skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been toying with a similar setup. Most of the time, you can actually get a really good estimate of the heart rate by doing simple-minded peak detection on the raw averaged brightness signal (e.g. using the algorithm here: http://www.billauer.co.il/peakdet.html). However, the iPhone camera can't be prevented from periodically adjusting exposure parameters (as far as I've been able to tell), and I've not been able to stop this screwing things up once or twice a minute. In other projects I've had some success using the FFT and windowing functions of Apple's Accelerate.framework, so I may see now if the Matlab code shown here can be translated to run in real-time on the phone.
Hackers Bypass Apple’s Touch ID With Lifted Fingerprint
For the homework assignment, do you give them a time limit(i.e 1 week) to turn in their work? : )
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Conservative GC is real GC, it's just the tracing set happens to be the stack. And I don't see why you can't use non-conservative GC for C++ allocators. It only requires some work for read/write barriers.

GC is all about using `malloc/new` without thinking `free/delete`. With modern C and C++ there are a lot of mechanisms for that (passing values, auto_ptr and shared_ptr for example). In many cases a C++ programmer doesn't need to think about `free/delete` either, and in some cases the non-determinism of GC decreases the productivity too.
So if someone ran a proxy within the FTZ, everyone could proxy through that out to the free world?
In many EU countries insurance companies and banks can't do social network analysis of your public Facebook profile or buy your private data from Facebook.

Some countries have laws that limit the use of the information in public records. Even if some party is allowed to collect the information, like phone company, they are not automatically allowed to use the data in any way they please.

There is also huge difference of having access to data you need and keeping and collecting records of people using publicly available data.

US has very backwards privacy laws. Basically once your data is out there anyone can do anything they please with it. This does not mean that this should be the case or that rest of the world acts like this.
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dude what part of he gave the info away to a third party before reporting it do you not understand to put ur bullshit out there >
Lots of unsold Ivy Bridge CPUs
This is amazing. Thanks for the links :)
That's very impressive - both in terms of revenues, and product development! Are you doing all the design and development work yourself?
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> Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX.

No, they took NeXTSTEP and made it into OS X. However much they may now have in common, the history of the codebase goes back years prior to the existence of FreeBSD.
I have friends who make somewhere in the general neighborhood of several times less than I do, and other friends who make likely as much as twice what I do.

The result of having a wide range of salaries in your social circles is that salary becomes taboo. There is little good to come of talking about it with non-coworker friends, somebody is just going to end up feeling bad, or jealous, or self-conscious, or asked for a personal loan... Even more closely guarded than salary is personal worth, for many of the same reasons, and more.

If this taboo doesn't exist outside the US (and I rather doubt claims that it really doesn't), I would nevertheless refuse to participate in non-anonymized discussions about salary in those settings. What good could come of it?

This taboo carries over to the workplace and into interactions between coworkers who arguably could benefit from discussing salary. If it were born just from employee handbook rules, then nobody would respect it. There are plenty of other rules in those things that nobody reads.
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>>>>by the time someone is contributing they're already either looking for a new job or expecting promotions and salary hikes in the 20-50% per annum range
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What is wrong with that?

Have you made them sign a service contract?
I bet , you did.
Did you confiscate their original + official documents?
You almost did that.

Why do you hire people with "literally 0 skills" in the first place?

Why?
Why?

Because you could get away with paying them 5K per month.

Why are you blaming others?
Why are you blaming the cost of hiring?

If you have good work to do , you have to hire good people to do the work , and have to pay them good.

But your primary concern is to find people who can be bullied/exploited at severely less cost.

Hence you are ranting about the the lack of skills.

This body shopping attitude of yours deserves nothing but people who leave your company as soon as possible for them.

Your company wants to make profit , not create value , I wish no one stayed at your company after their contract period gets over.

Storm is coming , Mr . Eitally.

Stop blaming , stop ranting about lack of skills in someone else ,Speak the truth - You are finding it hard to find bodies to whore them.

That is truth.

I hate you and your company.
> they've never helped out with open source drivers

I think that's only true when it comes to 3D drivers. They wrote the 2D nv driver:

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/nv/

I do remember people complaining it was full of magic numbers to obfuscate what it was doing but it was indeed open source and written by nvidia.
Ahem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_by_finding
Turning Ten
Awesome work so far. I think I speak for everyone here when I say we can't wait to see if you publish the protocol specs; everyone's hands are itching :)
My biggest problem with 10x is that it commonly misunderstood. The mythical man month (MMM) book explained, an average developer is 3x the worst. the best is 3x an average. So the dynamic range is 9x, but it isn't a math so who cares. And if you are an normal developer with a friend who 3x faster, it is a career guy in a company you would not touch with a long stick, that makes you average and your friend 10xer.
This misunderstanding makes people say 10xers are rare. They are not. People who are 10x better than you are rare.

I am not that person. I am an average guy. I meet devs 3x my inferior, and 3x my superior. So I do think 10x range that MMM talks about is possible.

My second problem with the article is unit of measurement question.
It is very clear what it is. A time to completion of a well defined task by an individual developer, with predetermined level of quality of the result.
The problem is in the measurement. To measure you have to waste resources giving same task to many. And quality measurements are imprecise.
MMM book was all about the time to completion. Obviously nobody counts lines of code. Why even bringing it up?

While I think 9x range is possible, I have never seen it in real life medium size teams. (I am a short term projects freelancer, so I see two companies a year over last 18 years) The reason being, my theory goes, a contextual one. Start-ups ship buggy code fast. A fab automation company might test a released code for a year before shipping. I believe it isn't the issue of A players hiring A players and B players hiring C players. It's just the goals differ. I was faster than most at a certain client of mine, but my code was less reliable. That was fine for a specific task I was hired for, but not for most what they do.

My third problem is that the article tries to fight the notion of importance of hiring 10xers. In many cases individual performance meters less. Imperfectly studied as it might be, 10x performance measurability beats other metrics of what makes a good developer, and a good employee. How do you measure ability to communicate, motivational power, leadership, and plain good taste? So for established companies 10x hiring is not as critical.
And yet, I can clearly see why start-ups are focused on 10xers (ninjas etc). In start-ups individual devs have more autonomy, by design. Winner-takes-most aspect requires short time to market. Delivery times matter much more then quality. That being the case, hiring an obnoxious jerk who codes like hell makes clear if perhaps a temporary benefit.

So if you agree that for a startup time to market is a key, and individual developer relative importance is high, a logical conclusion is makes sense to search for (and overpay) the best. Just like it makes sense to fire 10xers once startup gets traction and replace with normally paid, normally performing guys that function great as a team.
Chef - Infrastructure as a Code
Ansible - Infrastructure as a Documentation

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I don't quite remember, but I think the images are just passed over SSL with no other encryption.
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Inability to send rich media types make text messages basically broken with today's smartphones.
It's all about money, I guess. Probably they think you'll cost the country more than you'll contribute. (Not saying I like it).
Do you think your app can be blocked by Apple?

Why did you use Apple's graphics instead of your own? It will make it easier for Apple to have your app taken down.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," and all that.
website is down, is there a mirror?
Do you know if iMessages are encrypted to more than one key (i.e. not just with the recipient key)?
I don't want to reveal the apps that I make, but I can answer your questions. I did develop the apps. There are 4 main apps that bring in all of the revenue. The apps are gaming and entertainment categories. None of the apps were first to market, but most of them did provide a much better experience than what was available at the time.
R, GeoJSON and GitHub
Dropbox FISC Brief
Sure they're compromised by NSA, but every communications medium in the world is compromised by NSA.

scary baseling like this
I was in academia in Japan and there cygwin and Windows were the favorite tools.

Some of the people used Linux in VMs, on the other hand, some new students installed XP on their notebooks. In 2012.

And I think this was even a rather progressive lab, I suppose industry only uses Windows.
Apple warranty document leaked
OpenOffice.org Hacked? Login uses exposed.
> (2) capture is infeasible

I am not sure how they can even justify how any capture can be infeasible. Since, the US clearly found capturing Osama Bin Laden to be feasible even within an allied country.
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It's a standard USB HI device, you don't need any kind of MS code to use it. Changing it would make it incompatible with their existing xbox360 install base and games for windows. I guess they could stop selling the xbox360 controller, but why would they when it's making them money?
How do you make money? Some sort of affiliate deal?
The nv driver exists for the single purpose of getting into a working desktop, so one can install the proprietary driver.

It is not intended as decent 2D-only driver or anything like that.
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Have you been to a software conference outside of the US? Certainly in Europe it's Mac dominated.
> If the enemy refuses to wear a uniform? Do we just let them go?

The British policy on this, under which I grew up, was to treat such a scenario as a 'police action' wherein military presence was used to bring the situation to a point where the police could intervene.

Certainly troops operated checkpoints, patrolled streets and operated intelligence gathering, but all actions were in assistance to the constabulary. The ROE for line soldiers were extremely strict and even firing in self-defence was not automatically assured. A soldier could pin a suspect on the pavement but only a police officer could arrest him.
I like it. Here's what would make it really useful to me:
Hold Ctrl, highlight wanted item using arrow keys, release Ctrl, corresponding action is performed. If the menu is large, with a lot of items, allow Ctrl-<key> shortcuts. If I could use this while never touching the mouse, I'd LOVE it.
Debugging OSX via Sauce Labs
Heathrow airport sucks for everyone, not just `businessman`.

This is not 'decent thing' but PR stunt. Similar way when cat on tree is rescued by three fire cars and police squad.

Just try to travel with someone who has serious mental condition and does not have 'connections'. Nothing makes flight smoother than saying 'I will kill you' to an officer.
I hate to play Devil's advocate (please prove me wrong) but you have almost a million app downloads (more successful than most) and high school kids at Taco Bell make more than you. And that's before taxes. What will you owe the IRS if you're in the US? What are you paying in hosting? Is this really the "mobile revolution" glorified day after day in the news? So $500/month after Google pulled the rug from under you? Only "24 hours" but what about tech support, compatibility issues, the market research, artwork, learning to package the apps, complying with Google's rules, setting up your development environment? How many days does "24 hours" add up to, start to finish? But forget the money, at the end of the day this sounds like unrewarding work: ripping off other people's ideas. Which makes me wonder, you're obviously clever enough to get a million downloads, why such an uncreative approach? I'm just trying to understand the app market everyone is raving about. How many times have we all heard "the future is mobile, the future is mobile." Is making these apps (games?) really that enjoyable? I'm curious because I'm thinking of making an Android app. When I read stories like this, makes me think twice. What you're doing sounds really smart from a marketing perspective because 1. you're making games which are by far the most popular apps and 2. you're replicating the most popular games. So you should be killing it, making 100x more than all the other app developers who didn't sell out, the developers building interesting, original, useful apps. Yet, you're not. Am I over-analyzing this? Or is the "apps market" totally overrated?
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10x was originally (man month book) the distance between extremes, not between the average and one extreme.
Static-analysis with custom rules for JavaScript?
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I'm not sure how you jump from "people have criticised this story" to "the people I would expect to criticise this story are all right-wing".

I think you're just as bigoted as the people you are complaining about.
I think by competition he/she meant spying and not social media?
Writing code that goes into proprietary software is like writing a book which can read only your editor. Programming (at least in some areas) is like art, you want the world to see your code, what you've done there. Give me a name of one famous programmer. I bet he is writing free and open source software.
Learned game programming for 3 years, don't know how to program games.
Even though the technical achievement is really impressive, the iOS6 design just looks out of place. It simply does not look right, it's a shame that implementing an iOS service led them to implement an iOS design, I would rather prefer a well integrated Android experience.
You know they already have social networks, right?
the code there makes no mention of the iMessage protocol. everything there can be done using other publicly avaiable API's such as the CalDAV/CardDAV api.
This demonstrates complete ignorance of modern DRM and who has worked on it. You could not be more wrong. One word: Tarnovsky

Also, nobody really cares if they work on proprietary code. Such developers are rare.
If it was only a PR stunt, don't you think they would have found a cuter story to tell?
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Drupalcon Prague keynote. (Jump to 8:30)
interesting - there is always an inflection point where a team gets large enough, professional enough, that more of its time is dedicated to metrics and co-ordination - and at a diseconomy of scale - there are tools that can help postpone the day, but it seems to be an immutable law.

I am reminded of a quote by JS Haldane : at a certain height a falling cat will walk away, a human will break and a horse splash.

increasing the volume / surface area ratio will result an gravity playing a bigger part in ones lives and capabilities - it's the same here. mass, size, etc of an organisation does count.
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Is the Twitterverse the angriest place on the Internet?
If those people were plotting to kill hundreds/thousands of your more innocent citizens

And if they weren't?
C&D because of trademark infringement.
I'm not dyslexic and I still do this from time to time, mostly with long lines or small text.

For editors this menu filled with text formatting tools might be a nice feature, but for users, especially with second class functionality, I'd consider it an anti-pattern.
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Customer Service Vs Customer Experience
Before of all, using of the trademark iMessage is enough to get lawsuit from Apple lawyers.

Also, it's sure that they are intentionally copying Apple's copyrighted material.
How 'Openness' of Google Play messed up BBM Android launch
Web applications load testing with Grinder.
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a) it's a proposal

b) it's for the people operating/owning "link" sites that exist purely to profit from and facilitate piracy. These people gamble the income from millions or billions of monthly ad impressions are worth it, they don't deserve a free pass.

c) users of such sites are not being targeted, except by the site owners peddling mountains of spyware and affiliate scamware all over their sites
No, it is not a joke. iMessage is not a secure communications channel. With this app in the wild, it is pretty clear it is not a secure communications channel. You should not post CC information along an insecure communications channel.

You may be right that there is more risk involved now, but it is nice to get the point out in the open.
0.5% ? Really? Can you back that up with a reference please.
And if the terrorists are in a country which does not want to launch military action against the bad actors within their borders?
Google launches online constitution archive
"after pressure from the US over its piracy record".
Your question itself falls victim to one of the biggest fallacies highlighted by this article: that is, you accept that government accusation (e.g. that someone is an al-Qaeda member) is tantamount to guilt.

Establishing the truth of such an accusation is the very objective of due process. Thus, your question is internally inconsistent and circular. It literally cannot be answered.
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Where is the press, where are the protesters?

Its not hard to understand why it does not change. Its sad that criticism can be blunted by the fear of being labeled.
Because UK airport security is usually very inflexible in such unusual cases (they provide great service for 'classic' disabilities such as wheelchair).

Also the fact they travel from Heathrow (most overcrowded and busiest airport in Europe) and not from Gatwick, Stansted or other friendlier airport.
These ideas were not original to start with; 4 pics 1 word (which is, imho, incredibly boring) somehow got a lot of attention, downloads and money but was never original. Then 100s of devs copied it in some way or another. All these 'games' look / work the same. I made one for a client and the 24 hours sounds plausible including artwork but excluding the actual levels. That would take around another day. Making a few $100 / month constant for a few days work is ok in my book, although it's not the work I would want to do; like you say, it's uncreative and actually boring.

However; for these kind of games there is no 'support'; people like it or don't like it, but you don't get support requests; people who experience issues with the software just uninstall it. It's not worth actually fixing it for a few outliers with crap white label phones. So you don't actually have any work with these things and that beats Taco Bell.

I think the reason he is not killing it is the nature of these games; they are very easy to make so there are 1000s of clones in the Play Store, people usually cheat (look up the answers) and those who like them have more than 10 installed on their phone. So the ad exposure is very short lived. Installs are not a very good metric; play time is; you're not going to keep apps like this active for a long time.

If you make an app which gives value to people or games with fresh content every week , you will make a lot more money. But that's not automatic; it's a job :)
Please know that the 4-digit pin is easily removed by someone with non-specialist tools that are widely available. Touch ID is too new to assess whether this is also the case for the new Iphone, but it's quite possible that there is a sufficiently clear fingerprint on the screen of your device already for reuse.

UPDATE
For more detail about how this is done, have a look at the current releases of jailbreaking tools. The general method is to perform a temporary jailbreak which allows the ability to SSH into the device and dump all the data.
Rich Hickey[0], in addition to making open source software[1], also produces closed source software[2]. Similarly, Joel Spolsky[3] is involved in a fairly high profile[4] closed source project. That's just off the top of my head.

[0] https://github.com/richhickey

[1] http://clojure.org

[2] http://www.datomic.com

[3] http://www.joelonsoftware.com

[4] http://stackoverflow.com
I disagree. Nobody at Google would have a job if it wasn't for Adsense/Adwords, which hasn't changed since the Goto.com days. It's a fancy click counter script paying everyone's salary. Search = content to sell clicks. You could fire 99% of everyone at Google and they wouldn't lose one penny of profit.
Couldn't agree more, the levels of biting misanthropy on HN really narks me off sometimes.
basically a smartphone size polygraph or a software version of Dr. Lightman ("Lie to me"). Heart rate, eyes expansion/contraction, pattern recognition on face muscle twitching, like of lips, eyelids, ... Could something like it speed up, for example, TSA lines at airports? Automated "checkout" lines like in grocery stores - face camera, hand palm on touch pad, "Are you a terrorist with a bomb? Choose Yes or No" (reminds a gun vending machine scene from South Park if i remember correctly :)
Hackernews-tagger v0.1
Log all DOM changes to DevTools console
The suggested "Unread Message Icon" is even uglier than the cog. Reverting back!
Clearly not. But those were a while back. And the people who seem to be doing the most killing of civilians these days identify themselves as muslims.

Yes, I understand that most, perhaps very nearly all muslims don't want anything to do with these nut-jobs. However, if you're looking for the group of people most likely to be in to this kind of thing _right now_, then it seems that the nearest crazy-horse mosque might be the place to go. No, not the mosque around the corner from you right now [for most values of 'you'], but such places exist, and its right for law enforcement to investigate them.

Don't misunderstand me. Killing civilians with secret orders via remotely piloted drones, with no trial, no public investigation and no accountability is broken. Obama has certainly given me hope. Just as Bush did before him. I _hope_ that the next holder of office is a little more responsible.

But, there is a war. And I'd rather the liberal democracies won it. [hint - if the nut-jobs who attached the shopping mall in Nairobi had their way, my children and I would be executed in a flash]
Japan is a Windows loving country so its hardly representative.
One less reason to buy an iDevice, at least until Apple issues the inevitable takedown, Cease-and-Desist, iSueYou, etc.
BTDT, signed the NDA, and the DRM I know is as good as it realistically can become.
i feel like I'm gonna just kill myself in a couple years.