skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we're not necessarily trying to make for-profit schools look good, we're just sick and tired of disproportionate attention being laid upon for-profit schools when non-profit schools (of a certain tier) are just as bad if not worse but seem to be escaping the amount of scrutiny they are due. The sins of for-profit schools are being used to whitewash institutions that hide under the nomenclature of their IRS designation.
This is nothing new, as the 5 also takes a nano SIM.
I avoided high school entirely because of people like him.
The Kiss: A Short Film Shot Through Google Glass
Watch the first movie shot without hands through Google Glass. Written and directed by Evan Ferrante﻿ and Boonsri Dickinson.
Calm down and stop posting inane comments. It'd be much more healthy for this community.

If you have doubts about the scanner, then don't buy an iPhone 5S. There's nothing much more that can be done besides what's being done already. And for others who know and don't care, that's their decision.
You don't need to mess around with these software hacks when the hardware is as good as in the Lumia 1020. Besides these software features are already done in the HTC One (lookup 'Zoe'). Apple's playing catchup here.
Intel Quark Runs on Roof, Raises Questions
You've inspired me. Is there a place you know of in South France that is economical to live in where i could rent for a while. I've started my freelance career not so long ago so surviving on savings till i can build it up - but if there's a place that's quite affordable then i'd jump at the chance of moving out for some nicer weather and nicer people.

Let me know if you have any ideas.
I'd hypothesise it's more likely somebody will use your fingerprint to identify you than your eye colour. For example, at a crime scene if your fingerprints are found you can hardly say "oh, I don't trust my fingerprint so I won't authenticate with it, ignore that" - like it or not, it's seen as being at least something to investigate. On the flip side I imagine a witness who reports only "green eyes" won't have their case followed for very long.
Yes. There is zero evidence of any type of NSA backdooring your iPhone nonsense. It would be great to read HN (where I thought we were more technically inclined than the rest of the net) for a day without unfounded nonsensical claims.
Elementary data collection?
Thanks. Sometimes I forget that zsh is not what everyone uses. I should add zsh to the list, hah!
Hey, here's a thought -- if we want the daily mail to change its position on climate change, all we need to do is tell them that we've discovered evidence that immigrants cause global warming. They'll reverse their 'scepticism' faster than you can say "Fuck Richard Littlejohn".
The US government has fingerprints of every person born in the US already.
Every company has it's moments, but why does Samsung so often come off as particularly petty. Whether it's completely knocking off designs or launching half-baked products, or buying all the ad space on the day of an apposing company's product launch. The rules of capitalism allow all of this behavior, but generally mankind frowns upon it when this behavior is exhibited by a person. Why is it not frowned upon when it is exhibited by a group of people operating as one; as a corporation?
That's exactly what I mean. The collection is the problem, but the court ruled on the phrase "readily accessible to the general public" (to be fair, though, that was the basis of the motion to dismiss and it would have been a stretch to expand the ruling). Anyone accessing an open wifi point is seeing other people's traffic. It's looking at it and storing it that seems to be the problem, but that's not the distinction the wiretap act makes.
What do you do if some numpty digs up the power cable to your HQ+server site? You can put the servers on generators, but in most companies users still couldn't use them as their office gear would be offline.

In any case, if your servers are running but you can't connect to your suppliers and customers - you might as well turn them off, your business likely can't function without connectivity even if you avoid the cloud completely; so avoiding cloud doesn't decrease your risks much.

Just buy two or more redundant, reasonably different internet channels - and then prolonged loss of connection is no more common as other major downtime risks such as flooding, fires, etc.
I own a Nexus 4, and there is: the backside. It scratches very, very easily. Plus (even though this is anedoctal), it appears to crack just as easily if dropped. That was absolutely not the case with my old iPhone 4.

The front glass is fine, but the back is crap.
The IPCC report, which is endorsed by almost all academies of science in the world, and above 90% of climate scientists, is not a good enough argument?
How "offputting" the field is to women is not, IMO, as problematic as the fact that many girls are discouraged in school, by their teachers from pursuing math or science fields, simply because they're girls.

This is an endemic social problem that prevents girls from even considering sciences.

That, of course, leads to these fields being mostly misogynistic sausage fests, which is also a big problem, but that's one of the symptoms of the culture of education.

... IMO.
So if you were still wondering if ARM isn't directly lined up in Intel's sights, this should dispel that notion.

For a couple of years now I've noted that one advantage ARM had that seemed quite durable was you could put it into the SOC of your own design, but you could not do that with an x86 chip. If Intel is willing to allow that it is a potent weapon.
What is it that I said that sounds naïve to you?

That NSA can't force a company to include fingerprint sensors in their new phone?
Hey, if you don't use our product, At least we can sell your data!
Which is another reason why the H1-B needs to be reworked, not ramped up. It's too catch-all, and too often abused.
I doubt Apple will be at all upset if people flock to the 5C, for which they still get $550 apiece, made from cheaper components than the iPhone 5 that they otherwise would have been selling at that price point.
I chose brevity, and can see how it would be interpreted as snark. I wasn't aiming for that, but it was a simple question that deserved a simple answer, IMO.

> I don't mind useful or constructive comments about technology and the NSA, but most of the comments I see are very reactionary and misinformed and painfully naiive.

Perhaps our energy would be better spent pointing out why these comments are naiive and misinformed, rather than discussing whether they're worth saying at all, then?
$63k is also $20k below the minimum required pay for an overtime exempt employee in CA http://www.shrm.org/templatestools/hrqa/pages/california-min.... There are exceptions to that of course, but I would wager there is more than one H1B (and more than a few non-visa employees) getting hosed.
NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales
A sphere gives the most internal volume for the least surface area.
I would guess they just tacked a bog-standard TPM chip into their SoC design. Biometric (fingerprint) sensors and TPM chips go together; see any enterprise-targeted laptop from the last five years.
There are lots of kids at harvard saying the same thing. They think (understandably) just graduating from harvard should get them some decent job in their field of choice somehow. I don't think it's completely a matter of hopkins vs harvard.
Apple Special Event. September 10, 2013.
In the USA, considering the true cost of a phone contract is rather pointless because you can't get a contract that discounts monthly cost by buying the phone up front. You're going to pay the $2500 either way.
I suggest you all stop calling 5c "cheap" or "value" one. Price drop against 5s is less than 20% (full price for unlocked one).
More than most brands, Apple uses 'meta' advertising, calls out competitors for being corporate and mainstream and focused on machines over humans ("1984", etc.) It helps them mint money selling nice-looking consumer electronics, and at the same time it makes them justly more susceptible to this kind of criticism. It's all part of the same package. I think they can weather a little criticism for the hypocrisy in their marketing, let them take their lumps as they take their money.
Imagine someone knocks you out and takes your phone. Use finger (possibly still attached) to authenticate. Profit.

So not really a good idea.

I rather have the option of unlocking the phone via PIN, then have the option of sending a FPR hash to a site of my choice. Speaking of which, I wonder if they salt or provide some other way of sending unique hashes to different web sites or is this now the equivalent of using a fingerprint as the same password for all sites.

Which is worse, since you can't really get a new finger (well, you get 19 more resets including toes) since your print is somehow compromised (website leak, etc.)
Please stop using snark. Use snide, sarcastic, or cynical instead. Snark is a word that's better off being forgotten in some dictionary of colloquial terms.
Thanks for the info, I am obviously far behind ...
There are issues with doing it automatically though: http://boston.conman.org/2003/11/19.2
A person will be free to purchase plans that consist of catastrophic insurance, plus a small amount of preventative care:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-insurance/articl...
And what is the audience of the adult websites? It is the same audience that reads NYTimes and WSJ and WaPo. Everyone on the internet watches porn - except some that prefer to read it.
This idea is also supported by the livestreams available to an Asian audience.
In my state, you're required to have the State Police add a digital scan of your fingerprints to the FBI database when you apply for a handgun license.
Where do you get a change from $1200 to $2400?

The monthly plans cost the same, so the 5S versus 5C will cost you roughly $2300 versus $2400 over two years.
On a side note. Can anyone recommend a good immigration lawyer I can talk to about working in the US?

I'm Canadian, living in Canada, and considering a move back to the US to work. However, I have a somewhat complicated history with US Immigration and I'd like professional advice to figure out my options.

Have you had a good experience with an immigration lawyer (In either the US or Canada)? If so, please post a link to their site (or email me if you prefer: sukotto.filter@gmail.com )
Let's make it better :) The PubSubHubbub mailing list is still open and would welcome your comments on how to make things better!
I don't think I said anything that was unfair. I think they're not really trying to solve the actual problem - instead of accepting the responsibility and trying to fix the issues they're being defensive - who cares about how many support people they have - obviously they're not doing a good job if people are voicing their issues here...
Did you see this recent news?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-ns...
It isn't just one slide pack. Glen greenwald et all were given 50000 documents
My question: Is digitized fingerprint information gathered from a given device useful? As in, could you run the prints gathered from an iPhone against, say, a DMV database? My intuition tells me that you couldn't. And that would gravely limit their utility value to the government.
Clearly not - have they done that? Javascript is a bad analogy because of its prevalence and entrenchment.

Perhaps a better way for me to have put my sentiment would have been, "I'm not tired of this, so I don't mind seeing it", where "this" means both phdtree specifically and hearing about project being written in, moving to, or considering moving to Go in general. Clearly you are tired of it, either from having seen other specific phdtree postings or from having seen more postings about Go in general than you care to. That's fine, but it's not where I'm at.
Social Disruption: mooching off public infrastructure, research, cooperation
Right, so, insurance is not a wealth transfer mechanism. It's a risk-pooling mechanism.

We know that driving a car is risky and we could crash, and it could cost us lots of money, but on average the risk is acceptable. Instead of casting our financial fortunes to the fates like that, we pay the average risk (actuaries ho) and a few percent to make it worth the insurers' time, and we have restructured our risk exposure: we are guaranteed a certain financial impact, but it's limited, instead of being unlimited.

BUT IF YOU'RE A CRAZY MANIAC driving your new BMW down the freeway at 120mph as a matter of routine and racking up speeding tickets left and right, you end up paying more, because your behavior is risky. If you're a super-safe driver with a cheap car, you end up paying less; you don't subsidize the maniac's premiums -- not insofar as the insurance company can help it, anyway.

Contrast with Obamacare, where young healthy people end up paying more, in order to subsidize the elderly and others at risk of health conditions. That's the wealth transfer. You can also recognize it because without governmental regulation to that effect, it wouldn't be happening.
LastPass and the NSA Controversy
I have the same problem, the same phone and the same conclusion.
Sorry, what I was trying to convey:

There is a larger desire for male orderlies, the reason for that desire are for the "obvious fact" that males are stronger, and can be used for heavy lifting, and protection for and from disorderly patients.

It makes me furious that they can so blatantly state these reasons without fear, where as statements to any effect about the female gender would consistently create backlash. I don't disagree with their reasons, what made me furious was the asymmetry.
No, we aren't talking about anything. The original comment speculates that the NSA has a backdoor into every iPhone, and uses that as the foundation for a comment about whether it's a good idea to store a copy of your fingerprint locally on the device.

There is no new information about the NSA there. Just more speculation.
Well, as a computer/network security professional, historically there are plenty examples of companies who have lied about the security of their systems (eg. "without your password, our flash drives cannot be decrypted" when in fact the key is not related to the password and stored in plaintext in a sector on the drive).
> Essentially, you are asking me to discuss my politics here, where I draw the line, etc in a thread about the iPhone 5s.

Nope. I'm just asking you to not ask others to not discuss their politics. You're more than welcome to not participate in the conversation if it's not useful to you.
more relevant data.

https://chartio.com/project/11916/dash/h1b-visa-applications...
So I work at Apple in SV. There are hoards and hoards of cube farms packed to the hilt (sometimes 3-4 people in a 8X10 cube) staffed 99% with heads from Wipro, TCS, Infosys - all Indian with zero diversity. I know pretty competent guys getting 34-40 bucks an hour with the vendor probably billing around 75-80. This is big business. With local 1BR apartments going for 2K+ and rising, how is this not slave labor? Its ridiculous. If the public could only see this. H1's should be allowed into the country as free agents and the talent should be slanted toward top coder types. Lots of these people spend their day reading log files and editing system scripts working the 10-5 schedule with an hour of lunch. We can't find American workers who can do this for say 50 bucks an hour ( split the difference)? In this economy ? Really ?
Probably not at all because the 5S is not plastic?
Well, your opinion is your own, but there's nothing wrong with this. Apple could have just as easily bought the space. Here in San Francisco, Samsung bought all the ad space in all the BART (subway) stations for weeks leading up to and after the release of the iPhone 5 to tout the S3. It's just marketing strategy and it's a pretty good one, especially if millions (billions?) of dollars are riding on the fact that people recognize your product instead of a competing one.

Granted, while effective, Samsung's strategy is rather predictable and easily (albeit expensively) countered by buying the ad space yourself. Why Apple didn't do this, I don't know. It would have been the first thing I would have done as the VP of Marketing at Apple once I knew the launch date.
Thank you, Sir. I went down that route by wondering if "space" or "enter" would do it with no luck. I stopped short at arrow keys.
If the data is sequestered on the A7, I suspect not even iOS has access to it. It may just be able to request authentication, and receive a true or false.
I'd actually want it to have at least several fingerprints. Fingers get injured, bandaged, [shudder] removed...
And Russia is second in this comparison.
One key difference with what you've done though, is that through a link on the bottom I can at least figure out what your product does and see a sample workflow. Some of these sign up landing pages have nothing in the way of explaining what something is.

But maybe what companies are finding is that people respond more strongly when details are withheld from them.
The chart Tim Cook doesn’t want you to see
The main factor with gradual engagement bringing higher quality signups I would assume is with how often of exposure you can have to the future potential user - in a non-intrusive way. Seeing someone using an iPhone, who then shows you something on it - or shows the phone off to you - would be an example of this.
That is the point!!!! Because they couldn't fly an outright government takeover, they've set up this system to be an abysmal failure, giving themselves an excuse for the outright government takeover of the healthcare system further down the line. :P

Next question?
You seem to have a lot of theories on how other people should be solving the problem. What specifically are you doing to solve the problem?

To me this sounds like another version of the "you're doing it wrong" anonymous grumbling that the internet provides for pretty much anybody doing anything.

I'm going to keep trying to fix tech the way I think tech should be fixed. Whether or not J. Random Commenter "accepts" my analysis of the problem isn't something I'm worried about. It's a given in pushing for societal change that most people think you're wrong in one way or another; otherwise we would already have made the change.
I meant either. It's all empty promises until someone legally backs us up on either end. Someone gets to be the first test case.
"Dad, it looks better, is way faster, makes you healthier, take much better pictures and you don't have to type your pass code 200 times a day"
There's probably a difference in the students at every level on average. if not strictly by intelligence, then by how hard they try and how much work they put in during high school. But I don't think the quality of teachers is going to change from top 100 to a community college. There are bad teachers at every school and good teachers. Some are famous in their field, and they don't teach or they can't teach well. And then you can go to a community college and find some really great teachers and small class sizes.
The homepage for workflowy has 5 input fields (3 e-mail fields and 2 password fields), two buttons, and a forgot password link. With a little ingenuity, you can reduce this to two fields and one button (hint: "Sign Up / Sign In").
Totally agree that we should discuss why these comments are naiive rather than further engage in the meta-discussion. Perhaps we can start over?

(Meta-meta-point: I wish I could collapse comment threads on HN.)
This phone takes way better pictures and has a longer battery life.

There, features people care about.
While I can't say whether this is true on a larger scale, you may be interested to learn that Paul Kagame, the ruler of Rwanda, put together a team specifically for the purpose of maximizing his country's ranking on the World Bank's ease-of-doing-business index.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/paul-kagame-rwand...
I guess I'm not seeing the advantage over existing software.

Unless there are some tie-ins with their other 123D software to, say, automatically create a hardware enclosure from a schematic.
Dome houses are initially appealing but ultimately and practically have too many flaws to be useful. Single room houses may be an exception.

Read this http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/domebuilder's_blues.html and see how many of the concerns are addressed in this design.

Lloyd was passionate about domes, but came to realize their flaws. Most of these are applicable today despite the materials improvements over the last 30+ years.
Yes, it is simply inconceivable that hard evidence of the activities of a spy agency might not be forthcoming...

We are dealing with the realm of speculation, but it is not speculation fueled by some sort of tinfoil hatted lunacy. With the role that smartphones fill in peoples' lives today, you are just going to have to come to grips with the fact that, going forward, some people are going to consider the privacy of new devices to be very relevant, and well worth discussing. Don't be surprised when people error on the side of caution.

You want to talk about battery life and color? Well I want to talk about display DPI and privacy. Learn to cope.
Check out Pathwright - http://www.pathwright.com. We handle the boring technical details, student registration/billing, and other drudgery, leaving you to worry about your content.

A few examples of the platform in action:

* http://lpg.pathwright.com
* http://connect.ligonier.org
* http://newjournalism.towknight.org/
Intel & Mir: The point-of-view of a graphics driver developing bystander
Sorry, you aren't going to change anyone's political opinions by yelling louder. There are plenty of people who are comfortable with the NSA, as well as plenty of people are not.

We really can't discuss the finer points here because no matter how polite I am, I will simply get voted down for not agreeing with the HN politics. By the way, recently I heard a few tech heavy-weights come out in favor of the NSA (e.g. Larry Ellison, Max Levchin).
It's the kind of vintage criticism that didn't generally apply to products that Apple made in 2002-12.

Look at the iPod nano. When it came out, it replaced the very popular iPod mini with a completely different design and internals, and the price was part of the surprise. It certainly didn't leave room for comments like "same old tech sold at higher margin, safe design borrowed from Samsung, twice the price of the Samsung Yepp."
So use a passcode - the fingerprint feature is optional. That said, I doubt they are doing anything nefarious with it - if it eventually leaked that fingerprints were being sent to the NSA, the cost to Apple would be incalculable. I would bet, or at least hope, that Apple has designed the hardware involved to be subpoena proof - meaning that the design would make it impossible to remotely collect fingerprints even if a court ordered them to initiate efforts to do so.
Publish your fingerprints
And once you've done that, join is a handy little utility to do sql style joins on your text files.