skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the country where I live (Switzerland), getting a drivers license thankfully does not involve somebody taking your fingerprint. Also, public transportation here rules to such an extent that not even having a drivers license is a perfectly valid option. I don't have one for example.

My passport also is one of the last ones you could get without it containing any biometric data.

As such, I'm reasonably sure that no third-party ever had access to my fingerprint. And I'd love for it to stay like this (see my parent comment for the reasons why)
Yeah just fingerprint means someone could use your finger to unlock the phone while you're asleep in a cell / drugged / restrained / knocked out.
The point of that image is to get eyeballs, Nokia sharing some mindspace with Iphone. Besides Nokia did it with polycarbonate.
I disagree completely. There is no evidence that H1-B holders are taking up low end jobs.

The fact is that there are too few programmers in the US and far more jobs. The H1-B allows companies to import a slave workforce bound to the visa.

Your assumption that they are merely program assemblers is insulting to everyone who holds an H1-B. Their education backgrounds are competitive with the US.

If there is any correlation with H1-B holders and large corporations, it is most likely due to the willingness to sponsor H1-B visas.
In most democracies we elect politicians to decide if things are good and worth funding.

Please don't anticipate my answers :) at present people are paying out of their own pockets for 3rd and 4th level education. So this is happening.

Taxes are not yours. They belong to the state. There is a fallacy that exists that you own your taxes and "pay them" to the state. This is not the reality. The reality is that the state has always owned the taxes and by virtue of the system they have created (which the taxes are used to fund) enable you to earn a living. You owe taxes because you have used the resources of the state. Be it the land, the security forces or the markets or transport networks.
Very disappointing that they couldn't get the 5C closer to the rumored $399 or $450 off-contract prices... $549 is very steep for 1-year old technology wrapped in a $2 plastic case. I'd sell my AAPL stock today (if I had any left) before Wall Street crunches their numbers.
When we have more transparency around the NSA's operations.
'How much worse is that than e.g. Sweden, '

I'm going to go ahead and say that Turkey and Russia are still, pretty clearly, worse in this area, and you could probably quantify this. It's not good that Sweden's press isn't quite as diversified as it could be, but I think we can both agree that the constitutional protections in Sweden are objectively better than those in Turkey and Russia.

It might be hard to quantify these differences, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, and it doesn't mean that attempts to do so are even nearly worthless.
If we're assuming the worst, then nothing you use is safe. Google? No... Downgrade to a regular non-smart phone? I guess that's safer. They'll still have your phone records, though.
The USA already has all 10 of my fingerprints. When I was going through the process of becoming a permanent resident, I had to scan it into a machine.

Every time I come back into the USA after coming back from a trip outside the country, I have to scan multiple of my prints.
This is the man who wouldn't put a speaker hole in the case of his computer because it ruined the looks. He also called Google to have them change the color of their logo because it didn't fit with the iPhone style.

With that in mind, would he have approved of holes in cases that only partially obscured the logo?
If he doesn't have anything to hide from his wife then he has nothing to worry about.
In Light of Fingerprint Recognition in the iPhone 5S: How to fake fingerprints?
Respectfully, I think your view is overly cynical, and applies to a very small number of services out there that truly provide no value and exist solely for the purpose of harvesting E-mail addresses and SPAMming.

For most operators with a genuine product, the push to get you to register is neither 100% for your benefit nor 100% for theirs.
what does "her writing style is masculine" even MEAN?
On the other hand, my 4S has a persistent mobile data connection, so storing music locally is of no great benefit to me. I guess all we can conclude is that 16GB can be huge, or tiny, depending on how you want to use your device.
Well, I have tried... Here's my last reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6362371

I have put quite an effort to explain my position and the view on the situation. I've got some background in applied math and (I suppose) that my arguments are well in line with the requirements of elementary logic. Maybe I was too emotional in making my case, I don't know. I really feel helpless to somehow protect the Syrian people from unnecessary deaths and their country from complete destruction by US and it's allies. In a similar way I feel helpless in arguing with you.

I feel that I've been deluding myself in a sense that discussing the issue of Syrian bombardments with you was only a channel to funnel my complete helplessness to prevent US from bombing Syrian people.

I feel that for now it is better for me to channel my free time and efforts to the subjects that are in the realm of reach, such is the situation in my own country and in my own life.

Best wishes and good luck! Let's hope that our motives in this issue are much closer than we might feel.
the difference is that apple doesn't merely do what you're describing. in the past, they have actively lambasted others for marketing bigger numbers.
Actually, after hitting C-R <keyword>, you can keep pressing C-R to search backwards through the history. Or C-S to search forwards. More info: (bash uses emacs editing mode by default) http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bas...
There was a story floating around recently about a Russian man who marked up his credit card agreement and sent it back, where it was blindly signed by a representative of the card company, and he then enforced it on them with hilarious and expensive consequences for the card company.

Yeah, they'll probably just toss your counter-offer. But the point is that you can make it. You can take their contract, alter it, sign the altered copy, and send it back, and then they can accept or refuse. The important point here is that you are not considered to have agreed to the original because you signed an altered copy.

A more thorough way to do this electronically would be to modify the DOM, save the modified agreement, click Agree to sign your end, and then e-mail the modified agreement back to the originator and let them know what's going on. Of course, their automated systems have given you access in the meantime, but that's hardly your fault.

I don't really understand how making a modification you know won't be sent back to the server is "fraud", but sending the user an agreement you know won't be read is "not fraud". Seems like either we base both scenarios on what people should do (read the original/modified agreement), or on what people actually do (not read anything), but not base one scenario on one and one scenario on the other.

You say you don't see why an agreement to the original is invalidated because you couldn't make a counter-offer, but that's how contracts work. Negotiation is inherent to the process. Big companies are trying to hide that with form contracts that everyone is expected to sign as-is, but it's still supposed to be present.
I don't know, the bureaucratic apathy coupled with decades old technology of your local DMV might make a decently effective example of security through obfuscation.
This was one of the most interesting articles to pop up on hn recently. Kudos to eat24 for sharing that research.

What are some other things that could appeal to porn users? Travel? Legit online dating( ie match/eharmony)? Credit card savings? Subscription services (would dollar shave club do well?)
Jobs was famous for eliminating SKUs and simplifying.
>It isn't like holding an H1B is a necessary part of the process for getting a green card, or even necessarily a leg up on the process.

How else does a young graduate outside of US, not part of the diversity green card program get a Green Card without H1-B or L1 Visas? Realistically H1-B/L1 visas are the only option for many people aspiring for green cards.
Yeah, but FWIW, as a foreigner traveling to the US, I already had to give my fingerprints to Homeland Security. So they are on file I suppose.
It appears that on OS X 10.6 cal is from 2004, and on Ubuntu it's a 2009 build. The 2009 build highlights the day of the month.
GNU Parallel. My new favorite command. I have probably written at least two or three ad-hoc, buggy, feature poor versions of that command before discovering it.
Because no other company ever criticizes their competitors' marketing?

This discussion is frankly insane. This stuff is called "marketing". Virtually every company does it. Companies that don't do it are called "failures".
Keep in mind that "Computer Programmers" means a very specific thing to the Department of Labor and only captures the low end of the developer market: http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1131.00

There are half a dozen other job categorization that could also be computer programmers, such as:

• Software Developers, Applications

• Software Developers, Systems Software

• Web Developers

• Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers

• Network and Computer Systems Administrator

• Computer Systems Analysts

• Computer Operators

• Database Administrators

The wages are much higher for other job titles. (eg. $88,589 for "Software Developers, Applications")

Also, note that the figure you quote is for the SF Bay Area, while the H-1B figure is an average for the country. Big difference.
Get ready for all of the type 1 and type 2 errors.
You're presenting your argument as if that's the only kind of malicious binary we have to worry about, and since it's (probably) impossible, then therefore we don't have to worry. But there are more ways to compromise a binary than via the compiler automatically backdooring them. Deterministic builds protect against compromised binaries of any kind, so we need to use it.

The attack to be worried about goes like this: You build "Firefox Setup 23.0.1.exe" and intentionally insert a backdoor into the setup process. You make sure the setup process appears to function exactly the same as the clean installer (not hard). You then replace Firefox Setup 23.0.1.exe on various distribution websites with your malicious version. Or you MITM the distribution websites in order to send your malicious version in place of the one the user expects to be downloading.

Deterministic builds defend against that attack vector, while also defending against any hypothetical compiler-backdoor-autoinjector. You get both defense layers for free, just by using deterministic builds. This is a necessary step for the future, not an optional security layer.
Sorry, it's not scary, and mentioning Guantanamo Bay is extremely paranoid and way out of line. If they're really out to get you they don't need your fingerprint.
If you're interested in game-like front ends, have a look at Scaleform[1]. It sits on top of the Flash content pipeline[2], so the toolchain is very mature. It's also included with most serious game engines by default (e.g. Unreal Engine, CryEngine, Unity), and is used for the UI of virtually every AAA game.

1. http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform

2. But uses its own rendering engine, with far better performance than Flash itself.
Its not like it stores all the prints on all your hands...

Does the signature output of the sensor even resemble something that would be useful to a third-party? It seems doubtful that it dumps out a little JPEG... and it might not even be possible to reconstruct.
This site follows a pattern that I've seen before in programmer-driven startups: take a task that might intimidate someone, build some forms around it, and charge for it. In this case the task is to ask a client to prepay.

Maybe it's playing into programmers' belief that if some website asks the client for payment then it's more legit somehow and less scary. "Look at the website, client. See, prepayment is part of a normal, well-established workflow."

And maybe programmers will pay for this confidence booster. I guess that's what matters.
"on-contract" vs "without a contract"
Is 5C inspired by Nokia Lumia ?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=560515223996127&set=... (Nokia Fanpage)
I think what is missing is the explanation of a subscription. On the github-page, there is only one sentence in that regard:

> REST Hooks are a lightweight subscription layer on top of your existing REST API.

That is too short. There the explanation is missing, the same way on the website. maybe in better english if mine is broken, but that addition could fix it: "...,thus that instead of having to poll that API regularly, the subscriber is notified with a POST the moment a change occurs."

I'm probably biased, because that is kind of the same way I once tried to explain the concept, but I think it would be clearer that way.
Anybody interested in this topic should check out the Crimethinc Collective. They have many excellently written essays about the minutiae of activism, including ins and outs of the more dangerous "black bloc" tactics.

http://crimethinc.com/
But do you need to fingerprint when you are 14 and caught without a license in your state?
I don't have fingerprints. A large part of the world population doesn't have readable prints. What now? People on blood thinners, elderly people, Asians, women all have less distinctive prints. I don't have prints due to psoriasis.

Fingerprints are a horrible biometric.
Normal fingerprint cards are pretty hard to procure without the person supplying them noticing, whereas allowing generally known metadata would make privacy violations much easier as well as allow a variety of errors.
"If we use gradual engagement, we will have more, higher quality signups" is a testable hypothesis. It has been tested, by many companies. I regret that I am not at liberty to disclose most specific results, but gradual engagement is really tricky to pull off well, and has often roundly failed compared to the traditional get-their-email-first signup screen. This is true even at companies which don't do anything very sophisticated with the email address once they have it, which is (IMHO) generally a mistake in the sort of markets I usually work in.

The one product I can talk about: Back in the day, Bingo Card Creator had one-click guest accounts. Their conversion rate was 2. Not two percent. Two. Ever. They were a cause of a stupendous portion of my support burden. (From the perspective of most of my users gradual engagement means "The Googles ate my work and now you have ruined the day of a room full of third graders, you monster.") The engineering to support them was fiddly, and ripping it out made the application better. (Despite several attempts to improve them I don't think I ever had near the UX work invested to make the experience not be awful. Again, gradual engagement UX is quite challenging. In particular, the handoff between guest accounts and "real" trial accounts is of paramount importance to my business but is meaningless to customers who have guest accounts until they get to school, at which point they will often discover, to their surprise, that failing to make the decision yesterday to give me their email address now means their cards are totally inaccessible. I never successfully figured out a way -- copy, design, workflow, etc -- to avoid having huge numbers of people fail at this use case.)

Discontinuing guest accounts increased signups of "real" accounts and also sales, if I remember correctly. You can eyeball the signup graph here http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/signups-per-day Apologies in advance for the unclear axes -- that page hasn't had the underlying code updated in years, and I didn't even consider "Hey if I run this business for forever eventually that axis is going to get crowded."
Fwd frev ip scan circdb.
The Geeks on the Front Lines
The costs are so high because certain treatments are expensive; they are expensive because it took very large investments to create them; and it took such large investments because it's extremely difficult to treat many diseases and injuries.

I'm in total agreement that standard, "old" services like a physical or strep test or penicillin should be paid out of pocket and subject to market forces, just like food and clothing are (two other "life-critical" industries).

But it's a very big step from there to not needing health insurance at all. If you get hit by a car doing 30mph and survive, there is no getting around the fact that your treatment is going to be very expensive. IMO that exactly what insurance should be for.
Sure it is, just use an external CPU in the docking station.
"Everyone let's ignore current events and treat this announcement in a bubble"
Those are all just staged for ads (unless you think you can't listen to the Beatles Red Album on a blue nano and vice versa) except for the latest one, which came out after the Nokia devices.

I'm sure someone did it before (I seem to recall IE5 letting you change the interface to match the early iMac colours) but your comment (and a quick glance at the linked image) is misleading as it stands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac#Inter...
>Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and Apple couldn't legally tell us anything different.
China renews push for control of internet
Apple already sells a Euro 400 iPhone. Right now it’s the iPhone 4, later this month it will be the iPhone 4S.

I doubt Apple will want to compete in the bottom of the market as there are too many phone manufacturers that are willing to sell phones at a loss.
JackDB: a concurrent key-val server in Go
Which is also when we can start hacking it for fun and profit.
I totally agree. Save to temporary cookies, let me try it. If I want to continue using the product, ask for my email. That's it.
Not that hard apparently.

http://www.tbreak.ae/features/camera-comparison-nokia-lumia-...
We take for gospel that the NSA is spying on everyone in the world via every hardware device that has been created in the USA because of a few powerpoint slides. Interesting.
/ in the morgue
This is a great example, I'll give you the details:

If USA had adopted EMV technologies, when the criminals attempted to perform a transaction with their mag stripe fraudulent cards, the system would recognize it as an EMV enabled card based on the mag stripe track data. The fraudster would be forced to use the chip on the card, and their whole scheme fails.

In short: Because the EMV wasn't accepted at these machines, mag stripe is used as a backup. If they had used EMV, they would have forced that option and not accepted mag stripe.

The two-part attack is only how they stole the cards in such a mass manner and increased their limits - They could have stolen all the mag stripe data with skimmers and cameras.

Even though others are working hard to protect payment technologies, it does nothing to help countries who fall behind.

EDIT: Program a BLANK CARD? I'm sorry, are you suggesting that it would be easy to obtain encryption keys from Visa/Mastercard/Interac etc? Do you know what you're suggesting?
But that's exactly what they want you to think.
In Mac OS 8, the 'yum!' Gestalt selector returned a value corresponding to the case color. The OS tinted based on this value (at least on first install.)
Mashable's take on the iPhone 5C:

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/things-iphone-5c-looks-like/?...
Most people don't consider the true cost of a phone contract. They're only truly considering the up front cost - and a mid-range phone "costs half".

It's really hard to get the average smartphone buyer to understand the price isn't $100 vs $200, but really $2500 vs $2600 over two years.
Whose data, jailbroken phone owners'? I'm not following you.
FWIW, the double-star recursive globbing was added in Bash 4.0. My reading of the manual[1] suggests it is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting the 'globstar' shell option. I believe it's enabled by default in zsh.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Shopt...
Wow. Thanks for this. I always cursed myself for forgetting to pushd, and now it turns out I didn't need to!
Thanks for the reply. Sounds neat. Sure be nice if Koding had even a single web page the said this. :)
Geo data of the Massachusetts elementary school districts using Python
Saying that fingerprints are a bad biometric because some people can't use them is like saying escalators are a bad idea because some people can't use them.

They might be a bad biometric but it's not because they aren't universally available to everyone.
Have you ever used an ATM? Did you check that it didn't have embedded fingerprint readers in it?
I would think the free aspect of Bitcoin would be appealing to eBay/Paypal, assuming the bulk of the ~3% fee goes to a bank/Visa/MC. The users are accustomed to paying the fee, so eBay has an opportunity to keep it all to themselves
Send all your fingerprints? How many fingers do you need to unlock your phone?
This kind of comment really brings down the level of discourse on this site. If the Nexus 4 is cheap and fragile, then the iPhone 4 is broken, cheap and fragile. They are built with the same materials, but the Nexus doesn't suffer from the embarrassingly bad antenna design of the iphone.
Because even if it's just digits and numbers, 62^26 - 62^25 is a non-brute forceable keyspace.
I don't even notice the metal of my iPhone underneath the rubber and plastic case.
Ah, you're constraining bad outcomes by rationality. Things frequently don't work that way; maybe even generally don't work that way.
You can read it that way, sure. But why would anyone with hiring authority ever make a comment like that on a public forum about his own job posting?
Unrelated question : But whats a good hosting service provider for hosting Adult content ?
Sure, the speed is faster, but that just means you'll be hitting your cap all the quicker. I'm much happier not having to worry about running out of internets in the middle of my billing cycle.
9 Things the iPhone 5C Looks Like
I see people already joking that the C stands for Clown Phone.
Fraudulent wire transfers are "reversible" in the sense that in many jurisdictions the bank has to take the loss (i.e., return money to sender but not get it back from receiver) even if they can't reverse/block the payment. So from consumer's perspective they're reversible as they get their money back.

I've worked in banking on international payments; they aren't reversible in the sense that (a) it's not always possible to do so; (b) there's no well-agreed way to do it, (c) the administrative fees of everyone involved can be quite large and (d) you can't guarantee anything; but in practice we could reverse most of international transactions if a day or two has passed (while money is "in transit", so to speak), and occasionally even long after it's been credited to beneficiary. Of course, there have to be valid reasons, but it can be done.
My home/lifestyle social networking app for iOS, Let's Go Home (https://letsgohomeapp.com), requires sign up to work. So do Facebook, Twitter, Path, and dozens of other apps.
University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post
Works on Firefox for me.
All the more interesting when you consider that Google's mass of data is an invaluable resource to the authorities.