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Biometric authentication is a decrease in security for users, not an increase.

Biometric authentication can, as an additional factor, with proper management (which is non-trivial) be a benefit to security fire institutions that need to safeguard against sharing of credentials, but replacing other authors mechanisms with biometrics rather than augmenting them makes biometrics a net negative.

For some consumer uses they are an increase in convenience and may be a better security vs convenience balance, but that's undermines if they are misrepresented as increased security, because then users will be choosing them on faulty premises.
That looks brilliant but I am struggling to get it into my Google Calendar using the "Other Calendars > Add from URL" option. Do you have any advice?
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I love the original trilogy. I really do, my nostalgia towards it is very strong. But if you take off the nostalgia-tinted glasses for a second, you will see that original trilogy(ROTJ especially) has very poor dialogue, the filming and pacing is passable. ESB is the best of the three, but Force Awakens is easily on par with that film, and definitely better than ewok-filled ROTJ.
If it weren't for the traffic conditions and satellite images, I would not be using Google Maps anymore - it's been incredibly slow on both the Android app and the web. Takes about 30 secs of loading until I can finally switch on satellite images.
Is it change for change's sake that bloats so many company offerings after a while?
The book Where Mathematics Comes From demonstrates that the concept of infinity itself is finitistically reducible via conceptual metaphor. This really isn't that surprising though, is it? Our experience is grounded in the interaction of concrete, finite objects.
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"overrated" implies an estimate of rating that diverges from the actual baseline.
For this, we have to know how people rate grit in importance.

There is pendulum where for a few years people will have "under estimated" intelligence, or patience, or genetics, or friends, or parents. These articles come out, and suddenly everyone "overrates" those factors to the detriment of others. Then the article moves on to the underrated factor.

Unless people are actually ascribing various quantities to these factors, I don't know how "under" or "over" the estimates are from the actual influence of the factors.
I propose that some of the opposition to micropayments and pay for clickbait and paywalls and such is password fatigue.

I classify my accounts as critical/financial (if someone got this it would cost money or legal problems) and don't care.

I have a handful of critical and financial passwords, but every "don't care" is the same password. If someone gets my HN password, they also pown my facebook and linkedin and random forums and sites, but those are irrelevant so I don't really care because none of that stuff matters or contains anything important. (By important I mean real world important like buy food or get medical care or whatever, in an abstract sense HN is important to me, but not nearly as important as being able to feed my kids)

I don't know what I'd do with micropayments (if someone stole this login they could steal the equivalent of a can of soda from me... should I care enough to set up and maintain and track and occasionally change a special dedicated individual password for that can of soda equiv for something like that?)

I believe this also explains the rise of Amazon. Oh man, somewaycoolstore.com won't let me check out without creating an account and keeping my credit card info (probably in plain text of course)? That sucks. I'm willing to buy the same thing from Amazon for more money because I don't have yet another account and yet another pending security breach with my CC number.

Note that some superficially "financial" sites are not risky. If someone stole my electric company login, they could... pay my bill for me? The site isn't terribly functional and I like it like that. I can only write payment methods not read payment methods, so my bank account info is perfectly safe. Their billing system thankfully isn't integrated with their customer support at all, which superficially sounds awful, but at least if someone stole my acct they couldn't enter a service disconnect order in my name. I'm pretty well off, if someone else clicked "pay bill" for me they couldn't cause bounced checks, I just have too much money for that (and/or my efficient house has bills too small to matter). I guess the worst thing someone could do to my electric company account is change my password, which would waste about 10 minutes of my time getting it reset over the phone. Its not worth the substantial operational cost of setting up a special password.

I don't need fingerprint reading and retina scanning and DNA verification to log in and click "pay" every month. A truly interesting passwordless solution would be for me to give permission to not password protect my electric bill. The "secret" data is already public and resold to every .com and .gov on the planet. A suitably intelligent protocol more complicated than "click, its done" could work. If I got push notifications of anyone including myself or wife trying to pay my bill and they didn't charge for a day or two and I could fix any "problem" in less than a day or two, I'd be happy with that.
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Ubuntu 16.04 comes with ZFS preinstalled and ready to use.

Well, you need to install the user package 'zfsutils-linux' and you are ready to go.

The kernel modules for ZFS are already in the default kernel and are loaded automatically when you create a volume.
> I wouldn't need video-speed refresh (probably?)

My biggest barrier here would be the mouse. My mouse is an extension of my hand. Imagine how hard it would be to manipulate objects in real life if you had a half a second delay on what you felt and saw your hand do?

Similarly, you'd better be very accurate at typing- you won't notice a typo until half a second later, by which time you've written 5 or 10 more characters. You could go back and fix each one later, but again, with the slow refresh the need for accuracy in knowing where you're typing now would be problematic.

That said, I'm still excited. This tech is so lovely (I joined Amazon in part because I love my Kindle).
HERE used to have something like that - it was called Nokia CityScene. I don't know whether that's still around, though.
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All the LGA2011 parts in that generation support DDR4. My 5820K does.
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This seems like a plausible alternative explanation.

An experiment could easily be ran where a new Facebook account is created without any posts or messages, and the Facebook App is installed on a mobile device. Spend a few days using language that is easy to advertise to in proximity of the device, and see what happens.
"In each case, what we found is that they started down one path because they thought that was what they were supposed to do, and then at some point they realized that they didn’t like that path at all,” Rose said. “During that period, they fell into something else and made a series of choices that led them to success.”

This describes me exactly. I'm one of those people that never knew what they wanted to do and spent a lot of time just thinking about it and being worried about my future. After switching colleges once, majors 4 times, and seriously considering dropping out more than a couple of times, I finally landed on something that felt right enough I could force myself to get through when it was hard, without it feeling pointless. I found true motivation. My internal and external worlds aligned and I rocked it.

Unfortunately I think that feeling only lasted through getting my current job and I'm now back to contemplating the pointlessness/morality of my work day in and day out. The ultimate goal of my work is to replace people in a call center, to automate their jobs so they don't have to be hired anymore. I don't think I'll feel right about it until we figure out basic guaranteed incomes and what people are supposed to do to live if they don't work and all the Player Piano(Vonnegut) kind of stuff nobody talks about when they're just thinking about making money.

If you're working on something that you're passionate about, that is truly changing the world for the better, please let me know. I'd love to work on something and have no doubts about what I'm doing with my life again.
I am waiting for the grand reveal where we learn that luck is the dominant factor in success.
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"The Yahoo way is, ‘We’ll throw 10 rocks against the wall, and maybe one of them will hit the bull’s-eye. But you need a sniper rifle in this business."

That's a load of crap. If anything, 'this business' showed us what you need to do is grow to a level where you can throw not 10, but 100 rocks against the wall, and once one of them hits, get another 4 dozens and hurl them at the same spot immediately.
Maybe, as Pavlov suggested, this was part of the deal - that MS would have to pay at least $7.2bn for the phone business if Windows on Nokia didn't work out.
That's actually the tradeoff I'm making. The street I live on isn't even in Apple maps (I've filed a ticket), but I'm willing to use it for that tradeoff. Google is definitely collecting way more information and seems to be able to create higher quality maps a lot faster, but there is the trade off of being inundated with ads.
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Job solicitations are probably better suited for the monthly "whoishiring" threads. They are automatically posted 11AM Eastern time the first weekday of each month. The next one will be Wednesday, June 1.
google-fu: https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/369513256545845

"No, we don't record your conversations. If you choose to turn on this feature, we'll only use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify. If this feature is turned on, it's only active when you're writing a status update."

So, not as bad as the news article suggests, but still extremely creepy.
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Well, I'm sure Google Inc would love to dominate but I believe their fall from grace is evidence Google engineers don't want to. Or maybe I'm off base. Nobody dominates forever.
I'll probably be burned at the stake for this. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the entire Hitchhikers Guide series, and I'm just not enjoying it at all. I understand it is supposed to be humorous, and full of satire. But the scatterbrained events, nonsensical plot, and one dimensional characters, just ruin it for me. I don't get the appeal, and I watch a fair amount of British comedies, and movies.
I had this happen to me a while back and came up with a fairly simple possible explanation/implementation. Facebook could look at the time and geo stamps in uploaded photos to determine who was in the same place at the same time, and offer those people up as potential friends to add.
I suspect most people who don't use a password manager reuse passwords. A lot.

If you get the password to one of my unimportant accounts, you get the password to most of them. They're unimportant, but still...
Mapillary needs some sort of camera you can buy for $50-150, put on the top of your car, and take decent resolution 360 degree photos. Then the coverage in major city areas would get completed in a few years.
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As far as I'm aware they were giving exclusive licensing rights to their IP to Microsoft in perpetuity. But yeah, it doesn't seem cheap...
clearly you've not hired many developers
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It's easier to see what's going on if you look at sports. Thousands of basketball players have received the best training, nutrition, and coaching that money can buy yet there is still a huge gap between top players like Curry or James and the rest of the field. We can talk about grit, perseverance, determination, etc. until we're blue in the face but all else being equal, talent will be the deciding factor.
Biometrics like TouchID work fine for authentication, but they don't work for encryption. Encryption requires a secret, and you can't really call your biometric features a secret (even besides that it probably won't be of high enough entropy and that you wouldn't be able to have more than one set). This is why iPhones always ask for your password when you restart your phone -- it's not just a security feature, it actually needs your password in order to decrypt the phone data.
This is when I appreciate journalists who read through all these documents and summarize the important parts, and analyze the interesting implications for me.
Where do you live? Maybe it has something to do with the numbers and letters in your house address. They have to line up just right. Let us know and we can figure it out for you.
I went into reading it without any expectations and found it enjoyable. I think if it had been beaten into my head that it was great I would've enjoyed it a whole lot less, because I'd be searching for flaws the whole time.
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Does it work on twins?
Fantastic article. Extraction of value by the elite is the problem and a partial solution is a movement for local business and constantly pushing back even with simple things like paying for local goods and services in cash, not credit cards. Why should banks get 3% on all local transactions?

Our system is grounded on the requirement for growth, and somehow that has to change. There is nothing wrong with businesses that don't grow and pay decent wages and serve their communities, but our economic regime heavily discounts companies that are not growing.
Seems to me that most technical people in this business have no career strategy. They settle into a job and inertia takes hold, and a body at rest tends to stay at rest until a force is applied to move it. So they will sit their butt in a seat and be underutilized, and perform mind numbing work, with a nagging voice in their head telling them that their tech muscles are experiencing atrophy, but yet still they stay put until the bitter end.
The view that genetics control destiny results in weak people that don't respond well to adversity. If you look at people from fairly normal environments that became highly successful, they basically all discount the value of talent fairly highly. On the other hand, if you look at people who significantly underachieve, belief in talent and destiny are extremely common.

Is this belief sufficient for great success? Of course not, you probably still need to be above average, talent wise, and be lucky. It is almost certainly necessary, however.
My old university had a fairly large cleanroom and start ups would rent space/tools. Most of the equipment was very old, so limited to 100mm or 150mm wafers and sub micron feature would be difficult.
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People use search engines to find websites, no one types out URL's anymore.
First, broaden the concept of "entirety of the segment". For most it's the immediate scope, or maybe the next level. I'm referring to understanding every element in there, where it comes from, and what it affects, even if you need to look in several other modules for that.

But, the idea is to try and understand why was the code written like that, what is the model the original programmer had in mind, and whether there could be more of the same errors in other places. It's the way you can see a db table and immediately know where will there be issues in the db design.
Correct.

They should spend more time to develop better management of passwords.

I would like to have a poem generator that generates unique and easy to remember poems, that can be used as master passwords.
I'm not an IC designer, but from what I understand MOSIS (https://www.mosis.com/what-is-mosis) is reasonably priced, for some definition of "reasonable". You don't get to use the latest technologies/feature sizes, but you do get to do small volume prototype runs for somewhere in the neighbourhood of $10,000.

Looking around a bit to verify the pricing landed me at: http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Make/FabPricing.aspx. Those prices are likely subsidized from somewhere, but they bring things into the "totally approachable" realm. Here in Canada, if you were going to do an IC fabrication startup, it'd probably make a lot of sense to go through NSERC anyway; they have a lot of programs where you can get a significant portion of your employment and R&D costs covered.

Edit: Looks like TSMC will also do things like this directly, but without specifying prices: http://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/services/cyberS...
the equipment...when you spend 50million or so on a litho scanner and the associated track, plumb in the chemicals, the support equipment for the chemicals, etc. it adds up fast. Remember they aren't setting up one line they are setting up many because the economics only work at scale. If I need to do 40+ litho layers with 60k wsw you need probably a dozen or more litho tool sets. That alone is over a billion dollars.
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ZFS is under the CDDL while Java is not under the CDDL.

CDDL is an open-source licence just as the GPL.
Do a snapshot and clone. Then you will have an exact copy of the data mounted elsewhere that you can modify independently.
One thing I've wondered about with respect to conscientiousness, is how it is defined.

The way the word is informally used, a conscientious person is likely to be deemed conscientious by a supervisor due to obedience, rule following, punctuality, etc.

Is there a sense in which someone can be conscientious to his/her own life goals?

I think in cases where one's life goals diverge from pleasing authority figures, the word conscientiousness falls short (in informal meaning, at least).

Grit, on the other hand, seems to more aptly describe a person's dogged determination to achieve an outcome. I'm not sure which of the above are actually predictors of life outcomes.
Unfortunately, it remains a feature only on Solaris/illumos and FreeBSD. The Linux and Mac ports still lack support for delegation.
Lets leave the tinfoil on reddit please.
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If it truly is a synonym for grit in prior literature, "conscientiousness" is the regrettable term. "Grit" is far more faithful to common usage. "Conscientiousness" in everyday speech connotes "politeness" and "thinking about others." These qualities have nothing to do with the thing Duckworth (and other business writers) are calling "grit." They're referring to perseverance, never giving up -- the ability to get up and keep going after failing, and to doggedly pursue long-term goals. In popular culture (eg, the film "True Grit") and everyday speech, "grit" conveys this concept perfectly, better than any other word I can think of in English. So whether it was a conscious marketing ploy or not, it's a far more accurate term.
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I see two ways to do this, sending audio to Facebook or doing speech-to-text on the phone.

Sending audio to Facebook would be so obvious that presumably somebody would have noticed by now.

So that leaves speech-to-text on the phone. However, if that was on "all the time" or even some significant fraction, wouldn't that take an enormous amount of battery power? I'm not sure exactly how much juice on-handset speech-to-text takes but it seems like it would be nontrivial.

On the flip side, I do have to admit that Facebook probably already shows up on the top of most people's CPU and data listings already, but, still, it seems like this could easily be an order of magnitude beyond even that for many people. Surely someone by now would have noticed that they didn't even open Facebook today but it's the top battery draw and/or data user for the day?

Forget whether Facebook wants to do this. I'll take it as read that, duh, yes they do. The question in my mind is can they actually do this without being noticed somewhere other than a local news channel? I mean this question seriously; as you can see above I've already sort of laid out the parameters, so I'd ask that replies here not just "guess" how much juice speech recognition takes, I already did, please tell me if you know. (I can't enforce this request, of course.)
It's in the community's best interest to defend and glorify bitcoin - they're the ones that invested in it and want its price to go up, so they can go and sell it for real money again.
It wasn't just 512 MB RAM devices. That was just a poor excuse they used for a pragmatic push on "Nokia veterans" to buy the 950(XL), or at least 640.

And Myerson has the audacity to say "We always take care of our customers, Windows phones are no exception. [...] regardless of a person's phone choice, we want everyone to be able to experience what Microsoft has to offer them."
Considering it was a radio series before it was a book, and was also adapted into an innovative text adventure, I'm not so sure that's true.
It seems to me that a one-time positive experience with one person hardly influences attitudes formed over a far longer period - and I don't even need to take into account yet that for evolutionary reasons negative signals have a much stronger influence than positive ones. So to me all this shows is that they were aware of the problem - I don't see that this shows that they did anything significant to address it.
Interesting read. I don't have high hopes for hydrogen cars as batteries seems to solve the range problem adequately for most scenarios, and it's easier to build charging stations than hydrogen filling infrastructure. However, for planes it seems that the advantage of low weight is a necessity to electrification. I wonder if the future will be (mostly) electric road transport and hydrogen air transport.
I was under he impression that fuel cells were very expensive compared to batteries. Is that not the case?
I'm not a physicist and I barely understand the ELI5 version of this stuff, but no, I do not think that saying that the Higgs 'belongs' to the weak force is correct as it is a proper excitation of a separate fundamental field.
Because passwords are terrible.

Lots of users pick guessable ones unless you have extensive password rules to stop them, and those rules are a huge pain to your users.

Lots of users have terrible password hygiene, leaving them all sorts of places they shouldn't.

Enough users are going to forget their passwords that you need a recovery mechanism. Which means an attacker needs to break either the password or the recovery. The most common recovery method is email, but Google often is the email provider.
Strange he doesn't mention FreeBSD's ZFS implementation.
Curious which countries are these if you don't mind saying.
A lesson from Palm, Nokia, Motorola, and every other small-to-midsize company in the Telco arena: Never let yourselves be acquired. It won't end well.
Strange there's no mention of FreeBSD's excellent ZFS implementation
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There is a guy in Florida who is championing for more open government. The number of FOIA requests and lawsuits he has brought and won is pretty interesting. His work in general is very interesting and he is currently working on a pretty cool database idea for the state of Florida. His website is:

http://fogwatch.org/

His name is Joel Chandler and he lives in Lakeland, FL. You can Google him for more details on some of the requests he has made and lawsuits he has filed to get information.
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I see it for what it is, eyecandy for the masses.