitigate the differences.
I disagree completely. Perhaps the 9th inning of a preseason game?

Flexible displays are coming soon.

The paths for easy integration with multiple low power wearable peripherals have just been forged, and the area is still in its infancy.

Mobile payments have not fully arrived yet.

The phones are all still in rectangular boxes - something that will look ridiculous in 20 years.

I think there is a lot yet to come hardware-wise.
Did you read the grandparent post? Bringing up complete strawmen, making vague censorship claims, making off-topic arguments about "well, men have it tough too in these other cases, so really men are the victims", and so on.

I tried to find some reason to explain why someone would do something like that, and that's the best I could come up with. I was also trying to point out how ridiculous an argument of "stop playing the victim card, look how much of a victim I am" is. Perhaps I went a little beyond what I should have when trying to point out how ridiculous it is, but I'm not really sure how to point that out much more gently.

Perhaps you have a better suggestion for how to deal with such ridiculous, hysterical, off-topic arguments? Perhaps one that doesn't involve calling someone a "complete douche" in the same breath as criticizing personal attacks?
Well, no harm done. but I'd point out that my wife watches talent shows at the same time as doing stuff in Code Academy. I can't figure this out but she grew up in a household where television was almost always on and likes having some background noise (or likes having it focused through the TV, or something).
Perhaps not most, Looking online FBI says it has 70 million known criminal prints and 34 million civil prints.

There's also this which is funny,

"How do you know if you're in the FBI database? According to Department of Justice rules, you have the right to submit your own fingerprints for a background check on yourself. (This allows you to contest anything that might be on your rap sheet.) Just write out a formal request and send it to the FBI, along with a full set of fingerprints and a money order for $18."
As a 4S owner, it's great news. Continued software support is nice...
Almost certainly this means they are supporting ARMv8:
http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf

From the deck:
-32bit RISC Instructions
-64bit GP registers
-64bit operands
-64bit pointers
Before people write off the price point lets wait and see what Apple is announcing tomorrow in China. I could imagine that the unlocked price is a red herring and most buyers will be getting it cheap with contracts on China Mobile.
"Regardless, very disappointing price point they have for all their phones. Apple apparently sees no need to compete on price."

Apple has never really put competing on price at the top of their priority list, whether it was phones, laptops, tablets, etc. It's important to them, but ultimately they make premium devices. They're at the top end of price, and that's where they want to be. Consumers have proven that they will pay for the Apple experience/infrastructure, so until that changes, I'm not sure why they'd change.

Not to mention that from an investor's standpoint, the price point has been great so far: people have spent money hand-over-fist on Apple products. There hasn't really been a need for aggressive cost-cutting yet.
They know if they release a $300 phone it will eradicate their brand prestige, which IMO is the only thing keeping them in the game.
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While this is somewhat subjective, you cannot be talking about the Nexus 4. There is nothing cheap about its case. And this is somewhat bizarre when we're talking about a device that you've never touched (the iPhone 5c), which we already know is made of the much reviled plastic.
LTE is overrated and not worth it since I spent about 98% of my life on wifi, and I haven't missed MMS because of iMessages.
There is zero chance that client side verification is the only thing that will be used to authenticate purchases. Presumably the fingerprint is used to unlock your saved iTunes/iCloud password, which is then sent to Apple's servers and verified as usual. If your phone is stolen, change your password and they'll be locked out, fingerprint or no.
>I stated that it is bullying, not sexism

It's not mutually exclusive. The sexism comes from the culture that even makes "make me a sandwich" a remark to use in a bullying context. Bullying comes in all forms, but gender-based bullying has another insidious component in that it re-enforces sexist ideas and cultural norms. This is why addressing it independently is important. Just addressing bullying does not eliminate the culture where these terms derive their power.
Was that before or after Apple had iPods in multiple colors for almost a decade?
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I was hoping this would be a mapping between containers and zones.
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I (and probably many others) would really like to contribute to Notepad++ but because it is on SourceForge there is a much higher barrier to do so. How to convince them to move to github?
Didn't know about the ascii one.