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>It does this without 'death panels' that decide who gets care and who doesn't

Making the decision objective does not make it just. Let's say I invented a drug that would keep people with blue eyes alive. Forever, no matter what. Doesn't work on brown eyed folk. Should such a drug be covered by universal healthcare?
Lethal Operations, Extraordinary Rendition, Enhanced Interrogation. My God, It's all Newspeak. There should be a constitutional amendment or something mandating that laws should use well understood terms or if that is not possible, clearly define the term before using it.

This language allows these people to say "We're going to kill and torture people without having any proof that they're criminals and we don't have to tell you about it" while making it sound like and extra step of paperwork.
Why would Apple buy them? If they wanted to release iMessage for Android, they would. But it's a selling point for them, so it's not likely to happen.
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well, tax laws make distinction between non-Americans and Americans outside of the US. One can see how following the similar reasoning criminal law (or whatever law is the basis for extrajudicial killings (sorry for the oxymoron)) can make similar distinction.
thanks for the data point!
>the reality is that most
software engineers are starting to get
tired of Windows and OSX

I agree with you about Windows but note that outside of the U.S. very few software engineers ever even get to work with OS X.
Sure, if you're still here! There are some problems with capitalism:

* Market externalities. You can sell me a car and we'd both make out well; but we're externalizing the cost of pollution onto others. This isn't factored into the costs we pay. Each market transaction's externalities add up. A capitalist society would tend to destroy its own environment. (States try to respond with schemes like "Pigovian" taxes. [1] While anarcho-capitalists mention lawsuits. I mention anarcho-capitalism below.)

* Wage slavery. A feature of capitalist societies is the boss-worker relationship. You rent workers on a market, and command them. At least it's an improvement over chattel slavery, but that's not saying much. (Visit a store or restaurant. Are the people there afraid to speak freely when the manager is present?)

Does "pure" capitalism mean Murry Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism? (He wrote about things like private judicial systems. So, you'd hire a private army to keep me off your road.) I'll defer to Chomsky's claim since he thought about it more: "First of all, it couldn't function for a second—and if it could, all you'd want to do is get out, or commit suicide or something." (http://www.distantocean.com/2008/04/chomsky-on-libe.html)

Also, advocates of pure markets tend to miss that countries like the US rely on state subsidy for its fundamental innovations. Countries don't do well sticking with their comparative advantages; the US would be stuck exporting fish and fur if it did. Mariana Mazzucato and Ha-Joon Chang both wrote about this. If you're in the mood for videos, here's: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyp3Bw5H0VA) and (http://www.newamerica.net/events/2011/23_things)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax#Criticisms
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Symbolically it could mean a lot. Imagine a tiny part of the US where gun ownership is completely banned. How would the Republicans react to that? I still doubt if the leftists in China would really let this happen.
I'm guessing that it was likely that he wouldn't have spelled out in detail his exact financial situation to them.

If you were his child all you'd probably have seen was that he sold his house and offered to help you get on the property ladder with some of the money he released. If that happens and you believe that he's got other savings then that's a very different situation to be presented with than the idea that you're messing up his retirement.

But even if that weren't the case it would surely be a failing on their part rather than on his?
Are these monthly or annual figures?

If monthly, that sounds insanely high for Europe.

If annual, that sounds insanely low for Europe.
That's the problem though. You don't fly thousands of passengers each day and have seen several of your peers bankrupted or seriously financially wounded by a single high profile accident, so you might have a different view on the risks compared to the ones running the airline.

By definition I take far more risk when flying a single-prop light aircraft, and I'm fine with that. What I don't expect is to be able to force that risk level on other people.
> And what do you suggest we do for Aaran Stewart? Tough luck?

http://www.netjets.com/
And the dog's not talking.
Putting all the TouchID sucks / TouchID is great questions aside, can somebody help me understand how Apple (supposedly) is calculating a hash of a fingerprint and storing that hash in the phone, not the real fingerprint?

As I understand correctly, the purpose of a hashing function is to create totally different output even on a very minor change in the input data, which wouldn't work that great with fingerprints... or are they just using a clever hashing function which tries to somehow normalise the data before hashing them?
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Yes, you and your friends boycotting companies is going to make them desperate enough for their executives to risk prison time in order to win you back.

Good luck with that.
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I had been wondering about this myself. Thank you for the breakdown. Most interesting.
It's a report that spends most of its length telling you in some detail exactly what they can't legally tell you.

Considering how self-congratulatory HN readers are about this community's intelligence, you'd think more of them would be able to read between the lines.
> Sure they're compromised by NSA, but every communications medium in the world is compromised by NSA.

I do not think that this statement is accurate. The NSA has specifically targeted the largest players.

Also: "encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are reliable" - Edward Snowden.
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I see such articles a lot in the Internet press.

Indian Graduates being un employable .

Such articles are published by INDIAN START UPS/CEO OF INDIAN START UPS/VIPRO/INFOSYS/rest of body shops.

Has anyone wondered that why don't we see such articles by Real companies/Real start ups/Real Universities which are not BODY SHOPS ?

See the problem is GREED AND UN ETHICS.
Every start up wants to become a body shop.
Every Indian CEO wants to make a lot of money by adding more people and scaling the billing rate.
The small app development companies oped by those TOMS AND HARRY want to employ a DICK to do "iPhone Development" at for minimum amount of money and henceforth make maximum amount of money.

NEWSFLASH: YOU

yes , THE ONE BLAMING THE PARENTS, THE ONE BLAMING THE QUALITY OF GRADUATES, THE ONE WRITING AN OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN GRADUATING CLASS , THE ONE BLOGGING ABOUT LACK OF CODING SKILLS,

YOU

ARE NOT GETTING GOOD PEOPLE IF YOU ARE NOT PAYING GOOD (Exception being the Linux Kernel , but that is open and free for everyone).

The IT services companies and the people claiming to run start ups - they have just one goal in their life -

EXPLOITATION -

They ARE NOT ABLE TO DO EXPLOITATION at lesser salaries , hence they are ranting.
Such rant has been too much wide spread during the last 5 years.

I have an open question to these IT companies and such start up CEOs?
Why have you not invested in opening a University/Engineering College?

Why has not Infoys/CTS opened a an engineering college?

They can train so many people for 4 months but why not for a 4 year degree program?

They would have have to deploy good faculty in these colleges .(They have a brand name to keep).

Simple Reason - No one would choose(after graduating from InfoSys Engineering college) to work for 10$ per day doing maintenance jobs while the company is charging the clients >10$ per hour.

MY TAKE ON SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE BLAMING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM---

Why are you blaming the system.

IF YOU WANT CAPABLE ENGINEERS , YOU NEED TO PAY THEM.

YOU WANT TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFIT ,BUT YOU WANT TO PAY MINIMUM SALARY, BUT YOU WANT TO MAKE THEM SIGN A SERVICE CONTRACT,YOU WANT THEM TO NOT LEAVE, YOU WANT THEM DO DELIVERY AFTER DELIVERY, YOU WANT THEM TO MAKE YOU RICHER -

no SIR , YOU ARE NOT GETTING THAT.

Stop blaming the Engineering Education in India ,Stop thinking that cunning bastards like NM are entrepreneurs-
They are not your role model.

EM is your role model.

DO NOT BLAME SOMEONE ELSE'S PARENTS IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO PROFIT FROM THEIR SON/DAUGHTER'S BODIES.
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That's why companies use convertible notes. While the cap is a proxy for valuation, there is no issued stock options until the note converts to equity in a priced round.
Hi, thanks for joining! Some questions:

1) It appears that the iMessage responses received from Apple's servers are forwarded as-is to a remote server for decoding and decryption. Is this correct? If so, why isn't this process performed in the application itself?

2) Now that you've clearly reverse-engineered the iMessage protocol, will you be publishing it so that others can benefit from interoperability? If not, why not?
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It sounds silly but it's a brilliant idea!
Trying out Hailo, the mobile taxi app that’s taking over London
How could Apple convince Google to pull this from the Play Store?
I'm the one with the axe to grind?!

Dude, if I said the sky was blue, you'd post a response to Hacker News insisting it was green.
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In yearly global death count, terrorism accounts for around 10,000. That would not be a big deal even if all those deaths were in the US (and not scattered over the globe, and mostly in places of high civil unrest). I'm not saying 10,000 deaths isn't sad, but in 2011 a whopping 597,689 Americans died of heart disease. Yet, there aren't secret government enforced exercise camps, are there? There aren't secret courts that shut down McDonalds restaurants without trial, are there? It doesn't matter whether this is an evil plan to grab power by Obama or not. It gives a huge amount of power to the President. If you don't fight it now, that power will never be given back. Each successful president will enjoy the ability to kill of anyone they feel like in secret. Add to that the complicit news organisations, sweeping domestic spying programs and the secret prisons, and you have everything in place for a coup. All it takes now is for the wrong guy to get elected.
Me too. Huh, what are the odds of that...
Nvidia has been good when it comes to proprietary drivers on Linux, but they've never helped out with open source drivers. Then this happened on the same day as the SteamOS announcement. It's quite a massive coincidence if it is one. Nvidia's refusal to help out with open source drivers has been a controversial issue in the Linux community for at least a decade or so. I'd be very surprised if SteamOS played no role in this.
indeed, a confrontation with ones own mortality might help with appreciation of life.

I would differantiate between battlefields and staging dead bodies.

To me the categorical imperativ helps evaluating those situations.
Do you want your dead body being kept around as attraction?

If those poor souls didn't freely agree than we don't know their will, so no.

It is similar to keep a real skull around for the giggles, lack of respect.
He was the Product Manager for Excel during his tenure at Microsoft, so it's quite plausible he knows a few.
About 400EUR monthly from running game servers on open-source game.
This may be off topic but I'd love to where you registered your domain affordabl.es. Last I tried registering a .es tld, I got some "Syria residents/biz" restrictions.
Interesting - but I have to ask, what's with the italics?
Words with Friends kind of presupposes cellular connectivity, albeit not with a lot of traffic.
My guess is that they break the fingerprint into very small subsections and use those hashes to compare against. If they get matches in enough consecutive areas, then the phone unlocks.
£600 - theres lots of them going for around that price on ebay and places like CEX. Suppose they will get cheaper as ver 2 becomes available.

NB: I buy second hand because of 'blood minerals' etc, not because I'm trying to save money exactly. Due to moores law second hand tech from last year is rarely much cheaper compared to new stuff from this year.
i think the fingerprint reader extracts consistent data from the image of the fingerprint no matter how distorted it is, by say, looking at the relative position and translating the pattern of whorls into numbers, then that number is hashed.
> can somebody help me understand how Apple (supposedly) is calculating a hash of a fingerprint

this might provide some information: 'Symmetric hash functions for secure fingerprint biometric systems' (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/222570842_Symmetric_...). also this: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/iphone_finger... (for some general overview)
They can start by getting Google and other major app stores to pull the app for copyright / trademark infringement on the term "iMessage", then they can sue the developer for the same (he's public with his identity).

Beyond that all they need to do is include some form of digital signing in the login process which he can't duplicate and jobs a good un.

Alternatively they may say that they don't care and leave it alone as it strengthens iMessage as a platform.

But my guess is that this won't end well. Isn't it trademarks that you have to defend or you lose them? If that's the case then Apple at the very least need to have him change the name and so on.
IBM are not selling or phasing out Power. They are investing $1bn in Linux on Power and opening up the platform.
Current version need server,because Apple have same limits.
but in new version , i will not use server.
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Wow.

The cynicism and essentially self centered criticism of this story is nothing short of stunning and deeply depressing. If this place were the commentards section for a US right wing radio station or the UK Daily Wail, then OK. Be here? The community that threw a thoroughly reasonable collective fit when a depressed IT hero commits suicide? All those decent human threads about depression and other mental illnesses? All that concern for Chinese and child workers making Apple and other products? And then I read this crap when a massive busy international airport does a really decent thing?

Ok, now i finally understand why our governments treat us like filth. If we cant applaud this sort of thing, we have zero right to refer to our selves as "humanity", we are just selfish nasty scum.

I don't care what this costs. I don't care if the evil communist BBC didn't write a book, but instead wrote a quick article. I don't care if it inconveniences some arsehole arrogant businessman. I see no relation to between this and our stupid racist security arrangements.

What I care about and respect is a simple act of human decency. This is one such act, and I applaud it.

If is that is too much for some "people", kill my karma, I dont give a fk.
And Apple's lawyers can find out how to reach him too.

Not saying that's a good thing, just that it's a likely thing.
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Yes

nVidia would be the way to go on professional application on Linux (think 3D Modelling and such)

Also stuff like this http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/gelato.html
90% of my interviews simply stop at the first question (Can you write a function in C which given an integer array and its size as arguments, returns the number of zeros in an array?)

So , you are claim to run a start up and your job requirements are such that such students make to your interview?

How much are you willing to pay.
3/5/7 thousand Rupee per month.

If your CTC is so low , are you expecting to find what , kernel hackers at such cost.

Here is Advice - Kill your greedy attitude.
Kill your dream that you would be ever successful.
Kill your body shopping attitude.

The problem is people like you , you want people at so cheap price for you so called "start up" and then you rant on Internet that you cannot find people with skills.
The real reason is you are finding it hard to find people to exploit.

If you want better people , you need to pay them . BUT ALAS , why would you want to pay them?
Mr, NM is your role model.

Good luck on scaling your worthless start up.
If someone broke into my apartment by smashing the window with a brick, I wouldn't be mad at myself for not using thicker glass.

OK, but did they do anything wrong with SQL-injecting/breaking-a-window? I mean, if someone smashes your window can you call the cops and/or sue them for damages? In order to call the cops on the window smasher, you have to acknoledge they did a wrong.
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But you haven't shown that there is any risk, and neither has anyone else. Which (again) is why we're still allowed to bring electronic devices up to and including cell phones onboard passenger aircraft.

You can't run a civilization on the Precautionary Principle. You understand that, right? Most people understand that, but the TSA and (until now) FAA don't seem to.
Unfortunately, it's the drivers that are the issue. I have no doubt the open source community could at least maintain nvidia's code for them.
The webfont for that site looks awful in Firefox 24, all the 'r' and 'g' letters are cut in half:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=59766

If I zoom in or out it looks normal, so probably something wrong with hinting in the font (or a bug in firefox?)
FWIW it looks normal in Chromium.
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The big interaction problem that I always have with circle menu's like this is that when you use it for the first time, without knowing how it works, it's like mystery meat.

You click, drag, release mouse, something happens, too fast to see it, since it auto-selected the link in the edge you dragged to, and opened it in a new window.
Now i've completely lost my context and have to do the same thing again after I close the tab, Now i'm on a desktop, but on a tablet this would be even more annoying.

I have this same UI on Snap Camera on my phone (try it, it's still awesome), and i've seldom had such a love-hate relationship with a UI. The rate at which you select something by accident, and unexpected behavior happens is just too high.
Publishing a transparency report is an excellent step and it doesn't deserve this sort of comment. Government surveillance is a policy issue first and foremost, concentrating on consumer tech companies is but an attention seeking techniques to make the news more palatable to casual readers, if corporate compliance bothers you then telecom companies ought to top of the list seeing as they never even mounted a single challenge, nor did they seek transparency.

If your reasoning is that they're not lobbying against this, then you're wrong. You can't expect people not to use the Facebooks or Apples, it's a policy issue. Pressure the government, vote for the right people.
IMHO the 2nd line is the most interesting part here. There's a substantial interest in user data by other nations, a fact overshadowed by Snowden-NSA affair.

A bit of cold shower if you think hosting abroad is a viable solution to data privacy. You have nowhere to go.
Heh, I'm reminded of an anecdote of an elderly English relative who was in a chinese restaurant (in England), and was suprised that the English menu was chinese food but written in English, instead of steak, potatoes and veg that used to be on the "english menu" in chinese restauarants decades ago. :P
Surely you're joking. I don't doubt you can understand the difference between a government law enforcement agency reading your messages and some guy off the street reading your messages.

Neither Apple nor the NSA will, for example, immediately rack up a string of fraudulent charges on every credit card number that it sees come through its system. Some random guy in China? I'd say there's a pretty high chance that's exactly the reason this app is in the app store.
We are one step closer to immortality.
Hardcore gamers will do ANYTHING for that extra 1 fps.

Linux exposes a lot of options that Windows and OS X will not.

Imagine if these particular gamers switch to linux. They can significantly improve the platform by trying everything they can for that extra performance.

The improvements could have far reaching consequences. Improvements that could possibly help people solving hard problems (HPC). It is not out of the realm of possibility.
I use my thumb with my iPhone all the time. In fact, the main thing that kept me from switching to an Android phone last summer was the discomfort I experienced trying to reach the edges of the screen on the devices I tried out.
What really is the line between tricked and asked? Deceit?

What you (the asker/trickster) think the askee thought of it.
More info:

http://www.reddit.com/r/savethenbn/

http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/ always has something on the NBN.

http://delimiter.com.au/

http://iwantthenbn.com/

http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/

http://nbnmyths.wordpress.com/

http://www.netindex.com/upload/allcountries/

http://www.weneedthenbn.com/
I agree that the president is too powerful, but I don't see how a parliamentary system would fix it. From a separation-of-powers perspective, Commonwealth PMs look very much like elected dictators.
That talks about putting a finger right on the camera. You don't actually have to go anywhere near the camera to measure heart rate. See the iPhone app Cardiio [1] which gets your heart rate by looking at your face.

The technique behind this, Eulerian Video Magnification, is pretty cool. There is a description and a very nifty video at [2].

[1] http://www.cardiio.com

[2] http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
Really? Every developer I know in the UK who doesn't develop for an MS stack is running either Linux or OS X, and that's been the case for the last ten years.
I don't know the global stats, but in Europe, 0.5% of terrorist attacks are committed by people who identify as Muslim. Christians and atheists commit way more.
Well said, shame I can only upvote you once.
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You just need to click a button to install it.
I think a better way to think of iMessage something that seamlessly replaces text messages when some conditions are met. I mean, you can still text your Android user friends, can't you?
i have been facing this issue for quite a while now. Don't really know why its an issue though
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Oh the ugly spanner icon turned up on my works gmail a week or two back and its been bugging me to bits!

Why was it showing a spanner? It made no sense to me. A bug in gmail perhaps? But if it affects so many people, why haven't google noticed it before then?
To be fair that was after 60,000 words of doctoral-level work: http://neverendingthesis.com
There is a lot of detail in Authentec's 'Spot-based finger biometric processing method' patent application here if you're interested: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7787667.html

In short, they store a number of unique sub-regions of each 'enrollment' (a reading resulting in pixel data). These sub-regions – called 'spots' – can then be hashed and matched against future enrollments to provide a correlation score.