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The problem with fingerprints is that you only have so many of them, and you really don't want them to get compromised, because you can't change them. If your main fingerprints get stolen, that pretty much means you'll never be able to use them in your lifetime, unless you risk having the "bad guys" using those fingerprints in your name.

And that's besides the fact that the government could try to eventually collect all those fingerprints in some way.
The touch latency is without question detectable.
You can read the generic complaints as "I don't want things to change at all. They were ok the way they were. I don't want to be forced to adapt to changes that I never asked for and that do not seem beneficial to me. I don't want to deal with this at all. I don't even want to think about it. I just want to use the app like I used to and carry on with my life."

Resistance to change is a major factor in the adoption of new technology and without some kind of change management, reactance will occur.
BB can take 9-10 loss quarters (2.5 years) based on how much equity they have left. That's why they are looking for someone to buy them out.
Thanks for pointing this out. While this is safely storing models from third party apps, there's literally nothing assuring us that Apple or "Trusted parties" will not access the data.
Apple's iPhone5 is also 2.5 times expensive that Android devices .
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> log every movement you make and where you are 24/7

This is most definitely not the case. The GPS is not running 24/7, nor do apps have access to historical GPS data. The location API is still entirely opt-in at the time the app runs.

The data you can query from the M7 is not very sensitive, and is geared towards fitness apps.[1]

For example, you can query the number of steps taken in a given date range (for up to seven days). You can also query the motion type.

This is no way relates to GPS or your actual, physical location in the world.

[1] http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/09/core-motion-activity-tra...
This post reads a little too much:

'Hi, I'm Dustin Curtis, I have an iPhone 5s, and I spent the whole day playing with it, and you probably didn't.'

Cool story, Dustin.
Is it? I've switched between iPhone and Android and I've never noticed it. OS lag, yes - but Android has improved on that a lot in recent years.
As far as I'm aware, the exact time of release of the FOMC statement can vary by a few seconds. Nanex seem to have assumed that the release comes from Washington, but I would guess that one of the agencies that receives the embargoed data has permission to distribute it at multiple locations simultaneously. That seems like the simplest explanation for Chicago and New York reacting at the same time.
The boundaries are not arbitrary, to the extent we can factor the configuration space. For instance, we can draw a rather sharp limit between me, and the keyboard I'm typing with.
It's more likely that the fingerprint matching is made by a hardware component that is not the main CPU. The CPU talks to it with a driver which only issues answers like "finger matched" or "finger error". The CPU has no way to read the actual fingerprint data and performs operation on it, because otherwise any jailbreak would be able to access those data, and thus any "agency" with a 0-day.
Well AMD will make ARM processors as well. Hint: ARM Holdings do not manufacture processors.
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I always want more safety on those damn things. Put at least ten safeties on them, the price is basically nothing compared to an accident.
Apple tend to be pretty pro-consumer when it comes to privacy.

Apple is not interested in your fingerprint data, they are interested in your trust and convenience. Those two things are far more likely to get you to buy things.
They explicitly mention that the security is as hard as the weakest link and thus suggest to not use a simple passcode anymore but switch to a full password.

As long as the password needs to be bruteforce with more than 50K attempts (really, any reasonable one), your weakest link is the touch sensor, which is still 5 times better than a 4-digit passcode used by only 50% of users.
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The irony is that most of Sony's income is generated through their insurance business.
In terms of birth order and IQ, the results show the opposite actually. Oldest children tend to have higher IQ's than their siblings, with the exception of youngest children when there's a large gap, who also show increased IQ.
Yes, this is the understanding I have as well.

Some are claiming that Apple's "Secure Enclave" is their branding of ARM's TrustZone. [1]

[1] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...
Did you read the comment you just replied to? Do you understand how a hash function works? In particular, the avalanche effect[1] prevents MD5 (or any other cryptographic hash) from being useful in this scenario, since fingerprints are matched fuzzily. Hashing functions are only useful when the input data doesn't change.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
It's funny I've been considering a blackberry for myself for the past few weeks - solely because they're one of the few current-phones that have hardware keyboards.

I've been waiting to see how things would turn out for them and deciding if I pull the trigger, or wait for a new android device to come out.

I guess I wait now. (I used to own a palm-pre, were they still current I'd take one in a shot.)
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Hoisting still occurs within a scope such that, for example, a function defined at the end of a block can be called at the top.
It's one of China's many mega-projects. This particular feat of socioeconomic transformation is previously unseen in human history (in terms of government control and population).

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-up...
Ask HN: Any good books/lectures for database systems implementation?
So I'm interested in database systems implementation, nut just using an existing DB.

Topics such as DB kernel engineering, ACID implementation, Query optimization and processing, Logic databases implementation, distributed databases, sharding impl, etc...

Any good starting point for self-teaching?
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Why all the hate? Geez. It's clearly related.
I've turned off simple passcode and made my passcode much more complicated. Now I can use Touch ID the majority of the time and only have to input the more complicated passcode every now and then.
Well, if they mean "switch ahead of time", then they'd better say so - instead, if they are saying "try it", then there is a misleading implication "choose which one you prefer" which in this case apparantly is lying to the users.
This is funny. Apple is a multi-billion business involved in politics and power. Their role puts them in the unique position of accessing millions of people data, let's not talk about "how much they love their customers" because doesn't apply. They reached the current status thanks to the help of lobbies and institutions (private and public), anyone who doesn't "fit the requirements" of strong powers is wiped from the market.
Real discussions are bidirectional. By assuming a haughty 'we hold the cards' position, and soliciting info from those looking for funding, they often ask for lots of details before promising even a comment. A better service might provide a forum for Q&A in both directions before details were shared. Ideally, it would also be global, and take centralized parties out of the equation entirely.
I loved Symbolics. Indeed, I dated three different women from the company. :)
If you live in California (and probably many other states) and have a drivers license, or if you've ever crossed a US border and aren't a US citizen, then the government already has your fingerprints.

Frankly, if a government agent wants your fingerprints, there are much easier ways to do it than trying to get a backdoor placed in a TPM chip. Even _if_ it's something they can do, they sure as heck aren't going to use it routinely -- it would be visible in network traffic, would be sitting there in the source code for anybody to come and discover it with a decompiler, and would destroy Apple's reputation if it ever got out (and you can bet their lawyers would push back when their reputation's on the line).
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There has been work done on an FPGA implementation of the MIT CADR by Brad Parker, he also wrote the software emulator for it.
Your comment isn't only disrespectful, but also misses the point. It doesn't matter if the M7 is a custom design or bought off the shelf. As long as it needs less power than the application processor to sample the sensors at some frequency, it fulfills its purpose.
Calling "probability" something that's out there in the world. What a confusing thing to do…

http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/
Thank you! A contrast with academia is a good way to look at it.

Also, one might say Bricklin et al did get the academic reward of being recognized as first; but that ethically, whoever helps people most deserves the greater reward (through implementation that meets their needs; word of mouth that reaches them; ease of adoption; 3rd party support; constant improvement etc).
Instead of a single hash, they could hold an array of hashes to test against. This array could then be added to as needed.
The simple fact that Hubble was launched twenty years ago should give you some clues as to why we aren't doing that. Even twenty years ago, land-based telescopes were already too limited.
Funny how the URL states "the demise of blackberry in one chart". Note the subtle yet impacting difference between "demise" and "decline"
They are not failed they are experienced entrepreneurs.
I am unsure of your point. Apple being a big company does not prevent them from storing fingerprint data securely.

They don't want your fingerprint data. They want your money. They are more likely to get your money if you trust them. You are more likely to trust them if they don't lie about how they store your fingerprint data.

It's pretty straight forward and perfectly in line with their past behaviour.
From what I've read it's mostly used in safety-critical applications. The kind where if something is amiss, your plane crashes. It's niche, but it is actually in use. It's not a toy or academic-only programming language, like you seem to be alluding to.

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
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Relatively low-quality gel casts don't seem to work: http://blog.fortinet.com/iPhone-5s--Basic-Fingerprint-Replic...
Metric would have made your indoor pool example way easier.

4 foot is around 1.2m,so you have around 1.2 metric tons of water per square meter. Most buildings are designed for at most a few 100kg per square meter.
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It's not that controversial - as we have detected that there's hostile wiretapping happening, a rational mitigation strategy requires (in the long-term) infrastructure that would route data between, say, Brazil and EU in a way that doesn't involve USA.

In a sense, not trying to isolate Brazil, but making it technically possible to avoid USA if the rest of the world needs to. A few years earlier it could be argued that it can work something like 'benevolent dicatorship', but now it's clear that letting USA hold full control of the Internet is nearly as dangerous as letting, say, Russia or China do so. Currently Internet is not really independent, too much of core infrastructure goes through USA - and it obviously needs to change.
a corporation will not feel remorse. It isn't a person, despite them having the legal powers of a person. They, like water flowing down a river, will find the most efficient way to extract profit, or die trying.

That the banks can "cheat" is indeed a problem.
iOS chrome: huge white popup with text
"{{ boxes[more_index].name }}"
Keeps reopening after I close it... will have to check it out on a comp.
Sounds like a violation of rule #21: Don't use Javascript to load/render your content text. It's idiotic. Thanks.
Also

make -DBATCH install clean

in port directory will do unattended build with default settings. It affects current port and all of its dependencies.
Can foreigners buy/rent there? After living in cars, RVs, and the wilderness, will edgy hackers go for cheap digs and cheap food in the 90% empty Paris replica in the hinterlands of China? Get a dozen friends together and start something there. I'm sure you can find some cheap programmers there too. Heck, you could start a zh-combinator there.
Email design can be a nightmare, but Appsumo has a solution :)
The subheading of TFA is

"Eyeing fresh business from outsourcing clients, IT firms are creating start-ups focused on disruptive technology "

riiight. You create 'disruptive' startups to get more T&M projects by projecting an image of kewl.

There is a lot of unintended hilarity in that article.

"A banking customer that has huge data is asking why I can’t do what Google is doing with data. "

Duh, that question is going to get a very long or a very short answer.

"At Wipro, Sajjad Hussain, a company veteran based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is busy creating a start-up organization that can compete with the best and most disruptive ventures in the valley. "

uh oh watch out stripe, YC etc. All your best engineers are going to leave for Wipro!

As someone who has friends working in TCS (and other "service companies in India) and so hear about the various shenanigans that go on in this particular bodyshop, I'll just say that any "entrepreneur" who joins TCS deserves everything (s)he gets.
CLI is for dealing with an application or system through its command line: "apt-get install foo"

TUI are usually curses-based interfaces that live in the terminal and have menu, windows and sometime support for interacting with them with the mouse (for example aptitude or alsa-mixer).
If the final safeguard wasn't in place, rather than just "5 of the 6", then wouldn't the bomb detonate at the proper altitude automatically? One of the two floated down with a parachute like it was suppose to.

Would there be any evidence of what even happened if the nuclear bomb had exploded? The plane and bomb would be completely vaporized. It would be nothing but conspiracy and rumors as to why a nuclear bomb went off that day in Goldsboro.
didnt read the whole comments; so sorry, if duplicate.

After a short review of the add function for handling of complex structs i found a possible bug as they miss to perform a deep copy of objects containing references to other objects. they would only copy the value of the pointers of a struct like that:
struct {
obj* ptr;
}
and not the content of ptr.
Are you sure? The article doesn't seem to say whether it's a hardware or software issue, and the iphone's hardware parts aren't exactly secret proprietary stuff... I mean the Galaxy S4 is supposed to have the better PowerVR GPU for example. I'm thinking the difference is in the software stack, I think you'd be surprised at how much code gets run between the time there's an input event and an app reacts to it on the screen.

Anyways, it'd be interesting to know if running Android on an iphone showed the same delays.
So basically, for all we know the Android version of their app is just coded worse than the iOS one.
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<…> Even on clear moonless nights, many beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths. This led us to hypothesize that dung beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation, a feat that has, to our knowledge, never been demonstrated in an insect. Here, we show that dung beetles transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky but lose this ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles orientate equally well when rolling under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way is present. The use of this bidirectional celestial cue for orientation has been proposed for vertebrates, spiders, and insects, but never proven. This finding represents the first convincing demonstration for the use of the starry sky for orientation in insects and provides the first documented use of the Milky Way for orientation in the animal kingdom.
> You can also use Touch ID instead of entering your Apple ID password to purchase content from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store. You will be asked to scan your fingerprint with each purchase.

How does this work exactly, if the fingerprint-pass is only stored locally on your device? Is the fingerprint acting only as a "master password", which means you still have to set-up your password for iTunes first?, and then it just re-uses that iTunes password after you used the fingerprint-master password?

Because otherwise I'd have to assume Apple stores your fingerprint on their servers, in order to match your account with your fingerprint-as-password.
its broken on desktop Chrome as well.

but I'm not sure why it go so many upvotes if nobody can view it. obviously some people can.

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Hope those women were Lisp wizards :)
I would love to know about your experience with Symbolics Lisp machines. I think those were pretty expensive machines, so you must have something unique to work on a Lisp machine.
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I just typed 'ios' into Google and didn't see anything pertaining to Cisco ios in the first 10 pages. In fact even the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study rates higher than Cisco for the search term 'ios'
This is a different problem with fingerprints and biometrics in general. You leave them around wherever you go so they are easily collected by others for reuse. But to provide a very basic level of protection for unimportant data, they should be fine.
Also, usually the exact moment when I want to look up the name of a track that I like is when it just finishes playing. This is also the exact time when this interface removes the name of the track and replaces it with the new 'now playing' song. Please keep a record of all songs played in the scrollback!
Is it just me or is this site broken?
Where's the content? I thought it's just my browser (Chrome), but on browsershots it seems to be empty for most browsers. Is it a WIP?
I think I understand. I still play AoEII only so I wouldn't know Assassin's Creed. My idea is that it would be complicated if you have massive amount of units. The calculation could be very expensive when most units are moving. As I said, that's just my idea because I'm not a game developer.
Have you read "Outliers" from Malcolm Gladwell? There he was mentioning that most of the successful hockey players have a pattern in their birthdays and I found it quite similar:

"in any elite group of hockey players the very best of
the best 40 percent of the players will have been born
between January and March,30 percent between April
and June, 20 percent between July and September, and 10
percent between October and December."

"The explanation for this is quite simple. It has nothing to
do with astrology, nor is there anything magical about the
first three months of the year. It's simply that in Canada
the eligibility cut off for age class hockey is January 1. A
boy who turns ten on January2, then, could be playing
along side someone who doesn't turn ten until the end of
the year and at that age, in preadolescence, a twelve­
month gap in age represents anenormous difference in
physical maturity."
Nokia always had a bigger smartphone market share than bb world wide.
Oh, thanks. Here is the ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VG67U2D-gs&feature=player_d...

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It's rigorously documented in public repositories. I used to build trading systems that were highly reliant on (a) how microstructures were supposed to behave and (b) the expected variability in that behaviour. Figuring (a) involved poring over thousands of pages of technical documentation - tedious but doable. There is also help from the OCC, Finra, BIS, Fed, and the exchanges' helplines. Judging (b) is more complicated, and grows more uncertain the newer a particular structure is. But again, doable if tedious.

The tediousness could be relieved by centralising market microstructure documentation. But given the frequency with which we change rules, it may make more sense to have an expanded class of lawyers or risk managers who are dedicated to understanding and promulgating the documentation.

I wouldn't go so far as to say the SEC, Finra, or the Fed Market Surveillance teams don't have a strong handle on microstructure - they have smart people. The SEC's job isn't to manually fix problems. It would be troubling if every time an exchange went down the SEC felt compelled to issue a new rule.
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Similar experience recently, writing some trivial awk while being watched, on a keyboard with an unfamiliar mapping too. Probably took me 5x as long as normal, which was unfortunate as this was a timed test!
Yeah, as far as I know mainstream Android hardware has supported multi-touch all the way back to the original G1, it's just that no-one dared do anything with it due to Apple's patents.
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The goverment has my fingerprints because the FBI came to my pre-school when I was 5 and told us all we should give them our prints so we could be ID'd if we were kidnapped.
The site's broken.
Did IT in an medical library in a university. The douchey doctors/professors spent a lot of money on a homegrown AV system connected to computers to accomplish part of that task, so I hope you can turn a buck off that. Seems cool.
I haven't played FEZ, but if you like platformers, try Braid.
If you are not a user ,you are probably not going to build anything great.