skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to check? iOS is closed-source. You cannot monitor the traffic 24/7 over the whole lifetime of the device. Maybe the fingerprint delivery can be ordered remotely.
I hope your are being ironic. 599 Euro in Europe is not a killer cheap phone.

http://store.apple.com/de/buy-iphone/iphone5c
Apple laughs at numbers-based ads when they are behind, and play up the numbers when they are ahead. Remember the Pentium snail ads? There's nothing surprising here. They have a spec advantage right now and they're playing it up. If and when they drop behind again, they'll be back to talking about more qualitative aspects.
I asked my absolutely brilliant coed what does she thinks about the whole "sexism in tech" thing. She told me to read less Hacker News and work on my thesis.

So I'll just leave this bingo in case you got bored in this thread: http://bit.ly/16i7WAm
Verizon iPhone 5 64GB black is listed as $370 on NextWorth so that's a maybe. I've had luck in past years of reducing my upgrade costs to under $100, but AT&T is being less generous on the contract period this time around (or it didn't line up as well as in the past).
Ads of multicolored devices featuring content that matches the enclosure? Who would've thunk it?

http://cl.ly/image/1U3i2F2v2r43
this is an ok starting point, but would be far more interesting if you were able to compare against average industry salaries based on the job titles... and average salaries for the employers
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That's just a custom report from Google analytics
Apple breaking the scroll bar themselve? Could the site instead gives a real scroll bar experience on desktop and give this "tablet-style" scrolling experience to tablets/phones only?
Good suggestion, I'll do that (its a prefab theme). I have noticed that issue myself.
Agreed. But why are things the way they are and how do we progress from there?

In my experience, a lot of the difficulty in comprehending/accepting that women experience the industry so differently than men is that many men either A) over-generalize from an exceptional interaction, or B) follow those that have over-generalized. By "A" I mean that men can rely on confirmation bias to cement their impression of the female experience based on a few choice interactions. For example, confirmation bias can allow a random chat with a well-adjusted, confident woman who appears impervious to tech sexism can dispel for many years any notion in that man's mind that sexism exists in the industry. Thereafter, contradictory signals of other women can themselves be dismissed as exceptions, and because of cognitive dissonance, can actually reinforce his misconception.

By "B" I mean that many men have no relevant direct interactions with women (given their low numbers) and may follow the lead of the people with whom they associate, who are by definition men. Any confirmation bias of those men then spreads to them.

In addressing this, what is not often recognized is that individual women do have unique experiences. They are affected to varying degrees and in various ways by prejudism and ostracization. As a male, rather than tip-toe around or ignore the issue with a female colleague, I've found the best hueristic for recognizing your potential participation in a prejudicial environment is to earnestly sense/inquire the nature of her past experience. (You may also share your own experiences of prejudism, if any.) By opening such a dialogue, you establish a common foundation and framework for maximizing the team and progressing the industry.

IMHO, focusing on the direct, open, and individual treatment of interpersonal relationships (and moving away from the one-experience-fits-all mentality, which lacks common sense and is susceptible to confirmation bias) is an important next step for evolving relations between social groups in general.
Look into Hidden Volume technology. Then you can give them the "password" and they can look around all they want.
But with this new technology $they don't even need you alive to get to your $secret_data.
4S is probably not long for this world. Right now, its filling a gap both in the product shelf (free) and in an amortization-of-development-costs schedule somewhere. Plus, it allows for some extra profit taking from the 5C for the moment as people eschew the 4S.

I'll bet as 5C production ramps, the 4S goes away in X months. Its in Apple's long term best interests to get everyone on the same screen anyway...
His tweet doesn't confirm or reject your #2 (just that PIN is available as an option), so just relax and wait to see. I mean, I doubt they'd implement FDR + PIN like you want (cause it seems a minority wish?), but it's still possible.
Really? Why wouldn't they? That's one of the most valuable attack vectors, precisely because it's so difficult.

You're assuming that because the NSA would like to have such a capability (as would most programmers), that they actually do, because they have abundant money to throw around. Likewise, I'm sure the Air Force, Army etc. would all like to have antigravity generators, and they have abundant money to throw at the problem, so they must have them, right?

Of course not. 'A compiler that adds backdoors to software' implies a compiler that knows which routines are for security and which are not. How exactly is it to distinguish between

get_string(super_sekrit_password)

and

get_string(pretty_background_color)

for example? What if the background color is actually a way of revealing hidden messages, do you think it can see that coming? You're asking for a system which not only inserts unwanted code seamlessly into an application, but which can actually model the intention of the programmer and make decisions about how to compromise the code. From within the compiler running on a standard desktop or laptop, without noticeably extending compile times. I'm sorry, but given what a poor job humans do at turning specifications into code, the idea that there's a super-clever anti-security demon lurking inside every compiler is just laughable.

And that's before the other obvious objection that looking at compiled code in a debugger/disassembler is going to reveal lumps of code that were not put there by the original author. Invisible on a sufficiently large project? Sure, but an encryption/decryption program doesn't need to be very large to begin with - all it has to do is to reliably transform a block of data into scrambled form and back again. This is more amenable to proof than most computer programs (not least because it has no need to be interactive). Furthermore, we can easily imagine test cases that are very very short; ROT-13 is a lousy cipher, but it is a cipher, and one that can be implemented in ~20 lines of (non-obfuscated) code. Now suppose we make a variant that asks the user how many places to rotate by (eg 14) and that number functions as our 'secret' key. Still hopelessly insecure to anyone over the age of 10, but what of it? Wouldn't your hypothesized 'insecurity demon' need to put a backdoor in anyway, because it is an encryption tool, be it ever so primitive? And wouldn't that block of code show up in a debugger? If your answer is no, you're now positing hidden functionality that not only divines programmers' intentions and subverts those that are intended to add security, but also looks at the quality of the security algorithm and only sticks in a backdoor if it passes a certain threshold of cleverness.

I wish compilers had those smarts built in! Think how much tedious/craptacular code could be automated away by simply labeling things as 'sekrit!!' and having the NSA module inside the compiler generate lightweight, reliable code with no real penalty! It would take the pain out of unit testing for ever!
64-bit address space might not; 64-bit integer registers might help speed up some non-GPUizable matrix math.
Yeah, I want to calibrate ios screens. Using something like the i1 display pro.

It made a huge difference on my computer monitors.

I want a system wide color profile support, like what we have in Windows or OSX... Not a per app support.
Author is getting paid to organize information on a multitude of nations and their employment and economic prospects and human rights conditions. Businesses need guidance on where they can get cheap foreign labor to assemble products without long term problems. Author is the one who is charged with solving the problem for them.

Then the author decides that businessmen are shallow jerks because they just want the answer to their problems. They want help to pick a country and guidance about how to exploit the low wage workers without abusing anyone. Author thinks they should instead deeply explore the relative conditions and balance the ineffable cultural and economic differences in the deep way that only a full-time professional country analyst can. They should be like him.

But the businessmen are paying him to do that so they don't have to.

Perhaps the author would be happier with a nice UN or civil service job where he's not accountable to anyone for any kind of useful information. Ideally it would be a job where he can't be fired for self-indulgently coddling his broad-minded curiosity and refusing to give useful answers. Don't worry though; he's not the kind of high-minded idealist who refuses to make his money sending work to the lowest cost country. He's probably an expert on the authentic third-world experience of getting ladies to do his laundry for him cheap.
That's not how fingerprint scanners normally work I'm afraid...
No question that this needs to be done. The problem is mobilizing said labor force to accept technology. My maid barely checks her email once per week.

The depression of wages and lack of adopting technology/communication go hand in hand, to no surprise of anyone here.

I just met her through a moving service when I hired people to pack up and move my belongings when I bought a new house. Actually need to put boots on the ground for this kind of thing.
I'm sure many people have done this, which is why John Carmack's quote on patents is so relevant.
> Who the hell says 4 years is old?

Usually, your carrier, who after three years or so will toss you a new phone for free, in exchange for renewing that contract.
Are you suggesting that the base model 5C will become the free tier?
Or they take your thumb as well as your phone.
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I hear you. I too use the i1 display pro and I would love to review designs on my iPad without having to convert the files to sRGB first.
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Yeah, I assumed that the big performance gains, comparable to previous proc updates, were due to just being a faster chip. The quotes were "up to 2x faster," which is of course not untrue but still a bit misleading. Hopefully a few benchmarks and real-world tests will bear out the actual differences.
There is no need for reminders to pay, because the client has already paid. They fund the milestone, you work on the milestone, and once the client signs off on it, we pay you the full payment for the milestone.

The whole point of the service is for you to start work only when the client has shown that they have the full amount of money available to pay you.

We currently use this system as part of our main matchist product and our network of developers loves it. We're testing the idea of spinning this off for any freelance developer to use with their clients sourced anywhere, besides just matchist.
But can you trust a SEM? ;)
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It's "claimed" because the stories of recission are real, and to be expected from an industry that simply makes more profits by cutting costs (due to the inelastic demands of sick people needing health care). This story [1] is from 2009, before passage of ACA/Obamacare.

[1] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/02/think-youve-got-healt...
What if you genuinely don't remember your password? Is it in effect memory loss that's been made illegal?
someone should send this to Quora
"The photos look way better" is pretty easy to describe.
Also, something I don't see people talk about as much as they should (perhaps because startups are staying smaller these days), but if you have 8-10 employees or more you should be looking at a PEO.

We used Insperity/Administaff, and our healthcare rates went down by 30% and the coverage got dramatically better. Plus, they added all these adjunct benefits that big companies typically offer that few people use, but don't hurt to offer your team - free legal advice, adoption assistance, cheap LTD and life insurance (and a free life insurance policy for everyone), and so on.

They were organizationally harder to deal with than our previous payroll provider, but it was one of the better backoffice decisions we made period.
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No, I am not taking responsibility for an imaginary problem. You don't get to tell the world they have to cater to your delusions. Do you know what I hear about this issue from my wife? Variations on "What alternate reality are these people living in?". The only sexism she has experienced is the sort you are displaying: the "lets fall all over ourselves protecting the delicate ladies from the horrors of nothing" sort. She doesn't want to be a female programmer, she wants to be a programmer. Constantly making a fuss about an irrelevant detail like her gender is alienating, not helpful. You are making the field off-putting to her, not the evil chauvinist boogeymen she has never seen.
Can anyone actually maintain all of these? They seem easy to write down but hard to actually maintain over the long term...
Its going down every minute
Limits of what is achievable, or limits to what is useful for most users? I assume most users won't notice speed improvements anymore.
> I find it strange, though, that the insurance companies are allowing us to renew early and lock in a rate for another year if they're so sure rates would otherwise skyrocket in January.

If the coverage is starting early in December, plans may be working around some of the provisions limited to specific to plan years by starting what would otherwise be 2014 plans in December 2013.
fingerprints are a means of identifying you. I don't know about the laws where you are but in my country the police and state do not have fingerprints of every citizen, just the ones with criminal records. In case of a crime the police matches prints in the scene with the ones in the db of usual suspects plus the people who have a motive for the particular case. If they had a database of everyone's fingerprints I can't imagine how many times innocents would be wrongfully incriminated.. and you know with USA security agencies who can make foreigners disappear and end up on Guantanamo bay.. this is scary.
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Full details of who's covered: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/healthcare_e/healthcar...

TLDR: all ordinary UK residents, non-ordinary-residents who've been living legally in the UK for >12 months, EU citizens with EHIC cards, and various other sets of people.

Treatment at A&E (accident & emergency), family planning & HIV tests, and for certain communicable diseases is always free no matter who you are, for practical reasons (no time to ask who you are in A&E before they treat you, no requirement to ask who you are for family planning & HIV tests for confidentiality reasons, and for communicable diseases you want to minimise their spreading).
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> Reliability: I've seen so many broken home buttons

Have you seen any on iPhone5? That was mainly iPhone 4's problem, iirc.

> A passcode on the other hand, you have a much lower chance of
> guessing that within 10 tries

And peeking 4 digits passcode is even easier. Also, this scanner may be a bit more sophisticated.

> If my phone takes more than 3 seconds to unlock with a passcode it annoys me.

It's all in hardware. And that's iPhone 5S' hardware, 64bit and all.
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Ok, which phone company sells phone covers! Jobs, the real Apple fans are missing you!
the last time one of these came up I learned about bash's vi mode:

set -o vi

it's awesome
I have a 3 year "recycle" policy with my own hardware. My iPad 1 became unusable in less than 3 years. It doesn't feel good to spend ~$800 (a 64gb wifi with taxes in) on a device only to have it ruined by OS upgrades.

If Apple let you downgrade the OS easily, I probably wouldn't be nearly as pissed about it.

--edit-- In retrospect, I feel like a fool for plunking the extra $ for the 64GB model, thinking that it would help 'future proof' my purchase.
Apparently every adult in the US now has to spend $4 extra a day on healthcare.

There wasn't $4 per person of waste in the system?
You bet -- in time, and depending on the contract, etc.
If you have hobbies that may result in injury you might upgrade.
The USA is way behind on implementing EMV

Could you explain why it is a bad thing?
Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I'm also not so sure whether a fingerprint can't still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example).

Personally, I think I'd rather stay with my passcode.

Did you btw know that you can turn off "simple passcode" and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iPhone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.

Yes. It's not as safe as a long alphanumeric password, but this gets annoying SO quickly, I'd rather type in my 8 digits.
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I am confused, is it iPhone 620 or Lumia 5c?
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"Relevant Authorities". Since when is Apple, or the NSA relevant authorities for rummaging through your private data? Also, I like to follow the principle of least privilege. It is best policy not to allow your private data to be hanging out for any one to (ab)use. I am not a criminal, so why should they have my information?
I'm not sure all fingerprints are created equal, though. Maybe this one detects depth in some fashion?
Isn't that what EVERY company does when it comes to marketing? I have never taken a single marketing class but I'd think putting emphasis on your strong points and gloss over your weak ones is common sense?
At the unlocked price of $550 for the iPhone 5c and $650 for the considerably-better iPhone 5s, it doesn't seem like there's a huge price gap here. I have doubts whether it'll sell that well as the mid-level smartphone. The 4s is $450, which is closer to the price point I would have expected.
That's not really a theory, you're just deferring the question. Why wouldn't women be interested in this kind of profession? Do women not like comfortable, creative, high-paying jobs with lots of perks?
This was my thought as well - how can you verify the fingerprint if you don't have a representation of it to compare to? Don't think there is much value just an internal comparison would have.
This is meant to be the mid-tier phone, not the cheap phone
Has anybody freelanced using these guys? Did you land a good project or a so so one?
He obviously meant Lumia 620 :)

http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/phones/phone/lumia620/
Both, although more so the latter.
That seems like a rather minor point to focus on. As the wiki article you linked to spells out, dual-intent just means that the visa-holder is not barred from applying for a green-card while in country.

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.
>Tax enforcement schemes are conceived, enacted, and executed by governments because they have a monopoly over the taxing power.

Enacted and executed perhaps, but I would be very surprised if lobbyists hired by 'vultures' didn't do the conceiving.
The iPhone 4S is a lot cheaper, it’s Euro 399.

http://store.apple.com/de/buy-iphone/iphone4s
Oh, in that sense! I thought you implied he had solved some math problem that happened to be useful in voxel engines or something.
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That's how good marketing gains traction quickly. Count on the ignorant to do your bidding.
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If you're cautious enough to use a 26 character passphrase, why are you comfortable revealing how many characters your passphrase contains?
Actually pretty classy and makes a great point. +1 Nokia.
Why the fuck do people link to TechCrunch?

Seriously, pick any other non-Gawker outlet and it's going to be better and higher quality. Just fucking link the Verge and get over it.
Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and not iCloud or anywhere else.

It's mentioned in the video as well: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/videos/#video-touch
Samsung’s flagship phone (S4) is €100 cheaper. This is not in any way, shape or form a cheap phone.

It’s the iPhone 5 in a new case for €100/$100 less. That’s it.
Hell, I would add that you shouldn't do it on an iPhone 4.

Thankfully, my wife's iPhone 4S is about as fast as it was when she got it, because she hasn't done any OS upgrades on it at all.
Consulting companies provide the most H-1B Visas. Infosys Limited, Wipro Limited, Cognizant and PriceWaterhouseCoopers take the gold by awarding a combined 67,139 H-1B visas.

What is the relation between the "Applications Submitted" and "Employees Hired"? Given that this is just 2012 data, the there is a hard limit of 65,000 H1-B visas per year, this doesn't make sense to me. The figure in the article is a little misleading, I presume that the figured is over the past x years?
Hmm - I'm not familiar with Beacon, but will take a look.

In my mind, NFC has always sort of felt like a clunky way of imposing a physical constraint on what should be a purely electronic transaction.
> Have you seen any on iPhone5? That was mainly iPhone 4's problem, iirc.

Fewer, but still yes.

> And peeking 4 digits passcode is even easier. Also, this scanner may be a bit more sophisticated.

Very true, I'm looking at this less from a position of preventing a friend from fraping you, and more from a business security standpoint where you would hopefully shield a passcode, and probably use a longer alphanumeric one anyway. Not sure that a fingerprint beats that.

> It's all in hardware. And that's iPhone 5S' hardware, 64bit and all.

Of course, I don't think performance will be the issue, but I'm just hoping that there isn't an issue with practicality. So many of Apple's things are good in theory, and not usable in practice, at least for me. (iCloud CoreData sync, Photo Stream, Siri, AirPlay, FaceTime...).
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