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The article was written in the lead up to the announcement earlier this week. Not sure why it was posted to Hacker News now.
And yet, Apple does, so it's a hint.

Markets have segments. Apple decided to sell their 4S through other channels in the US (they still sell it on their site in Brazil, which I guess by your logic proves that they still manufacture it. That is a country of 200 million), likely to continue this absurd and so easily disproven myth, repeated in here, that they only chase the high end.

But then you would have noticed that (a) it is all rumors, and (b) it is from February - 8 months is a long long time in manufacturing.

It actually isn't hard at all, nor are they rumor sites. I'll give you a hint -- Apple moved all iPhone 4s and 4 production to a manufacturer called Pegatron. And before you implore me to provide the research for you, how about you demonstrate a single credible source that Apple ever stopped manufacturing it?
WhatsApp's next version to include VoIP calls and recording
It is still a million times better choice than mounting the device directly as a block device.
> If the worry is that ext* support widens the attack surface

Clearly, security is not the worry. The worry is that they have to lose time, effort and code simplicity on making te files app work with ext* systems. Additional code complexity has many downsides [1], only one of which is the security concern. Security is a concern that the ChromeOS developers and end users share, so that is why it is mentioned. Maintaining code dealing with ext* in the file manager app has many small disadvantages, of which the security risk is also one. This is not about the risks of "having ext exist in the system in general", this is about the disadvantages [2] of maintaining "your own additional code to handle ext systems".

[1]: I feel this issue is waved away so many times, while HN especially should know better.

[2]: I'm aware that these things appear to be really small disadvantages, but the ChromeOS developers argue that the advantage of supporting it in the context of a program meant for external storage are even smaller, which I think is understandable.
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Maybe that's controversial because it's wrong?

One of the major hurdles this ebola outbreak presents is the fact that it is now spreading through much more heavily populated west Africa, a place that has never known Ebola, and does not have the public health infrastructure to deal with the disease.

Most Ebola outbreaks have taken place in central Africa, and usually in relatively remote locations.

It's frustrating to hear conjecture like this because it elides so much confused or incorrect information into a jumbled mess. Africa is a huge and diverse place just like any other continent.
Jony Ive Details Apple Design Process, iPhone 6 Design Choices
Oh, why are all the cool toys coming out for Mac these days?
From the article, "But despite telling medical staff he had been in Liberia, he was sent home with painkillers and antibiotics."

I think it's probably a fair suspicion in this case.
I have a degree in Hotel Management and it isn't an issue for me. If you're worried about opportunities being shut out just network and do side projects. Networking is huge imo.
I use a French press, then pour it through a filter into a liter thermos. Best of both worlds!

I've used Keurigs at work and I don't see the point. The coffee comes out weak and bland, to my tongue anyway, it's a waste of plastic, and it's a lot slower than pouring a cup from a glass pitcher on an old fashioned drip brewing machine. People at the office have to stand in line, or else come back later. Also, the Keurigs I've used offer exactly 3 sizes: small (strong), medium (diluted), and large (more diluted).

Now as to Keurig's right to proprietary supplies, this sounds counter productive. Surely they will be better off encouraging the adoption of their standards, like Adobe's PDF?
I do stupidish things too - but I don't work with _ebola_.
There are some K-cup compatible machines available (like http://www.amazon.com/MCU-Single-Multi-Use-Coffee-Brewer/dp/... ). I think the reason you don't hear about them much is Keurig really dominates the market.
EC Backs Reallocation of C-band Spectrum to Terrestrial Broadband
> Increasingly I see a rejection of real technological improvements because of fear.

Calling it just "fear" is not doing it justice, it's an attempt to paint it irrational to be against these things. The NSA isn't some imaginary monster in the dark, it's a real organization with a proven track record of infuriating privacy violations. It has to be taken into account and some people might prefer living in freedom with their privacy respected instead of some protection from the risk of colon cancer (which, by the way, is also just something we "fear").
It's a new illness in the USA, so it scares USA people. People are not scared of old illness, because they already know them. It's fear against the unknown, not against probabilities.

I think that this will be a humanitarian catastrophe in the original zone, but the secondary outbreaks will be contained. Perhaps one health care worker or one relative death per original infected person.

There are many viral hemorrhagic fevers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever Not all of them are directly related, but the symptoms and treatment are similar.

The most direct Ebola relative is the Marburg virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus

The most similar infection in USA are from the Sin Nombre / Four Corners virus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_virus . With the current knowledge and treatment, the current mortality is reduced to ~30%.

Here, in Argentina, we have the Junín virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_hemorrhagic_fever . I know more about the press treatment of this virus. There is some cases form time to time. Sometimes it appears in the press, the mortality is high, but it's a well known illness so no one is scared outside the zones with a lot of mousses, that may transmit the illness.

The good new is that in the ase of the Junín virus there is a serum and a vaccine, so the prognosis is better. The Junín virus is not related to the Ebola virus, so I suppose that the vaccine and serum against Junín will not be effective against Ebola.
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I've read that variously as "Liberia" and "West Africa", and of course the hospital has so far changed its official story once. I suspect the truth will only come out in the almost inevitable litigation, if at all.
A more explicit one on this subject, (don't be black while carrying valuables or police will assume you stole them):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-pro...
Since you can, supposedly (I don't really trust all the information we have been given) only infect others once you have shown symptoms yourself and the infection is only partially persistent in the environment (how long I don't know, but they did remove some of the items that Duncan came into contact with) and not actually airborne it doesn't seem to be a good candidate.
Africa may be diverse, but the areas that have been hit are just as poor as you would expect when you hear the word Africa.
> GamerGate made me ashamed to be a gamer

Well, that's genuinely a real shame. How about this, don't let toxic dramas on the internet affect your self identity. Lead by example, be the best gamer you can be. Tip: grandly declaring the "death" of gamer or nerd (sub)culture isn't doing it.

The levels of wooly thinking, reductionist thought process, hubris and self absorption required to do this are frankly an insult.
What makes you think it's blasé? I'm not an American, but from what I've seen from here in Australia your government appears to be taking it seriously, and straddling that middle ground rather well.
If you want the public not to reject science and technology then work on science and technology that makes those in power transparent. We can't win on privacy, protecting computers are far too difficult, but at least we can all be naked (metaphorically).
Bacteria, actually, which is important, it's easy to treat if caught early enough. It actually can transmit easily if an infection develops in the lungs, but that won't happen if caught early, and if it happens the same treatment can be used prophylacticly on contacts.
Easier: barcode
Is any organizational structure resistant to McCarthyism?
Why camera phones are our best shield against big government
Nice, and built by Square!

Now my only issue is IE8. If I could have something like this but that allowed ES5 to run on ES4 engines, I'd be in heaven (and able to use Vue.js for work, finally, as well as not being stuck on Angular 1.2 or whatever it is...).

One of these days I'm going to get stuck into Sweet.js and make it happen, I swear. ES5-shim just isn't comprehensive enough, unfortunately.
Hey guys, I'm the developer of the app - glad to see it appear on HN. I'm working on it as we speak, so that we can ship the beta out ASAP.

If anyone has any questions, just shoot - happy to answers :)

Thanks!
The leek film at the end of the article is an absolute joy.
My co-workers who run Windows hate me for this; every few days I get super excited about some awesome tiny tool that saves me time, and explain in rushed tones how awesome it is, only for my co-workers to groan once again when I sheepishly mention its "Mac only"... on the other hand, they have some awesome apps I don't either!
ISIS has threatened Twitter employees says CEO
How about, because we're the only country on both continents that bothered to put "America" in their name?
Agreed. Square would be in best position to take that call and he might be very good at his work there. Hence my comment above was a question rather than a suggestion.

That said, this article doesn't seem to be a tongue in cheek thing. He is the lead security researcher at a payment processing company. A critical position I believe.

I am not sure if such a person can afford to have written that article where people who are not security researcher can easily find conceptual flaws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Model_comparison says it is discontinued. If it's so easy to cite a credible site that says it is still in production, why don't you just do it?

No, wikipedia isn't credible. Can you find a source that says the 2007 first generation iPhone is no longer in production? By your logic, it is still in production.

It's possible that you are a party to non public knowledge. All power to you. But the public knowledge I was able to find does not support your assertion.
There were a whole family of older template systems that worked on this model. They suck because in practice they are much more restrictive, difficult to work with, and in most cases inefficient, since fundamentally they are working in the domain of a fully parsed node graph, instead of simply being lightweight control structures for basically memcpy().

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language

On the flexibility front, the same template language (and especially ones with good whitespace control, e.g. Jinja2) can be used for any text-like format. If browser or device quirks force you to emit invalid XML to trigger some desired behavior, you don't end up in a fight with your perfectionist templating system (and probably resorting to regexes over its output) to achieve the desired result.

I'd say (and probably, a younger version of myself turns in his grave as I say it) that in this case, worse turns out to be much better.
The law as it reads is simply too much of an incentive to take everything you can lay your hands on knowing there is little chance of having to give it back. Until there is a requirement that the reason for seizure is backed up by conviction, so you have to give it back later if you can't make the crime stick.
Very nicely done, I love it! Thank you!
They will have to learn first, which means there is at least a decade before they are out and able to do more damage.

Also you can have systems that spray them with DNA-spray and upload pictures of them to the internet, so that, hopefully, we will end up getting 99+% of them.
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Two-wheel drive electric assist bicycle FAQ
> Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere.

> [...]

> Monodraw is designed for the Mac from the ground up – everything from the text layout engine to the interface is made to take advantage of OS X.

Is that perhaps a philosophical disconnect, or is it just me?

Granted, the most significant thing is that files created with this tool can be used anywhere else. Not that the editing experience of those files will be the same everywhere.
even on wfh.io some companies would write country as "Anywhere" but in the description you'd see "Candidates MUST be located in USA" for example https://www.wfh.io/jobs/789-android-developer-tripcraft
As far as the internal data model is concerned, there are no newlines. All shapes exist in an abstract discrete coordinate system and draw to it (if you're using the text tool, you can insert new lines etc but that's internal to the text shape, the canvas only cares about what characters appear at what abstract point).

Of course, when we export as text, we need to insert newlines so that it renders the way it's displayed.

Thanks for the kinds words about the execution :)
First you have to void your warranty to properly dual boot now this? They want to drop support for a file format so they can make renaming drives easier?

I'm actually in the market for a new laptop/netbook. I was very close to purchasing a ChromeOS device as I work primarily on a desktop and have a laptop for travel but its pretty old, heavy and battery unfriendly. Then I found out I had to void the warranty to properly dual boot.

Seems like a giant fuck you to the Linux community given how much Google has benefited from Linux(ChromeOS even runs on the Linux kernel) and they put out laptops that are more locked down than your average windows laptops? Pretty disappointing.

I am assuming the write protect screws are there at the behest of Google.
Interesting that cafestol has also show anticarcinogenic and neuroprotective traits, so this may be one of those things where recommendations continually change over the years as groups study different effects.
Bicycle uses heart rate to control amount of assistance from electric motor
It would be interesting if the templating languages stopped being "for X programming language".

I'd like to see a sane templating language that is based on a spec and it could be supported under different programming languages.
You may also submit this to the Arc forum: http://arclanguage.org/forum
Almost the first search result [1], not sure how they compare in detail but it seems quite similar.

[1] http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html
Monkeys placed together in the same room, but in different cages (that are outside any touching distance of each other) all get Ebola if one monkey is infected - due to any type of cough producing airborne droplets of fluid that are them inhaled by everyone in that room.

All you have to do to get Ebola is walk near the area that an infected person sneezed in, at some point in time shortly afterwards, or be in a confined space with him/her.
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This sounds wonderful, and I wish you the best of luck.

I love the idea of a game being deliberately based on a book about that exact game. I'll buy the book, and back the game.

I assume I'll also need to buy an Oculus Rift at that point...
One thing I think you are missing here is

4) Elements of numerical analysis

Under standing how matrix inversion works on paper is very different than a computer implementation. If you don't understand how floating point really works, you are bound to make fundamental errors in this kind of work, etc.
>But there are plenty of indications that's not true, and that minimally higher prices spread across millions of customers that in turn support millions more local jobs may be better for society overall.

I doubt that's actually true. The problem is job losses are easy to attribute to Amazon's influence, whereas job creation is not. But that doesn't make it any less real.
I don't disagree with that primary point, but the "except..." is plenty of reason for recommending good mechanisms for password selection.
Try searching through a book vs. search for a tag within your tagged collection of data. It's a way more logical structure on the digital side.
Security. Simplicity. Convenience.

Does it seem like these words are being used as a generic reason to justify almost anything these days? I think that and the continued trend of removing "developer-only" features are really going to decrease the number of future developers (because of all the hoops they have to jump through), so they're basically shooting themselves in the foot.
Doesn't sound reasonable. This kinda against US privacy rulings that disallow call recording....
We're clearly at the very beginning of this. Using someone else's gut flora in the hope that it will sort out yours is on a par with pre-scientific herbal medicine: trial and error, and it often worked, but you don't know why.

In the future the medical system will analyse your gut flora and identify the specific mix of strains you need to take to remedy the situation.
That is precisely what "correct horse battery staple" suggests, over an alphabet that is more memorable per bit of entropy.
You're quite right that the most important thing about the tool is that you can take the exported plain text result and put it in your code, web pages, etc.

But when it comes to actually creating the content, we want to provide the best user experience. Monodraw can be thought of as a drawing app which was designed assuming the output would be ASCII.

In my view, those aspects are orthogonal - you can have a hard to use tool that exports into a standard format or an excellent tool that produces proprietary files.
Any organization with secrets worth keeping must try to detect spies and repel infiltrators.

It may reduce disastrous false negatives at the cost of an increase in false positives.

In the 1940s, the Soviet Union had hundreds of agents in the executive branch of the US government. KGB records opened in the last 20 years largely vindicate McCarthy (Edit: in that the threat was real; infiltration had happened; most of his targets were Soviet agents, Communists, or associated with Communists; and security risks had to be removed from positions in which they could do harm for the good of freedom-loving people everywhere).
checkout the "Attendance In-Time Statistics" pie chart on main Dashboard .. 33% are coming to office after 11 AM ,almost at lunch time.. great isn't :)
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> If you want a similarly fast compiler today, look at Go.

There's also the amazing and much underrated Free Pascal: http://www.freepascal.org
For those of you still using Keurigs, French presses or drip coffee, check out the AeroPress: http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
Here in Australia, there is, at least we have one at home. No idea what brand it is, but the cups are different to a regular keurig, and far easier to find (and cheap!)
yeah pure highcharts .. and this is the theme "http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB08N77TC" which they have used .. costs around $15
Disposable things? They need to be zero-configuration or they won't get used/connected at all. A mesh works that way; centralized usually doesn't.
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I agree with most of this. I do think it's worth stressing the point periodically that "random" in "four random words" needs to be "picked by a computer", not "picked arbitrarily by a human" - humans aren't nearly as good at randomness as we think, even when that's what we're trying for.
Not a diabetic, but I interact with folks who are on a regular basis.

You know if you are getting into extreme territory (up to a point... eventually the confusion that comes from hypo/hyperglycemia means you won't be aware of it).

The danger of diabetes is that you can end up perpetually a little high, which is what causes all the nasty osmotic side effects (blindness, slow healing (leading to infection and amputation), etc...). You won't be able to know that without testing.

For many diabetics, the amount of insulin they inject depends on their blood sugar. There's no way you could 'sense' it to the level necessary to control dosing.

EDIT: s/deal/interact/
While this is interesting, i'd still think that Typescript is a better choice to use ES6 features that will work with legacy ES engines.
Would anyone be interested in a programming language/framework which uses ascii art as syntax?

for example using boxes to denote classes and methods, and maybe arrows for events.
Do those cases of bubonic plague affect highly trained people with PPE in wealthy, well equiped hospitals?

Plague is also easily treatable and doesn't have a > 60% death rate.
CloudFlare SSL Issues
We're currently seeing issues with SSL on a paid Cloudflare plan over at JadoPado.

It looks like an issue with an SSL cert issued to the ssl2000.cloudflare.com domain and the Common Name on the certificate coming up as being invalid. http://imgur.com/r56WxXd

Both Hacker News and Reddit are intermittently displaying the same issue.

A somewhat delayed impact of turning on Universal SSL last week?

Ticket raised, but it doesn't look like anyone is awake over at Cloudflare at the moment. We've been forced to bypass their network as a solution versus losing sales.
I'm slightly surprised the parent link hasn't been substituted yet.
It doesn't matter if you fire people. You're not going to catch the vast majority of them, and they know it.