skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with this reasoning. The number of pixels to be pushed around did not change from iOS 6 to iOS 7. It's still the same. The fancy graphics effects are reduced already by default, and you can reduce them even further. My phone doesn't do visibly anything different from what it did under iOS 6. And yet it is much, much slower.

I already did everything that the article you quoted suggests. My phone runs in high-contrast, super-accessibility, no-fx-please mode. And performance still sucks.

To give you an example: I sometimes press power-on, nothing happens for a second or two. Then I press the home button and after another two-three seconds I get… a screenshot, just as if both buttons were pressed simultaneously. Number of pixels, blur, seriously? We haven't even gotten to displaying the lock screen yet!

I still believe there is lots that can be optimized, but Apple chose not to do it. It wasn't laziness, it was a business decision — their time is better spent implementing new stuff — but that is a decision I disagree with. Or, more precisely — I disagree with this decision given that they called iPhone 4 "supported".
VoltDB currently requires stored procedures for multi-statement transactions, but you can send single-statement ad-hoc queries to it just fine (JDBC/Native Clients/HTTP-JSON). Our SQL has gotten significantly more sophisticated lately and many kinds of interesting queries and updates can be performed with one statement.

Stored procs are used to allow rich transactions without using client-side transaction control. For all of the concerns about stored procs (of which some are valid), the fundamental issue is that external transaction control is performance's nemesis. It's not a coincidence that few No/NewSQL systems support external transaction control, and those that do don't publish many benchmarks using that feature.
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I don't think they're maliciously delaying the delivery of bitcoins. I just think they need to hire more customer support reps to deal with problems like these in a timely manner when they arise.
Other points - mice rarely have bedding in their cages which they use to increase their body heat, and also to sleep in, which allows them to lower their temperature without ill affect (why many animals sleep through the night.

Nests in cages mean mice can't be observed, so are usually not provided.

Mice are kept lean, so have limited body fat for warmth.

Mice are kept in overly-well ventilated cages, which adds to the cold felt.

Many mice are bred for limited or low fur, which again means they need a higher mean temperature to stay warm.

Lastly the cages encourage non wild behaviour, and are rarely enriched with toys, or have long spaces in which to run, which the animals also use to mediate their body temperature.
You could use the hard drive accelerometer to feel for vibrations to guess proximity. Just like a snake.
This story is not about a Logitech camera.

It is about the Macbook iSight. There is definitely no (official, known) software that allows you to turn off the privacy light. The Apple engineers intended it to be impossible to disable, and believed it was.
I think points #3 and #5 are the two biggest ones. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is a well-worn sales tactic, and predictors of AI advances have generally been on the wrong side of history.
This is where remote pairing comes in - ie: AirPair.
In all fairness the intrinsic value of Gold and Diamonds has only come about in the past 200-300 years... just about when, globally, we started seriously moving towards a purely fiat system.
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again, the best way to get support from coinbase is posting on public forums. i love coinbase, i think guys have done and will continue to do amazing things for bitcoin, and by proxy the world at large.. but your initial customer support is outrageously terrible and has been for way too long. you always seem to make it right in the end.. but you should hire about a dozen of the ten thousand kids that would love be on your support team
One could argue that devising an effective privacy strategy to build into new device categories would be a waste of time until the devices are sufficiently popular enough to warrant the effort.

Now that we've reached that tipping point there should be sufficient interest from an adequate number of skilled and educated people to begin to work on solving this problem.
Apologies for the curt response, but VoltDB is an existence proof that this isn't necessarily true.
Get off your a** and create
On early Macbook webcams it was electrically impossible to turn on the webcam without activating the light next to it. I'll see if I can find a source.

Edit: the story refers to precisely these early Macbooks. Yikes.
And I thought I was clever for turning the light on for only a tiny split-second to take a picture... (I wasn't writing malware. I put the program on my own laptop before I sent it in to be serviced. http://ecritters.biz/applecarefacility/)
Does anyone know of how to secure against this type of thing (other than tape)?
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Passwordless Future with Cleff
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All HN posts are now about bitcoin, so yeah I guess its a support forum now. Its quite hilarious that people are prepared to throw that much money away, but hey.
I don't see any posts about it and I'm naturally curious. Can someone explain why this doesn't impact our understanding of where the crude oil of nature comes from?
I suspect it's because the usual threat model is "overseas attacker" rather than "attacker one state over."

That said, if it's by IP, I don't see why they couldn't localize it closer, at least to an approximate state level.
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The pricing model creates a strange incentive: it's in their best interest for their customers to have a high rate of employee turnover.
Here is the problem with coinbases tactics.

Consider buying $1,000 worth of bitcoins...

Coinbase can tell you your price.

Coinbase can then just wait, and wait and wait, weeks on end for the price to dip down. They can then buy the coins at the lower price and deliver them to you voila, they profit from you. This is very dubious.

If the price goes up they then buy at your price + some percent of their commission so they don't lose money, either way.
Thank God for private tech buses. Imagine how many more cars would flood the already congested bay area highways if they didn't exist. I don't understand the argument against the tech busses, seems pretty irrational to me.
From what I recall from when I worked in FX trading, settlement dates were set by contract and not by regulations.

As an aside calculating settlement dates for currencies is actually pretty hard because different currencies have different rules, observe different holidays and roll-over differently. When calculating for a cross-pair you basically need to find the first settlement date which is a valid trading date for both currencies (except some currency pairs which have special rules).
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Yes, I do understand the story is about Macbook iSight. Was just sharing what happens with another vendor as this is relevant and related.
The disappointing thing for me is that the actual rich, the people who don't need to go to work every day keep themselves out of sight. So we all act like crabs in a barrel, attacking the people who make 2-3x what we make, and the people who have 1000x what we do keep on keeping on.
Or dishwashers at restaurants, or floor moppers at retail stores that sell cigarettes or alcohol.
Are you referring to the relatively recent industrial uses of gold and diamonds, or are you counting ornamentation as intrinsic value? Don't see the argument for the intrinsic value of paper money at all, but would love to be enlightened.
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In the recent senate hearing around Bitcoin everyone agreed that the current laws can and do apply to Bitcoin. Some modification is needed, but not much.

At the end of the day, it's up to the judge.
Seems that way. It wasn't too long ago there was a post about new breeds of malware that target various microcontrollers throughout a PC, able even to "hide out" in something like an optical drive to avoid detection or removal.
The obvious solution is of course a bit of tape, but that's less convenient when you do actually want to use the camera.

I notice that the EFF have some nifty little 'ultra-removable adhesive' stickers[1] that might do better, but what would be better is some sort of low-profile adhesive backed sliding cover.

...

It appears I spoke too soon, there are already plenty out there, with mixed reviews. The 'iPatch'[2] looks interesting.

[1] https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set

[2] http://www.virtualspaceindustries.com/theipatch/
Out of curiosity, are you using oDesk to hire contractors, or are you freelancing on oDesk? I ask because I recently started freelancing on the sight an it feels like fighting for scraps. I mean, half the posts I see have "Contact goes to the lowest bidder" at the top of the listing.

Does it get better once you "establish" yourself on the site? Right now it feels pretty futile outside of making some pocket change.
If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer.

Ah, Libertopia! It's almost upon us, Comrades!
Thank you! It seems to me that the only people preaching about the AIpocalypse are either those who know nothing about it, or over ambitious unrealistic zealots. Strong AI is not on any horizon any time soon. The best thing you'd expect out of an AI lab these days is a marginally better translator or planning algorithm or somesuch. Worthy endeavours, but not civilization killers.
Clearly you don't know who mGrunin is. I'd do a little research before making comments like the one above.
> I really would hate to taint my MBP with ugly duct tap on the camera, but I may have to in the future.

A tiny piece of black electrical tape blends in nicely and won't leave gunk on your bezel.
It's worth noting, all the research here has been done on the UK's thick gauge copper, not the thin gauge copper used in other places like Australia. It's mostly been simulations or lab work brand new wire, not the half-rusted stuff in the ground currently. Speed also drops dramatically after 100m. The technology seems promising but it needs FttN backing it to achieve its true potential. G.fast is a way to deliver gigabit to multi tenancy dwellings like apartment buildings, it's not a DSL replacement.
I'll say this again about coinbase, I'm convinced they are playing the market on peoples investment. I bought when bitcoin was starting to rocket, they tied my money up for weeks, bitcoin doubles in that time. Then after that I get a sorry letter and my money back. What was my money doing in that time? Probably making them money.
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Congrats. Now, deal with the guy who gave you 35k and in return you gave him _nothing_.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705
Notes from the article: they demonstrate it on a black macbook from 2008. They don't have a "modern" version of their disable-webcam-LED exploit.

The victim they talked to mentioned "she never saw the light on her laptop go on" — that doesn't mean it didn't, it just means she could have just not been looking for it.

Ideally, your webcam LED will be wired with your webcam itself. For your webcam sensor to be powered up, the LED will be powered up as a physical requirement of sending power to the webcam sensor. Many lesser-engineered webcams have software controlled LEDs (kinect bar, generic egg-shaped webcams) that don't even take "hacks" or "malware" to disable LEDs—you just run "turn led off."
NPR should research how much more tax money and social programs are now available because of this social inequality.
Wow, that's an option I hadn't even considered due to North Korea's closely watched borders. I guess it's hard to imagine a terrorist style nuclear strike from NK.
Right. The point being, if we're talking scientifically here, you can't just say that the machine was the issue and be done with it.

What kind of machine was it? Was the machine emitting radiation? Was it emitting light? What time of day was is turned off? What color was it? Could the mice see if from their cage, or was it out of view?
I have, personally. It's great, but this:

{ "keys": ["j", "j"], "command": "set_action", "args": {"action": "vi_esc"}, "context": [{"key": "vi_must_change_mode"}, {"key": "vi_is_buffer"}, {"key": "vi_mode_insert"}] },
{ "keys": [";"], "command": "vi_colon_input", "context": [{"key": "setting.command_mode"}, {"key": "vi_enable_cmdline_mode"}] },

is the reason why I still use Vim.
NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU
Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map
> It's usually not a great idea to let normal users install plugins and update WordPress. For an analogy, you definitely wouldn't have users installing Gems in a Rails app.

that's not the same thing, Installing a gem wont magically add a feature to your rails app. Non developpers cant do it either(let alone deploying any ruby app on a server).Installing Plugins on wordpress dont require any developper knowledge.
Near as I can tell, the only difference is that they added this concept of tracked vs. untracked files. When you do a commit, everything that's currently tracked gets included in the commit unless you specifically list a set of files to include or ignore when you make the commit. As a side effect they seem to have removed the concept of a staging area.

Functionally it's a lot like every commit has the -a flag set and anything that's "untracked" is in your .gitignore file. I've not seen any other differences, although some other comments have mentioned some difference with regards to the way branches are handled.
Congrats. This looks pretty neat, especially since it uses Composer.

Does it do the whole autoloader song and dance with Composer?

Example: If I add Guzzle to Composer, can I call it from my plugin's code the way you can with other frameworks?

Only thing I would change is to swap out Capistrano with Fabric. But that's a personal choice.
If in fact there's been no fault on the customer side, then obviously he deserves not only a (profuse) apology -- but fair restitution for any losses suffered while your people were dithering on how to follow up to his perfectly reasonable request.

BTW in equities trading I believe this kind of botched transaction would be treaated as a "Failed to Deliver" (FTD), and that's exactly how these things are handled.
This was my experience as well. I did not know 2-factor was offered by MS. Definitely using that now!
Well, after all, this was Michael Stonebraker, the salesman, talking. Not Michael Stonebraker, the computer scientist...
This was pretty valuable when I took algorithms from this professor. Things like mergesort and indexing in B+ trees can seem very abstract when you try to learn it via a snippet of java code. These visualizations are even more useful if you need a refresher on algorithms for job interviews.
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but $35,000+ is a HUGE sum of money for even the decamillionaires I know.
build more housing!!!
Why are you patting yourself on the back for one of the most obvious predictions imaginable? What's next, a brilliant prediction that if the US government bans electric cars, Tesla's stock will crash?
Care to elaborate? I'd be interested in hearing what Baudrillard has to say about this. I don't see any immediate and obvious connection here, but I'm admittedly not well-versed in him.
Not to shamelessly self promote, but the best way to buy/sell large amounts of BTC is directly, without going through an exchange/retail site. It is faster, cheaper and definitely a better customer experience. I've worked at two bitcoin exchanges so I know from experience. Now I am arranging private deals between a buyer and a seller. Here is the plug now though www.BitcoinCapitalPartners.com
It can however only do one flavour of pattern matching whereas we combine our mental facilities dynamically. And to wnticipate your "well, that's nothing a computer can't do"... show me any work in the direction of serious AGI!
OS X Mavericks: Useful new features for designers
Apple released their newest iteration of OS X, called Mavericks (finally straying from the “big cat” theme that’s been prevalent from the first OS X release), a few weeks ago, and there are some important new features of use to designers.
There'd be 10+ different platforms which would be competing and innovating? Did I miss the implied sarcasm tag?

If you look at OS research from the 80s it seems pretty clear that the industry never caught up.
Second this. Get your money back, live to fight another day. Why ask for delivery and suffer a loss?
Lost reputation is limited to the life of the corporation, going literal here, but once a corporation cease to exist, rarely does the reputational consequences affect the lives and businesses running them, which is usually thanks to regulation and laws.

In this paradigm, where anonymity is rampant, reputation is just a word. As an anonymous entity/non-entity has no consequences to their actions.
Google, Cisco, etc. can spend their money any way they want, the shuttle busses for their employees apparently make good economic sense. Still, people are upset to the point that they are starting to interfere with traffic. In my experience, this sort of anger doesn't go away if you ignore it.

I suppose once everyone who dislikes the busses have been priced out of the neighborhood and have moved away, the issue will be resolved. Although, at that point, it may make sense for Google, Cisco, etc. to demand better city busses that everyone can use. Which won't be a problem once everyone is in the same class.
IIRC, in my old Macbook (early 2008) the led is actually inlined. Some machines had a weird hardware bug that shorted this area and sometimes the led would go on... and the camera would be useless until next reboot (mine was one of these, didn't realise until ~after 6 months of owning it
I agree it's an advantage once you're established. And even well-funded companies like Microsoft and Oracle are often so overly-bureaucratic that even with hundreds of millions in support their "me too" offering can (and often does) miss the mark.

They copy once an idea shows traction, but having not done the legwork themselves, they won't necessarily understand why the idea was successful in the first place. This is why you see huge companies like that wasting tons of resources trying to catch up or, if they're smart, simply acquiring the team with the winning idea.
Born after 1960? Then you're probably poorer than your parents
What does mobile scale mean?
This is what I don't understand. Apple has been following a consistent pattern for iOS releases since the beginning.

Why are people complaining about performance before waiting until the X.1 update ?
Nobody is suggesting that this is something you can't say, to anyone, in an appropriate circumstance. The author is merely explaining why it was difficult in this case, and how it made her feel.

If the context hadn't been in front of a client, perhaps she would have been able to ask for clarification of what was meant - and the whole thing wouldn't have cause such a big, hidden reaction in her. The context made this more difficult that it should have been - it is not saying "don't ever say this or you're sexist", that is what you've read into it yourself.
I never cease to be amazed by how far ahead people like Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson were. Since Doug died last year, I have been spending a lot of time reading his works (most or all of which are available online at http://www.dougengelbart.org‎) as well as papers and books by J.C.R. Licklider, William Ross Ashby, Norbert Wiener, etc., and it's a bit awe-inspiring to see what these guys were doing, WAY before computer hardware was advanced enough to implement a lot of their ideas.
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I was using those animations as a refresher just this past week. Really excellent work to whoever put that together.
Really? I don't think it would make a huge difference. It just comes off as childish.
Tell me how regulation stopped Enron. Tell me how regulation stopped the 2008 financial crisis with the housing bubble. These all happened in traditional markets.

You're right that some Bitcoin companies have screwed their users. Consumers need to educate themselves on who they're doing business with. A lot of these Bitcoin companies operated anonymously without impunity. Coinbase is an entirely different case. They are a US based company with VC backing. You know who you are conducting business with.

If you as a consumer want to purchase something from a company that isn't transparent, you don't know where their located, and don't know who's behind the operation, it doesn't matter whether you send bitcoins or your credit card number. It's still stupid. Common sense must prevail somewhere.
I don't see anything.... :)
One significant advantage q Strong AI has over any human brain though is that it never forgets anything. No fsc, process or hypothesis would slip by its mind.
I've never actually come across that person - it is a caricature. If you have, really, then that's cool, I was asking for your experience!
While I agree in general with your assessment, some people don't understand until they see "someone like them" i.e., not a poor unfortunate soul or a criminal.

Someone who steps out of their comfort zone, and gets "the experience" has a more visceral feeling - for those who can't imagine themselves poor, unfortunate, or having to turn to crime, this is the only way they can truly "experience" it.

I'm not without reservations about the utility of this man's approach in documenting the harsh criminal "justice" system, but it does add another angle.
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I will try that. If anything fishy happens the camera is getting an ice pick. Problem solved I have barely used it.