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Clipper uses a technology called "MiFare DESFire". I'm under the impression that mobile phones can read these, but can't emulate them for some reason. (But apparently they can emulate its predecessor, MiFare Classic, which is unencrypted?)
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Others noted that the iPhone shipped 6 months after the announcement. The iPad shipped 3 months later.

Your entire comment is premised on a falsehood.
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First of all, when I'm old please don't call me a "senior". Call me "old". There's no shame in it, and nothing wrong with the word.

From the OP: Why are we doing so much to try to help seniors when they’re already the wealthiest generation in history?

At least in the U.S., it's because they're politically active. They vote. They mobilize. They demand services, for the tax dollars they've paid when young and that they are paying now.

Invert the question: why don't young people demand much of their government? Why do we seem to be content with a system (and this goes beyond government, into the workplace) that costs so much and delivers so little? Why are we OK with high housing costs and stagnant wages? Why don't we demand the government to step in on airlines' sleazy dynamic pricing games, where a person using a different device to book the same flight at the same time pays a different fare? How come, when we're paying tax rates well over 30%, we don't have universal healthcare, and even if we're insured we still get crappy medical care and coverage? Why do we tolerate that? Why haven't we unionized or formed professional associations in software?

Here's the answer. The critical difference between young and old is that the old people know their financial situations aren't going to dramatically improve. An old person of average financial outcome has no delusions that he'll be a tech billionaire in 3 years if he can just save up for his move to the Valley. Young people haven't figured that out yet, and still believe that they can beat the astronomical odds against them, and therefore tend reflexively to identify with the rich.

The plight of the young can be ignored because the young haven't figured out yet how badly most of them are going to lose, and that political activism (again, perhaps in the form of workplace collective bargaining instead of electoral canvassing) is essential to keeping them afloat.
even if it won't make money but gains recognition, the ex-employer will sue you? Then what will they get? The copyright? As an opensource project, everybody can fork their own copy and make money on that.
All good things come to an end, I guess.
Strictly from an MC perspective, nothing good can come of this.
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Tim Cook tried to make the Apple Watch his iPhone moment but it came across as off - the Watch really is nothing as revolutionary in any way shape or form as the iPhone was.

It is thick. They had to resort to gimmicks - communicating heart rates, drawing fish, three dots to ask for lunch(!) - to make it sound useful. The price is off by at least $100. They specifically danced around mentioning battery life - with these many features it might not actually be all that better than the competition - an area where Apple habitually shines.

The UI also looked complicated to me - two ways to control it - touch and the unimaginatively named crown thing. Which is again very un-Apple. (When the watch is on your wrist I kept thinking how easily am I going to find the crown. For a normal watch that thing is very rarely used and that too when it is not on the wrist.)

Not that I think SmartWatches are here to stay as a mainstream product but the little hope we had that Apple will knock it out the park with some must have feature - that hasn't panned out with the iWatch for sure.
and i suspect you can cancel the proxy card, without impacting your normal card which may be on file for recurring payments elsewhere.
Actually, if those card machines are out of order, merchants can use an old fashioned imprinter device so they can send it in to get paid for it...
> Apple Pay marks the first time a popular operating system is making payments a platform service for real-world, non-digital-good transactions, in a broad, inclusive manner that is compatible with the mainstream payments processing industry

I'm sorry... what? How is this different from Google making Google Wallet back in 2011? They both use the same tech (PayPass, an industry standard), and both are made by an OS company.
Apple's execution on what came to be core "built-in" smartphone features with the iPhone 1 was arguably better than any other implementation that had ever been on the market. It's not reasonable to refer to it as a "prototype".

It's germane to this discussion, because even though I'm as baffled as you are by the thought of the Apple Watch as a fashion accessory, there's some evidence that if Apple can nail the basics of the device and has the market targeted right, this will be looked at years from now as a successful product iteration. Not the Apple Watch in general as a product line, but this particular version of it.
My favourite bugbear: deferred property tax for seniors.

I've always thought that age was a fascinating element in these programs. Why not just have programs for low-income people, full stop -- why make it low-income seniors?

And then the logical followup: how are you financially vulnerable if you have an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Some jurisdictions in Canada do these programs better than others. My hometown of Kitchener, Ontario requires that you be receiving the federal guaranteed income suppement (given to all retired folk below a certain income threshold) before they let you defer your property taxes. The province of British Columbia will defer property taxes for anyone over age 55. If I lived in BC, I would certainly choose to defer property tax, with interest assessed at 1%/year, and invest the deferred tax in the market. In fact, I might invest the difference in BC bonds -- which pay 3.4%/year. What a sham for the taxpayer.
Some modders are still working on porting their Minecrift mod, to the 1.7.10 version of Minecraft. The latest is still beta, but it works.

http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=142&t=17489&p=12...
Anyone else get "Your connection is not private", when trying to download the emulator?

under 'for developers' on http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/
Yeah, I was wondering about this. My guess is that security will be based on the fact that you wear a watch, so it's much harder to lose it or steal it. Maybe they will have a passcode that applies until you take the watch off (which they have the sensors to detect). Maybe it will confirm proximity to your phone. There are possibilities.
I don't think you could consider Display PostScript a "windowing system written in PostScript" so much as a windowing system which uses PostScript as its graphics model. I imagine the actual windowing system is written in Objective C.
I guess the system is programmable. The point is it distributes memory accesses and computations, which should allow things which usually run slow to run in real-time.

I'm still waiting for an architecture like a distributed programmable memory rather than a distributed programmable computer. I think that's what we're aiming for, really. AI doesn't consume CPU it consumes memory cycles.
> Whether secret or not, why should any woman want a man who has children by another woman?

Are you trolling? Marrying someone with pre-existing children is so profoundly non-scandalous that it was the premise for The Brady Bunch.
If they are scanning novels and lyrics in various languages, there is also an interpretation that musicians and writers have in general written more positive words in their work. This can be part of art instead of something inherit to language.
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I'm looking for any resources that will introduce pointers to me (in C), preferably with many examples, and in increasing difficulty.

I have experience with Java + Python
This is an "iPod with a wristband" in the same way an iPad is a "really big iPod touch": not very much.
besides the sony z1 compact which is actually quite nice. there will probably be a z2 compact soon.
Assuming what's in the article is true, I suppose it's only a matter of time before a torrent of the mailbox shows up. I have to admit that if I had access to that account, I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to clone it via POP3/IMAP – it seems strange that if "multiple people" have access to it none of them have done this.
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I think it might give me a complex as a man, too, thanks.

Remember, some other graphs show that "attractiveness" and "salary" are highly correlated for women ... aka ... rich is hot. That may explain the correlation a bit better ... basically 40 years old maximizes income relative to unattractiveness.

In addition, men tend to separate "dateable" and "hot". That 20-year-old may be hot, but I probably want to shove something in her mouth to prevent her from talking.
I agree. Definitely seems like a troll. Mot sure what they'd gain though, apart from a bit of internet attention. Maybe the real Satoshi is somewhere rolling his eyes at all this.
Apple still encourages developers to have UIs that are specifically tailored to the iPhone or iPad experience.

You mean exactly like Android.

Pretty remarkable having clueless people telling me that I don't know what I'm talking about: I develop in both Android and iOS. But please, inform me.
More info:
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Anyone know how big a band is?
Minecraft came out on the PS4 last week.
I didn't refer at all to the event, despite this thread being about the event. I was just making a point about the possibility of you not being seen as a "programmer".

Possibly I wouldn't characterize you as a recruiter or a programmer based on what you described.

I've been a development manager for many years and programming is an integral part of my role. But I'm a manager, not a "programmer", since I believe it's the dominant aspect of what I do.

So that choice of words could have been more influenced by a possible emphasis on the interview aspect of your role, rather than its programming aspect. I haven't seen the discussion so I can only speak from what I've read.

I've known many hiring managers who were not programmers and knew all of what you mentioned. Some of them were even program managers with a strong CS background - none of them programmers by any definition since they didn't program at all, ever.
Medicare becomes available at 65. It gets a bad rap, but it's actually better than the vast majority of private insurance policies.

Still, your observation is accurate and poignant. The whole purpose of private health insurance is to rob those who are easiest to rob (the old and sick). The problem is that old, sick people tend not to have a lot of money. So, the "genius" behind U.S.-style health insurance is that you can take money from people when young and well (and relatively wealthy) and then fail to deliver the promised services (on bullshit technicalities like "exclusions" and "pre-existing conditions" and "fuck you, you won't sue me because ha ha you have cancer and will be dead before trial date") in their hour of need, when they are too exhausted to fight back.

If U.S.-style medical billing and insurance were pulled on anyone but the sick they would be met with Joe Stack levels of violence on a daily basis.
You might be interested in this analysis http://minimaxir.com/2014/08/comments-about-comments/
Great! I'm going start writing a Clippy mod for Minecraft so I'm zero-day prepared for the purchase.

In this mod, Clippy runs around dropping random notes that give players worthless hints about how to play the game.

"Did you know . . .!"
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I was in the exact same situation and I chose to develop my platform myself while consulting. It kind of sucks because about half of your time is consulting, but with the remaining time you have in the week you are forced to prioritize features.

Also as your saas is out in the world, most likely you may have to pivot, and you knowing your own software makes it the fastest way to change as you see fit.

For any really menial tasks, I use fiverr.com to outsource small code tidbits and data entry tasks I might have.
I like this strategy a lot.

When you release something that, on day one, already has 'dated' graphics, you don't have to worry about keeping up with the latest graphics cards or poly-counts or anything of the sort. Its just about the game. Like Legos there are countless others, The Game of Life (Milton Bradley, not Conway) has been around since the 1800's. The beauty of this is that you've never completely saturated since kids are coming of age every day and growing into the game.
From when on, you find you never need a better iPhone?
That stopped being funny 10 years ago.

Microsoft will also close the game for any modding so...
Ever since the last OKCupid post, I have become cynical. Is he generating all of this news just to promote their upcoming book?

EDIT: I say this because I wished OKTrends had been more consistent in publishing.
CloudFlare is joining them...they're making it easy for sites [that use CloudFlare] to participate http://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowd...
My Pebble lasts a whole week.
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At some point we would like to provide a update client for managing a PXE server but that isn't a high priority right now so it has yet to get past the "wouldn't it be nice" conversation stage.
I think a lot of what they're aiming at is rethinking a lot of the scenarios where you're trying to directly replicate how you use your phone, on your wrist.

So to take your map scenario. Here's how it currently works for me. Take the phone out, pull up maps, figure out where the hell I am, where I'm trying to get to, and then plot a route between the two.

Yes, that's going to work a whole lot better on a phone.

But what comes next? Following the route from A to B with the phone held flat in front of me like it's some kind of divining rod.

And this is where rethinking the actual interaction starts making a difference. Having the phone push cues instead of walking somewhere I'm unfamiliar with my nice expensive divining rod held out ..
I'm a *nix user from a very long way back. And I do use CLI for most stuff.

BUT when it comes to something that I only need to use/configure rarely, I find the man pages tedious to shift through, trying to find the exact combination of switches that do the desired job.

What I would find very useful is a GUI (HTML5/JS based please) that finds the appropriate command (apropos?) presents the options, validates my selection, i.e. don't allow incompatible switches, warn about nasty effects, etc. THEN ... generates the appropriate command line command in a window. I can choose to execute it or to copy and paste into some script.
The "Fit" checkbox will scale the viewport you've set to fit within the available space. It's actually awesome to have regardless of you needing to emulate a device or not. And yeah, right-docked tools work great here. We've recently changed the default to that. :)
Yeah, my wife hates it, at least when it comes with high temperatures. She thinks Seattle's weather is great, though.
Casual runner here. Could not imagine running with my phone.
An encouraging idea, and I hope they get somewhere with it.

But how can they assert with confidence that they've successfully treated a condition for which diagnosis at such a young age isn't accepted? Quite possibly 6 of the 7 children would have lost their symptoms anyway.

The study was not random, controlled, or blind.
You don't think there is a material difference between Microsoft changing Windows to a closed platform and Apple creating a closed platform from scratch?

In the case of the latter it is well known and can be planned around. In the case of the former you have fully invested and then suddenly the game changes.
It's got "Focus Pixels" man! You'd be crazy not to!
They do this because seniors are typically on a fixed retirement income and often aren't even capable of working to increase it (which is why social security exists in the first place).

They are financially vulnerable if they own a home but the taxes on it exceed what they can afford on that fixed income, which can easily happen when property values increase, when property taxes increase, or when inflation makes the fixed income cover less of their other expenses. The deferred taxes make sense because the seniors can then stay in their home instead of uprooting their lives and possibly spending even more on rent, and the govt gets their taxes eventually anyway.
Great work guys! Are these going to only be computer vision nets?

I think the huge problem with most deep learning frameworks out there are they are either hard to use or limited in scope.

There's nothing wrong with that per se, but I'd be curious to see what you guys intend. It's great that you guys are giving an sklearn interface to it.

Edit: I should add my criticisms come from a biased perspective: I write http://deeplearning4j.org/

I love comparing notes with others regardless.

Either way: Wish you the best of luck with it.
People at radiolab tried this out. I am skeptical about it but there seem to be some empirical evidence to support it?

http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/
The boot loader would then need network drivers to download the correct kernel. Off the top of my head I don't know how much GRUB supports. iPXE may be useful for this sort of setup.
I smell franchise with movie rights, books, etc. I can imagine it being like Star Wars in a couple years.
Of note. They did something similar with the odd world franchise which basically killed it.
No thanks, just cash.
Maybe Minecraft + Morpheus has MS running scared. If they owned the IP they could stop that and make it a Kinect/VR/AR exclusive. I doubt the current license would allow Sony to port Minecraft to their Morpheus platform without permission.
Probably around the time Microsoft proposed this deal.
Most seniors are on a fixed income -- the ones on GIS, certainly. It's not clear to me why anyone over age 55 should be eligible, when the retirement age in Canada is 67.

The government is effectively paying them to live in their house, no? They're charging 1% interest but raising money in the bond market at 3.4%. Presumably if they were actually collecting the property tax, they would have less of a shortfall to cover in the bond market.
Unless what you're describing was a later repetition of a 2012 incident, that was actually Dr Steve Mann being kicked out for wearing his EyeTap - which is physically bolted to his head and cannot be removed easily. Nothing to do with Google Glass at all.
In Europe, we can already pay for things with contactless bank cards, without even tapping (up to about $30). If you want to do it like NFC or iPay, you can always stick your payment card to the back of your phone....

UKCards Association says "44.6 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK, used to make 22.1 million contactless transactions in May 2014".
http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/contactless_consumer...
The one thing I like about my current watch is that is is solar charged. I haven't had any issues with replacing batteries for nearly 7 years. I'm not sure if I'm ready to charge yet another device on a regular basis.
There are already devices that have proved this concept in production (and waiting FDA approval) or on the market.
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Yeah, but the "c" line is clearly EOL. Otherwise we'd have seen a 6c. Which we didn't.
For more detail, I suggest reading chapters 35, 36, and 37 of the first edition of this book (PLAI), which provide even more detail. See http://www.plai.org/.
As the article states, if this person had really wanted to profit, a far easier method would have been to use Satoshi's identity to manipulate the price of Bitcoin. Either he didn't, in fact, realize that opportunity (despite his claims), or he has other motives besides simply profiting from the hack. (Or something more complicated is going on.)
> Also it's not hacker news

Isn't it well established that slightly different content is okay?

Minecraft started as a small company and has always had a fairly vocal development team so a lot of people likely have heard a lot of programming material about them.
"As practiced" is key. The two systems have the same capabilities, and as far as I can tell are about equally easy to use "correctly". On Android, a lot of developers have used the system to build apps which just expand stupidly on tablets. Will Apple developers do the same, or will they be smarter? Either way, it won't be because of the underlying technology.
Why are you looking under the consumer section? Since you are an employee, you should be reading the work fact sheets, at http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_factsheets... . The specific one is "Employer withholds your pay", at http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/e_employer_withholds_y... .

They don't have a sample letter for that case, such a letter is straight-forward: "I have not yet received my salary for the period XXX to YYY. I trust this grievance will be fixed quickly and amicably now that I have brought it to your attention."

That's all - no threats of legal action (because they better know that already, and if they don't, that's their problem, not yours), no threats of personal retribution or revenge (because that's a VERY BAD IDEA).

Ah! See also http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_problems_a... for longer text, though not specifically for this case. It then has a fill-in-the-fields form to guide you through the letter making.

You still have plenty of options to pursue besides talking to a solicitor. Have you contacted your local CAB, or the other options I mentioned earlier?

That fact sheet mentions Acas. They say "Call our Helpline on 0300 123 1100 for free support and advice or to check your workplace policies and practices. The Acas Helpline provides free and impartial advice for employers, employees and representatives on a range of employment relations, employment rights, HR and management issues." http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1461

See also http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/h/b/Problems_at_work_-_empl... for their description of how an employee can handle a grievance.

Another option is to visit your local library and talk with a librarian to see what resources they have.
Same here, I've got a Garmin watch and it's great once it finds satellites, but routinely takes well over 5 minutes to do so (in NYC). I've started using my iphone to track runs and bike rides instead, only using the Garmin for really long bike rides where I don't mind the wait and having my current speed on my wrist is worth the wait.
If you have a way of automatically detecting that two terms in a program are semantically identical, don't keep it secret! [Hint: Halting Problem.]
"converting between bitcoin and fiat currency, on either end"

Perhaps you missed that part where the grand-parent explained you don't even need to convert bitcoins to dollars as merchants begin to accept them (DELL, Dish Network, etc). This is true at the other end too: you can just sell something for bitcoins - no need to use an exchange service.