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As soon as Wall St. reigns in their tendency to profit off just about every thing they can imagine, legal or not [1] - seeing as they can just buy off the regulators or lawmakers.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-31/money-laundering-ba...
This is probably why they bought AuthenTec
As I read through the website, I felt mislead by the title "REST Hooks - Stop the polling madness" in that I believed we were talking directly about reducing something like AJAX long polling for an alternative means of retrieving data from the backend.

Having felt that pain before, and not opting for WebSockets yet, I was hoping for some kind of simple alternative. I have a portion of code that occurs during a registration process that is currently polling the backend for status updates as to the worker queue's progress (it's a lengthy registration with several moving pieces and calls to multiple remote APIs).
They said fingerprints never leave the devices, are not backed up and "don't hit Apple servers".
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All the cutlery in my kitchen has my fingerprints on it too.
epic.
If you were having trouble finding articles, what's with the Google screen grab on slide 6? Was this something you created specifically for the slides? If that is the case, showing a fabricated screen grab without noting it as such seems a bit disingenuous. It's a bit like selling a diet with a doctored "before" picture.
The plastic they're using (hard-coated polycarbonate) is, I believe, the same plastic used on many of the Nokia Lumia phones which a lot of people say feel much higher quality than other, regular plastic phones. That said, the 5C is the cheaper option and it isn't going to feel as good as the aluminium of the 5S. I don't however think it will be anywhere near as cheap-feeling as other phones (e.g. the Samsung Galaxy S4 which has been described as feeling "greasy").
Or a Nokia Lumia ;).

(Edit: Referring to the fact that the touchscreen on some Lumias can be used with gloves.)
But he/she said usually, not always. And yeah, a ton of people use windows 7/8 so he/she can say that.
Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors (2002)
That may be true now, but we've seen very recently how powerful government orders can be. I could easily see it starting with "we do not upload fingerprints" to "we only send fingerprints at the request of government warrants" to something much more massive down the road.
Why do mobile payments require silly NFC hardware? iOS does mobile payments perfectly well with Square.
Airplay mirroring.
Well, I am not opposed to manipulating files by hand. I just dont want to do that when I have CLI for everything else. Keeping the content of the file the same on all servers is more toilsome than simple command. Of course there are tools like chef but that is not the point.
Just FYI - you can't technically carve up a /64 without breaking EUI-64 rules if you're talking about subnets.

With that said, you can still technically do just that or just break it up logically. You can have some interesting fun with routing between a few internal hosts. I've had some fun with Quagga on Linode slices in this regard.
Try something like:

find . | sed -e 's=/[^/]*$==' | uniq -c
More importantly, what are they talking about when they say 64-bit? The architecture uses 64-bit addresses? The processor uses 64-bit registers? What are the main advantages to current CPUs?
Your cutlery doesn't have fingerprint digitizers and a wifi connection.

I'm generally of the opinion that we can't trust any information on our devices to actually remain secret now.
> I think that at this point, you can stop using a 4 year old phone.

You sound like an Apple salesman. Who the hell says 4 years is old? It worked PERFECTLY WELL.

> Or, if you insist on using it, you shouldn't complain if modern software doesn't run 100% on it.

It's Apple who pushes consumers the whole time with "upgrades". Besides, all the consumer is asking for is security patches. If "upgrades" do effectively downgrade the product, then why do the produce this "modern software"? Because the want to sell the latest iPhone.
I would hope that they simply save a hash of the fingerprint with a reasonable level of collision built in to make it difficult to tie a hash to a single person's fingerprint (maybe ~10 people would have that hash?). I would imagine they could then use some sort of secret tied to the device id and hash pair to positively identify to the server.

edit for clarity
Yeah I'm still stuck. Not really sure if it's a problem with requestAnimationFrame anymore, though.

If you're so inclined, I'd appreciate if you'd take a look at my stack overflow question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18603962/javascript-memor...

At this point, I'm either fundamentally screwed up in my design or have some small innocuous looking thing which is eating all of my memory.
The iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s
I wonder what they'll do next year. Reactivate a discontinued iPhone 5? Or maybe they keep the smaller form factor around but then they'd have to maintain three iPhone lines.

edit: Thinking about it, an iPhone 5C 8GB seems like the most likely candidate.
Do the bronze plans qualify as "high deductible" plans and let customers use a health savings account?
Most likely it will default to a password at that point.
Totally depends on how it feels. Certain Android phones do feel cheap because of the plastic they used, just as certain laptops felt cheap. Apple has a history of making polycarbonate products that do genuinely feel significantly nicer than the average product.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/janchip/status/377454752402903040
Here you go:

16GB - $649,
32GB - $749,
64GB - $849

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-iphone/iphone5s
What if someone cuts your finger off and walks around with it in a zip lock bag... like the Minority Report eye ball scene...
Two things. First, it's fine to try to stop discrimination in tech in the general sense, but it shouldn't be framed as a problem specifically with tech, doing so narrows the focus to the point at which it can't actually address the general problem only very specific limited instances. Secondly, you're confusing two different issues, the gender imbalance in tech, and gender based discrimination in tech. While it's true there is a gender imbalance in tech, I do not accept that it's being caused by gender discrimination in tech. Yes, discrimination does sometimes occur, however I don't believe it's much more prevalent in tech than it is in any other industry. The gender imbalance and media stereotypes around tech have an amplifying effect, not to mention being a significant minority in any situation tends to lead to being singled out and marginalized (human nature). If you want to fix tech, then fix the media stereotypes and more importantly the poor quality of tech education in schools, the rest will work itself out as the gender imbalance is equalized. As for the more general problem on misogyny in all parts of life, I'm not sure how best to fix that, biggots of all kinds exist everywhere, I do my best to avoid them whenever possible (in the rare cases where I'm actually in charge of them I'd set them straight with what's acceptable, but that rarely happens).
I was starting to fill mine up, but I started using iTunes Match and automatic photo uploads to Dropbox and that freed up a good amount of space.
I've read that in some cases fingerprints between left and right hands can differ. I wonder if you can have more than one fingerprint stored on your device?
and that's why Nokia posted this: https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672/photo...
Then don't upgrade the software on your phone either. You consume energy every time you upgrade, further depleting our planet of its finite supply of resources.
I suspect we don't hate signing up as much as the OP posits. I particularly dislike the shopping sites such as One Kings Lane that required singnup/login just to browse, but apparently OKL is doing something right since it I believe it's a "leader".

On the contrary, Stripe's guest access always struck me as very odd, and unlikely to be copied. For payments, I'd rather go ahead and signup to get my sandbox account.
Smartphone hardware is in the 9th inning. These devices have mostly hit the natural limits of what's achievable for now. Bad for Apple since this effectively levels the playing field.
mdfind is incomparably more powerful than locate.
Stop advancing software because people want to run a seven year old hardware platform?
Another potential alternative: local accounts.

I worked on a site that's very privacy-oriented and users were still asking for accounts. We didn't want to store their information on our servers. Instead, we use localstorage to keep their settings and a list of things they've uploaded. They don't even have to sign in, and they still get the same experience. Try it: https://mediacru.sh

It obviously won't work for everyone, but if you just want to offer users a means to keep track of what they've been doing on your site, consider going locally.
If someone is going to remove your finger to access the phone, you probably would just give them the four digit pin.

This is a way to get normal people to use better security than nothing and to give them the convenience of not having to enter an App Store password every time they install an app.

It's not meant to protect special forces operatives in the field or CIA analysts' contact lists.
Then you merely use a regular passcode, by the sounds of it. :)
I think it works on multiple finger prints.
I wonder what this will do to the resale value of iPhone 5 64G Verizon. I'd upgrade from 5 -> 5S if it net cost were <$300, but it appears Priceonomics says it is $320-$450, and a new iPhone 5S 64G is $849.
> I really don't think fingerprint as personal key is a good idea.

It's not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361968
I'd say, they're not bullshit, but presenting them in such a finely graduated ranking is harmful

There is a huge difference between the top 100 schools and the 201st-300th best schools.
I used to think that fingerprint sensors were pretty cool, and even purchased the option on a laptop some years ago. That was until I found out the relative ease of duplicating fingerprints [1]. Now, I am wary of leaving my password on everything I touch.

[1]: http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren?langu...
I never tried Docker (looking around now), but the approach is extremely dirty for a few reasons.

1. Process supervision should be handled in Docker (or something that is designed to do supervision), not in the `while true` loop. Idea on hanging on *.log files is terrible. Maybe there is a reason to stop the container when application stops?

2. There must be a better way to handle docker logs of multiple programs. If not, run both instances in different containers.

3. The thing serves configuration files to arbitrary clients that ask for them. It doesn't even log multiple downloads of the same key (though serves the private keys over SSL, which makes it hilarious on the purpose of SSL here).

Point 3 is openvpn specific and can be acceptable for example (though I am still lost why bother with SSL). However, points 1 and 2 show how to seriously misuse Docker. Either Docker or the setup is flawed (I suspect the latter).

Please do not take this article as an example how to do things in Docker. There must be better way, in more or less every step.
Apple are hoping that journalists are lazy or rushing to meet a deadline, so they get headlines line "New iPhone is 40x faster than old iPhone!".

They could have put "2x faster than iPhone 5" in their slides, but they deliberately chose to put 40x (referring to the original iPhone) and leave it slightly ambiguous.
College rankings and reviews suck.  I make it better.
Apple Store - prices and dates
5C 16GB $549

5C 32GB $649
> (no more entering your iTunes password!)

Buying $80 of apps and songs on a drunken night has never been this easy! :P
Yep, that's about right. Especially the memorizing the phone numbers part.

One of my mother's former law partners used to help get Martin Sheen out of jail whenever he arrested protesting. He actually has a quick cameo in the first season of the West Wing. He's a state judge now, but still has a bit of that radical streak in him.

He once described the whole elaborate choreography of activist arrest and release. You want the media to be present, both at arrest and release. You want the use of force by the police to be both disproportionate and highly visible.

There are a whole series of elaborate rules to make the state's use of force work for you. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is the traditional primer in this sort of thing, but it's always interesting to hear the stories of those that lived that type of life.
Apple reveal iPhone 5S with iOS7, Touch ID, A7 chip, slo-mo camera
Yes, it seems it supports several fingerprints.
GOD: Thou shall not lie

TSA: But the US Government says it's perfectly okay to lie! Besides, we killed you decades ago.

GOD: Sorry, but I'm still the Boss whether you believe in me or not, and I'm not changing my mind on this one. Thou shall not lie.
I think you've been reading the egregiously inaccurate and agenda driven Story of Stuff.
I love my MBA because of the battery life. All day battery, not having to worry, is a great thing. My iPhone 5...not the same at all. It will definitely run out with heavy usage, and with iOS7 multitasking I'm quite concerned. The face that the 5S didn't boast improved battery life makes me think that in reality, running iOS7 on the new iPhone won't make it all day, and I will have to keep using a mophie case. I'd love to see battery life extended by 50% to truly make it "All day battery" (they could call it 2 day).
It's not the pipe through wc, but statting the directory entries which slows you down.

If your locatedb is current, you can use locate for this:

$ locate $PWD | wc -l

That runs in just a hair under a second (0.908s real) for the first instance. 'find' takes a few seconds on first pass (it's got to read from disk), but is surprising fast (0.227s real) on subsequent runs.

So I guess it depends on whether you're doing it just once or multiple times.
Usually the previous phone version is dropped to $100, not free. So what we would expect without the 5c is: 5s - $200, 5 - $100, 4s - $0.

They've just replaced the 5 with 5c.
Try using a password - I can guarantee they're not making this mandatory..
To run this in iPython (once iPython is installed and notebooks cloned), in your terminal run: ipython notebook Chapter1_Introduction/Chapter1_Introduction.ipynb
> Yes. Absolutely. How is this so controversial?

You clearly don't understand the target audience. An either-or setup for unlocking their phone is already way too complicated, especially for the average iPhone user. Steve Jobs would have never allowed such a gimmicky feature.
... you realize there are large parts of the US itself where gloves aren't a thing during winter time, right? Shit, I grew up above the 49th parallel and didn't wear gloves regularly throughout the year.

The world isn't the northeast.
At the very least, It would open them up to a massive class action lawsuit. The repercussions would likely run much deeper that though.
re: ascii tables

You reminded me of something. There is actually a really cool and simple site called asciiflow [1], which I use all the time to draw diagrams for explaining things in email, etc. It's pretty cool, and was even submitted several times to HN [2, 3].

[1] http://www.asciiflow.com/#Draw

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598177
I don't know about you, but I'd gladly give my password to someone today if they were threatening to cut off my finger. Unless you're seriously harder than me, what is the difference?
Presumably it's just a bog-standard TPM (the only non-standard part being that it's part of a SoC.)
I am sure that phone will be a good experience, with great greaphics, the biometrics and nice camera. I am just 100% distrustful of Apple at this point.

Even the NSA called apple "Big Brother" and they called Apple customers "Zombies"

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I mean, if the NSA is calling it out for us in their slides... and this thing is now tracking all motion data - along with health-app tie-ins.... the NSA may as well offer medical insurance.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/nsa-steve-jobs_n_38...
It has lot applications beyond security.
You are getting downvoted a lot (for various reasons I'm sure), but you really do make a good point. The jump from 16GB to 32GB is $100 w/ the iPhone. I think a lot more people would jump for $50. But probably not enough to sacrifice the (generous) margins given by a $100 increase.
Any more info available on the "M7 Motion Coprocessor" chip? That's the most interesting addition IMO.
> Except they specifically said the fingerprint is never sent across the Internet

And no one has ever found exploits in mobile devices that allow data that is supposed to be locally stored to be remotely accessed.
FYI: the 3GS was sold until September last year. I have non-techie friends who bought one. Probably in the reasonable expectation that a phone that is still being sold (and not in the aftermarket) gets updates for a while.
REAL mobile payments, not gimmicks or old mag stripe. I'm talking EMV specification transactions on real merchant networks - you either need a smart card contact chip or NFC.

Mag stripe is dead, I don't support payment technologies that continue to promote it - Square, Shopify POS, etc. The USA is way behind on implementing EMV. (I know, Shopify is Canadian)
Perhaps Apple needs to require a password to boot off USB or to access target disk mode.
Now, that doesn't say it's never uploaded to other servers than those of Apple's.

Cynicism at its new level but who can I really blame.
> I've read that in some cases fingerprints between left and right hands can differ. I wonder if you can have more than one fingerprint stored on your device?

A fine question, but I've never heard of anyone having the same fingerprints on their left and right hands. Is this actually something that happens with any reasonable frequency?
I do hope that the one removing the finger knows that.
I never said it is the police's responsibility to arrange for the translator. I said that the police should maintain status quo (with a definite time period) and allow the accused to arrange for a interlocutor of his choice. I said that it was the police's responsibility to upfront state that to the alleged instead of asking questions and trying to exploit the loophole of the accused not knowing his rights.
There have been times in the past where our family PCs were Linux-only. When I got here I started talking to someone in our building kitchen and she was like "Oh yeah I work on the second floor which is the open source compatibility lab where we make sure Linux runs well on Azure."

Most folks I've met are really nice and hard working, but a couple of times I've been in meetings and thought to myself "I bet I'm the only person in the room here who's ever actually worked in an office supply store." :-)
It'll probably cause some new headaches for developers having to compile two versions.
I have a funny story also. I "invented" mmx, and markov chains. Well, MMX didn't exist when I envisioned it, it came 10 years later. Markov chains, I have no idea how long they've been around, but I'd had the idea about 6 years ago. If only once I can generate a new idea, I'd be happy.
The ACA also sets new maximums on maximum deductibles. My $3000 deductible Aetna plan won't be legal any more; no individual plan can have a deductible above $2500, or so I've read.
I think you can always use passwords. This is just an alternative, an easier one. I'm guessing both options will be available at once.
Capacitive sensing doesn't detect if a finger is alive or not.
There are no hits for xxd on the Unix Tree (http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl) so it's definitely not a traditional Unix tool. I'm sitting in front of a BSD system which includes nvi. I don't have xxd.
IPhone Audio Usability
In my experience, power users need less storage than non-power users. How many novices have you seen with 16GB nearly full of photos and videos?
A dead finger is the same as a live one as far as capacitance goes unless it has been dead so long that all the moisture is gone, in which case you could just dip it in water prior to the scan.

Having said that, the idea of losing a finger to access the device doesn't really make much sense. You've got to incapacitate someone pretty well to take their finger off, so you might as well just force them to touch the phone while they are so incapacitated, unless you really like chopping off fingers.
A lot more people use the OSes I listed.
Tim Carmody's tweet suggests you can still use the numeric code:

https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/377495998727483392
Why? What are they going to do with your fingerprint?
Apple iPhone 5C
Generally you would be a fool to anyway. Chances are that anybody can make their own fake finger with gummy bears and a print found on the glossy case. Same has always been true though, through bootrom exploits and simple shoulder surfing.

Did you know your passcode can be more than 4 digits? Most people don't.
Better photos, TouchID, snappier performance -- a traditional incremental Apple upgrade befitting the "S" moniker.

I've long been wondering when/if Apple would take on NFC and things like payments more aggressively. I get the feeling that they're going to skip NFC entirely, and that TouchID is going to be a large part of processing transactions without the need for any physical device interaction (swipe/tap/bump).

Right now I've got that hazy tip-of-iceberg feeling that Apple is probably in the early phases of executing some grand vision that I can't yet see the entirety of.

And that's why Apple continues to be the leading consumer device co: who else out there has "vision?" Google is the closest, but IMHO Android has always felt reactionary, not visionary.
I think the grandparent is speaking of iOS 6. iOS 7 has iPhone 4 as the minimum requirement.
The problem is that it seems to matter in terms job prospects. I'm a biomedical engineering undergrad, so I thought I made the right decision turning down Harvard to come to Hopkins.

However, our recruitment is abysmal compared to Harvard even for biotech and I'm seeing peers who went to a much less rigorous undergraduate engineering program that also has grade inflation getting the jobs I want simply because those companies are not hiring from Hopkins.
Damn, that was quick. Thanks guys, appreciate the replies.
You can train the phone to use more than 1 finger.
We should decide why we are above it all though, shouldn't we?

Is it because all of the top-ranked colleges are essentially the same, or is it because the top-ranked colleges are different in ways that are not captured by a single number.

Furthermore, if we are going to distinguish between, prestige, selectivity, learning outcomes, jobs out of college, careers 10, 20, 30 years out of college, or whether we measure that by income, or influence, etc, before even moving on to distinguishing between the paths chosen by graduates of Yale, Juilliard, or CalTech, shouldn't we at least identify which is the one true metric, and why it is better than this magazine's?

In dismissing rankings as but one take on the distinctions, I don't think prospective students are better served by the contention that the schools are largely interchangeable.
Similar to the computer generated sports articles? [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/business/computer-generate...
This is definitely better, but what I would expect is a short explanation of what happens to REST requests - why are there fewer of them? Are you caching the responses, serving them to clients (who are still polling, but they are polling you instead of the REST server) and waiting for PUSH request from server to invalidate the cache? Or is this a client-side solution too which allows a client to trigger a REST request only when data is available?