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Thanks for the detailed response. I hope to learn from your experiences.

AMQP is indeed a complicated protocol so I can appreciate your reluctance to write a client.

The failure mode I was referring to with Redis is that you now have additional custom code which pulls from Redis and inserts to RabbitMQ. This is another process that can fail, and some of those failure modes could result in duplicate or lost messages. For example, agentredrabbit could shutdown in an unclean way where the "dump" file doesn't get written. Also, you didn't mention if you're using Redis in AOF or RDB persistence mode, but in RDB it only writes to disk occasionally so you could lose messages there. Also, if agentredrabbit fails then Redis could run out of memory (RabbitMQ automatically writes to disk once memory limits are exceeded).

I will believe that writing to Redis is /always/ faster than writing to RabbitMQ, but I'd really like to know what other things you guys tried to make RabbitMQ actually work for you. Did you experiment with queue settings? Memory limits? Erlang tweaks? SSDs? What was it about shovel that didn't work the way you wanted it to? I'm working towards what I hope will be a pure RabbitMQ infrastructure so knowing what you've tried and didn't try will be informative.

Thanks.
Apple and your mobile provider already know who you are, because you told them when you created your iTunes account and mobile phone account.
I've added "a" between "in" and "single", it started sounding weird to me some time ago as well. Thanks for the suggestion. Can you please propose a correct wording for the second sentence?
I'm still weirded out by the idea that Apple has finally split the iPhone line into "premium" and "value" streams. It just seems so... un-Apple. The whole "last-year's-model" discount was a bit of a kludge, but still Apple stood out from the rest of the industry with such a simple product line - device, biannual release, size, that's it.
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It really does. My computer would be like 30% less usable without it. The file search is particularly amazing.
I actually played with a 620 for a day or two. Once you will hold them both in your hand it will make sense.
Emergency treatment is free literally for anybody regardless of length of stay. You have to be able to demonstrate that you are a normal resident in the UK intending to stay for at least 6 months to register with a GP (student / working here is fine). Basically the only thing they care about is that you aren't a health-tourist.

Pretty damn close.
Someone should show this to Facebook.... Just saying...
You sound fairly threatened and insecure; it sounds like you're worried that women might do better than you at technology, and then the one way you use to make yourself feel secure in yourself may fall away.

Why do you have to make your points while simultaneously being a complete douche about them? Personal attacks on HN, on purpose?
So there are two things going on here.

1)They said the detection gets better every time you use it. So my guess would be that multiple versions of the raw fingerprint data are stored inside the A7 chip. (That information never leaves the chip.)

2) You can use your fingerprint to authenticate apps like iTunes, as well as third party apps. For this, yes I am sure they will use some hash that cannot rebuild the fingerprint.
Unsurprising to find that such a small percentage of applications were for musicians / singers. Is that not what the artist category in the O visa was designed for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa
can you please explain how this works?
For anyone not a US citizen, the US is already doing that at the border. Welcome to our world.
Edit: Read "on-contract" as "no-contract" and almost threw a party, thanks for pointing out my mistake guys
I really don't get the external case design. Seeing just a couple letters of "iPhone" through the holes in the case looks incredibly bad.
How do I get people to share their confessions? 
A college friend of mine and I have been working on a website the past 9 months and are trying to gain users now. It's a website that people can post love confessions on anonymously. It was a Facebook fad that went through our school awhile back and we added features and such. Let me know your thoughts please.
Yup, the old Windows bitmap font versions have been around for ages - I've found I get better results with TTF though.

I think I even found some unicode support in one or two at some point (technically impossible with the Windows bitmap font formats), but I can't seem to find any right now, bah.
And? That’s nothing new. Until today Apple sold the iPhone 4 for that price. They have been selling the two year old model for that price for a long time now.
Did you btw know that you can turn off "simple passcode" and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iphone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.

Brilliant! I did not know that. I haven't been using Long Passcode Mode because I didn't want to type on the tiny keyboard to unlock 100 times a day.
The iPhone is already "miniature" by Android standards.
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> No, I am not taking responsibility for an imaginary problem.

Are you claiming that the original authors daughter was imagining her classmates bullying her?

Are you saying that I'm imagining the fact that there are far more men than women in the programming profession?

These aren't "imaginary problems". These are very real problems. Now, there may be some debate about exactly which behavior is problematic; some people have different standards. But you're not going to tell me that bullying someone and telling them to get into the kitchen is not a problem.

> You are making the field off-putting to her, not the evil chauvinist boogeymen she has never seen.

I'm sorry, are you saying that someone who's saying it's bad to push women out of the profession is more off-putting than someone in her class telling her to get into the kitchen and make them a sandwich?

These are not "evil chauvinish boogeymen she has never seen", they are actual bullies in her actual class.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I imagine that a big percentage (maybe majority / plurality) of people jumping into the insurance markets are going to be people who otherwise couldn't get insurance (pre-existing conditions, whatever--high-cost clients, essentially). The only way to balance the books is to make the healthy people pay more. I expect the young-and-healthy category to pay even more than the 15-50% extra in the article. It's going to be ugly, from a dollar perspective.
My music alone fills up my 64 GB 4S. I am waiting for the 128 GB.
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This. We need to focus on why the costs are so high, not how to pay for such high costs. I shouldn't NEED insurance. It should be an option if I'd like to spread out financial risk.
I believe that pilif's issue is with potential undisclosed storage of the fingerprint data on Apple's servers.
After having purchased the Nexus 4, having to pay $550 for this phone seems insane.
They need some finger boolean options... If 'index right' unlock, if 'pinky left two times within 10s' wipe.
Calc() will also crash IE9 when there's a bg image present (on focus)

http://jsfiddle.net/874Bq/2/
>It's shocking that there were politicians who believed so strongly that women should be second class citizens that they filibustered the bill.

So how do you feel about all the women who opposed it? You do realize that men didn't have the right to vote either right? The right to vote was tied to military service.

>oppressive gender roles, in which females are subservient to males.

That is an opinion, not reality. You could describe men's "oppressive gender role" as being subservient to women. Being forced to work your life away to provide for a woman is no more wonderful than being forced to cook and clean for a man.

>Also want to note: being the safest, and most privileged relative to other places on earth != safe and treated equally

But the discussion is framed as "we have things bad, you men need to fix it", but the "you men" in question are less safe than women, and are also not treated equally.
Did Nokia patent color?
their js map control is severely lacking in features compared to something like leaflet, openlayers, or esri's js component.

I work on the Google Maps API. I'd love to hear more about what features you're missing.
Hooray for marketing fluff!
"Because 96 percent of students starting a for-profit college take federal student loans to attend a for-profit college (compared to 13 percent at community colleges), nearly all students who leave have student loan debt, even when they don't have a degree or diploma or increased earning power."

"Most for-profit colleges charge much higher tuition than comparable programs at community colleges and flagship State public universities. The investigation found Associate degree and certificate programs averaged four times the cost of degree programs at comparable community colleges. Bachelor's degree programs averaged 20 percent more than the cost of analogous programs at flagship public universities despite the credits being largely non-transferrable."

People going to public schools are getting loans for unjustifiably expensive 'educations' which are nearly universally absolutely worthless. That is why such a staggering number of people attending for-profit schools have trouble.

You can dig up more and more data, looking for a way to make for-profit schools look good, but all you are really doing is shoveling more data onto the heap of reasons why they are predatory shitheads.
Look at the prices for the iPhone 5C Unlocked
It's a phone... If you are concerned that your fingerprints MIGHT be uploaded you need to consider just not using a smartphone. AKA "a voluntary spy device".
I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
What happens if a client cancels a milestone or otherwise simply doesn't hit "approved"? Machinist has my money, not me. I feel a lack of control, and I feel this isn't something I couldn't do with a single phone call and a cheque in the mail (or a payment on my own website). The price point is way too high for the service imho.

I don't even engage someone unless I believe they have the full amount of money available to pay me. And I don't start work without cold hard cash in my bank account. 50% up front, 50% on completion balances a client's commitment with a developer's commitment. Each party takes a risk in terms of time and money (big projects can usually be broken down into smaller 50/50 payments for milestones).

In terms of this service, I feel the developer is taking a bigger risk in terms of devoting time to a project that may or may not produce money, and in the meantime s/he has nothing to eat with.

I just don't understand the logic of paying someone to withhold my money from me when I can ask for real money up front, directly, for free.
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Serious question -- what is the big deal if someone gets your fingerprints? I can't think of the last time my fingerprint was used as some infallible method of identification, if ever. If the spooks want it, they already have it. I'd rather someone get their hands on my fingerprint than my passport, driver's license, and credit cards, and it seems much more difficult to steal than those things.

I think the fingerprint scanner is positioned not to be some indestructible lock like RSA or a safe-deposit box, but a reasonably decent deterrent like door locks and The Club. It seems to be at the same level of security as your iPhone passcode -- a well-equipped intruder can certainly get into your stuff, but your mom or a pickpocket won't be able to.
"64-bit processor" almost universally refers to using a 64-bit word size: 64 bits of virtual memory space (even if only some of it is mappable) and 64-bit ALUs.

This was well covered when desktops switched, but the main advantages are that certain operations are faster (e.g. RSA) and the extra address space lets you use mmap() and the page cache for everything, instead of writing your own stupid cache.

Disadvantages are that 64-bit code consumes more memory. There are ways around this.
Definitely, and, on the other hand, if that's true there will only be a client side verification, which will be defeated by a jailbreak sooner or later. When it happens anyone who steals your phone will have an easy way to your money as well I guess.
The benefits of outsourcing your computing infrastructure are also huge and clear, as are the benefits of sharing your personal information. That's why so many people do it, and will continue to do so.

In-house computing infrastructure is very expensive and most firms have their comparative advantage in doing Something Else, so it makes much more economic sense to run on AWS or somesuch instead of buying a pile of physical machines and running their own server farm. Likewise, many web and mobile services provide huge benefits for their users via network effects. I personally don't enjoy using Facebook enough to maintain an active account, but many millions of people clearly do, and I can't say they're wrong for choosing to spend their time that way.
I should have clarified that my original comment was from the perspective of a consumer - making payments using NFC, not accepting them.

Mag stripe is horribly insecure and developing new technologies around it because of easy to perform a transaction will only allow fraud to continue to exist. In Canada, I question every merchant that does not support chip technology.

USA merchants are reluctant to change. The rest of the world is moving on with or without them.
Obligatory links to H-1B studies sure to stir controversy here.

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1bwritings.html
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> But even so, who's to say that people shouldn't be allowed to take risks with their own life and limb? Meh.

That would be fair if he signed a waiver that stated he denied any care if they drop him off in the emergency room. If he's in an accident and unconscious, they are going to take him to the hospital where he'll be treating insurance or not. Without insurance that cost will more likely than not just be spread around.
I wonder if iOS 7 supports 2 factor authentication (print + passcode)?
If you've ever left the country, they already have your fingerprints anyway...
"These devices have mostly hit the natural limits of what's achievable for now."

Isn't that always the case? But "now" is a moving target.
Not on Hacker News. On Hacker News your press conference should alternate new feature paragraphs with apologies.

"We have a new fingerprint sensor! But, you probably don't want to use it because privacy crazies online think Apple is a front for the NSA."

"We're moving to a 64-bit architecture! But, geeks with low reading comprehension think it's not that useful because we have tiny RAM, so you should just ignore this point too."

"We have the best mobile phone camera ever created! But, everything was already good enough, so we've probably just wasted two years developing this and wasting shareholder dollars instead of entering the virtual cow social abuse market."
For the record I have never left my medical bills unpaid.
You must have missed the word "starting" ;)
What they didn't mention is that it's stored in the L2 cache ;-)
I was thinking exactly that. I don't think Jobs with his extreme perfectionism would've let this come out to the market. It's so "un-Apple".
Yes. And how exactly do we check this? Why is it that we can still trust Apple? For all we know, the data gets sent directly to the NSA or, if it doesn't, there might be some secret backdoor that will make the device send the data at a later point. The last round of leaks was specifically talking about backdoors with all bigger US companies in order to circumvent encryption.

That's what I means by "we have to consider the iPhones backdoored". Once you can't trust the device any more, all bets are off and thus we can't be sure that what Apple says they do with that fingerprint is what they actually are doing.

(edit: regarding jailbreaking, I seriously doubt that a sufficiently well-hidden backdoor would be found by a jailbreaker. Or have we found the backdoors in OSX or Windows yet? Since the latest leak, we know they are there)
it's quite a common pattern in commandline apps to check if the stdout is a tty or not, and do things differently if so. So when you pipe it through `cat', it does the no-fancy-included output, much like the colouring that `ls' will apply interactively, but not when piped/redirected.
Turn off JavaScript and you can scroll with the arrows/page keys... but yeah, annoying.
It's cheaper to buy the 5S off contract at $650 and take it to Straight Talk ($45 a month AYCE data/minutes) than to buy the 5C and pay $100 a month at AT&T for two years.
> Yeah, sure, until some numpty digs up your internet connection cable.

My last employer was not into 'the cloud'. Just a smart manufacturing company, with sites in five countries, two data centers, one on each continent.

Which would die in about a day without the internet.

Each site could chug along for a while, but without the bits flowing in, and out, coordination gets out of whack and after about three workshifts they'd have no idea what to work on next.

Cloud or not, if the internet goes so goes the business.

That or they'd ask us to re-install those doggone fax servers we retired in 2007.
Most? Really?

I've never had to submit my fingerprints except to apply for concealed carry licenses, which is an interaction with the police-judicial complex, just one to show you're not of interest to them. I suppose enlightened California's driver's licenses is somewhat in that direction, but in other states I wonder if it's so routine.
This is an example of how rumors can be bad when they don't come true. It was rumored that the 5C would be much cheaper for emerging markets, but clearly that's not Apple's strategy (at least not yet).
And you're probably the only person in line to even bother with a 4 digit password.
If you don't have the problem of getting paid on time, every time (or at all) by clients, then this product probably isn't for you.
This isn't entirely true. There are indie games that are open source or have publicly available easily accessible source code.

LD48 requires that you open source games in the jam, so that's 1000s of games with available source code, even if most of them don't live on Github. Quite a few Humble Bundle games are open source as a result of the bundle (http://indiegamebundle.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Humble_Bundle_...) I can think of other indie games that are open source, Stephen Lavelle's games (http://www.increpare.com/), Game Maker Spelunky, Mari0, Infinite Super Mario Bros. Roguelikes are also usually open source.

Libraries or contributions to frameworks that have come from indie game developers include MojoShader (http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus&dat...), MonoGame for Mac OS X, Linux and NaCL, (http://supergiantgames.com/index.php/2012/08/bastions-open-s...), Flashpunk and Flixel.

I also think it's unfair to knock game developers for not open sourcing their games. Last time I checked, many startups open source libraries and helper code, but very few of them open source their product code. The indie game community is also much smaller than the startup community and also less technical on average.
Then what do you think about $199 for a smart phone that is in every way as capable?

http://www.google.com/nexus/4/
I can only scroll down once, to design. Guess someone forgot to test things.

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I'm quite impressed no one mentioned 'fg', 'bg', and 'jobs'. Since I got used to them, the number of open ptys in my screen dropped drastically.
Having owned a Nexus 4, it is really no comparison to the build quality of an iphone 4/5. It has amazing innards and the best mobile OS, but the case is cheap and fragile.
NFC didn’t really break through in the market. Not yet, not ever, I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure that Apple is betting on Bluetooth LE, something their devices already have. I could see that work out.
The nexus 4 kills both in price currently, I think. It is quite important to is in markets where phone subsidies don't exist.

Not to mention the Nokia 620, which is cheap (1700 RMB) but lacks the high res screen.
Mag stripe is horribly insecure and a major cause of debit and credit card fraud. May 2013 - $45 million heist in the USA: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/thieves-sto...

Copy/paste from article: Pretty much every other developed country got rid of magnetic stripe cards years ago, and many countries are multiple generations beyond that tech. In the UK and much of Europe, the "chip and PIN" card, properly called the EMV (for "Europay, MasterCard and Visa"), is dominant; it's a regular plastic card, but it's embedded with a tiny computer chip that serves as authentication in conjunction with a regular four-digit PIN. The EMV system is much more secure than the magnetic stripe card; when it was introduced to France, the country saw an 80% reduction in card fraud. (It was introduced in 1992, by the way. The France of 20 years ago was more advanced than the US is now.) The benefits: authentication is far more sophisticated than reading a simple magnetized strip; it incorporates actual encryption protocols like DES, the Data Encryption Standard.

The chief vulnerability of the EMV system? IT STILL HAS MAGNETIC STRIPES. EMV cards have a magnetic stripe so they can be used in dumber, slower countries, like the US, which can't read the chips. The only real hack of the EMV system relies on transferring information from the magnetic stripe, rather than the chip.
As an anecdote, my pinky fingers are similar enough to have digital fingerprint readers reject them as "a duplicate finger", so I'm thinking the idea is that they are supposed to be unique. I've gotten a few "I've never seen it do this..." lines from the attendant and generally wind up leaving with ink-covered fingers. I'm curious if this reader winds up having the same issue.
Yeah, right around the time Apple patented the rounded rectangle.
>Are you claiming that the original authors daughter was imagining her classmates bullying her?

No, I am claiming that the problems the post I replied to was putting forth are imaginary. I am quite aware that bullying is a real problem.

>Are you saying that I'm imagining the fact that there are far more men than women in the programming profession?

No, I am saying that is not an indication of a problem, much less systemic oppression. There is a strong correlation between increased freedom to choose "non-traditional" professions and fewer people choosing them. More women worked "men's jobs" when they were told they were men's jobs than they do now that they are encouraged to seek those jobs.

>But you're not going to tell me that bullying someone and telling them to get into the kitchen is not a problem.

Stop presenting such a ridiculous strawman. You can read the post I replied to. You can see that it is clearly not the article. Your entire response is predicated on ignoring the context of the conversation and repositioning my post as being a response to something completely different.
Yeah, I'll probably just list my 5 "high" on Amazon, and buy a 5S IFF it sells, or just pay the Apple tax for the year. I'm not sure how Verizon works with upgrades when you have multiple devices on an account (phone, 3 iPads, 2 Mifi); could I just upgrade one of the iPads I brought to an iPhone 5S and shuffle things around?