skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they also have to gain physical access to your device, so if you're that worried about it, don't use FaceID or do the 'squeeze lock' to disable FaceID and require your passcode for the next unlock before you go to bed or something
If a scorpion stings me, I can still be upset about it, despite the scorpion's nature.
Thank you, at last a simple fact that I can relate to other parts of the world. That's actually less than the average for the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/2967374/England-is-.... So really not dense at all for what people seem to be regarding as an urban area.
zero-overhead abstraction is also C++'s primary goal. In what way it's mixed bag that is not the same in rust? Rust is basically C++ with lifetimes and a cleaner type-system.
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I agree, having worked in the American national lab system I can say that government research can easily keep pace with industry. Especially in risky or inherently costly industries, I'd argue that government funded research labs that work in collaboration with industry and academia are possibly the best equipped.
So who does? People who don't live in the city, or attend the school?

They at least have a stake, as evidenced by ballot items pertaining to the city and their school. Or do you believe that's wrong?
Yeah, it's a shame that macOS support in Firefox is so bad. I hope Mozilla can start making Firefox feel like a first-grade browser in macOS, like Safari and Chrome, now that it's speedy.

Smart Zoom and Handoff is completely missing and Applescript scripting support is extremely poor.
Provide different benchmark test then. Not trying to sell something here.
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That's a fair counter. I am assuming the technology already exists in fully functional and efficient form, and that the TSA is just applying it to the airport.
Depends a bit: if devs switch back I'd say definitely.

If devs are ready to repeat the IE 6 story, this time with Chrome.

Getting companies to do cross browser testing seems hard even if it it should be simpler than ever before.. :-/
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Isn't this a change that makes the tax code fairer? It seems like options and RSUs have value associated with them. At the very least, the person who is receiving them considers them to have value. Stock options are traded on markets, and priced some how.

Part of the new tax plan seems to be trying to lower the tax brackets, in exchange for preventing people from avoiding taxes. That's why it seems to be doing things like taxing these options and the free food some companies supply their employees.

It isn't clear why income shouldn't be taxed just because it's supplied in a different way.
> it has failed to benefit the majority of species on earth

While socialism, on the other hand...

> is not only a failed economic theory

Compared to what successful one?
Cool that they took the time to explore the limits of it, but FaceID is about convenience with security, not maximum security. Having physical access to the phone is still required, which is a pretty big obstacle for this kind of attack.

There is also a quick button squeeze you can do that requires passcode for the next unlock, so you can do that before you go to bed if you're really afraid someone is going to gain physical access to your device.
Well, if the state does not compensate me as an owner for damaging things it will do around my property, i will lobby and vote against it and thus nothing will happen.

How is that a win.
I'm not sure the market (weighted by market cap) agrees with the title.
Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.
Ah, the "beauty" of the US Federal tax system is that the answer is the same as everything else in the system: You. With You being liable for back interest and penalties if You screw it up. Basically the result would be an earmarking system, payable on exercise again, as opposed to time of receiving option.

That said, in the broad scheme of things it still seems workable. Startups may have to get used to also providing assistance with taxes for their initial employees. Honestly that's already not a bad idea even in the current environment.
The "new fools" theory sounds plausible but then I see that EA releases new games far faster than the replacement birthrate for gullible teens. E.g. I count 13 games from 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games

Therefore, there has to be a significant quantity of repeat buyers who were already burned by EA. (E.g. EA can't wait ~20 years to fool the Millenials after milking the GenX buyers.)
I have an account that used to admin Google Apps. If that account is available as a choice to log in -- doesn't matter if it's logged in or not, only has to be on the account select -- then none of my accounts can log in to Hangouts. Seems it's trying to redirect me to enable my Google Apps account again, then complains that only an administrator can perform that action.

On the surface though, yeah, if you take some screenshots it looks like really good UI. The follow through is generally garbage though. I think it's fair to put it on the site.
I'm aware. I wanted to make my own position very clear.
What if your goal is for technical talent to prefer companies that make parts for the F-35 that actually function as intended, instead of companies that could be described as "Uber for cat-sitters" or "the Snapchat of Etsy-linked Tumblr posts" or "Pets.com with more tulip bulbs" or "like Facebook, except fronting for GRU instead of NSA"?

In that case, it would meet that goal very well.

What a pity it is that the technical talent, who might prefer lucking into big piles of windfall cash by working for the right unicorn, has no big national organization to lobby in favor of our interests, and speak out against this type of change. (If you're one of the folks that knee-jerk downvotes any mention of tech worker unions, that's what I'm talking about, so let's get that click out of the way.)
The tech is not there, actually. Facial recognition is absolute garbage. It borders on being completely useless even in ideal circumstances. Airports might have a slight advantage since they have a list of people they expect to be present (people with upcoming flights) and such, but in my experience systems like what the TSA uses are obstinantly terrible. They most likely have a commercial product purchased from some vendor deployed in ways it was never meant to function with management types forcing everyone to ignore the utter uselessness of the solution. They're going to make their career on deploying the system regardless of whether it works or not.
22 hours later it went from $5800 to $6580.
Was your company publicly traded? The OP is referring to issues when the stock is illiquid.
At this point, unless you're C-suite, most startups are a really bad bet compared to the BigCos paying out anywhere from $250K-$1M annually depending on your skill set and experience.

What's happening now IMO is that the hot talent has figured this out and they have accepted positions at Tesla, Salesforce, Google, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon. That said, I know someone who walked away from a $10M package over 4 years to be the CTO of his startup. I wouldn't have, but everyone has to follow their path, right?
You’re misinformed. It’s nearly exactly the same as Uber, especially now that Uber does tip.

You just get out of the car at the end. Next time you open the app you either rate and tip or just rate.
The value associated with them is illiquid. I can’t necessarily sell my stock options for what they’re “worth,” so taxing them at that level makes them pretty much worthless.

It’s already taxed when I sell them - when I get dollars that I can spend. Taxing before then is (I hope) an oversight.
Not are they monotonous, the game is constantly broken. And they seems to have learnt from that South Park episode about micropayments by putting rewards and sound effects when you get the rewards to trigger the addiction part of your brain.
Is your company publicly traded? The OP is referring to issues when the stock is illiquid.
> and the free food some companies supply their employees.

This is a long standing question. Are costs of benefits like these one not taxed in the US?

The implications of not taxing that is huge.
Mobile Chrome has some broken heuristic to prompt it. I never know when I can expect it to appear. Sometimes the website already looks good and it appears. Sometimes it looks horrible and it does not appear.

Also sometimes this "reader view" looks worse then the original. It has too small font for my taste. When you pinch to zoom it looks like it changes the font size, but also the viewport. So it is entirely useless.

I expect that it will be removed (or replaced) in future.
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Do you have any citations?
I agree there isn't an emphasis on priorities in GTD. I keep my project list in rank order of importance, which he says is unnecessary but it is helpful to me.
That would mean Facebook would have a natural language processor that works and fits on a phone. I thought that's way past the state of the art atm. Otherwise you could just look for large amounts of data being sent to their servers.
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Biometrics give the wider public a FALSE sense of security

Oh, please! There is an abundance of evidence to show that the wider public is completely uninterested in security to the degree that a majority will disable security features altogether if they are inconvenient to use in the slightest. People don’t use biometric authentication because they are misled to believe that it’s more secure than other methods of security. They use it because it’s the most convenient method.

That not only a pointless statement, but a False Dilemma Fallacy as well

In principle perhaps, but not in practice. Before biometric authentication became widespread, it was completely normal not to protect your phone at all. And when it was protected, it was almost always with a 4-digit PIN that you only had to enter after some amount of time had passed since you last unlocked the phone.

often time I see people set VERY insecure passwords because they believe that thei biometrics protects their password

That’s a nice anecdote which may be a completely accurate account of what someone told you. Or not. I find it hard to believe with no evidence that such a specific misunderstanding should be widespread. I do find it very believable that people use bad passwords, because people have always used bad passwords. As long as we’re exchanging anecdotes, I can tell you that I personally changed from a 4-digit PIN to a longer password when I got Touch ID, because it wasn’t as inconvenient when I only had to type it in once in a while as opposed to every time I unlock my phone.
And they will continue to be baffled as to why violent crime continues to rise in incidence and severity. The fact there has never been a peaceful, stable, happy police state in history doesn't seem to be a hint to frightfully many people.
Don’t even think of naming your business until you read this
I've started switching back last week. I'm only using Chrome for any Google Services (drive, gmail, hangouts) and development (for now, but only since I'm used to it and have deadlines). I am very hopeful at this point.
Former Alzheimer's researcher here.

I've never heard of this before. Some cursory googling only turns up a sole author publication by Alan MacDonald in Medical Hypotheses and a few news pieces by dodgy organizations like the Spirochaetal Alzheimer's Assocation.

Despite what a lot of people learn in undergrad psych classes, the evidence linking amyloid beta and tau to AD is quite good and getting stronger with every new molecular paper that comes out.

BTW, there doesn't seem to be a correlation between Lyme disease incidence and AD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24840565
I think light is the default for the release version, but devs seem to like dark UIs for some reason.
I have trouble picturing it - it sounds like the kid went out into a crosswalk, over an intersection, with a green light. I agree the dad should keep a closer look at the kid, but that doesn't sound like he was the one at fault.
There's just such an overwhelming amount of content in that article to show that the author didn't fall into the trap you're accusing him of.

A few extracts:

> a way to implement an API

> …[APIs are] a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software. In general terms, it's a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components.

> Similarly, if we abstract away the implementation details of operations

> Components can be swapped out and replaced as long as they follow the same protocol
> For others (Valve, Blizzard) we tend to focus on the positive parts.

Well, people have been focusing on the poor policies of blizzard, especially with respect to battle.net, for decades now.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
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What the hell happened with Bitcoin this weekend?
The IRS would just immediately liquidate the options on the open market. Oh, there is no liquid market! So if the IRS can't do it why should individual startup employees be required to do it?

If the IRS are going to say that 100 options are worth $100x and charge tax based on that then they should be willing to accept 20 options in lieu of $20x.
Four hours without comment, not many upvotes, and clearly a flag or two. Hacker News doesn't want to face the demons in its own industry.

Seems that nobody wants to know that the darling Tesla is rotten at the core. Culture comes from the top. It's ok to love the technology, to the love the cars, but hate the culture, hate the sexism. You don't have to be complicit in their discrimination just because you see electric vehicles as the future. Hold your heroes to higher standards.
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These tests are looking at our current code/workload. So we are testing how they perform under different circumstances. We could switch to another language but that would require rewriting large chunks of code. We've done that in the past and will likely to it in future. Rust is certainly interesting for our situation.
I think I would rather this happen, than have someone in another country steal my account and easily be able to transfer regions.

with the current system, if someone steals my account, its basically useless.
It also gave me a good case of insectophobia from the enemies you face.
Telia de-peering with Cogent was bigger. And as others have pointed out, Cogent is frequently a bad partner in these disputes.
Options and RSUs gain value the day you pay for the underlying stocks, not the day you're allowed to buy a stock which could later in time become worthless. don't forget they're aimed at employees so they can share the value created by the company they work within, and that these employees will pay taxes in time when they extract any value from their companies
This is exactly how I've done every insane, amazing, stupid, disgusting, crazy, dangerous, phenomenal thing in my entire life. From eating balut to asking my wife out to maneuvering under fire.
I'll fix it...

"Some" Founders are terrible CEOs of "Some types of companies"
I think there's the right tool for the right job, and that differs from person to person. Not every application needs an elegant concurrency model, and not every developer is ready to burdened with pointer management.

I think this is why Rails still exists, even after all the bad press it received after Twitter moved away from it [1].

Node is a great stepping stone for newer developers to get exposure to software development without having to learn a complex framework, .NET for example. It's an incredibly flexible language where you can embrace functional or object oriented programming.

Javascript can be a quagmire of a language at times, but once you learn to properly wield it -- it becomes somewhat endearing. A butter knife that will easily cut a steak, if you will.

[1] -
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-se...
A few recent HN posts and articles about CEOs to augment your reading of this post:

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1. How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15581087 [nyt | 14 days ago | 74 comment]

> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/how-to-be-a-ceo....

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2. The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15640548 [hbr | 6 days ago]

> https://hbr.org/2017/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-worl...

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...and the research article from this post:

> http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/AreFounderCEOsGoodManagers....
>It's hard to take seriously because they take a story about Apple getting the phone out a year early as somehow demonstrating that Apple hadn't properly studied how the security of Face ID compares with Touch ID. It's a total non sequitur.

Non sequitur? Sounds like a totally rational argument to me, to the point of being a tautology.

Rushed a feature to market by one year == they also rushed the testing.
Hey, did you involve yourself into ICO this year?
Use whatever language you know best, and if you feel like trying something different maybe give Modern Perl and Mojolicious a try. http://mojolicious.org
Yes it is publicly traded. So, how does it work with privately traded companies. Talking about RSUs, not options. What is the difference between "release of the underlying shares" and "vest" ?
In this instance the exchange you would have to make would be crippling startups and small businesses, which is where the vast majority of the growth of the economy happens.

As an aside, how many companies do you see actually building Snapchat for Etsy-linked tumblr posts? I see that criticism of Silicon Valley all the time, yet despite being in the heart of it I rarely see that kind of company. I’d guess an order of magnitude more money is going into building human transporting drones and supersonic jets than into the silly stuff people love to rail on the Valley for.

Look at the list of startups that just came out of YC and you’ll see maybe one or two companies that fit that kind of mockery.
comparing free food, which you directly benefit, and RSUs seems really unfair.
On the other hand Chrome eats RAM like there's no tomorrow on my system, while the Firefox' footprint is pretty much contained. Different systems, different experiences.

(Two different machines, both Windows 10)
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It’s great progress with `rust` and people behind it. I loved night mode on iOS. But on Linux still first launch is slow. _ubuntu17.04_
There's a non-profit Mozilla Foundation and a for-profit Mozilla Corporation. Presumably MoCo bought the ad.
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> I count 13 games from 2016

Well, there are a lot of market segments to exploit, and some might not overlap that much. Also, there's 6 games listed for 2017, but each is targeted at multiple platforms so shows up 2-6 times. Finally, with the sports titles, in some cases if you want to play with a roster of real players you don't have a choice but to go with EA.
Except blizzard has a huge pobpem with stolen accounts. This is one way in which they fight that. Yes it's annoying, but people sink thousands of hours into their games and are generally ok with the inconvenience if it means their account is more secure.

For someone like you it may not make sense, but you're not the user they instituted these policies for.

And blizzard gets crap _constantly_ from their user base, you just don't see it because you're not on those forums.
These large companies need much more SDN in their operations like NTT GIN. I think GIN only has 50 people in their entire organization to run that whole business. They do it by investing heavily in software (and not building out their own fiber all over the place).
I could recognize a title from The Guardian without actually looking at the "site" field.
There’s a ton of indie games out there willing to give players what the AAA’s aren’t, but the discoverability problem is such that most can’t be bothered to sift through the pile to find the gems, so they just go with whatever games everyone else is playing, which is usually whatever has the biggest advertising budget. It’s a frustrating problem.
That sounds like an ambitious project, I hope it becomes a success!

I think the world can use some competition in the server space between different ISAs, the current Intel(-and-sometimes-AMD) monoculture is problematic for a number of reasons.
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The menu is part of the API, the waiter is another part (a part which may tell you that unfortunately that particular dish isn't available anymore today)
And they end up buying the indie studios and such. Really hard to avoid them.
Thanks so much! I'll check it out.
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The website currently looks like it cannot load on the Firefox focus web browser.

The page gets stuck on "Loading..." and runs forever.
I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs opened in Firefox on 8GB RAM and it works well, while ~30-50 is an upper limit of what Chrome can do without bringing the whole system to swapping hell. Plus, Chrome's tab UI makes more tabs completely unusable, while vanilla Firefox works well and can also offer massive improvements like vertical tabs.
I want them to merge just so the resulting company can be called BroadQual.
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As part of a truly autonomous team, you will enable new excellent insurance claims product(s) by creating the best possible information extraction quality and speed so users can have an amazing experience using it. You will extract relevant information from documents by training Machine Learning models and hand crafting rules.

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As I understand this, the client here is not the caller of the methods defined in the interface, but the one implementing them.

Caller has no problem just ignoring the methods that it doesn't need. But the implementer doesn't have that possibility. If you have a read-write interface and a read-only source, you need to resort to subpar solutions like throwing an exception.
"Facial recognition is absolute garbage."

Yes. And so is a human's ability to predict who are good and bad actors in a given situation. The statistical mathematics is very deceiving to most people.

See "Base rate fallacy" for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Mozilla makes money from having users — it may be open-source but the developers still need to be paid. They don't have a captive audience like Windows or Google.com users to advertise on, so public ads seem necessary.
Why does it trouble you?
Interesting side note. This proposed legislation actually completely removes section 409A from the tax code and replaces some parts of it. I’m not sure if the rules around company valuation will change dramatically but it seems that they won’t be called 409A valuations anymore if this passes:

http://bakerxchange.com/rv/ff0034eed7a7d447f644f491d94caddcb...
Honestly I stopped noticing that notch after the first day of use. It’s weird at first but then it just disappears once you start using the phone a lot. And actually it even starts feeling weird looking back at the regular iPhone screen with a clock in the middle.
> and using multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously is a mess.

Not sure if it meets your use case, but checkout Firefox containers.