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I had one and it absoutely sucked. Never worked since the day I bought it. Didn't bother to return it since I liked the phone itself.
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I'm putting the finishing touches to a hosted application which will have either a monthly, quarterly or annual subscription price.

For a business idea that is not proven (but I currently believe in), I really don't want to spend a lot of time or money in setting up transaction services.

Here is my very small shortlist of options I identified as suitable candidates:

1. Amazon's FPS - looks very capable but seems way too complex for me to set up. I'm only a part time developer and tend to code through a combination of lynda.com training and pasting error codes into google / stackoverflow.

2. Paypal - trusted brand with consumers, but I know they have had some negative publicity over account freezes. Also their recurring billing service attracts a $19 per month account keeping fee which is not really ideal to me. I'd rather sink this money into adwords!

3. Stripe - looks perfect but they are only in private beta in Australia, so not sure if I'll be able to get an invite.

What are HN readers using, to help with my/others evaluations?

EDIT: formatting & added stripe as I completely overlooked them
I don't see the author's name in the linked Honorable Mentions page. Did someone from Google pull it because they didn't like this blog post? Searched for "tom", "Mathias", and "vago". No recent results for any of these search terms.
Select ThinkPad models still do have integrated fingerprint sensors. Windows 8.1 offers improved native biometrics as well, whereas the previous Windows versions require third-party drivers for compatibility.
I assumed that visually impaired users eschewed touchscreen phones altogether for accessibility issues.
I forgot my password
Really, there is no way to retrieve a password here on HN, you forgot it? Oh Shit tough luck. Seriously, the login and account pages are a terrible, laughable excuse for a site that is frequented by so many educated tech professionals!
If any one who cares reads this, please drop me a line, I would be happy to help make the shitty login and account pages more user friendly!

oh, and if you could help me recover my password for my other account that'd be nice too. :)
Yes, there's that Examiner article claiming 50% drainage. But look further and you'll learn that in Android, at least, NFC polling is off when screen is off or locked, and when screen is on and the NFC subsystem is active, it polls intermittently at a very low frequency of about 10 Hz to save power. Google I/O had a discussion of this (sorry I don't have the link) and they reported about a 0.5% power consumption hit when NFC was on. It definitely hits the battery but negligibly. I have NFC turned on all the time on my devices (GNex, N7, N4) and they run for 12 hours (about 30-50% usage rate).
Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software. He's said as much, that he thinks software engineers should work as waiters rather than work on anything which isn't entirely free.

So, naturally he's against Apple which happens to make a lot of money from building software.
I went through the process of applying to Teach for America about 5 years ago (I was not selected). It was a rigorous process, and seemed to select fairly well for the attributes that successful teachers should have (enthusiasm, organizational and presentational skills, etc). I believe the success of TfA stems from the fact that their teachers are distilled from a large group full of enthusiastic idealism. I'm not sure how you can replicate that other than through a cultural paradigm shift.
You should not trust emails.
It's fewer DOM manipulations from Javascript yes. The browser will still internally change the styles associated with the DOM elements, just without the JS overhead.
A setup like that relies on massive trust in cloud computing services and sanctity of the operating system, software, and hardware which I -- and probably many other curmudgeonly tech-savvy people like me -- are unwilling to give.
The terms EC-DRBG and NIST have come up quite a bit lately on HN with regards to the NSA, so it's not unreasonable to use them to ensure a descriptive title fits in the 80 characters allotted.

The other cryptic term, SP800-90a, looks like the issue number of an official standard, like ISO-8859 or EIA/TIA-568.
One thing to note as well is that if a virus steals your email password, then you're a bit screwed too because that can, in most cases, be used to reset your password on other sites.

As we've seen with a bunch of high-profile compromises, the email account is already an extremely valuable target for attackers. Another good reason to enable 2-factor auth there!
Now compare this with the attitude of their Security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, bashing Microsoft's lackadaisical approach towards fixing bugs and has publicly published 0-days twice [1, 2, 3, 4]. Google only moved upon fear of public disclosure, and that too inspite of researcher being meticulous and patient.

Also, thank you Tom for your patience and being responsible. Also, I could not find your name in Hall of Fame list.

[1] - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239477/Google_engine...

[2] - http://www.zdnet.com/google-researcher-publishes-windows-zer...

[3] - http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/06/15/tavis-ormandy-ple...

[4] - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177948/Google_resear...?
It’s a terrible shame and a real disservice for the years to come when the people we count on to dream are content with IKEA and iPads.
Not to mention it would be fairly trivial for a dedicated opponent to obtain fingerprints for most people, as long as they don't wear gloves everywhere.
Yes, after all what do hard data matter, when one has a point!
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Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. Sorry about my terrible spelling and grammar. Not my day I suppose.
Dunno, now that you mention it. There’s some research[1] that correlates word choice and grammatical structure with author gender, predicting gender with ~80% accuracy. Presumably I do something like that without thinking about it.

[1]: Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni: Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts
Have you looked at Stripe?
Oh, you mean you gave the world permission in advance through a formalized licensing agreement? Just like the article's author didn't?
He mentioned that many of his other photos are CC licensed and this is one of the exceptions. Isn't there any way they could have seen the CC licenses on his other photos and mistaken this photo for one of the CC licensed photo?
If there's any sort of processing on incoming data, then there's going to be a lot of unencrypted copies floating around in various caches and intermediate staging systems. A secure system requires encrypting the data right off the wire, before it's stored anywhere.

Search indexes are very large -- you don't want to double or triple the amount of storage your email client uses. Also, being able to search only mail that you've downloaded and decrypted is a terrible user experience. I'd estimate over 60% of the mail to my personal inbox is from some automated system, rather than directly from a human, and I typically don't look at them unless a search hits them.

It takes 5 seconds to think of solutions with terrible security and usability characteristics. Thinking of a system that will be a measurable improvement in security and will actually be used by people is much more difficult.
HTC One is my daily carry. I miss the iPhone 4's smaller size... My hands always hurt from stretching to use the "back" button.
I do agree that Star Trek tech has been boring, but its tech predictions have always been boring, mostly just extensions and upgrades to what we have now, or invented as plot contrivances (i.e. the Holodeck)

It's too bad we have to hope that Hollywood invests more in thoughtful edgy fiction rather than marquee fan service vehicles mainly intended to make millions for the industry. If only there was some other form other that movies and TV that fiction could be communicated in...perhaps someone in the future will invent such a format that is ubiquitously consumable and intellectually stimulating.
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Well, I was talking about live search filtering of a dataset on the page, like this demo. Most are simple Ctrl+F text searches (when I said adding spaces would work, that was intended to only cover the case of an unbroken substring within one field). After a quick look I didn't find any demos that support multi-field searches, though it would certainly be possible.
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And when did Android fix it?
Oh wait, they didn't did they?

Open source software freedom means the freedom to write software that slurps up whole address books.

And it's the user's responsibility to read the source code to ensure it's not doing that. Because obviously most people are capable to do that and also have the time to do that for every piece of software they install, right?

At the end of the day, I'd rather Apple and the NSA have my data than some random hacker in russia.
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sorry I should have added - I'm in Australia, I don't believe they support AU companies yet.
>For an ecosystem where its been the 'norm' to slurp users entire address books[1], NOTHING about Apple's 'curated, controlled' approach protects users.

Well, for one, that doesn't happen anymore without specific user approval.

Second, even with that hole, still SOMETHING protects the users more, hence the huge disparity in attacks and malware between the two platforms.

For example, what you described is your adress book data taken by the company whose app you use without your consent. That's bad, but not as bad as your whole data (and device) being taken by malicious software you never even intended on using.
> And reflows aren't that hard to understand or control, and it can also easily only do one

Yeah you easily get bitten by jQuery because it mix reads with writes under the hood.

I prefer to use it most of the time for browser compat / easier maintainability, but it's crazy the performance you can save by bypassing it in hotspots.
I may be wrong, but I believe Apple holds the patent for this technology...
Yeah, this is one of my favorite tricks as well . . .
amended - they are in private beta. I've filled out their form, fingers crossed they come back to me!
Good luck with that approach. Idealogical, wishful thinking doesn't solve problems.
I hate to think that what's driving innovation is fantasized movie tech. I always thought it was science fiction literature, and, you know, trying to understand how the universe works in reality.
I agree, which is why they are ineffectual. If they want to actually accomplish something they need to re-think their strategy.
>That's the problem with closed software.

That's also the problem with open software people get off of the internet/provider in binary form instead of compiling it themselves.

That is, all software.
"Cupertino, start your photocopiers".
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There was something on the other side of that ocean, though, besides more ocean.
Honestly, I'm amazed that email was enough to get the gig.

As an engineer who's admittedly not very social, I would have no trouble writing that email. Are standards for non-technical people really this low when someone applying for an engineering position has to go through grueling interviews, code reviews, and resume checks?

(I'm sure that he was a great hire, I'm just amazed that this was sufficient to even get an interview.)
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that's what I was thinking. half the stuff sold from affiliate marketers isn't of name brand stuff anyway.

food makes sense after porn, you're appealing to humans base needs.
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Every photo on Flickr has a copyright tag attached to it. At least on Flickr it's not challenging at all.
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Of course most HN users suspected it, but nobody else would listen. Now that there's proof, those who keep beating the drum are doing so because the public might still be paying attention and it might actually do some good.

Plus, who can resist a good "I told you so!" ;-)
I think I might be missing something - as a Google service user, I'd have to update my own name to be Mr Test<!--BAD STUFF HERE in order to perform a phishing attack on myself?
If you really want and Android phone with a fingerprint reader, at least one is apparently incoming:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/At-least-one-upcoming-2013-An...

We don't know which phone, but my guess is the HTC One Max. It has had fingerprint rumors associated with it for a while and it is one of the few 2013 flagships we haven't seen yet.
BuzzFeed is notorious for STEALING content from other websites. Using pictures without permission isn't the only bad thing they are doing. They even copy/paste chunks of text verbatim into lists without attribution (For example "13 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Movie 'Clueless" is comprised almost solely of sentences copied from the IMDB trivia page for Clueless, with no sign that they are anything but his own words.). Also their lists are rehashed from other blogs.

http://gawker.com/5922038/remix-everything-buzzfeed-and-the-...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/03/buzzfeeds-ha...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/...
It'll work fine if the scanner isn't fancy enough to include "live finger" detection tech like matching the veins beneath the skin's surface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Vein_recognition).
I use Siri to schedule reminders all the time. Sometimes to take notes and it's also useful for sending hands free texts via voice. Oh, and search... I just used it tonight when in an unfamiliar area to find the nearest gas station and get directions to it, all via voice so I can keep my eyes on the road.
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So, after studying this for the last four hours, I've come to the conclusion that Apple is NEVER going to implement NFC, and in fact is trying to intentionally nosedive the technology into the ground, as a way of hurting the competition by all the time and effort they threw into a dead end technology.
I tend to agree with your point, but apart from the obvious question of paying creators, there is another question: what do we do with scarce, intangible resources, like creators' reputations? Suppose we abolished copyright. Should a creator be able to prevent the WBC from using their creations in a way that might defame the creator, or to promote a cause that is highly offensive to the creator?
Maybe $65000 was meant as a biweekly wage.

Programmer/analyst | $1,690,000

Nexgen Infosys Inc, New York, NY

Employer's Proposed Wage	$ 65,000

Wage Unit	Bi-weekly

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Science fiction literature isn't actually all that often about the science. The number of science fiction authors writing about fields in which they're technically experts is likely vanishingly small, as being a successful storyteller is an expertise in and of itself. The trope of science fiction writers not having a sense of scale in regards to interstellar distance or geologic time is one good example. Or Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which weren't even really an extrapolation on the potential encoding of machine morality so much as a plot device, the entire point of which was the clever ways in which it could be broken by antagonists.

Of course the counterpoint... when it works (Peter Watts and Neal Stephenson and maybe the near-future stuff by William Gibson... Cory Doctorow maybe) the technology serves the story and illustrates the future in brilliant and almost plausible ways. More often than not though, the science in science fiction is window dressing or magic with "science" spray painted on it, because really how many stories about how bloody hard it is to get into space and not die from something besides aliens can people be expected to read?
I hate to be that guy, but is this relevant?
Doesn't the DMV also scan your thumbprint when you get your driver's license (at least in some states)?
I'd look into LitleOnline. They have a nice api but you need to setup a merchant account.
I disagree that that is the problem. There are many ways to sell photos online, but a photo editor doesn't want to be restricted to only browsing a pool such as Getty or Shutterstock (which are not open to all comers either). My argument is that while there are widely accepted mechanisms for establishing copyright status (eg CC-by-SA or sharealike) there's no universal standard to automate or streamline licensing, which is why (rent-seeking) brokerages persist.It's a shortcoming of the Creative commons approach that it doesn't include any sort of transaction mechanism for the CC-BY version. I went to Dan Catt's Flickr page; there's a statement of copyright but there's no link to buy a license for the photo. This is the problem.

Licensing is a pain in the ass because it's not automated; it's not automated because many artists are scared of pricing (and I say this as an artist). They're reluctant to stick a price tag on their work out of the fear that they'll pick one that's too low or too high and as a result there's no standardized way to license a an interesting piece of art you stumble across, other than by contacting the apparent copyright holder and trying to enter into negotiations, which is so time-consuming that it's often not economically efficient for the would-be licensee. It's cheaper to assume the business risk of occasionally infringing than to license IP without any standardized framework for doing so - especially for articles of this kind that are thrown together in the space of an hour or two. A URL is not helpful because (as with this example) we have no idea whether it will provide a mechanism to perform a license transaction or not.

What I'm proposing is adding term metadata that allow the information about pricing to travel with the picture like any other piece of metadata. It's kind of ridiculous to have all sorts of metadata codifying the creator/copyright owners ownership interest in the IP but not to include any on what that interest is valued at. If such term metadata were to become standardized in similar fashion to the Creative Commons licensing, then artists would be able to sell more of their work with less transaction overhead, while licensees would be able to buy with the same convenience that consumers enjoy.
Sure, but the Times piece /very strongly/ suggests it: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announce...

(Perlroth quotes from a few unpublished, leaked memos.)
Because the implication is that your identity can eventually be physically tied to every action you take. If everyone were to adopt fingerprint scanners as their method of transaction, there would be no way to uncouple who we are from what we do.

It's an implication that may not be soon realized, or even ever, but to me that's the component of this that's a bit worrying.
The point is you assert that it does not induce any sort of ignorance. If you are talking about the kind of ignorance other are talking about, how can you assert this?

It's false by definition: you are ignorant of the modern experience of using the web because you have literally opted out of that exact experience.
Bigger Point: It is already being done.
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> That could be 15 years of hiding behind far more competent teammates at a company that has a pathological problem with not firing under-performers

Funny that you mention that. It turns out it costs the company a pretty penny to replace "under-performers" so they just keep them around instead.

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Upvoted him for you.
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Hi fellows,

I am a programmer and i read the HN every day. And i decide to start my own app. I create an app to resolve a day-a-day problem, access the Project Web Access (Web interface of the Microsoft Project Server) from mobile devices and have a better interface.

I pretend make more improvements:
- i use the phonegap engine, I intend to put in other stores (android, windows phone)
- Implement an ads system
- integrate with other Timesheet system
- Make other features to track the time in a day

Please give me your feedback.

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Weekend project I've been working on -- figure this might cure a pain point for some people that use a lot of configurations on a lot of machines.

Also, with the growing use of services/programs like Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc. Someone's gotta hold all those configuration files!

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Except -- as the article states -- when they finish watching the video and realize that they've got another physiological need to fulfill.
I wrote and instruction scheduler for the i960CA, which was fun. (For those who don't know, the i960CA was the first superscalar microprocessor.) It took assembly code as input and contained (as close as I could get from public docs to) a cycle accurate timing simulator.

Less fun was the associated project of getting the GNU assembler and linker to run under 16-bit DOS. I recall that at the the time the linker consisted of one giant source file, and one of the tools (I think the assembler) contained the wonderful declaration:

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But there's no value in closing the loop. If postgres circular replication works this way, then a -> b -> a works the same way as a -> b, so there's no new capability here.
Assuming this post is meant as a snarky "see, look, Apple didn't invent fingerprint reading phones" (not saying it definitely is) we must once again be reminded of Jobs' Law: hardware alone does not a product make.
eat24hours is a shining example of a successful, bootstrapped startup that is in it for the long-haul and not out for a quick buck.

It doesn't hurt that they gave me a bunch of free credit for reporting a CSS issue.
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So this argument is complete crap when it comes to governments but totally okay when it comes to spouses?

How about a series of emails joking & griping about your wife's habits to your best friend? Completely harmless but not exactly the kind of thing that you'd want them reading.

Our digital selves trail back in time farther and farther these days; would you want your wife reading emails between you and an ex from before you met her?
How about a series of emails joking & griping about your wife's habits to your best friend? Completely harmless but not exactly the kind of thing that you'd want them reading.

Our digital selves trail back in time farther and farther these days; would you want your wife reading emails between you and an ex from before you met her?
I was expecting them to put my name up there by the time I posted the blog, should be there in the near future though...
Oh, so it has to be solid, not plated? Well what a shame that it's too soft for a phone.