therealwill

"Our initial analysis indicates that the IP Box is able to bypass this restriction by connecting directly to the iPhone’s power source and aggressively cutting the power after each failed PIN attempt, but before the attempt has been synchronized to flash memory"

My guess is that Apple is only synchronizing after the failure animation completes. Should be easy to patch.

Why would a self driving car need to know the difference between a cat and a bench? All it really has to know is that it is an object of a certain size and not to hit it.

The things that the car needs to know are largely standardized: the lines on the road, road signs, speed limits, etc.

Exactly. Current homeowners don't want more housing because it will lower the value of their homes. They also vote against property tax increases for the same reason.

Here is the home: http://www.trulia.com/homes/California/San_Francisco/sold/71...

Taxes are 11,043 with a value of 904,085. $2145 looks like an EXTREMELY low rent for a house of this size in San Francisco. (half of the rent is just property taxes.) The landlord was likely losing money keeping it rented at $2145 even if he owned it free and clear.

It need to be reiterated until it becomes the norm.

IR leds show up as bright white lights on most cameras but are invisible to the naked eye. If you know a little about electronics you can make a battery powered cap with IR LEDS on the brim that will prevent cameras from seeing your face.

Isn't month first better? It is easier to sort MMDD than DDMM.

Good thing the largest tech companies don't collude to lower wages... /s http://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-rejects-settlement-in-sili...

I think the easiest solution would be just to allow H1-B visa holders change jobs or quit easily. Currently if you want to quit you only have 1 month to find a job which is nearly impossible because you have to transfer the H1-B visa which is the same as applying for a NEW H1-B (only difference is that it does not count towards the yearly cap.)

They would have to post a job and allow citizens to apply to the 100k job. If the job posting is requesting requisites that would be expected for a 150k job, then this would be fraud. If the company is lying about the job requisites in order to be at the 100k market rate, this would also be fraud. Proving it, is difficult which is why everyone abuses the system.

Yes but a "normal" worker can easily change jobs. With H1-B it is very difficult and expensive to change jobs so they have to either leave the country or suck it up.

Sponsoring an H1-B employee, in theory, is always more expensive than an hiring a local because not only do you have to pay an H1-B visa employee the same wage as a local you also have to pay the lawyer and visa fees. Often times employers will also have to provide an employment contract guaranteeing x number of years of employment in order to increase chances of visa approval.

In practice, this is not the case. H1-b visa workers have poor mobility and little recourse when employers cheat the system by providing lower than market pay and requiring the employee to pay their own H1B visa fees. Furthermore, there is little (if any) enforcement that the employer seriously considered domestic applicants at market rates over the H1B applicate. 99% of the time the H1-B is already hired and the employer is posting a job 100% tailored to that H1-B applicant.

Sadly, I don't see this happening without the government making it a requirement that EMR adopt the standard. The resilience to change in healthcare is unimaginable.

93% Federal conviction rate and a trial by jury would have been extremely expensive.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011/...

Pertaining to academics: I think this would be a wonderful tool to help students learn algorithms better. A lot of times when I'm working on a programming challenge the number of example inputs and outputs is too low for me to understand the problem. A professor could publish the algorithm closed source so that students can input their test cases to understand the problem better.

It looks like Algorithmia hosts the code and the end-user uses api calls.

Contractors are usually double what you would pay a salary person in the US too. It is because contractors have less reliable work and pay more taxes than salaried employees.

Well, a lot of people use their computer to purchase things. How do people know what to purchase? Ads! Therefore more ads = more knowledge about what to purchase and results in a better user experience QED /s.

So you want him to be a martyr? With the murder for hire accusations I doubt it...

On my company's internal intranet site I try to self host everything because our company internet connection is very unreliable.

Agreed. I once worked with a programmer that took 3 months to figure out how to send a socket message... She had "30 years" of programming experience and refused to let me help her.