skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow awesome, love your writing and thinking Bruce. Would love to hear more about your thoughts on doing what you want, despite not getting paid for it and minimizing your lifestyle.
We have that! Just push the "generate enclosure" button in the circuit details page.
I started reading your blog because I love stuff like this. The cabin looks cool. Do you live in an area with building codes?

I live out in the country and have a bunch of building projects that I never seem to get to. I need to see stuff like this to get me off my ass :-)
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Even if I knew for a fact the NSA would get my fingerprint from my iPhone it would still be worth the convenience of having that fingerprint auth. I can legitimately stop putting in a pass code all the time and still have my phone be secure against random people using it, strangers finding it and getting access to my email, etc.

I would prefer the NSA not have my prints but virtually every other piece of data they collect is more likely to be used against me.
Apple never tried for those markets, so nothing to give up. C64 vs. Lisa...
This isn't just some random tinfoilhat idea that came out of nowhere. Remember CarrierIQ on Android? The NSA is real, the tinfoil-hats have been validated whether you believe it or not. From the NSA's point of view, having everyone's fingerprint on file would be fantastic and we know they have the power to force Apple to cooperate.
In fact, I'm just assuming that's what will happen so now I'll be careful about borrowing anyone's iPhone. Everything about tech is going to be cross-examined with potential(read: definite future) data gathering usage by the NSA.
I'm actually imagining that Apple would be rushing more to drop the 4S since they made breaking changes between the 4S and the 5 in terms of the screen size and the lightning connector.
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Because compelling someone to give you a fingerprint is pretty easy, and could be done trivially at a border, or incident to arrest or detention, or by anyone willing to use a modicum of physical force.

Plus, since liveness checks are weak, anyone with access to anything containing your prints. I suspect at the next Defcon there will be a fun challenge to defeat it given a print lifted from a glass using $5 in supplies in 30 minutes. And then at the Defcon after that, the same contest will be in the children's area.
Is that the mechanism for the world's celebrities to live in LA?
An internet-enabled smartphone fp-reader is probably just a little more accurate than a random penny floating about in society.......-_-
The point is you might still be considered to be interfering with the investigation, should they find out.

Everything I've ever read about topic stresses that you should be absolutely truthful with a border officer. At least in the US, lying to one is a serious offense. Your post encourages hiding behind semantics and technicalities- and while those might save you in a courtroom (if you have a good lawyer), they won't save you when you're face to face with an angry border agent who just discovered your ruse.

Again, this is why I don't use this method. It didn't work on my parents when I was a kid, and I don't think it will work in this case either.
We don't assume all startups are in California, we just have the best dataset for CA (since that is where we operate). We look forward to showing analyses like this for other states as information becomes available.

For example - this is a great analysis by Forbes (which we linked to) http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/what-will-obamacar... that goes state by state.
For the most part, when I'm out, I'm getting around 6Mbps. The difference between 6Mbps and my friend's (on LTE) 14Mbps isn't exactly staggering when you're reading HN or downloading a photo here and there, and even streaming audio or watching youtube. Mobile sites are already very stripped-down in terms of data usage. If I were, on a daily basis, uploading 100MB videos or whatnot it might make a difference, but for my purposes HSPA+ is plenty.
Apple's new iPhones are fine but Microsoft really profits from smartphones
The M7 chip's an interesting nod to quantified self'ers. I'm certainly sick of the battery drain caused by running Moves, or one of the many Google Latitude clients, over time.
Hunch: it's got to do with the fact that anyone can upvote, not anyone can downvote, and there's a large enough audience that thinks every topic posted is fodder for the surveillance discussion (which isn't a stretch) and thinks that's the most important thing to upvote (IMO it's probably not, but welcome to democracy).
Obstruction of justice can only occur if someone does something in response to a legal action that inhibits it. Fortunately it is not [yet] a crime to think ahead.
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Can you elaborate on the "vulirtuous circle"?

The good students will go somewhere. Why is it good that they go to the same school as other good students? Is that good for the good students, or good for everyone?
You don't have to be trained to see the situation perfecty or even trained in a specific situation. It is possible to train you brain to still function in a panic situation and try something. You can think about whether that was the right action at a later time.

I've had people tell me "I don't even remember the last 60 seconds" after inducing a spin in a vehicle. It's a scary thought.
Apple's been continually pushing this issue. The original iPhone had a mini SIM, which is the one we generally think of as the standard size. The iPhone 4 moved to a micro SIM, which is the next smaller one depicted in your picture, and the 4S shared that. The 5 then went for the nano SIM. Presumably they're short enough on internal space that shrinking the SIM card actually makes some noticeable difference to them. The downside is that us users get to play games with getting (or cutting to size!) the right kind of SIM card for our particular model of phone.

I recall talk of purely internal, reprogrammable "SIM cards", so maybe that's the next step for Apple.
That is a FANTASTIC idea. Get ready to see a kickstarter showing cool button-covers or replacement buttons for those not afraid to open their iPhones.
Chicken and egg.
> This use of "privilege" as a targeted weapon to silence specific demographics has to stop

Your concerns, such as they are, have been discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354789, and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353402

With a longer piece on the topic here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354336 and on the topic of criticism as "silencing" here http://www.popehat.com/2013/09/10/speech-and-consequences/
Yeah, 'cos I really want a convenient way to send my fingerprints to the government.
Issues with Quora aside, I think it's actually coming from people inside the bubble of startups/design/ux who want to complain without actually testing things.

I often show my wife sites/apps that might interest her. I've never heard her complain about creating an account (either with email/pw or facebook). If they drip-spam her, she'll unsubscribe. She's not a designer or hacker–just a normal 30-something, slightly-entrepreneurial, facebook-gmail-mac-using wife-mom.
Writing the glue takes a surprising amount of time/energy/learning for a newb. I've got a couple of hobby projects on the go where I am learning to create webapps / rest apis using flask + SQLAlchemy. None of these projects are anywhere near shippable.

Not knocking the tools, they're great + fun. But writing the glue gets non-trivial fast once you step beyond a single table with no access control.
It is pretty much the purpose of governments to be able to do things that private companies cannot do.
pretty stoked on fingerprint for apple id
At some point you'll be able to pick up your friend's phone or tablet, touch it, and without entering usernames, emails, or passwords, have access to all your "stuff", including the same homescreen / desktop as your own phone / laptop.

There will be open source, open standard, secure authentication and identity systems chained together, kind of like an evolution of Persona or OpenID, and when you view a website on your friend's phone, it will recognize you immediately.
That is a really great point. We wanted to make it - but were trying to find a data-backed way of showing it.

Do you know of any studies/reports that show offering healthcare - results in lower hiring costs, more applicants, more qualified people, etc?
Docker currently is dependent on AUFS I believe.
Only for morons is way harsher than I'd put it, but fundamentally it's a difficult to inspect security system that's based on a potentially vague analog signal.

In the security world, things which are novel are not to be trusted. The security of a system is measured in how many serious researches have attacked it, and to what degree they succeeded.

I expect that there are solid biometric security standards that have been subject of serious analysis and attack. If it turns out that Apple's implementation uses one of these standard and tested solutions then I think I'd trust it in place of a PIN. In the absence of that evidence, the Properly Paranoid position is the skeptical one.

A quote from Babbage in 1864 is apropos: "One of the most singular characteristics of the art of deciphering is the strong conviction possessed by every person, even moderately acquainted with it, that he is able to construct a cipher which nobody else can decipher."
That's probably true - for a big number of newspapers and other media, which is actually a shame. Reminds me of Lou Grant (TV series about a honest reporter). We need more people like him.
Docker uses AUFS as a union filesystem to combine images (read-only collections of files) and do copy-on-write.
If you are getting labour at a cheaper cost, then there is high probability of getting not skilled people on board and thereby IMO creating a group of void professionals. This void is due to the increase in the demand for labour but since companies want to increase their revenues they rely on cheap labour at a small price to them. But on a longer run I think this void from multiple companies will act detrimental to the economy due to the inability of this group to look for alternative jobs when there is a state of economic slowdown.
One thing to consider is that even with the lower rates you can get from a PEO, you're paying a setup fee and a monthly administration fee that, for a company of 8-10 people, may not make the lower insurance rates worth it.

Startups innovating in the space like ours, Maxwell Health (http://www.maxwellhealth.com), are able to offer way better tech and valuable services for startups and do all of it for free. We've been able to save money for companies who were currently using your typical PEO.
Note that biometrics are identifiers, they cannot be used for authentication (not securely anyway).
Just a thought... the third-party doctrine is what enables perfectly legal surveillance of most communications. However, something residing on your device and never entering a third party's possession would seem to be directly covered by "your papers" in the 4th amendment. The bar for lifting fingerprints out of your CPU is much higher than the bar for lifting emails out of Yahoo.
Not only do they take over the scrolling and usual keyboard-based navigation, they messed up Shift+Space and it works like Space.
You can always measure the capacitance between each row. Hell of a lot better than building a full circuit first, just to find out your BB sucks.
This one specifically disparaged female devs:

"Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn."

https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/status/202095372355633152
Because pets are just as important as human beings. Or maybe I should say, human beings are no more important than pets?
Or to generate an artificial fingerprint that can fool scanners, and then use that to access an other service or data you have/use that is "secured" with fingerprint as the single authentication factor.

Since fingerprints can't be changed, he more widely they are used for authentication, the more likely that they will be compromised and the less useful they are for authentication.
I live in England and I have been arrested.

This means that GCHQ (and by implication probably the NSA), already have my fingerprints.
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IPhone 5 - Supported LTE bands & networks by model
IPhone 5s fingerprint reader authentication isn't open to developers
It's the same coverage we already have. The insurance company offered to let us renew early, at a moderately higher price, rather than wait for it to renew early next year when they say it will be much, much higher.
Top 1% take biggest income slice on record
> How do we stop this forced re-distribution of wealth

Sounds like your complaint is really about taxes being somehow equivalent to Communism or Slavery.
IOS 7 and XCode 5 GM release for Developers
Yea but they explicitly say it has a fingerprint sensor.
I second the Quicksilver recommendation. When you combine Quicksilver triggers (keyboard shortcut available regardless of what application you're in) with applescript, and fabric it's very powerful. I have a trigger that that restarts all of my local services using fabric and opens up new terminal windows running tails of the relevant logs.

The Applescript is this if anyone wants to do something similar:

tell application "Terminal"
do script "tail -F /somepath/some.log"
do script "tail -F /anotherpath/another.log"
do script "sudo fab -f '/pathto/fabfile.py' local deploy"
activate
end tell

Here's a detailed explanation of setting up Triggers:

http://leafraker.com/2007/09/17/how-to-create-a-quicksilver-...
Open-source is orders of magnitude better, simply because you can compromise it only through systematic long-term efforts for introducing subtle flaws that are hard to detect by regular code reviews, and you can count on such flaws only for limited periods of time, not to mention that architectural decisions can always happen without the NSA being able to prevent it. E.g. if your Linux distro is up to date, the older flaws are likely to be fixed already.

On the other hand, NSA can simply demand the addition of a dumb IF just like you described in any proprietary software, and nobody will ever find out about it. If Windows XP contained backdoors in 2001, it may as well contain the same backdoors now.

Just because you can't get a 100% guarantee of safety, that doesn't mean that open-source isn't much safer.

And yeah, people exemplify with that embarrassing SSH flaw in Debian. Well, at least you found out about it, at least you know it was fixed.
Simply looking at net migration ignores all sorts of issues. The first is that most peoples impressions of what a country would be like to live in are quite different from the reality. The US is the figurehead of the developed world, and so of course those in less developed countries would say they dreamed of a life there. The reality is that almost none of those people actually know what their life - the life of an immigrant - would be. It's really not hard to find immigrants all over the developed world who are completely disillusioned with their life and would jump at a chance to return home. Often what keeps people in the country they emigrate to isn't some deep love of their new life, but circumstance - children, too little money to go home, too much pride to return home having admitted they've failed or familial expectations for money to be sent home. The vast majority of immigrants to the developed world live in near poverty.

I often find that even British people's perception of the US and Canada is quite different to the reality that I've experienced. It's driven by the media portrayal and perhaps brief holidays. For people from very different backgrounds that gulf will be far, far greater.

The second is that the level of immigration controls a country sets directly impact the net migration into the country. Regardless of how many people want to live somewhere, if they don't let you in then it doesn't really matter. It's very hard to use immigration as a metric without compensating for that somehow.
Aflac's most recent WorkForces report (we blogged about some key findings a few months ago: http://blog.maxwellhealth.com/post/52789613016/what-do-emplo...) has some good data on this.
WP effect I'd say.
I understand- the software behind hidden volumes is relatively new. I think this is an area the open source/security community should really put some effort behind.

It is recommended that you use the regular non-hidden volume OS for trivial tasks frequently to make it a normal OS. If you do this, you are giving them your password. You just use a differnet password and a hidden volume for all of your private stuff.

Leaving it behind works as well, if that is acceptable to you! And is probably the most secure thing. :)
Seeing as I get my fingerprints taken at the airport every time I enter the US, I personally don't care :)
Or just not buy the fucking thing to start with...
To me seems that the Gold iPhone is good for Paris Hilton...
Why not? If it doesn't melt while being maximally used in my hands, why should it be thermally impossible to put it on the table while connected to an external screen?

The processor is more powerful than many old computers, and the 30" screens need no more pixels than the iPhone screen already has.
Indeed. Now that a lot of sites allow you to sign up with Facebook, I use my fake Facebook account almost as much as my real one.
I'm confused. How do they "hit the wall" if you won't have to pay more than the out-of-pocket limit of $6350 per year but they still have to cover you? Do I not understand what that number means?
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You called discussing the NSA spying on everyone, subverting the American system as well as the faith in the constitution similar to evangelising that Jesus loves you?

Wow - that has to be hands down the absolute most ignorant, ridiculous and bullshit comment I have ever read on HN.

This is The Best place to be talking about the National Security Agency Technologically spying on everyone, building in parallel infra and forcing the biggest tech companies in the world via court gags and threats to providing them with access to encrypted user data.

Your comment is mind-boggling, to me, how you could even think this is not the place!

Edit: Toned it down a notch.
Salesforce.com CEO Says, ‘There Would Be No Salesforce.com Without Steve Jobs’
Do you really believe anything you just said? Apple is cooperating with the NSA in every way, but in this one case they care about user security?
Also check out xargs with the -P 10 -n 1 flags (for example) -- to limit at most 10 parallel tasks running at the same time. Useful if you don't have GNU parallel installed where you happen to be working (everyone has xargs installed).
if people get their first smartphone because it is $100 instead of $200

I.e. people are more likely to get an iPhone 5C because it's cheaper and thus "only" $99 more than the free phone they'd get otherwise. But this is not specific to the 5C, since the same scenario was in place as soon as Apple started offering two kinds of iPhones at the same time.
Can you point to some examples of REST apis that show what this is missing?
you accidentally touch it one time without cover - done. And all the stores where people come and try the devices... (personally as an immigrant i already have my fingerprints on file, so i have nothing to worry about, it is just very amusing to see how another couple of billions would be gathered as well once Android phones replicate the feature :)

Welcome to the Total Information Awareness world.
Uhm, most businesses compete "on different dimensions." What's your point?

Your definition of domain expertise seems self-referential. If you define it as "knowing everything which makes a business in this area successful". That's like marketing/consulting speak, so its ok, but Its not adding much explanatory power to the analysis.

Can you explain why chipotle and chobani are massively successful? Fast food and dairy grocery are classic commodity products in the US. That's broadly defined. Narrowly defined, the markets in which they compete, their products are also not amazing vs. direct competitors. But they are both massively successful.

Why? Domain expertise? Harldly. They are merely competent competitors, making OK but not class leading products.

But how do they succeed ast selling at 2x competitor prices? Is it a 10pc better product? Or a 10x one?

What is the definiition of domain expertise that reverse engineers the secret to this success?

One likely answer is that they dimensionalize their product in certain ways, when bringing them to market, that changes/highlights their relative performance. By bringing a different class of commodity product to bear on an existing market, they mimic/synthesise a class leading product.

So, chipotle takes a bog-standard SF burrito and makes it go head to head with pastrami-deli sanwiches for lunch in nYc, where nobody would otherwise touch tex-mexican food. Likewise, chobani takes 2nd rate strained yoghurt and goes head to head with watery americanized stuff. Its quite similar to how starbucks took italian espresso-based coffees mainstream 20 years ago. In other workds, yeah, they are competing in different dimensions by using a different class of product to compete in a commodity industry.

But note the prices are not 10% deltas, they are 1x-2x (ie 10x 10%). So in that sense, they are coming to market with products that have if not an order of magnitude higher performance, a significant premium that commands a whole new tier of pricing.

This is the equivalent of North Face and Patagonia selling street clothes to urban your and college kids. Again, these are brands that may or may not be class leaders when viewed apples to apples, but they profit from marketing to people who compare them to choices which haver weaker performance in certain dimensions. Its another variation of making a 10x product out of a 10pc product, by altering the product/market fit...not the product. These are abstract market plays, not "marketing" driven plays, in the first instance...they historically gain their nich/cult status through WOMO not traditoinal advertising. In other words, these are considered "hacks" by early adopters (using a product for some other purpose), which then become popularlized by followers and ultimatley are adopted by the mainstream.
Please note that I personally hate the phrase "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." I was using it in this case because many people still operate like that and because, for better or worse, I assume all 'police type' people fall into this category.

I merely figured the HN community would pick up on the sarcasm.

So please do not patronize me.
I agree. A lot of ladies I know were already doing this with silicone cases.
How did you make your first dollar online?
So... what is the fear here? That someone will steal your fingerprints and plant them at a crime scene?
Estimote (YC S13) explaining iBeacon (new iOS7 feature) in retail applications