skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> uses biometrics to validate the number

Biometrics can be trusted only as far as one can trust the source of the biometric info being provided. If you're getting biometric info as digital images, you'd have to be sure the images came directly from the person, only for this validation, and (if you want to use this validation for authentication) voluntarily.

The first two can be achieved only if the biometrics are given straight to the government's biometric verification authority, instead of whatever service needs to verify your id taking them and passing them on to the government. The latter is like giving your Facebook username and password to a third-party just so they can verify your Facebook account, the former is like an SSO service.

I have not seen a single SSO-like implementation of biometric Aadhaar verification in India.

And, of course, the third requirement cannot be fulfilled; biometrics are not passwords.
Apple does now offer integrated analytics in iOS but it's pretty limited compared to what the third party services offer so it's not really a viable replacement for most people yet.
In the examples, the source images are very very uniform (Caucasian, young, healthy).

Does this work with other images? Can it age photos of people who are already over 50 for example? Or non-whites? Or children? Etc.
These forecasters nailed it every time in the past and once again they are predicting the future for us with utmost precision, so that we can take informed decisions and make profitable investments. Housing crisis continues with increasing costs and dramatically low rental vacancy rates. I can hardly imagine how people will manage to pay rent, especially seniors. Some of my friends have already used to taking out extra cash at https://northnloans.ca/ to cover the costs. One thing for certain is interest rates are not headed higher in Canada. The rate will probably be close to zero. Housing prices could bounce back but long term housing in the large cities of Canada will be one of the worst possible investments someone could possibly make.
> And he also consolidated his base by showing that the other side will oppose what Trump's side considers fighting terrorism by any means, including legal tactics that look very questionable to a common person, like arguments "if other person did it, it is legal, but if Trump does it, it's illegal".

He did it even better than you're saying, there's a missing piece that's almost never mentioned: The list of countries in the travel ban were identified in 2015 and early 2016 during the Obama administration, and already had restrictions due to being the most likely sources of terrorism.

Inconvenient truths like that are something I'd be concerned about being kept off of something like WikiTribune by squatters.
> They are bound to respond to an RTI inquiry.

Their past behaviour has not been good [1].

Trust is the whole problem. Many like you trust this government (why is something I can't understand, other than their effective propaganda, but let's leave it at that). But there are many who don't. It's not just about privacy, it's also about things like fear, religious profiling, autocratic tendencies, curbing of freedoms. It's also not about just the current government, but of governments to come. A non-mandatory aadhar would give those who don't trust the system
a choice to remain out of its programmes and perhaps voluntarily pay higher costs or forego any benefits. But this government has not given any such choice. It's deeply discomforting to be forced to give all this information to an entity one doesn't trust.

[1]: https://thewire.in/146791/uidai-invokes-national-security-re...
> I ask because Title II's definition of public accommodation is limited to "any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests".

No, Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines public accommodations much more broadly, in 42 USC § 2000a(b) as:

---[quote]---

1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence;

(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station;

(3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment; and

(4) any establishment (A)(i) which is physically located within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or (ii) within the premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment, and (B) which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.

---[end quote]---

States also have public accommodation laws (and sometimes also similar but separate anti-discrimination laws, like New Jersey’s Credit and Business Transactions law), which are often broader in application than Title II.
In a few cases I've had to ask for changes to the contract. I have never and will never sign a non-compete. I'll sign NDAs, and IP agreements and relinquish patent rights, but never will I sign something that dictates what I can or cannot do once no longer employed.

Once I walked away from a contract where they refused to remove the 1-year non-compete.

Another time I worked for a for a startup which had started out as an open source/volunteer project. After a big disagreement about the contract with the lawyer, the principal investor told me to 'sign the contract I wanted.' I refused to write my own contract and insisted the lawyer stop being insane and send me a contract without the non-compete section. She never did, but I started getting paid.

It worked out. The startup failed, I gutted the two commits that weren't mine and back-ported all the changes to the OSS version, keeping it all GPLv3.

TL;DR I accepted a job without accepting a job contract.
I can see real potential here. I think one of the biggest problems today is news presented from a given perspective that is insensitive to other perpectives. What I mean by this is cases where people who have another perspective perceive the news story as being factual inaccurate. In the US, this results in two groups who both think the other group is unintelligent and crazy. And it results in the two sides isolating themselves. There is no common ground from which to talk. I am hoping there is a way to get around this.

Another commenter made the point that people don't percieve unbiased news as unbiased. They usually perceive news that agrees with there opinion as unbaised. So it is not enough to simply be unbiased. You have to be percieved as unbiased by the different sides.

I think this may be possible in a setting like wikitribune, if respected people from the different sides work together on a story (I'm allowing for limiting the contributors). When this happens they are forced to speak a language the other side can understand. And I think the general public, or at least some bi/multi partison segment of it, will believe in it, because it is coming in part from voices they respect.

I'm not sure if this exactly how they plan on operating, but this is what I am hoping for.
Northern Europe social democracy has it's perks.

We get 195 days/parent at 80% pay (my union has however negotiated an extra 10% if I take most of those days consecutive during the first two years after the child was born).

Then we get an extra 45 days/parent with something like 100-150 SEK/day.

Until this year there was an extra bonus when the parental leave was shared equally between parents, so we got an extra 15k SEK (~$2k).
Some companies are very reluctant to rely on "Amazon things" because they consider Amazon a key competitor. Especially in retail or e-commerce. Those companies are often more willing to use services that are specifically AWS-branded. It helps AWS make promises like "yes we will look at statistics of your usage to improve our services, but we won't share that with the retail side of Amazon."
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Advent of Code is an amazing achievement. Designing all the puzzles, writing code to generate all those different inputs for everyone, keeping the site going, somehow managing to create this wonderful community of problem solvers... I loved it last year. I've already paid my AoC++ this year. The least I can do for a month and more (because I never do a puzzle a day, and still haven't finished last year's) of fun.

This year I need to make sure I do the graph search problems properly, because I've never learned those methods and I really should.
Well, as of Jan 1st it will be, anyway.
I didn't have to show ID to create my Paypal or Venmo accounts.
And they already habe AWS IoT support in their SDK.
Not everyone wants to work at Facebook or Google, nor can they start their own gig from scratch.
This has been the case for ages, but I did actually buy something from there last week which was my first brick and mortar purchase with btc
Apple list 2009 iMacs as compatible with High Sierra so I don’t think it’s a stretch to expect it to work, no.

https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-require...
Is the RiscV community seeking to create a bus standard? By analogy, the pc architecture is not just about the amd64 instruction set, but also PCI. I expect that broader standardisation would make life easier for operating system efforts, but maybe you will correct me.
QT follows a certain style, which is mostly object-oriented and heavily PIMPL based (it thereby compiles fast).

The consistent style is actually something nice. However lots of C++ programmers will not necessary like the OO style because it will lead to relatively slow programs. I guess with all the indirection which is going on and the metadata-based reflection and signal/slot system it might not really be ahead of even easier to use managed languages, which are even more convenient to use.

If you look at the Boost (or also C++11/14/17) libraries you will often find a very different programming style, which is heavily based on templates. This one is a lot harder to read and understand for non-experts, but it allows to achieve an even higher performance. The authors might think that this is the preferred model for C++.
Senior software engineers:
have 5-7+ years professional engineering experience

At five to seven years of experience, one is still just an apprentice. A senior engineer will have 20-30 years of experience. What would those guys with 20 years of experience be considered then?
So, free money? I welcome them to try. If anything, this would reveal the problem of trading with leverage.

There’s no guarantee that the market won’t start buying into the whale’s sell, because the market thinks the price is low. But if it works, it’s the leveraged traders who have a problem, and they deserve to be wiped out, in my opinion.

Furthermore, it’s already possible to go short on several exchanges, so if this worked like magic it would be happening right now.
For REPL like things prompt_toolkit is great. For anything else (menus, forms) i find it difficult to use or at least discouraging.
> NASA chose not to weigh in. A spokeswoman told the Washington Post: “we don’t think there’s a debate to be had.”

<3
Kernelless Cloud (2016)
I work for Pivotal and have observed that Cloud Foundry, which has had a boatload of success in this space so far (including on Azure, we won Azure NA consumption partner of the year in 2016 AND google Cloud partner of the year), but you wouldn’t know this from HN posts and comments. It’s some strange big relic from 2012...

HN has strong biases towards things that are startup-targeted or individual hacker targeted: open, inexpensive or new and small, or ubiquitous. Kubernetes and AWS in general get a lot of play compared to Azure , GCP or VMware (or even OpenStack these days). Nothing wrong with that necessarily, just a cognitive bias of the up voters.
Have you tried it in Linux ? Emojis are not available there.
Just because 1000 of something exists doesn't mean they have every property among them.
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I'm just thinking: you'd probably never be able to buy a ticket from that company again, and possibly other companies, if they see you charged back. It's pretty unusual to charge back to an airline, it's usually something that happens with shitty online stores.
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You are incorrect in the belief, that currencies of developed world do not fluctuate.

Pound sterling: http://www.macrotrends.net/2549/pound-dollar-exchange-rate-h...

Swiss franc: http://www.macrotrends.net/2558/us-dollar-swiss-franc-exchan...

Euro: http://www.macrotrends.net/2548/euro-dollar-exchange-rate-hi...

Yuan is much worse, though it doesn't matter that much due to capital control: http://www.macrotrends.net/2575/us-dollar-yuan-exchange-rate...
A ID number to buy stuff? I remember hearing about that somewhere. I think it was an old book? Someone should tell China, their life gamification score could benefit... ID theft and all.
Yep, I hear it all the time. "No, that song is boring! No, not that one either!". Daughter with friends trying to find good hardrock songs, listening to Nightwish and such. They are 9 years old. Parents cringe and have a lecture in intros.
Straight from the frog's mouth: "Inflation debasing your money."

This was your sole example of a problem that Bitcoin solves better than any other. If you now disavow that example, do you concede that Bitcoin solves no useful problem better than other systems?
As a reason for not releasing it? If so, that's not a terribly good reason. I mean, clearly they already do that -- this simply permits those with lesser means to employ the technology. In general, I'm not fond of "but someone could misuse it" as a reason for not releasing a technology -- especially if it already exists in another form with limited accessibility.
> just as if you were to hand your phone to someone and they call in a bomb threat

Nope. In that case you are entirely clear unless you knew their plan in advance and still let them do it.

> Or you lend your friend your car and they go rob a bank with it

Same as above

See the Ryan Joseph Holle case from 2004
Yep, my company cut bonuses this year, so no 10% for me, definitely not something to count on.
Mbed OS supports a much wider range of boards and controllers: https://os.mbed.com/platforms/
In SF, I have a 250 square feet studio with no kitchen & I pay $1550/month in a cheaper part of town (the Tenderloin).
Justices May Impose New Limits on Government Access to Cellphone Data
Can't you test for the capabilities of the processor once and use the right SIMD code from then on? Maybe it makes sense to introduce a block around the SIMD code, which gets compiled into different blocks of SIMD instructions. Then you only pay for choosing the right block once. That's what I would do in Haskell at least.
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Email sends messages faster and more cheaply than regular mail. Bitcoin sends money slower and more expensively than existing payment systems.
I grew up in the Appalachian coal belt of the US.

If you'd like to continue making blanket statements about unions being harmful to "most" workers, I'll be happy to give you citations of what life in the mines was like before the unions.
Meet the Guy Who Took Down RealDonaldTrump's Account
The people behind stdsimd haven't started this thread praising their work as being absurdly fast. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A baseless claim accompanied by excuses such as "no time for proofs, working on aesthetics" to avoid presenting evidence that would support those claims doesn't build any confidence on the original claim.
Techmeme summary: Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake”
> On the other hand, if I'm writing an operating system or a device driver, getting a GC'd language to be "good enough" is a very different type of problem

Nicklaus Wirth's Oberon OS (written in Oberon), Microsoft's Singularity OS (written in a variant of C#), the Mirage Unikernel written in OCaml, these are all examples of OSs written in GC'd languages. I am not aware of performance being an issue in any of these cases. Oberon was extensively used at ETH, and the components of Mirage that I am aware of (such as their OpenSSL and DNS) are competitive in performance with their C counterparts.
Turns out Nitro is not only an improved KVM but also work exclusively with their Nitro Custom Silicon. [1]

And we are finally here, the true cloud, elastic computing with little to no performance overhead.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/29/aws_reveals_nitro_a...
I can never grasp why any developer who didn't need the money would do anything other than work to build their own business. I know if I ever have enough to not worry about it I'll never work as an employee again.
> they've got all sorts of movies

Here it is: one glorious hour of walk through the latent space of faces. You can "feel" the geometry of the latent space and its meanderings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0

Generated with Progressive GAN in high resolution. The quality is mind blowing, highest ever attained in any GAN. Author: NVIDIA
IIRC there was a study that said the most effective way to fight stupidity is by ridicule and not by actually educating or debating these folks.

I can't think of NO BETTER target to ridicule than the flatearthers.

Like I said below the man in the Whitehouse seems to brought out the racists and other stupid people out of the woodwork.

There were ALWAYS there BTW, they just seem more emboldened than before.
We're doing both and know most of the backers so far - this is dogfooding OpenFaaS functions. Webhooks are a perfect use-case for functions.
Not sure why you are being downvoted - very precisely (and probably accurately) conveyed what was happening. What are the chances of all these exchanges having trouble at the same time? I'd really like to see postmortem on this.
Can't believe I am so old, because I started using it since it's first. It is incredible how much Photoshop had grown during these years, there are so many additional tools and other features already. Here are my favorite free Photoshop gradient sets https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/free-photoshop-gradient... .
Right, because non-western society has no racism or patriarchy. It's all just enlightenment and peace in the east.
Never mind them “still running until sept” - my wife occasionally does mturk in front of the TV, and maybe five days ago (Nov 20th) lots of the tasks were expensify.

Some of the receipts had enough info to identify people - store card numbers, buyer phone number, etc.
A gentle introduction to smart contracts
Elon Musk and The Flat Earth Society had this twitter exchange[1] a couple of days ago:

@elonmusk
"Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?"

@FlatEarthOrg
"Hi Elon, thanks for the question. Unlike the Earth, Mars has been observed to be round.

"We hope you have a fantastic day!"

[1] https://twitter.com/FlatEarthOrg/status/935644892721762305
That's actually really important. Trying to convince irrational people with rational arguments is kind of a moot endeavor anyway, but to an uninformed observer NASA debating those people may end up looking like whatever they're debating is apparently worth having a debate about.
Your MVP has zero competition
Ethereum does have a long-term plan which aims (IIRC) at a low inflation rate of around a percent or less. Plus the PoS is in development which would greatly reduce energy waste.
Curious to know what limitations you've found. With the new Firestore DB a lot of the old Firebase RTDB scale/query restrictions have been lifted.

(I work for Google)
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I know at least Allwinner were using OpenRISC for their embedded controller on recent chips, and it wouldn't surprise me if other companies were doing the same, so I do wonder to what extent RISC-V is replacing that rather than commercial cores for this application.
Yes you can perform HMAC validation - here's an example of HMAC in Ruby and Go - https://blog.alexellis.io/swarm-secrets-in-action/ - https://github.com/openfaas/faas-cli/blob/master/sample/gith...

This is how I'm validating HMAC in Python for the backers code - https://github.com/openfaas/backer-thankyou/blob/master/patr...
I hope this doesn't effect the team working on EAGLE. EAGLE sucks, but it has gotten much better since Autodesk took over and actually started making improvements.
I, as well, don't love go and I prefer rust especially for the type system.

I would like to hear the negative side of switching from go to rust.
Yes you can "if" you know the URL and submit a valid payload. HMAC is optional but advisory.
> whole FUD

I’m sorry you can’t see the privacy implications of Aadhaar. If it’s easy to track every single place you go and every rupee you spend, it affects you in a few ways

Citizens start self censoring themselves. They subconsciously stop engaging in activities that are legal but might be traced back to them. I’ve personally done many things that I’d rather people didn’t know about. I might have dabbled in substances, for example. Maybe I might not have done that if I had known that the eye of Big Brother was watching.

You say elsewhere you’re confident that whatever the abuses of the government, we’d be able to vote them out. With the tracking ability they’ll have in a couple of years, that might no longer be possible. Who would show up to a protest if they knew the govt would be able to track them there?

Ultimately it comes down to this - Indians enjoy a lot of privacy and anonymity because they’re one amongst 1.3 billion people. Paradoxically they don’t value this much at all. Given a chance they’d gladly trade privacy for wealth. It’s not my place to say if that’s a good trade or if they should make it, but you don’t really know what you got till it’s gone.
I'm not sure how laws like that help if an employer has access to information about past salary so they don't have to ask. There is an Equifax service that keeps track of past jobs to some extent. It isn't necessarily accurate or complete, but it exists - https://www.theworknumber.com/
I find the concept quite strange.

It's kind of like having the police live at your house because 'just in case'.
One thing that wasn't entirely clear to me is how strict you have to be when validating? i.e. I encountered one recording that was completely silent - I figured that had to be marked as invalid. However, another one was barely audible, but by intently listening I did recognise it pronounced the right words - is that OK?

And should we validate whether they match the proper accents as well? e.g. if I hear a clear Dutch accent, I presume you wouldn't want that labelled "native British speaker"?
But what about the fraud where a merchant screw over the customer? That will easily affect more people.
One thing to keep in mind here is that companies often use recruiters to fill their more difficult roles. If 25% of positions are filled by recruiters, these offers could be closer to the top 25% of salaries, too.
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that's one of the reason I walk home, so I have time to disengage from work. (edit: I also live close-by now, but before it was public transit, for the same reason)