skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is comparing fingerprints really "no better than reading a chicken's entrails?" I could understand things like trying to guess based on similarities with a partial print, but comparing two full prints seems like it would be pretty easy.
Came here to write the same thing. This needs about 5-10 more "No" variants that all include the words "yes, we're excited to move forward with you, and...".

I'm not sure we ever got a VC to give us one of these waffling "no"'s without apply serious pressure.
haha, no. It becomes really easy for NIMBYs (NUMBYs?) and others to come out in droves.
Yeah, LeoCAD could export to PovRay scene format ;-)
The one that was missed is where the VC is really excited during the meeting, does more research after the fact, and then switches to one of the provided answers. In my experience, VC's don't do any research UNTIL they are excited.
> So how do you know when you get a Yes?

> When you get a wire or a check. That's the only way.

YES to this.
Trying to recognize noes from investors strikes me an being a bad framework for thinking about business. Of all the investors whom I've asked if they'd like to receive an email update every time we add a zero to our core metrics, I've yet to have a single one say no. It's your job to make a good product with good economics, marketing, retention, etc., and to consistently grow your metrics. If you're not willing to actually do this and demonstrate progress on a regular basis then why would you expect anyone to fund your company?
Because I'd rather my cap table have three really well known people who can add a lot of value to my company other than money, like experience, advice and connections, then 1000 people who have a little bit of cash who may or may not be great evangelists for my company.

Also, crowdfunding only works with consumer products -- crowd funding a B2B product is almost impossible.
Sure, Ruby:

x = (1..100).each do |i|
if i > 9
break i
end
end

Evaluating that gives

> x
=> 10

You can also supply a value to next within a loop, which is occasionally useful
This won't stop people who want drugs from buying them. What it'll do is prevent some people from buying them from reputable sellers with positive feedback. Now they might have to find some shady dealer who could be selling them rat poison.
Creating a static blog with Gatsby
There are basically two approaches to this issue:

0) Do nothing

If you are just prototyping, you should do the simplest thing that could possibly work. (But this is not a real solution, so I won't count it)

2) Request Batching

This approach is popularised by Facebooks Dataloader library https://github.com/facebook/dataloader
Instead of directly querying the database in the resolver, you return a specification of what data you are interested in. When all resolvers on the same level in the query has returned this specification, the Dataloader library figures out how to batch queries together as much as possible

3) Big Join

You can inspect the GraphQL query in the top level resolver and basically perform one giant join up front. You will then pass the entire value down your resolve hierarchy, and all they have to do is pick out the correct data from the complete result set. Take a look at join-monster if you are interested in this approach.

The Graphcool hosted backend is serving millions of requests an hour using the Dataloader approach, and we have found this to be more flexible and more performant at scale than generating a big complex join up front.

For most queries we see single digit millisecond response time for a batched query, and the time complexity scales linearly with the depth of the query, which is not the case for joins.
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Are you going to block API endpoints that don't confirm to the spec? If not, no one would bother sticking to the spec.
Ohhhh, that's a good one. I'll add it!
I love ShareLatex. What is going to happen to existing customers?
OpenCASCAD is too complex for such tasks.
Why do human beings speak so many languages
would've missed it, thx
I just don't know the physics of CPR blood flow, I hoped that with enough man power you have to sustain CPR as long as possible because it means oxygenation. Although I remember MD on reddit saying the amount of oxygenation is so low it's rarely worth it..
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics [1] is a nice read if that kind of question occupies your mind.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Obsession
Might as well convict a person based on tea leaves....
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I haven't yet met a developer that doesn't like vue
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> But I am curious: apart from TV shows, how important is this kind of evidence in most trials?

I think it's fairly widely used as part of the evidence, but I don't think statistics are kept, and even if they were it's hard to know how important it is in convincing juries. When the issue with fiber analysis and the admission of it's nesr complete lack of validity by the FBI broke, there were hundreds of criminal convictions, dozens of death penalty convictions, and several who had already received the death penalty identified directly tied to FBI testimony on fiber analysis, and concerns of tens of thousands of convictions based on work by locsl, FBI-trained, fiber analysts.

So, its at least not insignificant in potential impact.
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Yet another Canadian here yeah we grind to a halt at anything near 30C.

I'm in the humid Maritimes it's 28C but with the humidity it feels like 40C.
IIRC that should work in Rust, Foo would be a DST.
It depends on the origin of the firm (both geographic and industrial). SWIM recently transitioned from a very 'competitively minded' data processing firm where >50 hour weeks and working every 4rd or 4th weekend were the norm for salaried staff to the buyer side in the same industry, and is now getting paid 30%, with a 27.5 workweek, and overtime. Plus a well-stocked break room and Thursday happy hours.

There's some value to both approaches, but a lot of startups rely on young people being willing to buy into an endurance culture and just working them into the ground, while (as you say) exhorting them to keep their salary details secret so they feel like they're beating the market or on a fast track to success. This secrecy doesn't benefit anyone except the employer.
They advise that leaders should not make subordinates the butt of jokes. That's much more specific.
There are pretty large economic impacts generated by sports teams and/or sporting events. While the rest could be debated (i.e. events meaning something in 20 years), there's not really any way to say sports don't produce anything of value. This is true for both professional and college sports.
Inside LeEco's spectacular fall from grace
Segregated Witness is almost locked in through BIP91.

https://www.xbt.eu/
Sealing part of the Proof of Replication will in big part require disk IO and won't be possible to do in parallel so ASIC or FPGA won't help you much.
Just like fashion, good designs will keep coming back, so in a few years the readability will be important again. The exec's at Google probably wanted the site to get a more modern look, and it does look more modern and nicer, but the old design had a more "robust" feel. I wonder if you buy Googe IaaS, are you looking for robustness or modernity ?
Used "correctly" the web with JS is way better than the web without. There's plenty of sites that use JS great from actual apps to articles and tutorials with interactive examples. In fact personally I find myself disappointed when I see an article that would clearly be better with interactive diagrams but the authors are stuck thinking the web it just a transmitted book and not it's own medium but better strengths.

A couple of examples where IMO JS makes the page superior to one without

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
> Or if you are on your fifth meeting and they just keep trying to pump you for competitive information.

15 years ago after the funding I'd arranged to start a company fell through after about a year of travelling to raise it...we finally went to a VC. He insisted that he could not sign an NDA because of the precarious position it put him in hearing so many of these pitches. At that point we figured, this was basically our last option anyway so we gave him the pitch.

He really liked it and wanted a local company to build it that we weren't comfortable with, so we parted ways.

5 years later I found out he had the company build it about as well as he could from memory of our pitch. It had plenty of flaws but it was a company that ended up selling for several million. As far as I can tell, it was re-sold and the company had a complete shift of focus afterwards.

Meanwhile, in NY 2 years after my meeting with the VC an enterprising group of people who were not affiliated with that VC at all pursued and built a business out of one of the core features of my original platform. As it turned out, that feature stood as a business on it's own. I'd included it in the overall system because as an integrated feature, it facilitated a lot of efficiency gains.

My platform was a comprehensive information system for public schools designed to make it easier for teacher's to focus on their students, reduce their workload and make it easier for them to communicate directly with parents. As a part of that system, there was to be a market place for teachers to sell and exchange lesson plans. This was back in 2003 and now smaller companies have popped up doing various parts of what our original plan was for.

In NYC, Teachers Pay Teachers has made a business out of that aspect and for what it's worth, I'm really happy that they have been successful.

The whole experience was really eye opening and I've been extremely reluctant to pursue funding for any of my business ideas because of it. I wish that wasn't the case.
Sexual harassment in tech: Women tell their stories
This is purely anecdotal, but every so often I have a day where my battery is just shot before it's even lunchtime. I can usually pinpoint it to one of several apps, because the problem is ailed by force quitting those that I know are apps I used recently but don't usually use often.

That by no means says that force quitting all apps constantly does any good, but there are exceptions to where some apps just try to use more resources than you'd like, even when in the background.
where exactly are those slaves working and murders taking place along the production and distribution of LSD?

same question with regard to home grown weed?

please, elaborate ...
So I presume that a hard fork would become economically very viable at that point.
Learning functional programming has definitely changed the way I manage state. I tend to explicitly pass variable into functions and return them instead of just having them change some hidden State
Why not just say "no"?
Havent even read it but if JS isn't first then its already wrong. I'm not even a js guy but I just know it should be at the top with the way web is right now.
Good one. I'll add it.
As of January 2016, Rethink had received $115 million in investment and had sold only 900 robots.[1] They were selling the "Sawyer" robot by then, but no sales figures for that seem to be available. About 40% of Baxter sales were to research labs.

[1] https://robotenomics.com/2016/01/11/the-facts-about-co-bot-r...
This whole article is predicated on the COMICALLY flawed IEEE review: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14811321

(I'm a huge python fan, but not this way...)
Would it be helpful if a team adds a slide to the effect of "Here are reasons why you might NOT want to invest in us"? i.e. stating the deficiencies we know we have and addressing them head on instead of waiting until reality differs from expectation.
Same here. Given the title, I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out the joke.
Approx 15M American children are affected by inadequate sleep. [pdf]
You can just view it as free high quality security tests. Sucks for a lot of people. But it already got so much stronger I wonder what comes next.
Show HN: App fOr WriTiNg iN RanDom CApS
I agree that a company is nothing like a family, but not all of your counter-arguments above don't ring well.

"I don't try to improve my family." Don't most (family members)?

"I don't try to change the goals of my family." Again, don't most?
Trump Directed Law Enforcement Agencies to Target Darknet Markets Like AlphaBay
First time submitting on Hacker News. I got inspired by the movie Paper Town and wrote a small app to be able to message my friends using random caps. It is available both on Android and Iphone. Would love to hear comments on how to improve the UI, and add new features.

t H a n k y O u!
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How does capitalism have a goal? That is like claiming evolution has w goal. Don't anthropomorphize it.
I am underweight by about 10 - 20lbs and I have a lot of trouble reconciling some of the advice around healthy eating with my attempts to gain weight. It seems all but impossible for me to gain weight without heavy reliance on carbs. I think it's creating a bit of a dissonance because I feel damned if I do, damned if I don't. Either stay underweight (unhealthy) or rely on carbs to gain weight (also unhealthy?)

I have actually been drinking a lot of Soylent lately which seems very carb heavy, but people also report success with it in terms of overall health and ability to lose weight when used to control the total number of calories consumed.
and those chemists producing acid in Swiss university labs? are they also eating babies?
Sometimes I ponder the complexities of the world of code compared to the less technical but more human complexities involved in pulling off something like this. 47 takes x 30+ dancers.. and no rollback! :)
Thanks for the question. Frankly, at the time, I was under the impression that Keypass what a quite powerful and thus complex beast. I wanted something simple with just the data I needed saved (ie app name, username and password, nothing more) so I went ahead and created the new format.

It was actually interesting to work on a new file format. The version 1 was not formally versioned. I realised that for the version 2, I would need to add a version number to the file format. Of course, the world doesn't care about any of that, but I learned something doing it and am happy about that.
Some years ago I worked on a project where they wanted to do fingerprint classification and comparison with computer vision. I was amazed how much human judgment is involved in the process. Even with full prints a lot is up to the examiner and two examiners won't necessarily give you the same result.
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The Weeds podcast by Vox had a recent episode that talked about this and the study in detail if anyone is interested.
https://www.vox.com/2017/7/14/15964284/the-weeds-seattle-min...
Linkin Park Lead Singer Chester Bennington Dead in Suicide
You forgot to include the example:

"the recurrent cycle of harvest failure, food shortages, and price increases"

Can you predict the timing and magnitude of food shortages and prices?
FCC Says There Is No Analysis of the Cyberattack That Crippled Its Website
Or HN Karma
Regarding fingerprints, in the wake of the Brandon Mayfield case which raised serious questions about the accuracy of fingerprint identification by the FBI, the National Academy of Sciences was asked to perform a scientific assessment. Initial results were published in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Bradford T. Ulery, 7733–7738, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1018707108

Accuracy and reliability of forensic latent fingerprint decisions

Bradford T. Ulerya, R. Austin Hicklina, JoAnn Buscagliab,1, and Maria Antonia Robertsc

Edited by Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and approved March 31, 2011 (received for review December 16, 2010)

ABSTRACT

The interpretation of forensic fingerprint evidence relies on the expertise of latent print examiners. The National Research Council of the National Academies and the legal and forensic sciences communities have called for research to measure the accuracy and reliability of latent print examiners’ decisions, a challenging and complex problem in need of systematic analysis. Our research is focused on the development of empirical approaches to studying this problem. Here, we report on the first large-scale study of the accuracy and reliability of latent print examiners’ decisions, in which 169 latent print examiners each compared approximately 100 pairs of latent and exemplar fingerprints from a pool of 744 pairs. The fingerprints were selected to include a range of attributes and quality encountered in forensic casework, and to be comparable to searches of an automated fingerprint identification system containing more than 58 million subjects. This study evaluated examiners on key decision points in the fingerprint examination process; procedures used operationally include additional safeguards designed to minimize errors. Five examiners made false positive errors for an overall false positive rate of 0.1%. Eighty-five percent of examiners made at least one false negative error for an overall false negative rate of 7.5%. Independent examination of the same comparisons by different participants (analogous to blind verification) was found to detect all false positive errors and the majority of false negative errors in this study. Examiners frequently differed on whether fingerprints were suitable for reaching a conclusion.

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7733.full

Authors

Bradford T. Ulery

aNoblis, 3150 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042;

R. Austin Hicklin
aNoblis, 3150 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042;

JoAnn Buscaglia
bCounterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory Division, 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, VA 22135; and

Maria Antonia Roberts
cLatent Print Support Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory Division, 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, VA 22135

One might wonder why such an assessment was not done a long time ago.

This is a report on the Brandon Mayfield case:

https://oig.justice.gov/special/s0601/exec.pdf

Bottom line is fingerprints are much more accurate than chicken entrails but hardly infallible as used to be widely believed.
LDCad is proprietary freeware program and require modern PC with good GPU.

Tried it on 10 year laptop with integrated ATI RS600 - its has many issues and lag during modelling. Also UI not very simple.

In same time LeoCAD work on this laptop very well.

Think, for those who want more features than LeoCAD has must try LDCad. LDCad is mostly for advanced users, for learninig and creating not too big models LeoCAD is the choice.
Not sure what you mean by 'converting over and over' but MiniKeePass on iOS supports both 1.x and 2.x file formats. You do have to import the file from dropbox manually, however.
That's amazing. It's so simple most people wouldn't even think to try it.

In fact, a lot of the really good hacking stories are. The recent .IO takeover for example.
Good write up of the absurdity of such a statement using public tools: https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6odans/fcc_now_s...
I think it would be much more difficult to prosecute someone for working on a generic storefront application that COULD be used as a darknet market vs. someone who was directly building a darknet market.

There's obviously gradient, because on one side you have Richard Bates and on the other side you have the people who work on Tor. I think that writing a generic "white label anonymous storefront" is much closer to the Tor side than the Silk Road side.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813273
Show HN: We launched our Serverless payment microservice Open Source
Do you think people will feel fulfilled in jobs that they know are make-work or easily automated, and know that they are employed solely because someone in power believes that people ought to be required to work, even if the work is useless?
Because raising equity via CF only applies to projects that "speaks" to a subset of the general public.

Because raising equity via CF implies your deck of slides immediately end up in the hands of your competitors (I know that once you've started your roadshow you have to assume everything is public but you can expect a little bit of latency and/or release some information at latter stages).

Also, probably because I am only familiar with smaller investment/startup communities (Paris and especially Brussels), every information is traded between large investors (both funds and individuals) and once you're "in" you hear about "largish" rounds (or companies going out of business) by grapevine sometimes weeks in advance.

It's already hard enough to raise with noise around, it's hard enough to manage a business, don't get on a soapbox and reveal your strenghts and weaknesses publicly...

In France, lending CF is growing. I invested a few euros on one of the platform just by curiosity. They are mostly industrial companies looking for sub 500k loans to acquire/replace equipment. The rates are outrageous, up to 8%. You get a detailed market and financial analysis, you see companies 20 years+ old, with stable numbers, doing like 2 or 3M a year in sales. Why the hell didn't their bank lend them 200k at 4 or 5%?
French bankers usually don't play their role anymore, which is lend capital, take some risks, and push good projects towards friendly VCs (I must say that we're very lucky/happy our banker has the opposite behavior :) )
You would think, but even "experts" on fingerprinting call it at best an art. It can be affected by bias[1], and there's no standard for declaring a match[2](same case as [1]).

> I could understand things like trying to guess based on similarities with a partial print

That's really the rub, pun intended I guess, there are no clean neatly pressed fingerprints left on object collected by police, generally speaking.

[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211368113...

[2]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fingerprints-infallible-evidence...
Ada Support raises $2.5MM seed to bring AI to customer support teams
Coinsrex:what will you like to see on your ideal cryptocurrency market cap site?
http://www.coinsrex.com is a real time cryptocurrency market capitalization website with a crypto and fiat currency converter.

You can also set the fiat currency you want to view the equivalent of your fav cryptocurrency.

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I don't like the tone of this piece.

It makes it sound like all startups out there have a RIGHT to be funded, and annoying, idiotic VCs just say no them... how mean of them.

But plenty of startup ideas are BS, plenty of founders are incompetent, and they don't automatically deserve a VC's ear, let alone their money. Why do they think they have the right to an audience? I know that you can have exceptions (Harry Potter was rejected by some 12 publishers before Bloomsbury took it), but if no VC is willing to even listen to you, consider that you are the problem, and not the VC industry.

I know that a bit of boundless optimism on behalf of the founders is needed for startups to succeed, but exercise that optimism in your own time and on your own dime.
Part of the idea behind this is that you can run your own randomness beacon in the same manner, and if you and another person want to make a bet like that, you can each use your own beacon and xor the values together to get a new, previously unknowable, random value.