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Fingerprint sensors, even the extremely-high-end, are rather laughably easy to fool. Never rely on them for identification. Period.

For instance, if you've got one that also measures GSR to generate the image, you just make the end-product out of ballistics gel that has the same conductivity. No really, it's been done, and it works rather flawlessly.

Simple examples can be found from the Mythbusters, including breaking some of the "super" secure ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2006_season)#Finge... and http://www.metacafe.com/watch/250607/mythbusters_high_tech_s... ("never been broken," my shiny metal ass)

Alternatives that show more promise are iris scanning, retina scanning, and whatever that back-of-hand blood vessel scanning is that I saw a while ago (infra red, if I remember right).
There's nothing statistically fishy about them. I think his interviews are good enough that they could well draw lurkers into creating accounts to post such comments. I've been interviewed a lot, and I was surprised how thoughtful his questions were.
Oh and that other themestore is no longer a sponsor of Mixergy, maybe that sponsorship was holding this interview? I love Mixergy and I can't wait for the audio to land on my iPod.
How is deficit spending related to job gain/loss? One school of economics (I can't remember which), says that in a recession, the state is the only player big enough and with a long enough time horizon to take on debt to increase demand in the economy.

So, if you're comparing job gain/loss to deficit spending, then... spending more money correlates to a slowing in the rate of job loss.

Congratulations, you just demonstrated the opposite of the point I think you were trying to make.

And if you look at the graph, it doesn't make sense, at least in this context. One series is Total budget deficit, the other is increase in national debt. So, it looks more like a graph trying to show the changes in the national debt that aren't related to the budget deficit. That is to say, off-budget expenses (wars, etc...).
Interesting. I really didn't know they had given most of this stuff back, besides webkit. Also didn't know that about CUPS, thanks.
A word means what people to use it to mean

Generally, what your saying is probably correct. However, in scientific discourse, there are different definitions of words. E.g. the word "work" in science is force * distance (or the appropriate calculus version) but in regular discourse it means something else.
Is there a page that gives us info about what it is before deciding whether to give it access? The linked page just redirects me to a twitter allow/deny prompt.
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The problem with that is that you've just massively increased the economic barriers for poor people who want to go to college.

My proposal provides a very clear incentive to universities to not jack up tuition while continuing to provide reasonable educational access to people whose families are not in the top x% of the population.
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Of course what really matters is not hours worked, it is hours worked per capita.

Given population growth, winding up at the same hours a decade out is a significant per capita cut in hours worked.
This seems like a pseudo problem, no?

Don't most people use exactly everything else than the restaurants website and instead yelp.com, allmenus.com.
Mailing lists are sort of a non-startup player too, at least for tech answers. If I'm googling for a programming question or a Linux configuration issue or something, I'd estimate I find my answer in mailing list archives at least as often as on normal websites.
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A while ago I bought gas and forgot my wallet. I had to call someone to come and pay for me.

If only I could have gone to a website on my phone and paid by paypal. Or phoned someone and asked them to go to a website and pay for me, and the cashier give me the receipt as it happens.

Guess that's as much down to the garage as paypal though, eh?
We may build a functioning, flapping wing, but what if the essence of flight is deeper, hidden within the cells or elsewhere?

Oh joy. One of these articles. And yes, I do think that sentence is indicative of the whole article, though it's more instantly-recognizable-as-stupid than most of it. The rest of the article takes a few seconds more.

Well, I guess we won't be "really" flying any time soon. I like my enhanced-gliding just fine, thanks.
Think money laundering, "personal service" industries, etc...

Unfortunately, there is a reason why getting a merchant account is a pain in the ass. The bank doesn't want the risk (for good reason).

The thing about Square isn't the device... it's the service. So when things go poorly, they will be the ones that have to foot the bill. If they open things up too widely, then they will be exposing themselves to huge risk.
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+1 for movie theaters also. I have one right down the street that I have didn't go to for years because it was just a big flash box that I could never use to find out what they were playing. I want to give them money, but I don't think they get that.
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What is this new graph supposed to illustrate?

An old hobbyhorse of mine: the perception of data is directly linked to how it is presented. (See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=802439 although I think I've done it maybe three times on HN.)

Are you isamuel like "Ian who has known me for a decade" isamuel? If so, you already know this. If not, trust me on this: I have strong political beliefs, generally do not communicate them in code, and have almost zero desire to discuss them on HN. (Though if Obama is A/B testing that page I am so there for that discussion.)
How many hackers would love to have a steady and certain $1,000/mo! I could live on that for sure. And I'd be so bored I would invent, I would innovate, I would improve the world around me in lots of ways that may not be profitable, but would really make life better for a lot of people.
It's quite a stretch to call this "actual raw data".

It's highly massaged data, always has been, always will be.

And there's no guarantee whatsoever that it's massaged in the same way month to month. None at all.
Why trifle over tiny little epsilons, or NaN, which isn't even a number? ;-)
he is one of my favorite twitterers also: http://twitter.com/ebertchicago

hilarious, insightful and prolific
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Interesting note from article is that this new pipeline will allow Russia to cut off supply of gas to neighbouring countries while at the same time continuing to supply europe with gas.
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This graph discounts one thing, using massive deficit spending to accomplish this and have no real infrastructure improvements at the end will leave a debt-hole which will become impossible to service. The price for this profligacy will likely be collapse.
That wouldn't have helped in this case, since the issue was an overflow in the (high+low) / 2 calculation. Wouldn't using size_t just make the problem less likely to happen (requiring an even larger array to show up)?
I know it's a radical concept, but has anyone considered tracking down a SunOS/IRIX/BSD or even Linux kernel scheduling engineer to discuss the Python design?

Watching people ignore 30+ years of experience balancing I/O and CPU bound tasks and understanding kernel/userspace interaction just makes me sad.
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dev: I just made an incredible site for you - it's totally HTML5.

rest: I can't see the video.

dev: you have to use Google Chrome.

rest: I Googled Chrome. It took me to a picture of YouTube. Is my video on YouTube?

dev: no - that's a picture of a browser with YouTube in it. You have to download it. The browser I mean.

rest: I already have a browser. It's called Firefox Explorer or something.

dev: No you have to use this one. It's the best.

rest: but it says beta. Doesn't that mean it's not done?

dev: it's fine. It's better than your browser.

rest: How is it better than my browser? My customers don't even have that browser.

dev: because it's a standard. So everyone has to use it.

rest: I want my Flash site back.

dev: No! Flash is bad! It's not open source.

rest: I'd rather be open for business...

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Restaurant websites are indeed a special kind of hell. They're nearly universally Flash'd up and annoying.

My solution for restaurant-website-woes, especially for simple things like hours: phone. Their automated answerer will probably tell you before you could navigate their site. Especially with Goog 411, I rarely use my computer for business phone numbers any more.
Where'd you get 3.5 trillion from? I calculated only $2.6 trillion for a year of it; I used a population size of about 218 million adults. Still, it sounds a lot better than a trillion dollars to the banks.

Edit: Ah, looks like a population of about 300 million gives 3.6 trillion.
Link routes me back here. You probably want to avoid bit.ly too, since HN shortens URLs anyway.
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There are also tons of good code around. Most large, successful open source projects have source code full of gems from which we can all learn. Even better, by participating to a large open source project we can also learn a lot from the processes used in it.
I think it was phrased just right, there is no implication that discrimination outside of businesses can still be immoral and affect minorities heavily, it is just that for private dwellings these laws do not apply. You can like that or not but that's the way it is and it probably isn't going to change. A mans home is his castle, no matter how reprehensible his views.

And that works both ways, you can't be forced to attend the birthday party of a white supremacist either. (personally I'd rather avoid such people completely, effectively discriminating against the minority of white supremacists).

The discussion above has a 'scope', the scope is workplace discrimination. You can expand the scope but you can't expand it and declare a parent of the conversation of not addressing your expanded scope by poor phrasing at the same time.
OK, fine, the "music industry" isn't one big thing.

It's 4 big things. And they all seem to flow identically, screw artists and consumers over identically, and make the same moronic anti-improvement decisions that they've been claiming will bring about their death since they got big.

Remember the VCR? Cassette tapes? CDs? Napster? TiVo? Web-streamed video? MP3 players? The media industry as a whole has exclusively benefitted from these when they finally adopted them, and as a whole have predicted doom and despair for everyone before finally raking in the money.
A more correct title is "most binary search implementations have a bug" but that isn't catchy enough.

When I first saw an article about it, it was actually in the context of how hard it is to write correct code. That should be the take away.
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Yes, but even if your family can be pretty loathsome for some people they're all they've got.

If my family did something like this to me or to any other family member of mine then I'd disown them instead.

Reprehensible doesn't even begin to cover it, if you are family and you can't even wait for the verdict to be in before having a hanging party then it's really sad.
Me: oh no. Not another annoying video. I just want to know if they have a table for two at 8pm tonight!
Am I missing something here or do people not just go to yelp? They have hours for most businesses. Or is this post more aimed at new ventures and the importance of having hours on the site?
Outrageous! shakes fist

Yeah, I see this too when travelling with a friend born in Egypt. They must be using some weird random distribution... where they get picked way more frequently than others.

Also, I heard phrases like 'you two go through you are obviously english' from a security guard at gatwick in london. (terrible airport by the way... terminal 5 all the way!)

Of course you do not want to kick up a fuss or comment, because you might miss your plane or not be let out/into a country. It's always good to just be free and easy with authority like that. No need to ruin your week/month really.

I do respect people who stand up to them, and hold them up to law. It's people like the man in the article that make it better for all of us.

The security guards are often not very well educated, so I imagine more of them would be racist. The question should be, is this part of the process or part of the individual security guards being bad?

My 90+ year old grandmother got a body cavity search in rome italy. This is a sweet, friendly old lady going to see some religious things. I don't hold much respect for air port security... I think there are a bunch of bad apples in there abusing their power. There are mostly nice ones I must say... just some really rotten ones given power spoil it I think.
Proteges of Adria are everywhere. My folks live in Washington, DC; I hope to visit Andres' Minibar someday.
Right... because it happened in the past we must now and until eternity take away the dignity of handicapped children all over the world, even those who aren't even close to fitting any profile whatsoever, and do so in the most coarse and rude way available.
Check http://processing.org .. This globe seems to be one of the first data visualizations used in several projects. Here's a cool one that uses Flickr geotagging info: http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/3398050524/
Hulu's an outlet for TV and movies among those using it.

Vimeo's a place to show some original videos - one that most folks haven't heard about

YouTube has become a medium for sharing video for the general public.
I added the show time + day now.
Is pitchfork too poor to get a blog on their own domain? Why they gotta be taking domains from other people?
Yes, but if everybody does it then it might actually restore some normalcy.
By eliminating loans, most universities would be drastically cut their fees. Good poor students could get scholarships and bursaries which is already the case.

Colleges are bogus insitutions, they have been since the advent of the book, radio, television, and especially now with internet.
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Are you seriously going to argue the definition of couple and getting 5 upvotes for being wrong?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couple

an indefinite small number : few <a couple of days ago>

Hint: the phrase "a couple" does not always mean 2.
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Excellent example of Benefits vs. Features

- features: Upload and download

- benefits: Easy way to share music, easy way to transfer files home/work, easy way to keep software synced etc
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Don't mean to give Python too much attention here, but I discovered the decimal module a couple months ago and it's fantastic. :)
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Looks like a web version of Safari's Top Site. Except Top Site is a grid. You can place favs in to a particular square, but recent websites you visit a lot will show up automatically on available squares.

Hmm, actually a social version of this might be very interesting. Based on your fav sites, other popular fav sites will be recommended to you.
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there is no implication that discrimination outside of businesses can still be immoral and affect minorities heavily, it is just that for private dwellings these laws do not apply

You phrased it as though you support discrimination under the cover of private property. Private property is being used as a blanket excuse for discrimination which is being rightfully challenged in the US in situations such as this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093375 There are obvious cases like this where the line between public and private is blurred, and at great cost to the welfare of minorities.

And that works both ways, you can't be forced to attend the birthday party of a white supremacist either.

That analogy is incorrect. The correct analogy is being able to choose to attend the birthday party of a white supremacist where admission was being offered to the general public except blacks.
Having dealt even superficially with a large CVS repository... don't we all? SVN is at least more stable.
Well, Google is above the law. In fact, lots of large corporations are above the law. Politicians are above the law.

What this google case does more than anything is support the idea of the decline of a nation of laws. We are no longer a nation of laws, we are a nation that rewards law breakers.

Google violated copyright law and are being permitted to benefit from that violation and that means the law doesn't really matter, does it? I mean, not if you're google anyway... or rich I suppose. I mean... what are the rules about who is subject to the law and who isn't?

That's what I don't know anymore. Politicians can break the law and corporations can break the law, but the people can't break the law... Apparently, individuals can't even have manga or carry around arabic flash cards.

It's really disgusting what is happening. It's not good.
After the fall of USSR Rusia is in inconvenient position - it has to deal with Ukraine/Belarussia/Lativa to assure supplying Poland with Gas, and it has to deal with Poland to supply Gas to Western Europe.

It was factor that played big role in relations between these states and Russia. For example - last year Russia stopped supplying gas, because Ukraine didn't wanted to pay for gas that is uesd only for making the pipe work.

So because of Ukraine-Russia econo-war Poland didn't get the gas it paid for. Russia had to deal with Ukraine because of that. Russia often uses the pipes as economic weapon, and with the pipe beneath the Baltic sea it will be much worse - Russia will be in position to stop sending the gas to Ukraine, and nobody in Europe will give a damn. And Ukraine has many non resolved problems with Russia - like Russian ships in Crimea, big Russian "minority" in eastern regions, Ukraine wanted to NATO (or western part of it), and to UE. Now (after the blue one won) it all seems far, far away. Russia wanted Ukraine to be its "near abroad" - sth like colony. Gas pipe ommiting Ukraine will make it easier.

Of course - Russia can do with Germany what they want, but there are many political, ecological and economical concerns. And that pipe will go not only throught Russia and Germany national waters. I only wanted to give the POV of the other side.
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Funny. I thought this was Obama's data:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obam...
I feel like I've stumped the sphinx or something!

By "framing device", I mean to add context to the picture so that it's obviously not real -- so that the monkey viewing the image perceives the monkey on the screen as a representative icon and not another live monkey.

One option is to literally put it in a picture frame, especially scaled down to much smaller than "life size". Make it a full screenshot with the start bar, have the app unmaximized with some desktop around the borders with "My Computer" peeking out, leave a mouse cursor on the image, show the mouse hovering over some modal rollover state like a menu.

The 3/4 view is fairly extreme -- skew it isometrically so that it's not on the normal plane. You can fall back on the shareware standby of photoshopping it onto the front of a glossy retail box with a UPC code and system requirements fine print on the side.

CoverFlow is kind of the nuclear option, one of the most extreme slideshow effects you can get away with, that combines all of the previous techniques: http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html#coverflow -- frame the hell out of it on a contrasting 3D background with shadows and skewed reflections, and skew the
remaining images isometrically into a carousel of cards. Note that Apple's screenshot of the effect is scaled to 1/9th of real size, and itself has a reflected (though not skewed) shadow applied to it!
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I'm assuming this isn't sensitive since it is listed in his portfolio: it helps affiliate marketers build review sites on top of Wordpress, and costs about $100 a license.
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I prefer the chrome homepage like many others have said. Not really sure how useful this really is.
As if claims made in science about quantum physics is exactly the same as claims made in sunday church school.

As if religious belief is based on years and years and years of research, experimentation and the creation of predicable models.

If religion and science where the same then by definition we would still have large parts of the world believing in copernicus as the one and only true scientist, or Aristotle, or Newton or Einstein. Why?

Because most religious people end up having exactly the same faith as their parents had and never do anything close to investigating their beliefs.

You are assuming that there is a "Why" to answer and that is exactly why your argument is invalid.

Just because there isn't any meaning WITH life does not meant there isn't any meaning IN life.
This is merely the government getting caught holding somebody else's bag.

Financiers? Investors? Irresponsible American consumers?

D: All of the above.
Its all about the quality of reader. Not all are alike.

This spoof is likely against a silicon reader. Most silicon readers can be spoofed with molded fingerprints and gummy bears. Optical scanners can be spoofed with black and white printouts. Neither are very usable.

http://integratedbiometrics.com makes a fingerprint scanner that senses a live finger and is immune to this kind of attack.
The military also uses dolphins in this sort of activity, finding mines, and potentially destroying them as well.
"Main Street" didnt cause this. Sure you could blame the military industrial complex or the banking cabal and banking oligarchy, but propping up too big to fail institutions (called the Bernanke put) incentivizes failure.

More to come on that.
Bentley didn't just publish pseudo-code; he also published C, and the published C contains the bug.