skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that sentiment, but to be honest, even most adults pressed into that kind of environment would not do well. Remember as an adult you are granted the autonomy to get away from unpleasant situations, and if not that, then the tools to resolve issues fairly.

Children have no tools, and are forced into these situations with no possibility of escape. The thicker skin you describe doesn't exist for the majority of the planet.
Being able to use your phone as a credit card is a pretty big deal.

NFC readers are normal for many point of sale terminals now and I would love to not have to get out a credit card to pay for something.

One of the Lumia phones was supposed to be able to do this, but it didn't work in the US or something because it required some weird encrypted SIM card.
I'm not convinced the XOR hack could be done in a way such that it wouldn't be noticed by someone inside Intel. But sure, we could do that. It would require calling RDRAND a new more times, but it's relatively cheap.
I guess if you want to constantly complain about the NSA spying on you, you are entitled. However, some of us have had enough of the complaining. After all, you're probably going to be doing it for the rest of your life. I'd rather not spend mine listening to it. So, can we clearly tag a thread as NSA rant, so those of us who don't want to hear it ad nauseam, we can skip the rehash.
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This is why the husband has his mistress unlock his phone.
I watched Moritz's presentation yesterday, and I got a feeling that he has been actively thinking about the idea of data factories but he couldn't yet effectively convey the key insights. As a side note, this is very interesting that a VC that probably listens hundreds of pitches a year, is basically struggling with same issues that most of the founders: conveying your thinking in a crystallized form.

As far as I understood, the key point of data factories is that they are a new paradigm for organizing work. Many aspects are pretty obvious to folks hanging out in HN. A few key differences to earlier models: companies don't anymore employ workers directly, but more and more act as mediators between consumers and producers. Distance between consumers and data factories is shorter than between consumers and traditional factories, which gives new, previously unseen efficiency to the feedback loop and allows data factories to direct their efforts (or efforts of 3rd party producers) better than - let's say - a traditional car manufacturer.
There are Pascal dialects, Ada and Oberon compilers for embedded systems, but sadly never got much traction in the industry.
But they are! And this is a very important issue to be dealt with. I'm very disappointed by all the companies and all governments involved, and I earn money writing iOS and cloud-applications. And I understand it's bad for business, but the issue is too important to be ignored.

So yes, by all means, keep talking about it.
That has not been required by any of the four states that I've lived in.
It's quite odd. Here's a device that can listen to everything you say all day long, that can read all of your e-mail, take pictures of you and your surroundings, sniff all of your passwords, etc. etc. etc., but people are freaking out because it might be stealing your fingerprints, which you leave thousands of on various public surfaces every day anyway? I just don't get it.
Having local storage is good for services like Spotify though, especially for those long road trips where the signal can be a bit spotty.
I recently used xxd to illustrate the concept of text encoding, and put together a little vimscript to make it easier to visualize:

"Toggle hex edit mode
nmap <Leader>h :call ToggleHex()<CR>

let g:hex_mode_on = 0

function! ToggleHex()
if g:hex_mode_on
execute "%!xxd -r"
let g:hex_mode_on = 0
else
execute "%!xxd"
let g:hex_mode_on = 1
endif
endfunction

Stick this in your .vimrc, type something, use \h to convert it to hex, change a value, then \h to convert it back and observe how the text has changed. Not super useful, but a neat party trick.
Samsung Buys Every Ad Position on CNet On New iPhone Launch Day
What I meant is, if NFC is the best way to replace credit cards then Apple would want to be in on making that happen, they wouldn't just put the hardware on their devices and leave someone else to implement it. Something like NFC has just been basically a bullet point on Android phones' feature lists, but that's not really Apple's style. They're going to build something to use it on day 1 or they're not going to include it in their device.

Maybe they're working on payment stuff, maybe they're not.. but since it's obviously not ready I'm not the least bit surprised that we don't see NFC on Apple devices.
Ultimately, this is barely a tweak of their old strategy. This is last year's model, a little bit cheaper. Except now Apple has cheapened the cost while upgrading the battery and front facing camera.

Mostly I see this targeting precisely the US customers that would buy the old iPhone in years past - people that aren't interested in the latest and greatest features very well might be induced to upgrade by a fun color that stands out from their friends's iPhones.
... which is possible in lots of languages.
ah, but it is a passphrase, not a password. Limiting phrases to exactly 26 chars doesn't seem that big anymore.
Indeed, should be interesting how we decide to balance laws that have to essentially apply to both individuals and global megacorps.

Certainly it would be weird if a computer activity that were legal if done by a person suddenly becomes illegal if done by a company that brings on one more new hire, make one more dollar of revenue, etc.

But at the same time we do have those kind of different requirements elsewhere in law for "real life" things since the scale is way different, so it's not as if there would be no precedent.
AutoDesk Releases An Electronics Simulator Called 123D Circuits
How hard would it be to run a mobile scanner over public surfaces and correlate the data with security camera footage?

In any case, we're talking about devices that can already spy on you to an enormous extent (conversations, photos, e-mail, passwords, plenty more). Fingerprints seem way down the list of important things they could be stealing.
"Public and linkable" transactions are not enough - typical mandatory 'know your customer' regulations would require a proper ID of your customer (not, say, an email+alias); and some indication of who the other party is - enough to identify a specific person/company.

Plus you'd need a reasonable (externally audited) process to identify which of your customers are lying about their IDs or the beneficiary names and stop dealing with such customers - so you can't just put some small print and ignore violations.

Western Union doesn't have to allow chargebacks in the creditcard meaning (where USA laws allow chargeback for even ridiculous reasons IMHO); but if, say, credentials of some EU citizen are stolen and fraudulent payments made, then Western Union would need to return most of the money even if they can't reverse it.
"Gold" has much more of an appeal to many Asian populations than the US given that Asia has been the cause of exploding actual gold demand. In the US I know few people with garish gold widgets. However, in Asia where the Apple product is a status symbol, the gold iPhone 5S (not the lump of coal 5C) will certainly bolster the image of the premium version.
I lean towards

nohup time whatever >whatever.out &

because so many programs behave differently when attached to a tty (like prompting for input) and I just want a plain text log that says when it succeeded or where it blew up.
I'll bite. Explaining to a "geek with low reading comprehension", what is the actual benefit to the iPhone being 64-bit?
Yes, you're correct there are corner cases where every component could fail. For example, a DDOS on our servers could slow us down or a kill -9 of RabbitMQ (even with persistence), OpenResty or agentredrabbit and the consumers could result in loss of messages or unexpected results. We've done such tests and seen loss of messages. Our servers have enough disk space and RAM to hold some 100s of billions messages and the multiple servers make sure we don't run out of resources. Queue settings are very important, for our case we've persistent messages with durable queues with few other tweaks and settings. Lastly, yes we explored our options and at that time used the best of what we could get and hack the best we could come up with in limited time and resources. If you're just starting with RabbitMQ I would recommend the tutorial on RabbitMQ's website and the book "RabbitMQ in Action" by old_sound et al
Going to 64-bit is a lot bigger deal than adding a few hundred MHz in terms of what it enables for the platform.
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/51641081eab8ead54d0...
Cool! Which school was that? Did they just assume you knew coding to begin with or did they teach the programming aspect also?

Did you keep any lecture notes/code from that project?
I'm working on something along those lines[1], but not sure how to do the collisions and contact forces.

The source code of box2D is very useful and I have some other physics engine resources but something with a more physics-lesson flavour could be very handy as inspiration.

[1] https://github.com/ivanistheone/phys.js
Why StartX is a better model than YC or TechStars
Intel Announces “Quark” SoC Family: Tiny SoCs For Tiny Devices
I don't think they compromised everything. From reading the last exposures it seems that they can wiretap Blackberry emails on a targeted basis, not on a dragnet basic(please tell if i'm wrong here).

But since we don't know if they compromised apple(an american company), and the benefits of fingerprint ID is not that big, maybe we need to think about not using it?
We love opensource, AMQP was created by wall-street giants and RabbitMQ fits our case and Tibco RV does not solve our particular case in our particular environment.
most voters (who make much less) will agree with the statement, "We need to look outside our borders for high-tech talent"

== Source?

A (genuine) subsample of "voters" earning under $64k are unlikely to support foreign labour substitution of any kind. In part, this is because the majority of these folks do not reside near silicon valley. Average wages in metro areas, excluding "slums", are significantly higher tha the US average. Stratify Manhatten south of 96th street, for example, vs Metro New york. The support for H1Bs is higher amongst the "manager" class than the working class. The working class gets no benefit from H1Bs. To the working class 64k may be an enourmous salary, but it is not to the manager class. So again, the idea that "workers" have any interest in supporting this is silly. Alternatively, if they had any interest in this area, they would be already working in it, an thus not consider 64k "real money", because their housing costs are likely 10x that, given the areas in which they need to reside. Lastly, the h1bs don't apply to the type of low-skill labour that concerns the immigration/green card dynamics that the urban minorities/poor do suppor. H1Bs are supported primarily by wealth white suburbia and the "landed gentry" of upper management in urban areas.
To quote yet another snarky saying, "It's only paranoia if they're not out to get you."
2x was the number in the slides when the A7 was introduced, at least from TechCrunch's photos.
There could be a distinction made between utilizing open wifi and sniffing traffic.

It seems to me that collection of the packets is the crux of the issue.
I'm curious why you say FPR only is for morons. I feel like I'm missing something.
WiFi works great for me at home and work since I control those networks. But finding & connecting to public hotspots is often a pain and my effort's frequently rewarded with a slow, unstable connection (even for paid ones). In my area, LTE isn't marginally faster, it's way faster than 3G. For me, it's absolutely worth the extra money.

I really don't think having fast, hassle-free internet access on the go is an edge case. Isn't that one of the main reasons people buy smartphones?
This is the exact sort of attitude that has permitted us to get to the point where we even have to have a conversation about the government being engaged in massively intrusive spying programs. "I don't want to hear your whining about it" is a means of condoning these actions through silence. You are a part of the problem.

If you can comprehend what is going on here, you should be loud and obnoxious about it. Get people talking. Make it the focus and refuse to give up that focus. The only way this is going to change is to get so many people angry about it that it becomes more politically advantageous to oppose than support it. If you get angry about hearing about it, then I'll take that - you now have an incentive to help get it changed so people will shut up about it.
Wow not a single intelligent comment in this post. What is it about Apple announcements that lowers everyone's ability to have a decent conversation about it without being snarky or overly eager?

All I see is multiple reddit-level circlejerk comments like "Lol NSA will have fingerprints now" or "Wow fingerprint reader AND NSA chip, look at me I'm so witty, I made an NSA joke".

Seriously, are we not going to have a conversation about what the fingerprint reader means for the enterprise crowd? Or what effect the lower end iPhone 5C will have on the bottom end of the phone market currently being dominated by cheap and often shitty Android phones? Or even anything about the improvements made to the camera or processors?

Really? No intelligent conversation is going to go on here? Ok I guess I'll see myself out then...this was supposed to be my last safe haven for intelligent discourse about this.
Clearly other people feel the same way, since it is being upvoted. And if you don't care for reading NSA-related comments, either moderate his posts (outside of your jurisdiction, I'm guessing) or I suppose you'll have to deal with it by collapsing his threads with any number of HN plugins that exist.
Ohhh, so it's really a server-side technology to better consume third-party APIs. For whatever reason, this wasn't at all obvious to me. I had initially assumed that this was technology between client and server sides of a single-page application.
Oh OK. If Apple says so then that settles it.
Use the keyboard
I am not saying find is outputting files, I am saying it is decoding the full table entry for each file and formatting it, then passing that listing as an entry to wc. Which has to be a bunch of overhead that adds up when you have hundreds of thousands of files to count.

All we want from find is "count the number of inode entries in this tree branch that are type f". No formatting, no output, just count. That has to be much more efficient.
I think they're targeting young customers. Think of all the parents of teens that wouldn't shell out $199 for an iPhone but would happily shell out $99. Neither the kids, nor their parents, are particularly interested in quality and whether this phone has the same value as the 5s. Plus the kids would presumably be attracted to the colors.
Source? I have obtained drivers' licenses from NY and PA, neither of which required me to be fingerprinted.
Useless post should be dead. Already irrelevant after release of iPhone 4S.
I've got a couple of pairs of fingerless gloves...
Via http://compassoftime.blogspot.jp/2013/09/srfi-110.html
(Support for sweet expressions in Sagittarius Scheme).
There are a variety of college ranking schemes. I documented some of the other sources of rankings and recommendations of colleges in a thread on College Confidential,

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection...

a place where I've used this screen name I use here for a long time. But even better than my online list (which is alphabetical, removing the implication of a strict rank order of colleges) is the free website by Education Trust called College Results

http://collegeresults.org/

which lets applicants or their parents dig into lots of data-based comparisons among colleges.

http://collegeresults.org/search1b.aspx?institutionid=166027

You can decide what outcome measure is important to you, and use that criterion to compare the colleges you are most interested in. People who are smart about shopping for colleges don't limit themselves to the U.S. News rankings, and you don't have to either.

AFTER EDIT: Another source of information for informed shoppers is the website of a consulting firm that advises colleges,

http://www.maguireassoc.com/

telling colleges how to improve their financials and their rankings with tricks like raising list price and then offering phony "merit scholarships" that just bring out-of-pocket cost down to somewhat above the actual spending by the college on student instruction.
But then they can turn around and say "Go ahead, Ban Google.com from your search engine because we have paid links". DOH! Can't win =(
This is an incredibly cool concept.
"Asking them to go away is just asking people to stick their head in the sand and ignore it."

I think what's happening here is that you are being asked to go away. Your comments aren't adding anything to this discussion about a new iPhone.
NSA Has Been Doing What It Explicitly Was Told Not To Do
Keeping in mind that the ssh agent is root accessible on the machine in the /tmp directory looking something like this:

"ssh-ebT23030"

Meaning that anyone with root access who know the other machines that someone is accessing as well as their username can access those machines.

I've seen cases where in abnormally terminated sessions that file stays around instead of getting deleted when the session ends.
Memory bus bandwidth - moving large chunks of data around just got twice as fast. That means loading textures for games, or hauling photos up from flash memory will be substantially faster now.
I agree with the general proposition that the rankings hurt college students, particularly because schools raise tuition in order to be able to afford more merit aid, but I find some of the comments to be tropes:

"1. College rankings hurt low and middle-income students. "

It's hard to argue why offering aid on the basis of merit as opposed to need is a bad thing.

"2. The rankings ignore job prospects."

True, but mostly irrelevant. The rankings are broadly correlated with job prospects.

"3. The rankings don't care about learning outcomes."

College isn't about learning, and it's not clear there is much difference between colleges in this regard anyway. You don't go to Harvard because you think it'll teach you better than Penn State. You do it to associate with the other people who got into Harvard.

"4. U.S. News runs a beauty pageant."

The side-effect of the beauty pageant is that it tends to echo preconceived notions hiring managers already have. Arguably it does a huge disservice to say drive students away from Yale on the basis of a bunch of things like "learning outcomes" that nobody else cares about.

"5. College rankings fuel ever greater college costs.'

This is the real takeaway point. Overhead per student is a major component of the rankings, and it helps fuel the ridiculous construction craze that's happening with universities right now.
Are the comments that will never go away helpful?
I think it is kind of a bummer that Apple is going this route.

It will be too bad if people get their first smartphone because it is $100 instead of $200, but fail to realize that they are changing their 2-year mobile phone expenses from ~$1200 to ~$2400.

Illogically though, I suspect I would have less of a problem with what they are doing if they priced the 5s starting at $300.
Nope. That entirely depends on the service. Most saas I use for marketing and programming sends 95% transactional emails and 5% promotional emails.

The most important aspec is that a user invests his time and effort in the service and after time using the service becomes an important habit that provides productivity, entertainment or just attacks your limbic system to optimize for user pleasure. And that habit allows to monetize effeciently.
Show HN: Ridesharing for Daily Commuters
Otherwise known as "carpooling" :)

I'm calling my project Ramble Rides, and it's (hopefully) the start of a technology platform to help people get to work every day. The url is: www.ramblerides.com

Right now, I'm looking to validate that there is demand. If you work at a company with lots of commuters (especially in the Bay Area), I'd like to work with you to find potential carpooling matches at your company. All I need is a simple survey filled out - http://bit.ly/13I1UYM - and I'll put together a list of matches for free.

I know that others operate in this space, including Zimride and regional programs like 511.org; in both cases I believe that there is an opportunity to provide better discovery of other riders (especially through social networks) and integrate value-added services like payments and real-time matching.

If you're interested in learning more about my vision for this product or just generally chatting about it, my email is thomas dot vladeck at gmail dot com
In general, adverse stock market reaction to an Apple announcement is slightly negatively correlated with Apple's success following said announcement.
The Riptide of Titstare
What do you mean it's not helpful? It is a plain and factual answer to the question.
I had to trim down the number of playlists I store on my Nexus 4, which only has 16 gigs. I also have to be more cognizant of how many podcasts I download at the same time.

I like my phone. But I don't think I'll ever buy anything without at least 32 gigs of storage, or a place to plug more memory in.
It is more than the NSA. Now I have to worry that other apps, services, and overall weak security on the iPhone will have my fingertips all over the place. If my phone is stolen, fingerprints gone. No thanks.
So you want to label concern for privacy as 'whining'? If anything, I'd call THAT snark.
Do keep talking about it. In threads which actually have something to do with it. Not every single thread about anything.
Why is out-of-pocket even a concern? Health insurance should cover unlikely catastrophic issues costing 5-8 digits, leaving generally "young & healthy" patients to absorb lesser costs in exchange for practically no maintenance costs.

If the bronze/silver/gold plans cover the petty stuff (routine checkups) but hit the wall on something as moderate as a pacemaker (as contrasted with, say, open-heart surgery or cancer chemotherapy), then the plans are royally screwed up. Don't go implementing a health care plan just to find out what's in it.
Forbes' list also has a better methodology than US News - they look at salary and influence outcomes, student satisfaction, and student debt/financial aid, among other things. http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/07/24/rankin...

But then again, RateMyProfessors reviews are a significant factor in that list. Every ranking is going to have its problems.
But you are accomplishing absolutely nothing here. Being annoying and ineffective doesn't help your cause. Do you know that Jesus loves you and he wants to save your soul?

You might as we'll be discussing religion or politics here. This is not the place. I heard your warning the first ten times.
There's no mandatory relationship between word size and memory bus size. 128-bit memory busses were common well before 64-bit CPUs were.
So is the parent comment. A few PowerPoint slides doesn't warrant any ridiculous comments about the NSA backdooring your phone. It would be great if HN could stop with the NSA is everywhere-all-the-time-in-everything meme for a while, it would make reading the comments here much more relevant.
I'm actually working on something like that, where instead of using a map, I'm making a small DSL that's a bit prolog like for creating the rules about how things should be placed. It will be open sourced but I do have to write it first.

I'm basing a lot of my work on things like this: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...