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I'm not snarking at all. I'm observing that comments about the NSA are entirely apropos given the current climate we live in. Yes, you're right, at this point, it would take something extremely radical to convince us that the NSA isn't spying on us anymore. Therefore, we should expect comments about the NSA and spying to become a part of the common dialog regarding technology and personal information. Asking them to go away is just asking people to stick their head in the sand and ignore it.

The comments will go away when the issue goes away. The issue isn't going to go away. Therefore, don't expect the comments to, either. Welcome to the world we now live in.
In most previous Apple iterations, when they release a cheaper/multi-colored version of a flagship product, they also release a new (more premium) product line. This time they didn't. This is disappointing to Americans (hence the drop in share price) but also shows Tim's direction: China. His expertise in the company under Jobs was in supply chains and Asia, and now he is orienting (pun not intended) the company towards Eastern markets.

Disappointing shortsighted shareholders, but in my opinion an absolutely perfect time to buy AAPL: they have huge cash reserves and pushing in to the massive Eastern market with the Gold iPhone will only pad further those cash reserves that that low P/E.
This can always be the job by someone in the company cooperating with NSA , without apple knowing. And i think government can grant immunity to lies. Hasn't many people lied to congress/citizens in the recent weeks ?
"wealth-transfer mechanism from the young and healthy to the elderly and infirm"

What do you think insurance is? Everyone pays, only some people actually use it. If you get hit by a bus the day after you get insurance and need $2 million in surgery and therapy, the insurance company pays for that. And now, thanks to Obamacare, they can't just drop you.

And others have addressed the part about risking your own life. In theory, yes, that's fine, except hospitals are legally required to treat everyone regardless of insurance. So the rest of us are paying for it one way or another. This just forces the freeloaders to pay up.

Oh yeah, and it also keeps people from being dumb about not paying for insurance when most of the time it's a good idea, financially.
Usually, but not always. In 2007, it turned out that the available technology allowed something way better than what was actually being sold. Apple realized this and used this fact to go from zero to smartphone dominance nearly overnight. Gaps do happen, they just don't last long before someone comes along and gets rich by exploiting them.
First I've heard of it, and I am American.
And `git checkout -` to checkout the previously checked-out branch.
Simply publish your fingerprint somewhere - then if anyone uses it to impersonate you, it won't matter.

It's not quite the same with private keys because you can always generate some new keys and publicly revoke your key if it could have been compromised. Since you cannot regenerate your fingerprints and could have already lost them, simply revoke them up front.

Edit: expanded on this in my blog: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/60865284958/key-revocation-and...
archlinux template seems to not correctly bring up networking with private IP enabled.
Both! HTML5 games are not bought on the App Store, they are played directly in your browser. So you can, for example, open up Safari on your iPhone and play a HTML5 game for free, right in your browser.

You can also play that same game on your desktop PC, by visiting the same web address. Though all of my HTML5 games are specifically optimized for mobile.
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I've known about 'od', but I've always used 'hexdump' instead. Amusingly, I just noticed that they are literally the same (hard-linked) binary on OS X 10.6, even though the arguments differ somewhat. The man pages states that 'od' is part of POSIX, which aligns with your comment about portability.
Ah damn dyslexia kicking in, totally read that as "no-contract" thanks
I went to college in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and I can testify that about 30-40% of the CS students were female. And even then some people were expressing concern about how male-dominated the field was becoming.
There is no such thing as cheap or expensive in business, there is only worth the money, or not. And time is also money.

Twitter too, shouldn't have wasted so much time reinventing the wheel and very publicly getting it wrong a few times. It probably cost them a lot more in the end too (but hey, it was only VC money, right?)
Yes, it would be very useful to have a single OS image that could scale its user interface and capabilities to the hardware it finds attached at any given moment.
No, but they can identify you. The danger in the mass collection of biometric data is tracking. People who want to place prints or physically break into your phone are probably also present enough in your life to do it other ways.
Meh. If Discover were interested in doing so, they could find warming enthusiasts e.g. blaming specific storms on global warming or recommending particular tax policies on that basis. Of course, they only care to point at goofy crap that contradicts the narrative. "Journalism" amirite?

[I don't deny that warming has occurred over some time period that extends through the present. (After all there is only one other possible characterization for any such period.) I haven't yet seen a strong argument that ties a significant portion of such warming to activity that human organizations can affect in a meaningful way.]
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What's the matter, tired of ranking at the bottom?
>Anecdotes like the original article, as well as many others that have come before, demonstrate that there is a real problem.

Sure. And that problem is bullying. It has absolutely nothing to do with women in technology. Saying "imaginary problem X is totally real because real problem Y is real" is not logical.

>He's saying that we need to stop being defensive about it, stop trying to deny that problem, and start taking responsibility for hostile and off-putting behavior

And I am saying he is wrong. That's how it works, one person gives their opinion, and another person gives theirs.

>It means speaking up when you hear someone being harassed, it means stopping bullying that's going on right in your classroom

None of which has to do with the nonexistent "technology is full of chauvinists who scare women away" problem.

>So, where is your evidence to back up this claim?

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/BrainwashingInNorw...

>It's a pretty strong claim, so you had better have some pretty good evidence to back it up.

Why don't you need evidence to back up the claim that women are avoiding certain professions because of sexism?
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The NSA has the ability to compromise the devices
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-...

good spy novel stuff... steal the prints of some foreign bigwig, or say Julian Assange, plant a copy in some compromising crime scene...
Don't trust the NSA, trust Apple instead because they have no interest in your private information.

Makes perfect sense.
It's not uncommon for the police or fire department to fingerprint children as "a fun activity" or "a way to learn more about police and their work".

http://www.gastongazette.com/news/local/police-want-to-finge...
I think it's prudent to note that Apple made specific guarantees of fingerprint privacy; however such explicit guarantees haven't been made for passcode privacy.
When the call quality of VoIP is disappointing
Not to mention the peripheral market needs to get onto the new port.
Something is going to replace the credit card.

If Apple had thrown their weight behind NFC, that would have closed the deal.

I give them one more year (one iWatch release, and the iPhone 6 release) and then I agree, NFC will be a dead end.
Steve Jobs' first big contribution towards turning Apple around was cutting down their product line into two products in every category: a premium one and a value one.

At first this meant they cut back to only selling four products: two desktops (premium Power Mac and value iMac), and two laptops (premium PowerBook and value iBook). But as new products came on they eventually got this treatment too.
Those are companies likely forced to cooperate. I doubt the NSA issues National Security Letters forcing hardware manufacturers to sell them products.
Facebook gets some of my data, but in return I get a free software platform that makes it easier than before to keep in touch with my friends and family.

Like most of the U.S. economhy, it works because it is a free exchange in which both parties gain something. I could easily keep my data away from Facebook. But then I would not benefit from their services.

I think the real issue is hidden in the article--opportunity today is incredibly rich for those who have the right education...which not everyone has.

There are two issues here, actually. The first is whether our public education system is preparing youth to seize future opportunities. On the whole, I think the answer is at best mixed--but it seems solvable. We can improve our schools and make the students next year smarter than the year before. At least we have the concept of free public education as a platform.

The second is what happens to adults who lost their industries? Can a 40-something factory worker or lumberjack learn how to create Android apps that generate revenue? The answer here seems a lot worse. Not only does it seem harder for middle aged folks to radically change their professions, there are no free, and few low-cost institutions helping them do it. Online schools like Khan Academy seem exciting, but are very far from being proven answers to this problem.

There do seem to be openings in the middle--providing services to the educated people who can build moneymaking technologies. For example, I believe there continues to be a shortage in nurses nationwide. It's not easy to become a nurse or PA, but at least there are a lot of good community college programs for it.
I don't see how this is snarky. We know that data is being scooped up in an opportunistic manner. It would be foolish to not consider the security implications when deciding which devices/technology to adopt.
Pretty awesome! :) And you can sort by table columns too! (Something sorely lacking in the original post!)
I'm using Ctrl+S and Ctrl+Q for interrupting tail -f, but that's missing the search feature of course.
The reason geodesic homes didn't make it out of the 70s (except at Burning Man and radar installations) is that you can't build a structure more prone to leaking in the rain or even a heavy dew. Solve that problem and domes become a meaningful option. Otherwise they're a mental exercise.
The consumer is damned lucky that Apple even bothers to support phones beyond the last two generations.

If they did what they probably should have done, your phone would have reported, "Sorry, this update is not supported by your device," when you tried to install the latest iOS version. Then we'd be treated to even more wailing and gnashing of teeth from people who feel entitled to perpetual updates. Apple literally can't win here.

Edit: I will agree that they could 'win' by the simple expedient of permitting OS downgrades. There's no reason they couldn't let you revert to the last version you were happy with.
Flexible displays would certainly be neat, but their utility for a cellphone largely escapes me.

Wearable peripherals are a different category, they're not smartphones. Regardless, I dont have terribly high hopes for these future devices.

Mobile payment is mostly not a hardware issue. It's a software issue and a matter of coordination or market forces selecting a standard or two. It's things like THIS that are the next battleground in mobile: services and integration.

They are in rectangular boxes because that shape, for various reasons, happens to be extraordinarily efficient. TV's haven't changed shapes.

I think smartphone hardware is pretty much dead. The major leaps - touch screens (which is so ridiculously underappreciated as an innovation), HD screens, HD cameras, CPU horsepower, nice OS's, voice recognition, blah blah - are behind us. There is a reason that almost all of the best selling smartphones look alike, feel alike, and generally have the exact same feature sets. The differences between each other, in the grand scheme of things, are lamentably minute.
You are sound really really naive. You sound like the kind of person who is "shocked" by new scandals.
There's a recent, more promising reply, though:

"Once the initial rollout of [private networking to] the first region is finished we'll be moving to get IPv6 enabled in our NY2 region first and are targeting an October ETA for the first public beta!"
I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it clear what we do?

And yes, we export to SVG client-side and also to PDF in Java :).
I don't understand the point you're making here. This post is about trigger.io open sourcing their cross browser extension framework which I think is a separate codebase than their cross-mobile framework. Is there something I am missing here?
When it's used as a gate, it is an issue. It took the Seattle PD and whatever agency actually issues civilian CAC (HSPD-12) a long, long time to get enough prints to allow me access to do my job. Both eventually had to accept three very partial prints as evidence.
The alternative would be a visa that was designed to avoid such punitive requirements. One that fast-tracked the applicant to a green card and automatically extended the term in case there was a delay in issuing the green card.
> Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying...

Who said what they're doing is illegal? The whole problem is that the entire surveillance regime is completely secret and completely legal.
The 48H gamejam that he's talking about here is FightMagicRun - http://fimaru.com

run by good friend Evan Borchardt, author of the HTML5 Game Developer's Cookbook, and founder of the upcoming http://polish.io
Am I understanding this correctly? What if the NSA went to Apple and said you have to get us access to everyone's fingerprints or you'll go to jail and other stuff, so Apple put a fingerprint scanner on the iPhone? It seems like a stretch to me.
The government already has your fingerprints... DMV, TSA...
Makes me think of all these companies that your passwords are secure until one day, someone hacks their database and decrypts them. When confronted, the company says "But they were very secure, you should have mentioned that by 'secure' you meant "with one way encryption".
> Will my rates go up?
> Yes! (~40% increase)

What?! What was the point then? The cost of healthcare in US was already 5-6x of a typical EU nation, and we're looking at additional 30% increase?

WTF!

How do we stop this forced re-distribution of wealth from the general public to healthcare workers and (via government-backed loans) to Wall Street?
I'm sorry this is off topic, but that slideshare ui is so annoying. Why doesn't it progress one slide when I click on the slide? I hate how I have to precisely click on that tiny "next" button to go to the next slide.

I'm posting this hoping someone can provide an easier way to navigate.
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So, I assume the new iPod will be modeled after the 5c? Pushing the iPod 5 price up to $300 seemed like a bad move, hopefully the 5c-based iPod will get that price back down again.

Then again, the phoneless-smartphone (pocket tablets? Media/app players?) market seems to have been eaten by tablets and cheaper smartphones, in spite of its popularity with the kids.
You are welcome to your opinion, but you aren't welcome to try to force me to accept it as fact. I've seen no evidence to support your interpretation, and all my experience has shown the opposite. What wider implications make the millions of other taunts adolescents hurl at each other effective? Have you spoken to a high school girl before? Do you actually think they believe there is some "woman's place" making a sandwich for a man? The majority of them think it is just something to say, like any other random taunt. Just because you want there to be sexism there, doesn't mean there actually is.
Sarcastic or not, it's an important point. You are giving up a significant attribute of your identity to the protection of a US technology company. Whether that bothers you (or not) depends on how much you value your privacy.
This is a vast oversimplification of the facts.
I imagine it also helps them deal with doing the h264 encoding and such that they need to get the lightning connector to do the hdmi output that they built. The added SIMD stuff in ARMv8 was also largely targeting video encoding also I believe.
Sorry, by "admins" I meant folks who log into the Web administrative interface through a browser, but have elevated permissions. Specifically, can I reduce the chance that a cert attack will allow MITM for these users' browser sessions. We do very carefully protect shell access on the server itself.
Doesn't the DMV requires thumbprint?
First the NSA, now the wife, what's up with people in HN? Are you all planning a coup with your mistresses?

If you're married and your SO can't just ask you for your PIN code - and you will, without even thinking about it, give it to them - you might want to take some time to think hard about your relationship.
It could depend on the state, but in America a driver's license is basically the de-facto form of ID. So, sometime back in the 50's or something, I believe fingerprints started to be taken as part of getting your license so that your fingerprints could be traced back to you for crime purposes. Similar to how in some states when you purchase a firearm, you are required to give the state a spent shell so that the state has a record of the "ballistic fingerprint" of your firearm.
Oh - that one I completely agree. I wasn't looking at it from that angle. Certainly a VISA that not only screens the applicants and the jobs better and doesn't impose random restrictions would be of benefit to everyone.
I never understood the expectation for the 5C to be introduced so cheaply.

Apple's M.O. has been good/better/best, with increasingly older models making up the cheaper slots. Without a 5C, everyone would have expected 5S/5/4S. So with a 5C in the 'good' slot, that would imply 5S/5/5C -- but who would buy a 5 for $100 more, if it's barely distinguishable from the 5C?

And they couldn't have stripped a 5C down much further to build more separation -- at its core a 5 needs the internals it has to drive its display with the performance and battery life Apple aims for and advertises.

So as soon as we saw the screen dimensions and assumed 5C (vs 4SC), people really ought to have expected 5S/5C/4S.

Further, Apple's finally landed a few highly-sought-after carriers in the East, which will bring a ton of sales all by itself. So why would anyone expect them to take a margin hit pitching a more attractive $450 model (and at the expense of having any clear $550 offering) when they haven't soaked the early adopters yet?

Next year, the 5C will flow down naturally to the 'good' slot: 6/5S/5C. And its construction likely allows Apple to shoot even lower than the 4Ss $450 slot. That's when I'd expect to see Apple make a price play.

Perhaps even sliding everything down the scale a little, to make room for the rumored larger-screen iPhone at the new premium price point.

In any event, it will be interesting to see how they move forward from that. 6/5S/5C -> 6S/6/... 5SC?

Would the larger-screen variant flow down the way the larger screen of the 5 is simply becoming 'standard'? Or would it remain an essentially separate product that simply got refreshed at its existing price point and didn't have a deep bench of older models, ala iPod Touch?
So does your iPhone's home button.
I am not suggesting, I am asking. Banks issue chip & pin cards all the time. These guys already breached a bank. I'd guess programming chip & pin cards will cost thieves more than magstripe cards, but is doable.

Also, you keep insisting that if USA adopted EMV, this would not have happened. But this operation was global, thieves used ATMs in Russia, Japan, Britain, and Canada among others.
I think most of this anti-registration sentiment is coming from places like Quora which force you to register for no good reason, not sites that have a valid reason for an account. (I've never heard someone complain about needing to sign up to use Amazon.)

GlassDoor is particularly obnoxious (as I just found out yesterday). If you click on this link http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm all data will show. If you click almost any link or simply refresh the page, it's all hidden, blurred, and you get greeted with an overlay saying you must sign up.
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More like a massive new interactive map with dot for my home router instead of a Waze comment for the NSA spooks to look at.

I append _nomap to my SSID name in hopes that they wont collect the data they are scanning when they drive by. The word collect has different meanings these days so they may be storing the info but not look at it...
It's because they always have the two-generations-old model as the "free" one. It's been that way for years now. Current generation starts at $200, N-1 starts at $100, and N-2 is "free". The 5 is now N-1 and would have been the $100 model, but for whatever reason, they've decided that the 5C will take its place.
Except that Apple just doubled the processing power. That, with everyone else now needing (and, given a year, able) to catch up & exceed, is hardly "the natural limits of what's achievable for now". The processing power curve shows no sign of slowing down, and with wireless tech racing past LTE toward 100Mb territory meaning local storage capacity becomes a mere buffer instead of a limit, we're nowhere near "natural limits".

The only limit we face now is users finding sufficient aggregate need for all that power & bandwidth. Build AppleTV into a touchable monitor, drop a wireless keyboard on the desk, and eliminate that 4" bottleneck for most users - BAM, death blow to Windows etc.
Then how about that?

>But Apple executives, including Mr. Jobs, were seriously considering selling a less-expensive but similar phone as early as 2009, according to former executives involved in the plan. Then, the manufacturing teams were most opposed to it.

>Their concerns, which I previously reported on in the Wall Street Journal, were about manufacturing complexity: how could Apple build so many models with so many different components? Apple’s relatively simple supply chain had always been a big competitive advantage. Having relatively few products allowed it to focus, buy parts at scale and keep things secret.

http://jessicalessin.com/2013/09/10/what-really-held-up-the-...

What I want to say is, none of us, I suppose, were in the man's head, or worked at Cupertino. We can only speculate why there is a single iPhone/iPad. (And as you can read from the article, it may be due to operations and not because Jobs was so much about “simplicity“.)

Saying “Now that Steve is dead” contributes nothing to discussion unless you work at Apple and really know what you're talking about. (In which case your comments are very valuable.)
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That was probably a smart call.