skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the law enforcement has a proper warrants signed by court, no wonder they are complying with it, there's nothing to "admit". It's like "admitting" if the police stops you on the road, you'd show your driver's license to them. What else could they do? The fact they continue to function makes it obvious they comply with court orders - we all know what happens to those who don't.
Good grief, talk about burying the lede. The 5C has lower-than-expected demand because the 5S has been wildly successful, even with it's higher price point (evidence for this: Apple announcing that they exceeded expected sales for all models of iPhone during the first month of sales, and that despite the fact that the 5S is still supply-constrained).

Edit - Here's a better example of how the same facts can be reported: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/16/4843902/apple-said-to-be-...
Maybe you can talk to the rest of the team and boss and work something out.

A possible solution would be to allocate a certain amount of time for those immediate fixes, and then you can spend $X hours a week on such things without first going through the whole process.

Processes are meant to help; if they make you unhappy, they don't help, so in some form the processes need to be ajusted.
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"The back door to the algorithm is the number e such that P = e * Q. To use the back door, one must know of the value e. The NIST standard does not disclose e (of course!), and extensive cryptographic experience suggests that it is hard to compute e from the coordinates of P and Q (unless you happen to own a quantum computer). This is the problem of discrete logarithms. But starting with e, there is no difficulty in creating a pair P and Q. The back door is universal: a single number e gives back door access to the internal state of the algorithm of all users worldwide."

Hah. So this is what the leaks referred to, the backdooring of standards. E.

Thanks for the link.
I was thinking that when they launched. There's no way I'd buy a 5C over a 5S, but I was willing to accept that if Apple thought the colourful 5C would sell well then they were probably right. Maybe not. But then if you're going to be wrong about something, this is the kind of wrong you want to be.

It's interesting how the headline is spun though. Demand for iPhones isn't at all weak. In fact (as usual) overall it's much higher than analysts predictions. The surprise is that this demand is weighted towards the higher end product.
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I actually like it
literally one of the best posts I've read all year.
iPhone sales are stronger than ever before. They're selling the high margin, high end models hand over fist. And the answer to solving this terrible predicament they find themselves in is to sell the lower end phones at cost?
> very little to no profit and was simply used as a tool by Apple to gain market share, it could have worked out very well

Not not sure Apple is interested in this 'race-to-the-bottom' contest.
HN has been going downhill for a long time; while I think the YC team know this it's not something that they have had time to try and improve.

Voting rigging is the norm, companies flag posts about their competitors, there's zero transparency about moderation or flagging. The community has become a lot more negative, less supportive and less startupy.

There have been a number of attempts to build HN clones/rivals but generally the people creating them have focused on the technology rather than the community which is the important thing. USV is someone who could potentially build a great community and we should applaud them for trying.
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I liked the article but didn't see any mention of the company name. Also, what do they sell?
RE shrimps, that's how I feel. I never ate them, and I feel a strong repulsion towards even trying.
You are right, I had a look into business register and names of owners like Sergey and Valentin are not exactly Czech names.
Well, I referred to that idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

But as something that happened everywhere[1], it's also hard to attribute to the famine. Then again, the only source I found (I didn't look hard) for Irish fertility data went back to 1975, so it might be hard to evaluate the theory.

[1] Demographic transition has not happened everywhere
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Anti-fragile?
I don't understand what you are saying? Is the headline or the article wrong?
Moscow, Sct. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod are the main hubs for Russian IT at the moment.
That was exactly my first thought. Something else encouraging as far as internationalisation is concerned is that the company is based in Australia not the US so they are less likely to be blinkered to only their home market.
hosting could be solved by using third parties, like Dropbox, GDrive, etc.

Actually you can monetize it well. You provide free crawler service (like parsing deep link pages to static ones), users save the content with their private storage provider, and you can sell service to another customer, $5 each at a time for retrieving a dead link
Just check your keyboard.

structured - If you see dirty points showing your hands resting while thinking.

go with the flow - No dirty points. You usually go to grab a tea or coffee whenever you want to think more deeply.
> with no big/significant changes other than a plastic shell (downgrade if you ask me)

Personal anecdote, but the 5c does feel amazing. A friend replaced his 5s with one and after using it a bit, I wish the 5s was in that case.
The first release of WinNT was 3.1.
The image appears to indicate the problem is with DigitalOcean, not with CloudFlare.
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Probably, this one will help:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/building-a...
I get redirected to a mobile sign up / install app page. Any chance of a summary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and...

* Reintroduced in the House as H.R. 624 by Mike Rogers (R-MI) on February 12, 2013

* Passed the House on April 18, 2013 (288–127)

* Received in the Senate on April 22, 2013

Was this the second time it was killed or is this current?
Not quite. 4S owners couldn't affordably buy a 5 because their 2-year contract (on the 4S) wasn't yet paid off during the 5's reign.
If you say dotcom, the association is over-investing, ridiculously irrational valuation of companies/users/hits, pets.com, bankruptcy, find-the-bigger-fool, etc.
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"Apple began selling it's the new low-price option last month in 11 markets" – low price?
Many of us have .NET experience, really like C# but have sensible reasons for not recommending it. A Microsoft only stack is nowhere near as flexible as Linux and if you were to reach Stack Overflow's levels of traffic you'll not be able to avoid the need to run a part of your infrastructure on Linux. I seriously doubt Stack Overflow is running Redis, ElasticSearch & HAProxy* on Windows. Unless you already have a team proficient in .NET, there are few good reasons to use it instead of a JVM language.

*https://github.com/opserver/Opserver/tree/master/Opserver.Co...
Apple's multi-million dollar trial and error pricing exercise.

The Monday morning quarterback in me will now say that "in order to differentiate an excellent product (5C) with a premium product (5S) is to at least sell the 5C under the €400 level. At a €100 price delta users are 'clearly' price elastic"

If margins of the 5C at a sub-€400 price are not those Apple expects from its products don't build the 5C.
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No, he's suggesting it is painting an incomplete and therefore misleading picture.
Contract-free phones do exist. But if you want a brand new expensive phone without paying full price and without a contract, it better be your birthday because otherwise I don't see who's going to pay the difference.

>>> I think if Apple launched a "budget" phone it would destroy much of the Android market.

Not likely. Apple core customers would shun it because it's not fancy enough, and Android core customers would shun it because it's Apple-built jail and because they want the apps they're used to. It's like saying if Windows were a bit cheaper Linux wouldn't exist. Not likely.
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A forum scraper bot comes across this page:

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"You always find something in the very last place you look."

Bamn.
#I think if Apple launched a "budget" phone it would destroy much of the Android market. Maybe it would damage their brand though, who knows.

The battle lines between IOS and Android are more around choice and configurability, not so much price. IOS has a standard set of highly polished features. Android has more features, but they don't integrate as well as they do in IOS, nor do they have the polish. Add hardware configurations, phone sizes, etc and you have a very diverse Eco-system with Android.
Most Android users I know wouldn't want an iPhone at almost any price. So, no market destroying would occur.
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Just catch them and market yourself as "keeping the manufacturing on the U.S. soil"[0] ;).

[0] - assuming you currently live in US, not in Malaysia :).
Yeah, some indie studies wrote a counter-tweet, where they told everyone how their employees can dine at home.
My experience is the following: not everyone has the same consistent experience with every host, but some are definitely better than others.

That being said, the companies I've had good experiences with, have heard others, and will continue to use/pay are: AWS, Linode, DigitalOcean, and Webfaction (webfaction is amazing for a small cheap shared hosting environment). Other ones that cross my mind are OVH and Hetzner.
powder is clever: I know lots of people who don't like eating meat if it looks like an animal.
I think "exceeded expected" is a bit of marketing speak here. Did the sales really exceed what they expected? If so, they must be pretty bad at forecasting how much of their own stock they sell, time and time again.

And if the 5C was one of the models that exceeded expected sales, why would they be notifying their suppliers of cuts? Wouldn't they be saying "Good news, sales are better than we thought".

The exceeded expectations is completely meaningless. It clearly didn't.
It's no surprise that Apple also announced that it's hiring Angela Ahrenditz, CEO of Burberry. She guided the company from a cheap image crisis to a successful luxury brand.

I think Tim Cook want her to do the same to Apple. The iPhone needs to be seen as a luxury brand.
> At the time of the 5C's launch, tech-watchers said the handset was designed to beat off Apple's rivals in fast-growing emerging markets.

I am staying in Thailand, which may be one of those emerging markets. I will comment on the situation in Thailand, but the situation in other countries may be similar.

The average salary in Thailand is about $350. But that does not make Thailand a price-sensitive market for high-end smartphones. If you want a cheap phone, chinese iPhones copies are readily available starting from $40 on markets and even malls. The people who do buy a real iPhone don't generally buy it for it's features, hardware or apps. They buy because they have money and want to show it. You also see a lot of German luxury cars on street, despite the fact that these taxed at 200%. I heard that if you don't you don't have a Mercedes in Thailand, people don't want to do business with you because they think you are insolvent. A cheaper plastic version of the iPhone, isn't going to cut it in these markets. Rather a more expensive Gold version. Gold has a special meaning for Asians, especially Chinese, who form most of the elite in Thailand.

To a lesser extent I think that also applies Western countries. My former boss, who drove a Porsche, commented on the iPhone 4s launch, that it didn't matter what Apple's latest killer-feature would be. People (including himself) will always want to have the latest iPhone.
Well, that escalated quickly. No wonder they sold out so quickly. The spec sheet for the phone is great.
I suspect that the kind of people who brag to their friends about a new phone probably have pretty lousy friends -- like-minded souls and all that...
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It's not open source: http://opensource.org/licenses
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It is not a race-to-the-bottom contest but expanding your market. Note that Apple is not only about iPhones. When they have a growing iPhone-user-base, their iTunes division and iCloud division will grow with it.
Microsoft had Windows CE, Tablet PC's, Hotmail long before Google had Android/Nexus, Chrome, Gmail. If they had developed / polished what they had, they wouldn't be chasing now. Microsoft just need to hope Chrome OS and Google Docs don't start eating into Windows and Office 365 and they need to be prepared to take whatever actions are necessary to prevent it (even if it is to give away a Microsoft Works type app for Android/iOS to entice people away from Quickoffice.)

The next CEO needs to find the right balance between focusing on the assets they have as well as picking the right fights with emerging technologies. That said, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I assumed rabbit was as common a food as chicken until I moved to Ireland and realized it was basically impossible to find.
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Ah - I was under the impression PingIt could be used by non-Barclays customers.

That said, NatWest's mobile app also allows this behaviour: I can send a contact a text with a link allowing them to deposit the amount specified: up to £250.
Not true, see this article for more information. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...

Passphrases are not more secure then regular passwords by default, the problem is that a lot of people use phrases that follow simple grammar. Capital first letters of each word, a sentence that is actually valid and no spelling mistakes make it a lot easier to crack then 50 random characters (or 20 random characters).
Passphrases that work are random sequences of words that have spelling mistakes, random capitalization, aren't found in any book/song/poem and preferably mix several languages. The famous "correct horse battery staple" is better then your example, I have memorized 20 random words from 3 languages and use those words in some combination in all my passwords.
Gosh, I'd never heard of this before and I work at a company that writes tax software. Thanks for enlightening..
I think now it would be: iPhone <----> Closest CloudFront Edge Server <-----> S3

The upload to the edge CF server could be ACK'd faster and at this point the user still has a copy and so does the edge server. If meanwhile he sends somebody a link to this photo, if they are nearby, they'll hit the same edge server and get it faster not slower.

If on the other hand they are far away they'll hit a different edge server that would have to grab it in turn from S3 but that would have happened anyway, no? As far as I understand it.

Also a trick that helps propagate things to CF edges faster just occurred to me: S3 can be setup to POST somewhere after every write. So maybe..

iPhone <----> Closest CloudFront Edge Server <-----> S3 ----> Central service (App Engine? :P ) ---> Cloudfront Edge{1,2,3..} <---> S3.

But that might be a tad overkill, heh. (Also I'm not sure how you can trick CF to direct to a specific edge without using proxies)
Increasing margins and profits are not a predictor of success in this business:

''We are experiencing marked improvements in our gross margins as a result of lower component costs and strong sales of the computers we introduced a year ago,'' John Sculley, Apple's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. ''At the same time, we continue to focus on managing the growth in our operating expenses.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/business/company-earnings-...
High Five. And with PEFS, there's no comparison:
https://github.com/glk/pefs

List encrypted FSL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptographic_file_syst...

I just use SSH or stunnel w/ a SQL database with procedures built in.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
In the UK you can buy a good spec Android phone without contract for £100 (one of the Huawei models).

I personally wouldn't shun an iPhone at a similar price point (I find them more polished but too expensive for my budget), perhaps I'm an irregular customer though.
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Learning from previous mistakes. It is good to see IMD fared so well in predicting the storm pattern.
Is Apple not concerned about losing developer momentum? Paid apps are on the way down. Market share is becoming more important than ever. Only in the US will a large share of the population pay $600+ for a phone. Strong iPad sales will buy Apple some time but i suspect that more and more developers outside the US will go Android first.
I once started for HDFC Bank (in India)

https://github.com/pdvyas/banks-api
There are two huge differences that make court orders completely different from inside attacks:

1. Court orders can be freely targeted.

It's incredibly hard and costly to make a system resistant to inside attacks from everyone. Not just costly from a technical implementation perspective, but from a business operations perspective. For example, software engineers might occasionally want to look at some user data in order to diagnose a bug. Not having access to the data would make their lives much harder. Certain analytics might not be able to be generated which leaves the business flying blind.

Instead, an acceptable tradeoff is that access is restricted and managed to mitigate risk. For example, access is only granted when necessary and sensitive operations might require two separate people to sign off. This makes it significantly more difficult for a malicious actor to bribe the right people but makes it no more difficult for law enforcement. Law enforcement can legally compel bypasses around all the safeguards.

2. Court Orders don't care about being detected.

Instead of making it technically impossible, it's often far more effective to deter inside attacks through robust detection. Audit logs, clear policies and dire consequences are usually enough to shift the calculus of inside attacks into "not being worth it". Such a calculus does not apply to court orders because they don't care about being detected, because they're not doing anything "wrong".

On the surface, court orders and inside attacks might seem very similar technically viewed from an overall business perspective, they are vastly different and the comparison between the two is unhelpful.
I never realised how good we had it comparatively in Australia. I always just thought that Eftpos was something that "just worked" and that everyone around the world had (or at least an equivalent). No fees, no credit, no monthly payments, no bullshit. Just a card that you use to pay for things out of your bank account.

No processing times too :)
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To the surprise of no one, this isn't possible and Snapchat has already been cracked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24533919
I wonder if all of this was just a clever trick to provide bigger contrast and thus justification for buying the more expensive model.
Square has had a system called Wallet for several years where if you enter a store using Square, and it detects your phone in the vicinity, you can "pay by name." You walk up to the register, say "I'm John Smith," and they tap your name on the Square register to check you out. No need to take your phone out of your pocket.

Perhaps this is just an attempt to backdoor people into becoming users of Square Wallet. Give away person-to-person transactions for free, get a massive user base for business-to-consumer transactions and charge the businesses for the use of your network.
Actually I've read this (in a more elaborate version) in either Priceless or Influence (maybe even some hints in Scientific Advertising). Which are two very good reads if you are in anything related to sales, money or almost anything else. It's something I've applied many times and works wonders.
I find it very suspicious that people are being rushed into a quick decision.
Guy who wrote it here...the only reason this isn't public is security, at a few points there were various passwords in the repository. Also, the internal repository is Hg (still is, though this may change). I still want to dogfood major changes before breaking others. We could convert this history, sure...but the security reason remains.

There were many commits that don't make a lot of sense to anyone but me probably, since they were so massive in scale...especially leading up to this release. For example, moving the configuration from web.config-ish xml style to JSON in preparation for a larger system I wanted to have done before open sourcing it to not hose adopters later.

That being said, most commits are decent size features or several every day or two. This was completely a side-project for me, happening while waiting on something or in the evening. Going forward, we're shifting focus to monitoring and will be giving some real dedicated time to it. We will be building our own monitoring system as a whole, polling, push, agents, etc...and Opserver is a large part of that big picture. Those commits will be much more interesting, and you're going to see them all.

If there are any questions though, I'm happy to answer them...we're pretty wide open, just short of sharing logins and passwords.
But that's mainly a niche market - a market of people who wouldn't care even if the iPhone is $2,000.

Apple may very well continue to sell iPhones only to that market, but they will definitely lose market share. And I think Apple, at the very least, wants some compromise between high-end/quality and market share, and aren't purely focused on high-end, no matter what they say in public.

They know that if their market is 5 percent of smartphones (which is starting to look that way in a few years, if they change nothing about their strategy) they will start losing the developers. iOS won't be the platform to get apps first, or the most (already isn't here). And I think Apple will try to avoid that as much as possible (as futile as I think that will be).
Just to be clear, Apple didn't announce that they exceeded expectations, at least not to my knowledge. They simply (and objectively) announced how many sales they had made, which beat analysts' expectations by a large margin.
Loading screen for a static web page. Is that really necessary?
Agreed. I also can't find any reference about iPhone 5s wildly exceeding expectations.
It looks like Apple put two horses in the race. One performed as expected, the other did not.

The article did say that iPhone 5s sales were good, but in my view, that's secondary. No burying the lede from my view.
Weren't they already a luxury brand? Aren't they diluting that perception by putting out a plastic phone? They haven't done a plastic case for anything in years.
No, the charger is fine.. For your laptop.

You cannot really charge your laptop with any other USB charger, nor can you use the (quite powerful) bundled charger to power anything else with more than 0.9A.

It's a gimmick. That they used a USB connector is largely useless due to the above: The charger coming with the device isn't really useful for anything but the laptop, the laptop cannot really be charged with your existing USB chargers. That's the source of my disappointment.
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