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Both good points. I've been thinking of some contact / button interaction as well, though that's a toss between keeping the device as physically and electrically simple as possible, vs. some level of interaction. A circuit-completion button on a ring might work, which wouldn't require, say, an additional battery. Though battery life would quite likely be years.

Do you have any refs on capacitive coupling? Is that essentially touchscreen devices? How does that fare in exposed / outdoor environments? I'm thinking of wide applications, and something which wouldn't operate at, say, Tokyo Subway levels of use and demand aren't particularly amenable.

(That's tabling the discussion of whether or not you'd want to have per-use charges for transit use or want to offer that as a public service, or only filter based on individuals, etc.)

Field range might be set by speed-of-light delays. Roughly a nanosecond per 30cm (about 10 foot).

Given a 4 GHz clockspeed, your time resolution is about 0.25 nanosecond, or 7.5 cm -- call it 3 inches.
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That depends on location. They recently expanded into my city and only wanted a self-inspection. Literally a checkbox that says “yes, I verified these things”.

Uber at least demands a check sheet filled and signed by a mechanic from a list provided by them, and it has to be refreshed yearly.
Thanks very much for your input.

We're very focused on creating money-earning opportunities for our users. Every time you pay you should either get some thing out of it or have an opportunity to earn money.

For creators, if you write something worth paying, you can easily generate more than the 10¢ it costs to post. If you charge 10¢, you only need one payment to earn your money back :)
How does credit card onboarding work? If someone buys content (not sure how this works) and then cashes out in Bitcoin, are you not a bank? Do you mind saying what regulatory hoops you've had to go through for this?
you don't NEED to manage a new wallet.

you could create an account, post content, get paid, and technically pay for things by "cashing out" of "yours" to the receiving address for the thing you're trying to buy.

of course, there'll be a point where you DO want to load your account to be able to view content. That's likely in the long term when there are more users and higher quality content.
IMO it really depends. In my current role if I'm running any interviews I might talk to maybe 2-3 candidates at most. But in a previous role that could be more like 20-30, and when you're meeting that many people over a week or so and extracting a lot of information from each of them it is very hard to keep your facts straight without any notes.

I suppose as an alternative you could record the interviews, but then that sort of doubles the amount of work needed for each interview which is also a problem when you're doing a whole bunch of them.
The problem is these people are thinking in terms of absolute security.

Ideally you have a user name, a password, some sort of 2FA and also biometrics.

But the alternative for iPhones was leaving them without even a PIN because entering a 4 digit numeric pin was too much hassle for most people... so Apple lowered the bar and increased security with biometrics.

They are trying to do it again.

If you want ultimate security ,then you can have a very long alphanumeric password, and turn off touchID and faceID
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> "It's a miserable language, full of unexpected behaviors and badly designed features."

Yes, powershell is an insufferable language. It is in good company with every other language ever invented by humans.

"Unexpected behaviors and badly designed features." Are you talking about ... C? PHP? Javascript? Java? Ruby?

The design/implementation faults in C, for example, come at a cost of billions of dollars a year in damages (and that doesn't include the cost of mitigation).

Sure, Powershell has plenty of warts, point me to a perfect language that does what Powershell does as well as it does but without the warts and then people can stop using Powershell.
I use DDG as my default search engine. Whenever I feel like a search would be a better fit for google I use the !sp flag. The !bang system makes DDG a really nice default search engine IMHO. I'm quite happy with the results that DDG produces. I think it became way better than it was a couple of years ago, when I last tried.
No, they're really not either. The whole username vs. password debate is like asking whether the key to your house is a username or password.

Biometrics are used as the key that unlocks a device (or app or asset within the device). And like the house they require physical proximity. And, yes, just like the house key there's a decent chance that someone who lives near you has the same key type (device type -- apple/samsung/lg/etc.) and keying (fingerprint data points) on their front door (phone).

But those odds are basically irrelevant as an attack surface.

For a native app on a phone the "username" is proxied to the device id, once linked to the user.

I think the article being 4 years old reflects a 4-year-old fear of the new and misapprehension of where security problems would arise in the future on biometrically locked phones.
It happens pretty often, so I started awesome list: https://github.com/ro31337/awesome-aws-alternatives

Please contribute if you know alternatives.
It might not be a language, but the .net object model/environment brings about as much joy to powershell scripting as the browser document object model brings to javascript...
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While the central premise that replacing SSNs
with something like "chip and PIN" is good, note that
the EU moved to "chip and PIN" decades ago, while
the US moved to "chip and signature" recently,
and that move was in progress well before the
leaks of millions of CC numbers.
I don't leave an impression of my keys on everything that I touch.
This is a great point. But many of these services do not let you withdraw easily or at all. On Yours, you can cash out instantly. Even if the company goes away, you can export your keys and cash out even then :)
I think the simplicity and lack of bloat make it more refreshing than "modern" UI's, if a little more dated. Also as others have mentioned, there are plenty of wrappers that add more "material design"-esque skins (I have used http://hckrnews.com)
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There's Line2: https://www.line2.com/page/google-voice-alternative
I'll be shocked if its true. I'm working in the tech industry for like 13 years now, I've never heard of anyone getting a lesser pay on account of gender (at-least here in India). What has gender got to do with knowledge is beyond me !
> I have no idea if they're safe in large quantities.

Good point, for most foraged stuff you definitely don't want it to make up more than a certain percentage of your diet. Not only because of the plants themselves, but also because it's hard to know how much heavy metals and other toxins they absorb. You should be fine treating it as a normal vegetable because it's known to be safe in those quantities, I just wouldn't eat it every meal for a week.
I was really thinking in biometry as used in a more ordinary situation, like a laptop fingerprint reader. With the most likely form of malicious behavior here being that of identity theft by a small-time attacker. Having to dodge biometric sensors or trying to avoid having your photograph taken at protest are more an issue of surveillance, either by government or by private citizens.

Sorry for not making myself clear at first, but what I mean is that passwords aren't a sufficient guarantee of intent either. If anyone has access to them, they can spoof someone's identity. I reckon that this doesn't really fit a civil rights discussion, because we haven't (I think) reached such a point yet, but government-backed attacker might spoof someone's identity in order to either infiltrate or hijack a civil organization. Essentially, a virtual mole.
We think that might be true. We're very market-minded and intend to give our users the power to set prices wherever possible. We'll let the natural price arise.
If a passcode is available in the world, it can be grabbed and intent can be feigned just as well.
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Yes! We have not done and ICO and don't intend to until we can do it the real way - by putting our company equity on the blockchain, allowing it to be traded globally p2p. That will require a lot of work legally for that to be possible. No rush - we'll do it when the time is right :)

Also, on the friction of Bitcoin Cash, note that we currently have a Shapeshift integration allowing you to cash in with any crypt, and will support credit card onboarding soon. We think most users won't even know they are using crypto :)
India != USA

I agree with you though, gender does not matter, and should not matter, when it comes to compensation.
simple. I give a shit about yours.org BECAUSE they didn't create their own token to build a service.

Using bitcoin cash is another positive in my books, since it costs < $0.01 per transaction, versus $7~ per transaction on Bitcoin legacy.
Are you paying market rates? If so, how are you calculating market rates? Also, if you are paying market rates, why would you expect anyone really talented to select your company over all the other ones that pay market rates? (I'm not trying to be snide).
If "ride quality" is some kind of chimera, then these ride-sharing businesses are spinning their wheels trying to gather satisfaction metrics at the end of each ride provided (e.g., "Please rate your experience/driver/&c." questions prompted by the respective app).

My latest tactic is to answer these questions in an unnaturally enthusiastic,
— yet earnest — manner, while at the same time avoiding commenting whatsoever on the ride itself.

"Kevin is proving to be a very valuable member of the team with a promising future ahead!" or some similar piffle.

I suggest everyone try it; it's an interesting challenge to invent a new variation following every ride.

(And I just imagine what such constructions do to the filtering AI they probably send these through. My goal is to have each one reach human eyeballs, but seeing as I'll never know for sure it's akin to a message in a bottle. It's still fun, though.)
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> (women) hold only 20 percent of the company’s higher-paying engineering jobs.

I believe women make up less than 20% of comsci graduates? So wouldn't this be about right then.

Also I'm assuming women in comsci have lower workforce participation than men do (as in broader economy) so Google must be hiring women at a higher ratio than men from the available pool.

I'm 100% in support of open workplaces for gender/race/politics/sexuality/dress and whatever 'work ability' irrelevant preferences. And cases like Susan Fowler are absolutely disgusting. I also feel a bunch of people increasing complain about their lack of success due to gender or race and are not willing to see they have a fair crack at their career but dont have the talent/drive etc and cant see this lack of ability in themselves.
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A typical 737 pilot earns 200-250k AUD and can work no more than 72 hours per month, including training, admin, etc.

If a pilot needs so much sleep that they can only safely work 18 hours per week, I'd hate to think how compromised a passenger's safety is when being shuttled around by a Taxi/Uber driver working 40-80 hours per week.
My estimate is skewed downwards because you asked for average, and a significant percentage of the cohort is new grads and relatively inexperienced developers. Senior developers can certainly make above $300k.

You seem to put far too much stock in cost of living adjustments (a very common fallacy on HN). Such adjustments should be applied to expenses, not income, and neglects the fact that many expenses don't multiplicatively scale with location. It's very possible to live a good life even in SV/NYC on $60k/yr in expenses, leaving tons of room for aggressive savings.

Instead of talking about bogus adjusted salaries, give me hard numbers on why you think $300k is a low salary. At the very least, tell me what bogus adjustment number you're using.

> The taboo about salaries only stands to help employers.

It also helps highly-paid workers who only have to justify their salary to managers instead of to all their peers as well.

> Also, it's a negotiating tactic to have the other person throw out the first number

It's a tactic but not a very good one. I've conducted my own split tests and anchoring with a high number tends to lead to much better results while not wasting your time on people who think paying a senior developer $120k is reasonable.
Poor 3 things were paid 80K instead of 100K; what and important and news-worthy tragedy; not like the millions of Americans that haven't get an important increase in their <30K salary in their lifetimes [1][2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonh...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/wage-chart-2014-6
If the ad networks actually honored "DNT", Apple wouldn't need to implement this mitigation. For that matter, what are they smoking to make them believe I'll purchase $PRODUCT any second now when I still haven't clicked the 123489th retargeted ad?
Ideally we will partner with Coinbase. They already have a credit card widget for Bitcoin and Litecoin. Tell them they need to add support for Bitcoin Cash :)

If not Coinbase there are a number of other providers we can use. For global adoption, we will ultimately partner with many third parties simultaneously for this service.
I can rekey my house locks, I can change my password, I can.... what my fingerprints?

The reason that fingerprints are a username is that they're a static value associated with the identity of the person, which is later impossible to change.

There's no reason you can't also use a username as a password (though there are lots of reasons you shouldn't), but it's clear that fingerprints are closer to username than password.

By contrast, the key to your house is clearly a password -- it a changeable value used to authenticate to a mechanism that you're authorize to operate it.
If your fingerprint scanner is based on simple ridge profiles, then it's shouldn't be used for security. For example, some recent Apple keynotes claim they now use sub-dermal features for identification.

Implementation matters more than what the sensor is authing with.
In San Francisco Lyft is cheaper.

SF center to SFO is like $15-35 for Lyft Line while Uber charges $19-45.

SoMa to Marina is $4.05 for Lyft today and > $5.50 for Uber
"Our users also spend money to upvote content. Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed amongst earlier voters. This is our most popular activity. People love to pay money to vote on things. Who would have thought?"

Is the payout to early voters greater than 10 cents? And do voters know when they're an early voter? If so, maybe this is why it's such a popular activity!
The debate about username vs. password can be more formally described as a debate about public part of the credentials vs. private part of the credentials. Let us call them public identifier and private identifier.

One very important property that I expect any private identifier to satisfy is that it can be changed once I believe it has been compromised.

My fingerprint data cannot be changed, once compromised. Therefore it cannot be a private identifier. Thus this is not a password. What is not private should be considered public by Kerckhoffs' principle. Thus fingerprint data should be considered to provide the same level of security that a username provides.
>Once a company is at Google's size, comp levels and hiring become formulaic.

It would be pretty difficult to make completely objective formulas for salary. I assume it maps back to perceived performance (in the interview, or after hiring), which is always biased, conscious or not.
When you want to complain you completely ignore facts. Like the name of SlimFast. The name totally sounds like a meal replacement that is going to maintain weight.

There are other meal replacement drinks, but SlimFast is definitely not one of them. Just seems like the author didn't even take much time to justify their complaints.
>it is significantly harder to be forced to use a password that exists only in your mind

That's debatable, but it's also significantly easier to steal or guess a password than it is to steal or guess a fingerprint. The evidence for that is how many password breeches we've had over the years compared to the number of fingerprint breeches.

But it doesn't matter because it's trivial to put a gun to someone's head and force them to give up their password. As soon as you're open to using physical force, there's not much you can't do.
you are confusing "work" with "value"

it is possible to do hard "work" and produce zero value. Example: digging a large hole in the middle of the desert.

Conversely it is easy to do little "work" and produce tremendous value
Example: writing a script in 15 mins that automates hours of tedious CSV combinations and data grooming (I used this example bc I once did this and saved about 15 weekly hours of a highly paid financial analyst's time)

So now we are clear on work != value in the real world

I'll quickly tackle your investment income -- that was a risk buying 20k worth of Telsa. That easily could have gone to zero as an early stage tech growth stock. When buying a stock you are putting your money on a bet that the company will provide more value to the economy. When your bet pays off it is because the company is doing better and presumably, if following all relevant laws, providing enhanced value to the economy.

There is no law of physics in economics. In fact this thinking is practically dangerous and at the least fosters the wrong attitude towards success. Your success is not someone else's loss. In fact in a market economy, your success will ALWAYS be another's gain since they voluntarily gave you money for a good/service they couldnt do as efficiently as you could.

Economics is NOT a zero sum game. You can quite literally create value from nothing and grow the proverbial pie of value in the world. If you work in programming you realize this quickly.

The downside to a market economy is that work and value will never be a fair ratio. While in some ways unfortunate the more unfortunate alternative is everyone produces equal value from doing equal work. But take a minute to think critically about how that would be possible. I'll give you a hint -- innovation and ingenuity would plummet to zero.
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> Our users also spend money to upvote content. Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed amongst earlier voters. This is our most popular activity. People love to pay money to vote on things. Who would have thought?

That quote caught my attention. Is this kind of gambling or being a day trader? I like the mechanic that unearthing good content gets rewarded -- was that the goal? Have you found this system subject to gaming or collusion (a few people posting and upvoting content to increase the odds of getting a payout)? Do you see less clickbait getting upvoted than, say, on fb? What's the incentive for later readers to upvote an already popular title?

Pretty cool that you taken such a different approach. Wish you the best! I'm pretty much burned out on all social media, but will check it out regardless.

edit: Big question what's your vig or house cut on all the money changing hands?

2nd edit: I see the answer to my last question: you keep $0.10 from from each post and credit yourself as the "first voter on every post". So you get the largest cut of the cost of the upvotes on each post?
If you believe your key has been compromised (say duplicated), you can change the lock and your key.

If you believe your fingerprint data has been compromised, can you change your fingerprint data?
Can't say I agree. Getting nonfree software is a PAIN with opensuse.
Of course class-action lawsuits are a money-making endeavor for law firms. We live in a capitalist society, where the way we make things happen is that we make them profitable. In particular, class-action lawsuits exist so that law firms can find it profitable to take on cases where there is a wrong to be righted, but any single individual isn't going to find the cost of going to court and paying a lawyer to be worthwhile.

If you think that lawyers being motivated by money corrupts the legal system, well, I would agree and apparently so would Judge Richard Posner, who retired this week because he suddenly realized how unjust this all was. But, well, this is the system we have now.
Installing Manjaro as a second OS and think bricking is a large possibility, I'd bet you have a UEFI install of Windows and used a crappy USB writer that doesn't allow for UEFI.
> Very few firms can engage in such behavior. A pact like this can only be maintained by a small number of very large firms, and only the firms party to the pact will abide by it, leaving the entire rest of the employer market in a competitive state.

And the same can't be said about the market power of unions?

> Corporate earning growth is at historically low rates.

Cherry picked statistic. Corporate earnings as a percent of GDP are record high. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Pik And your linked chart shows exactly my point, wages relative to productivity have been decreasing.

Obviously with anything like this you have a hard time showing a direct causation, which is why I am confused that you are claiming that you can prove a clear causation in the exact opposite direction that the economy has been moving.
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Lawyers. They sure are spoiling the success for the React folks. You can bet Facebook has alot of them and you can bet their political influence is strong with the upper management.

Lawyer: "this thing, this point in the contract, it's VERY VERY important". The more lawyers you get in the room, the more beard pulling, wailing and hand wringing there would be about the dire, dire consequences of taking this stupid clause out. And of course the world would come to an end if no-one listened to lawyers.

After I fucked several business deals listening to lawyers say how contracts should be changed, I decided to make my own decisions about what matters and what doesn't in a contract.

The real problem for ReactJS is that someone at facebook is listening to the lawyers wring their hands about some possible future that will never happen. facebook should just grow up and tell its lawyers to shut up and go back to doing.... whetever it is they do.
Spam is exactly why we turned on the 10¢ to post. Cleaned up the spam pretty well :)

We will allow subcommunities soon which will allow moderators to pick the cost to post. Low-income countries can use a very low value denominated in their local currency appropriate for those users.
I am not sure about US trends in Eastern Europe a fairly large % of FE devs are female same for QA roles.
But is a username really static? It is to some point until you decide to deactivate an account or abandon it in case you can't.
He retired a week ago apparently.