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Blur is off by default on the iPhone 4 already, as well as a number of other resource intensive features and effects:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/new-lease-on-life-or-de...
They seem to have their revival on facebook today.
I'd say yes, there is, if people are choosing the San Jose option.
It took 9 years to fix GPG?
Certainly - the real question should be 'secure against whom?'.

Any security can be broken given sufficient resources and motivation (e.g. if you can't brute-force the crypto, you can brute-force the keyholder, etc.).
Isolation as Innovation?
One only has to to look at the fate of the Linden Dollar (Second Life) to see what will eventually happen to Bitcoin.
It'd be pretty terrible if it didn't run properly on there, since as far as I can tell Apple are still making and selling the iPad 2. I'd be curious how the iPad 3 is doing since that was discontinued a year or so ago.
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is the secrets.yml file not checked in to source control ?
The deflation in the late 19th century wasn't caused by contraction in money supply, though. It was caused by a huge increase in productivity. It's hard to compare that with contractionary monetary policy.
In the same way that peer-to-peer file sharing lost?
I think the "debate" is obscuring the real issue, which is the development of terraforming technologies. Stabilizing Earth's climate at the point most beneficial for its biosphere is good practice for more challenging future homes of the Earth biocomplex, such as Mars, the Jovian Big 4, Titan, Ceres, and even the hardcore nightmare mode terraforming: Venus.

If humans can change planetary climate accidentally, we can certainly do it intentionally with a smaller and more directed effort. And if we can "fix" Earth to be optimally friendly to Earth life, those efforts will translate to environments that are more hostile from the beginning.

I just wish that politics hadn't hijacked the science to turn it into a machine for moving money and influence around.
I've had it on the iPhone 5 since iOS7 released and have seen none of these issues. Not sure it's appropriate to claim that your experience is representative, especially since hardware-wise the 5 and 5c are practically identical.
That's... interesting. I hope that they didn't ban people who deny that the current climate change is man-made? Denying facts is just silly, forbidding a discussion about causes for these facts seems non-scientific.
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> I do think that it would be kind of a shame if in forty years we're still coding in procedures...

I agree with this. Software frameworks have improved but are still unnecessarily complex.

As we build out a solid body of knowledge in software engineering, we will end up with frameworks that are much easier to use than what we have today.

In my opinion, such frameworks would support the composition of software, hooking up behavior, as opposed to the "coding" of software (calling procedures).

Most likely this composition would take place in some kind of visual development environment though it could still be "coded".
> It's important to hear multiple opinions on the topic.

Like evolution? It's important to hear that a God created everything, and directs the Universe?

Or like Earth sciences? It's important to hear that God created the world 6,000 years ago and all those scientists have got it wrong?

It's pretty clear why they were banned. It's not for presenting opposing views, but for aggressively dismissing real science without scientific evidence to support them.

> After some time interacting with the regular denier posters, it became clear that they could not or would not improve their demeanor. These problematic users were not the common “internet trolls” looking to have a little fun upsetting people. Such users are practically the norm on reddit. These people were true believers, blind to the fact that their arguments were hopelessly flawed, the result of cherry-picked data and conspiratorial thinking. They had no idea that the smart-sounding talking points from their preferred climate blog were, even to a casual climate science observer, plainly wrong. They were completely enamored by the emotionally charged and rhetoric-based arguments of pundits on talk radio and Fox News.

[...]

> Over and over, solid peer-reviewed science was insulted as corrupt, while blog posts from fossil-fuel-funded groups were cited as objective fact. Worst of all, they didn’t even get the irony of quoting oil-funded blogs that called university scientists biased.
Are they "good enough"? I don't think there's a compelling reason to invest in one for my Late 2013 rMBP. And less to do so with the Mac Pro - I get a USB2 hub, no USB3. I have to use an adapter to use my Magsafe adapter. And if I have a Mac Pro, I get TB1, not 2.
No, it's not. The idea is that your should be able to (hypothetically) open source your app at any time without compromising any sensitive information.
By definition there is one correct hypothethis(as far as scientific consensus is established) and infinite number of wrong hypothethis. If community provides an opportunity for its members to hear multiple opinions, correct hypothethis will be drowned in the deluge of wrong ones. Cognitive capacity is limited and gatekeepers sometimes are a good thing. Peer reviewed journals is one example of that.
When I was in middle school my science fair project involved the temperature controls for experiments on electric fish. I ended up getting a byline in science mag for the project, as it had thrown into question a lot of existing studies that hadn't controlled for temperature.
It sounds like they merely looked for who had accessed a Tor network, not that they could tell anything about the communication. Kind of like, "We know the perpetrator entered the grounds through the east gate prior to 9:00am. Security footage shows only 1 person doing that so go talk to him".
It's interesting to note that this guy NEVER gets more than 30 hours. This is most likely to make sure the employee can't be considered full-time. I'm sure Google would rather hire 15 guys at 40-60 hours instead of 40 guys at 20 hours, but the sad reality is that the costs of compliance for a full-time employee are just not worth it.
You can use:

if ([object respondsToSelector:@selector(selectorYoureCalling:)]) { //it Does! }

To check if the iOS version your app is installed on has the method and then use it if it does. It's pretty easy to keep things backwards compatible as long as you add fallbacks for functionality that's not present it older versions.
I'm interested in seeing your blog post - subscribed in anticipation! I definitely agree with the slower bit, but my experience has showed that paired-on code is generally higher quality as the engineers discuss what really should be done and the semantics of what's being built.

There are definitely tasks in which I would avoid pairing - specifically those that are either very ill-defined (like a spike or bug hunt) or too easy (write some data transformations). However, the tasks that should result in a clean, well tested API with edge cases taken care of, tend to be higher quality while pairing in my experience.
One of the biggest problems I find with people adopting TDD is that they create one test per class. This was never the intention. The idea was that you test units, which may be a single class but equally may also be an aggregate made up of smaller classes. Tests should pin down external behaviour without overly restricting internals. Mocking at every class boundary leads to brittle tests suites that aren't focused on APIs, not to mention being a PITA to refactor.
Even putting aside the moral and ethic issues, how can animal testing be allowed to continue when the studies are rife with bias and error? Officials at America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) state over three quarters of all published biomedical findings are irreproducible due to fraud and incompetence.

Moreso, the number of retractions has grown over tenfold in the past decade - but it's only 0.2% of the 1.4 million papers published in academic journals. The studies that were retracted were only done so when fundamental flaws were exposed by others. Many more false studies go on unnoticed and continue to be referenced.

Worse of all, 90 percent of drugs that were "successfully" tested on animals then failed in human trials.

EDIT: It should be a criminal offence for researchers to subject animals to harm and death and produce fraudulent papers.

Sources: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-get-rid-animal-tes...
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I think this shows scientific institutions and advocates in a bad light.

Rupert Sheldrake had a great TED talk on the dogma's of modern science, and was even further legitimized when a private council of TED banned the talk.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
One of the things I happen to like about Bitcoin is that it will only be as successful as its adoption rate. I think of this as a literal interpretation of voting with you wallet. So if Bitcoin, against considerable odds, is successful (a small possibility, to be sure), Charles Stoss here will be outvoted, and there is nothing he or the government can do to stop it. And in that respect, Bitcoin is its own insurance policy.
No. This is something you can only say if you've never ventured south of Cermak. Black and latino people can trivially afford to live in Chicago; vast swathes of the city are priced at Detroit levels. The problem is that those areas are cheap because they are completely overwhelmed with gang violence.
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and there's the whole traceability thing. if you can't trace the transactions you can't find bad actors.

Consider the "follow the money" line in "All The President's Men" regarding the Watergate scandal. If Nixon had paid the burglars in bitcoin he'd probably still be in office.
> Because knowledge of the secret_key_base allows an attacker to read and manipulate an application’s cookies, checking the value in was never a good idea.

So FYI, "read and manipulate an applications cookies" is strictly the same as "run arbitrary ruby code in your Rails application process". I would upgrade "never a good idea" to "completely and catastrophically exposes your application to remote code execution" in this paragraph.
Thats exactly what happened–he then confessed under interrogation.
I'm still on iOS 5 so I can keep diving directions from google. Based on what you're saying, I never want to upgrade.
Currently it seems none of the top level posters have read the article.
The feature I really want from Sublime Text is split window views. I know you can open multiple tabs editing the same file and tile them side-by-side, but it's cumbersome. Visual Studio, for example, can split a window view just by dragging a resizer widget at the top of the scrollbar.
Why didn't you launch in 2013?
An irrational move made by a small-minded person.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If you're confident in your views and your opponent is incapable of articulating his (and, in fact, may actually be hurting his cause) ... you make sure he has a big audience.
Why is this a prediction for the future, or in other words, why does this appear not to be happening now? We've seen three generations of Bitcoin mining (CPU, GPU, and ASIC), and at all times it appears that parasitic mining has been an extremely small portion of the mining network. And ASICs, capital intense though they may be, have been developed and purchased en masse by your "rational, amoral actors."
That's a bad example because this code does not use the Monoid abstraction, but rather the Buffer Operations abstraction which does expose performance costs.
I really, really, really hate having to make this argument, but:

Would you rather that all the drugs that didn't succeed in animals fail in humans first?
I'm not sure how to react to this. On the one hand it makes me think, shame on Toyota for having such poor code quality. On the other hand I ask myself, would any codebase survive 18 months of scrutiny by a team of industry experts that only need to prove that a bug in the code could have caused a malfunction? As a consumer the first really worries me (and more particularly as a Toyota owner, though I'm almost more worried about the products I use who's code hasn't yet been scrutinized by Michael Barr). As an engineer the second worries me.

Concern about that second case is an important thing to have as an engineer, don't get me wrong, we should definitely put effort and care into making products safe and reliable. One thing, however, that was missing from the analysis of the Toyota code (at least from what I read) was the estimated probability of a code malfunction occurring and causing a problem.

Nothing is perfect and simply pointing out potential failure modes without characterizing further their likelihood under the various conditions that could cause them seems like plain old fear mongering (which, I suppose, served the purposes of the plaintiff in this case precisely).
>in-memory architectures for transactions

Can someone explain this to me ? In terms of acid principles wouldn't you want your transactions to be durable.

>Durability means that once a transaction has been committed, it will remain so, even in the event of power loss, crashes, or errors. In a relational database, for instance, once a group of SQL statements execute, the results need to be stored permanently (even if the database crashes immediately thereafter). To defend against power loss, transactions (or their effects) must be recorded in a non-volatile memory.
That's all over the US right now. With Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the Army has a bunch of unneeded MRAPs sitting around and they've been giving them away to LEOs.
Why is lack of taxability "knee-jerk emotional dribble"? It's a serious obstacle to BTC being used as currency.

Also, why has "emotional" been used as a criticism twice in these comments already? Is Hacker News hosted on Vulcan now and I just missed the memo?
There's probably a time limit on that function.
Yes, the medic and fire first responders that were mobilized inefficiently could have had serious negative externalities, but apart from that I don't see this as particularly immoral:

He elucidated the disparity between the facade of harvard student esteem and the puerile, cowardice reality.

He disrupted the lives of thousands of self-entitled ivy league students, potentially even delaying some of them from further concentrating wealth.

He made the police experience a once-in-a-month type of excitement that might keep them from getting bored and harassing an unwitting minority for as long as a week.

</snark>
I always feel like 37signals shares just enough to make you think you're part of their community, but not enough if in fact you actually were.
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"iOS 7 Optimized" is Apple's way of saying "built with the iOS 7 SDK".

Apps that are built for iOS 7 get the new shiny keyboard and some different behaviour when run on iOS 7, but can still run fine on older versions of iOS if the app developer is willing to support older versions of iOS. This is done by setting an option called "deployment target" to an older iOS version when building in Xcode (and testing a ton on older versions of iOS, and not calling newer APIs on versions of iOS that don't support them).

So this announcement means Apple is dropping support for older versions of Xcode (with older iOS SDKs), but older versions of iOS are still technically supported as long as you're building with the iOS 7 SDK.
Random comment: Could similar attacks be used to extract the private key for Bitcoin accounts?
What if reddit was run by people who were the skeptics? Then the science community would be banned.

In silence it's all about who decides who is silent. In this case its reddit but what if it isn't?
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How did you have the trust for someone to lend you $500 without knowing them?
Have you tried Google Maps for iOS? It's fantastic and more than makes up for any regressions in the stock app.
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Google maps run on iOS6 and iOS7. It's probably quite a bit better than the iOS 5 version.

I'm on iOS 6 (jailbroken) but my whole family is on iOS 7 -- and so far I'm happy I haven't upgraded. Because of iOS 7, I'm considering making the switch to Android for my next phone.
I wish people compared new DVCS with git and mercurial, not with svn and cvs. That's incredibly unhelpful now that everyone is familiar with DVCS.
That's incorrect. Rupert Sheldrake gave a TEDx talk on his non-scientific opinions, which wasn't considered to be appropriate. The talk is still available, just not under the TEDx label. See here for more details: http://www.ted.com/conversations/16894/rupert_sheldrake_s_te...
A/B test, as previously said. But you may not have enough visitors at this stage. So put the 2 buttons, and in 3 months, remove on of them. Then you will have the best solution for your very site, and you will have a slick design.

I am exactly at the same stage of you for one of my site... I'll have a clear answer for you in 2 to 4 months :)
The difference is that I trust Amazon far more than those other companies you mentioned. If they go out if business or even change their "unlimited" policy, you're exposed until you can get your 2TB re-uploaded to another provider. It's a pain and a risk I'm unwilling to take. I know Amazon isn't going to suddenly try to dump me as a customer.
Am I reading this wrong, or has something else been accidentally discovered: Being cold/stressed out causes tumors?
For a good (strftime) time...
What is the difference between justice and fairness?
it shouldn't be , because thats where some people will store their keys and others will reference their ENV variables.
Have you actually read the article or only the headline? The main point the author makes is that a small but very vocal minority kept derailing any serious discussion which left the moderators no other choice.
Disagree. There are some people who simply disregard reason/evidence and rationalize their beliefs on emotion.

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
I've been using ST3 on OS X for a few months. It works great for me. No problems to report .
TED talk is the epitome of scientific discourse (edit: /tongue-in-cheek).

Rupert Sheldrake is a parapsychyologist.. really? .... -really-?

Maybe it should have been Venkmann.
I have no problem from banning people that refuse to accept reality from any educational or political forum. If they banned people for talking about Intelligent Design or alchemy (outside a historical context) I would say that's a feather in their cap as well.
> To editorialize briefly, BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions. Which is fine if you're a Libertarian, but I tend to take the stance that Libertarianism is like Leninism: a fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density (because it relies on simplifying assumptions about human behaviour which are unfortunately wrong).

Is Stross speaking specifically of a libertarian political party, like the U.S. Libertarian Party? His capitalization of the word would seem to indicate that, or that Stross is woefully ignorant of even the most basic fundamentals of the extremely broad category of political philosophy called "libertarianism." I tend to think it's the latter, based on his ludicrous summary of his perception of libertarianism. I am curious what assumptions about human behavior he thinks are at the heart of libertarianism.
Anyone else bothered by calling stereography "a hologram" or is it just me?
Kindle does not sell well in China, AWS as well
Comparing the Gini coefficient of wealth in a country to the Gini coefficient of bitcoin is comparing apples to nonsense.

Addresses aren't people and bitcoin wealth is not wealth. I wouldn't guess that most bitcoin users store a significant amount of their wealth in bitcoins, so I wouldn't even expect significant correlation to wealth.
Your comment may be correct, but it may not be in line with the goal of the mods at r/science. If their goal is better discussion rather than predictable, emotional rabble-rousing, then removing the biggest obstacle to that end seems like the right move.
Playing loud music when encrypting/decrypting/typing in your password will defend against acoustic attacks, right?

I recommend "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. The strength of the attacker's cryptanalysis will be moot because no one will go near you.
Yes, I have it installed, I don't like it.
Choice quote from the end: But it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses” to which they could flee if it all hits the fan.

Does HN agree or disagree a significant number of those "bug out" people truly exist?
I don't think it's a bad thing that Google treats each employee differently.

There's no reason why contractors should have the same benefits as regular employees. Google is a business, not a charity. When Google gives engineers to-go boxes, they don't do it because they like them better than other employees, they do it because it's a competitive market out there, and they want to keep the best.

Besides, maybe letting contractors take food home is too expensive for the company. Maybe they couldn't afford free food at all if they give to EVERYONE.

If the security guard wants to earn more, he should either start a business on his own or improve his skills to get a better job.

People who make this argument tend to make it sound as if it were a discrimination issue, it's not. The reason engineers get paid better isn't because they're white, taller or prettier, it's because they're more prepared and thus add more value to the company.
I like the pricing model. At first it reads like a one time sell ($100 per employee, once), but considering attrition, this is much more attractive for KYC since most companies have significant attrition. What's the typical tenure length at an American corporation? 2-3 years? 5 years? Also, the organizations that need this service the most might also have higher attrition to begin with. Clever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines applies.
My iPhone 5 reboots spontaneously at least once a week, and often misbehaves in other ways similar to what the GP describes.