skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be something as simple as having one eye closed when under duress(sorry, monoculars!). It only takes one unlock attempt to then lock it down. Bonus with this is that LE couldn't hold the phone up to your face while you are sleeping to unlock it.
I think you might enjoy this paper, I did: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Misc/p271-de_millo.pdf
Will we ever hear neutron stars colliding with other large masses any time soon?
Yeah, that's irony. There's more.

A former monopolist getting flak from a current monopolist who tricked IBM with MS-DOS [1].

If you want to be pedantic on the history of Microsoft, however, I'd like to remind you of the history of IBM [2]. Of particular relevance are the parts "IBM in Germany and Nazi Occupied Europe" and "1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services".

Do we still (respectively ~75 and ~50 years later) hold this against IBM? No, we don't. Its longer ago than Microsoft's practices, so I understand people still hold a grudge (heck, I'm one of them, I still tend to avoid Microsoft products). It'll take some time. But that doesn't mean my grudge is still rational.

[1] http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM
Isn't this a tooling and knowledge issue?
If I was as productive with TLA+ or model based design as I am with React-Native/Ionic/Swift etc. then we could have a smartphone weather app written to those standards for the same price.
it's great seeing a poem by a poet i know.

for the record, jeffrey mcdaniel is also a fantastic performer, so if you get a chance to see him recite, don't sleep on it.
One point to add, the reference platform is going to be much better tested and battle proven both in-house and in practice.
The absurd cost of living is due to an illiquid housing market because of prop 13. Adding more housing just kicks the can down the road a decade or two.
With lax oversight, the FAA has enabled secrecy in the skies
You mean like how doctor's offices used to do with folders that anyone who could get behind the counter could access?
What do you sneak a look at?

It's usually notifications for me and that's what I've been using my Apple Watch for a bit over a year now.

If it's not notifications, then it gets more complicated though looking at anything but notifications is pretty hard to sneak.
Propellerheads is abandoning Reason 8 users. Apparently, whatever they did in version 8 is heavily tied to the Apple file system, and the forced upgrade in High Sierra will break their files.

So, I get a choice - keep Reason or upgrade to HS. I kinda feel screwed over by all parties.
> Fox news isn't fake news

Haven't heard a good one like that in a while. Here is Bill O' Reilly on Amsterdam, with factual counterpoints: https://youtu.be/sTPsFIsxM3w
So leave. I just don't get that.

I mean, we're literally talking about a group of people with lower-to-middle class US jobs, who, on a daily basis, go to an auction together with a large amount of billionaires and millionaires, and bid against them for real estate, food and all kinds of amenities. To me, that's a joke.

And then an article gets written about a staffer vs contractor dichotomy.

Come on. Just because you were born in a place of 50 square miles of land, in a country of 3.5 million square miles of land, does not mean you're entitled to the laws of supply and demand being suspended by a massive subsidy program so that you can keep on living there when you're not needed and there's tons of people waiting in line for your spot who're willing to do it for less, while you are needed in other cities where your family can live much more affordably.

And this is coming from a leftist who left his own home town because it got overrun by rich kids with daddy's money and expats. I didn't like it either. But I also saw that I was not entitled to hand outs in order for me to live in the most prime location in the country, because everyone wants that and that just does not work, as much as we want it.

And the last thing I'm going to do is try to outbid the 1% as a middle class earner and have a shitty quality of life. Working fulltime without kids for 6 months and being homeless all that time because the average rent equals your pay just means you need to move. You've got skills, you're employable, you've got income...
Why Kevin Durant Invested in This Tiny Healthcare Startup
Apple had numbers a few years ago (2015?). It was something like 95% without passwords before TouchID and only 50% after TouchID.

I know people who consider TouchID too much of a hassle.

This doesn’t need to be a perfect solution, it just needs to be more secure than TouchID (claimed) and more secure than nothing (obviously) while being easy enough people won’t turn it off (we’ll see).
In addition to this, don't keep private (and certainly not illegal) data on a compute device that you walk around with. Maybe, just maybe, treat that device as compromised from the start and treat it accordingly.

The idea of using them as secure devices should probably stop, at least until they are actually secure. Moreover, if you're committing crimes, maybe don't record them in a way that is recoverable. Not that you should necessarily be a criminal but, if you're going to be a criminal, you should probably be a safe criminal.

Don't text me saying you need a G for the yayo. The cops know what that means.
You have to design the system correctly so it does not backfeed grid. https://goo.gl/iw8f8w Look at the marketecture from solar edge. You can add in a generator with a automatic transfer switch. They also highlight a scenario with existing PV and a separate grid tie inverter.
Everything you said after "this article is silly" kinda seems like just restating the exact point of the article.

The central idea is that the massive costs of writing code that adheres to a specification takes away resources from the task of understanding the problem space well enough to create a correct specification. That is, incidental complexity overwhelms essential complexity in modern software engineering. The various avenues of study mentioned in the article are attempts at addressing that imbalance.

Which is pretty much what you said.
s7 edge
Yomichan – Turn your browser into a tool for building Japanese language literacy
> We need to find a way to structure society in away that even people who don't have the hot jobs of the moment can survive.

We have several ways to do this, but evidently none of them are acceptable to the people who have the power to implement them.
What's the advantage of buying this over the current Amazon Box?
More reliable & easier to use API, extendable support for other codecs/streams, customizable UI, customizable playback, plugin ecosystem, tracking
Same here.

I am forever indebted to RMS and his crazy vision. May he be with the world for a long time.

It has played a big role in turning my life around from a college drop-out to almost getting my PhD in the USA now. If I had just stuck with proprietary software, I don't think I would know what I know today. It is that the idea that you actually could touch and understand the world, given enough time and dedication in a small, hot, dusty corner in a third world country with a cheap computer is extremely, extremely powerful. There is nothing else like it. Especially when I compare to many biologist friends from the same country as mine, they are much more disadvantaged compared to American ones, because of not having the $1M equipment and software they need back home. In the software world, I always feel like I had the level playing field, and the rest was just my dedication.

As I am almost done with this stage, I am seriously considering devoting a big part of my life to developing free software so everyone will have the same chance I had. At the same time, I feel the world has moved on, and again social mobility now is not as high as when the PC was the king anymore (but maybe it's just because I am just in a depression now, the world changes alright).
New CLI to Find Out Why the *$% That Code Exists
Obsolete? v4 still works on the operating system that was current when it was first released, as well as the next three operating systems. It works on the operating system that was Apple's latest and greatest one week ago, the operating system that's still installed on the majority of Mac, and will still be supported by Apple for years to come.[0]

My company insists that I shouldn't update to High Sierra because doing so breaks several well-known apps, including Microsoft Office (albeit v2011, I think?). So I haven't updated, and... everything is fine.

A demand for a free upgrade path suggests to me that all software ought to be sold as lifetime licenses with unlimited upgrades. I think that extreme would undermine our whole industry far more than a company insisting that only their latest product is supported on the latest operating system.

[0]Here's Apple release updates for Sierra, El Capitan, and Yosemite very recently: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
Generally,yes. It's also good for stuff like knowing what browsers are used and thus what technologies can be used.

The hassle of complaints and the possible compromise of "private" information (like what your browser sends) isn't that significant. The pain from complaints is trivial, largely confined to Hacker News threads of no significance whatsoever. The ostensibly private data is protected contractually and legally.

I'm not aware of any approach that both yields useful information and eliminates any possible risk of compromise. Surveys and A/B testing and self-hosted solutions all have the same problems and risks, and generally extra costs to boot.

In short, the cost-benefit analysis isn't all that different from that of a company considering an analytics tool.
These are excellent questions.

The first one will also likely tell you something about the company's culture and its approach to work-life balance.

The second may give you some insight not only into what the company's current areas are where you can make an impact but also whether they're poised to fail. Not to mention whether the founder is worried about the right things (either in general as a businessperson or for their stage of growth, or given the information you've gleaned from other discussions).
Yes, but the article mentions there's a lot of stroke order inconsistency (errors), so they don't rely on that
The same holds true for physical keys.

If you're arrested then the cops can tie you, grab the keys and unlock your door "and there's literally nothing you can do to prevent it.".

Also some guy can just make a copy your key (pretty trivial) -- heck people can even break your door bypassing the key altogether.
Could one say that Intel's an Epic fail and AMD is an Epyc win? Is that too shoe horned?
> If I drop my bowling ball, it has lower potential energy, but can't some of that be compensated for by the Earth-ball system radiating a gravitational wave (rather than all being converted into kinetic energy)?

Nothing wrong with your comment, but I just want to emphasize that for objects smaller than stars, the amount of energy carried by gravitational waves ranges from tiny to unimaginably tiny. The Earth-Moon system emits about 7 microwatts of gravitational waves. A bowling ball in low earth orbit would radiate about 5*10^-41 W, which is roughly equivalent to one photon of visible light every quadrillion years.
Agreed, it is an option to explore.

What I disagree with is the fact you're being downvoted means you are being right. If anything, its more likely a sign you're being wrong (or that your comment is otherwise not welcome). I suggest you don't worry too much about up- or downvotes.
Amazon Introduces a New Member of the Echo Family: Echo Spot
In the woodworking example, you may only have room for so many chairs around the house. And, if you don't really need the money, you make what you want when you feel like it. That's a lot different from the typical job.

Needing money isn't binary in any case. I may or may not need more money. But maybe I'll be glad I had it some day. Of, perhaps unlike MMM, maybe I'll buy something or take a trip someplace with the extra money that I wouldn't have otherwise done.
Morally speaking, if your company can't afford to pay all of its employees a liveable wage, then it doesn't deserve to exist.
You need to design system correctly. Look at literature from solar edge. You could also add generator with automatic transfer switch. Also, you can modify existing system. https://goo.gl/iw8f8w
In what way does this affect Facebook's ability to do business? They seem to be doing business just fine with the status quo.
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but FB certainly CAN pay 15% raises to their lowest paid employees - I imagine w/ very little impact to their bottom line.
Having the ability to throw enormous amounts of human and monetary capital into many different projects simultaneously, plus top notch technical talent, certainly helps.
> The problem is that, in order for all the tech companies to grow; they need affordable housing for all levels of the staff.

I'd be curious to know why the major tech employers aren't flexing a bit more muscle on the state level. Cynically, are the higher ups beneficiaries of the currently absurd housing situation, and thus disincentivized in terms of personal wealth to advocate for any change?
This is why I have a DVR where I record series and movies I want to see.

And Netflix and Amazon Prime that tell me when new episodes/seasons of something are available.

And a podcast app that auto-downloads new episodes of all the shows I subscribe to.

Why would I want to get yet another email telling me some show has a new episode when the service by which I'm getting that content (unless it's OTA - but TiVo will DVR those) already tells me when something new is available?
I'm super confused about what the point you're trying to convey here is... but I'll try to comment from what I can understand of it.

When you say "There is no good reason to hire a contractor", I'd disagree. There are a few excellent business reasons to do so. The first is you simply don't have that expertise in-house. The second is you have the expertise, but your resources are on other priorities.

Hiring an outside firm can be a quick way to gain an asset with the custom features not available on the market with off the shelf software. Many companies do this custom contracting, and they do it successfully. My own experience is with a company that has done it successfully. Your own experience would appear to be with a firm that has been unsuccessful. There are so many factors that go into the success of a project, and your firm may not be organized in a way to allow you to be successful. There's nothing inherent to contracting itself that leads to failure.
That has massive import/export implications, changes how you can ship them, all sorts of nonsense. As always, when a group of hundreds of smart engineers are doing something superficially inexplicable, it's actually either:

a) complicated, and a good idea, or
b) complicated, because of the government.
It requires you to look at the phone to unlock. Close your eyes or look away and it won't unlock.
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It's because people are voting up the title thinking it is an anti-American article, without reading it; but actually it's a long strange article without much coherence about anything, including America, and the title is rather misleading to boot.
People have roots, man. If somebody would have tried to kick my Grand-x father off his homestead in Scotland, he'd have shoed them away with the blunt end of an axe. And yet when it's capitalism rather than war that displaces people from their homesteads, it's lower-class stubbornness to blame?

Why should money entitle people to live in certain places, rather than history? You can argue both sides.
Ah hah, this seems to be the answer then. Thanks!

I like that idea of encoding before it hits FB/etc. Though, the level of security provided by a browser plugin makes me a bit nervous. Not an educated nervousness mind you.. I just tend to not trust them, and how well sandboxed they are, etc. It's the reason I also don't use browser plugins for password management.
I have an alarm clock with a 5" screen - it's called a smartphone
!#$!@# I was going to go try that out. ;) When doing the Chaos/Order stuff, the decompression was about half the CPU cycles, so thinning that could help.

Fwiw, the encoding I used wasn't VByte; because I was doing strict increments, I knew `0` wasn't a valid value to see, and used it to encode variable byte lengths (number of zeros: number of valid data bytes). Not smart, but easy to hack up, and gave me back 128-255 in one byte. I'm curious to check this out, now!
No, neither of us thinks that.

I think you wanted to point out an inconsistency between the dictionary definition of retirement and the fact that this person is still receiving income in exchange for work. You made your point. Let's move past that.

Not having to work to survive (e.g., this guy, retirement, UBI, lottery, vow of asceticism, whatever) gives you more options. Some people go on permanent vacation. Some people keep chugging away at their jobs because they still enjoy them. Some people change to jobs that they previously weren't willing to stake their survival on, and those new jobs might or might not pay money. I don't know this MMM guy, but it seems like he's in that last group. Doesn't sound so strange to me.

I'd be pretty disappointed if retiring meant you were prohibited from doing things that others happened to be willing to pay for.
> Oddly enough, I have the exact opposite perception.

Ditto, especially if you consider the OpenResty "variant" of Nginx.

Also, I realize Nginx does a good job of being a load balancer / reverse proxy, but to me it will always be a "web server" first. HAProxy on the other hand is built and optimized specifically to be a "load balancer / reverse proxy" first.
Certainly!

I love what I do, and I love talking about it to anyone who will listen. I find Google's infrastructure is fantastically exciting -- sometimes too exciting, rarely boring. Most of the time I wish I could share more. Always happy to hear someone has found what I can share interesting!
i wonder if the feds can compel you to open your eyes
I invite everyone on this thread to read "The Wealthy Renter" by Alex Avery. Also, no, the primary reason is not so you can relocate. Buying a home could be a very bad financial decision for most people, who don't realize it and just do it because everyone around them tells them to.
My first thought is that this guy is going to have to buy a lot more paper now: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/3/28/15102170/donald-trum...
This was perfectly exemplified by a statement at their new product announcement today:

> "Fire tv has been a surprising success for us"

https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/913105004369666048
Many people physically disable their laptops microphone. Some people in my office do and I think the most famous case is Zuckerberg.

https://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/mark-zuc...
There is a question I've been pondering in the wake of all of these data breaches but I'm not a lawyer so my assessment doesn't necessarily reflect what the law says.

If person X opens a credit card in person Y's name and doesn't pay it back, the bank will tell all of the credit agencies that person Y doesn't pay their debts. When person Y eventually finds out about this would they be able to go after the bank for slander?
This would end up a pretty long and detailed discussion and is probably a derail.
If you want to discuss it, email me :)
“The C# project took five years and peaked at ~8 devs. It never fully implemented all of the contracts. The F# project took less than a year and peaked at three devs (only one had prior experience with F#). All of the contracts were fully implemented.”

wowzers
There are plenty of companies out there who have the same resources, but are nowhere close in terms of results.
Morally, Facebook would realize that it has all the power in this situation and use its position to act for the good of everyone involved. Squeezing an employee to see how little you can get away with paying them, especially when this makes their living conditions much worse, is immoral.
Google Glass was innovative?
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Ha!

One of the biggest reasons I still lug a DSLR around is because of how unpredictable the Android camera can be. After I click the shutter button, I never know how long it's going to be for it to finish auto-focusing on every object at once, balancing colors, downloading updates, reticulating splines and whatever the hell else it's doing in the background.

By the time it finishes my kids have started wandering and come out as smears on a landscape.

iOS seems to be a little better at this.

Versus the DSLR-- Set exposure, push button, take picture. Fix errors in post.
My wife and I went on vacation and didn't have the proper "club card" for the store. 867-5309 worked as a phone number, and was issued to a "Jenny".
> insane dedication who is not motivated by money

You can say that again. I believe he's pretty far on Asperger's?

I view RMS as one pole of the philosophical spectrum of free software (the other being entirely proprietary). An uncompromising absolutist, his views can't survive contact with the real world intact, but they can influence the landscape as he exerts pressure on it.

And he has proven visionary and right time and time again.

I don't agree with many things he says, but I do appreciate the direction he's pulled the industry in. For that, he has my continued respect.
>then clearly they didn't do their verification properly.

Indeed. And surely, when they then report you to a credit agency, then this is libel or slander. They have no reasonable basis to make the claim, and it results in severe hardship for you.

As OP says, the idea of "Identity" is a fiction designed to make it the responsibility of the citizen to deal with the "theft".

By definition, if it can be stolen, then it can't be considered an identity.
If you don't understand why these people can't leave, then you've never been poor.

The reality for a lot of these people is that they can't really afford to stay where they are, but they equally can not afford to leave.

No one is going to pay to relocate a Janitor from SF to Idaho. That Janitor can barely make there rent, let alone find the deposit for some place they can actually afford, and that's before you take into account moving costs, living while you find new work, etc.

The truth is, moving is expensive, very expensive, and if you live somewhere with a high cost of living, it's hard to drum up that kind of money.
Quipu is from mesoamerica I'm afraid. As far as I know writing was invented and used in the Americas only in the Inca/Aztec region, though I'm no expert.
> The same holds true for physical keys.

Nobody's saying that home security is good. The point the parent was making is that, even with a "liveness test", compared to other biometric identification, this is a regression from fingerprint-based authentication for the iPhone.
So basically you are saying that a bad biometric that would allow someone to use a face mask and walk into your home easily would still be better than 99% of house keys?
> But it does strike her as ironic that the most highly paid workers at Facebook are also the ones who get all the free amenities.

That's not irony. That's economics 101.
Your grandfather owned the land. These people do not.
This is true and it's largely hidden by welfare costs that are shouldered by other taxpayers. If your company isn't paying a living wage then you owe a debt to society because they're literally picking up the tab.