skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure stellar uses more or less the same consensus mechanism as the XRPL and there is absolutely no way to reverse transactions. Every few seconds a ledger is closed and it can not be changed anymore. If all validators would agree on one Tx being "bad" they would need to exclude it from the very first moment and from that point on to eternity. There would be a valid signed public Tx that isn't processes. So it would be public know that the system is corrupt. People who disagree with that could fork include the Tx and move on. This is a totally different kind of risk than if Tx can actually be reversed.
[[It's not 100% clear but it seems that the problem only occurs if you put the screen protector on before recording your fingerprint. If you record the fingerprint and then add the protector it does not allow you to unlock the phone as it sees a vastly different print.

In other words, a screen protector is not a "master key" for any S10!

Please correct me if I am wrong.]]

Edit: On second reading of the article it looks like a screen protector might actually be a master key for any S10 phone. That's a really big design flaw! (Thanks to computerex for making me read the article more critically.)
They have fields associated with the user for accent, but those data are not shown to the listener last I checked.
That, and also some of those "sacked" Conservatives. They are still elected members of the House of Commons with voting rights. They wanted a deal, now one is on the table they can vote for. While e.g. the people Labour sacked over sexual harassment allegations will probably stay home.

And there is also the Lib Dems who are caught between a rock and a hard place, who might figure this deal is better than nothing.
well if by that stimulation you mean also stress, than certainly you are shortening your lifespan, possibly significantly.

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long"
"we" doesn't necessarily include all.

Anyway, that's a bit sad IMHO. In my opinion, running what you build is great to discover ways to improve your software.

Regardless if you want to or don't want to touch ops: You still might want to talk to ops or vice-versa.
Even if you have strict roles for devs and ops (and no mixed roles), you might be in a team where both are present and hopefully talk to each other.
These responses are common on here, and in my opinion, unhelpful. A conventional Vc funded businesses is supposed to either get big or fail. That is the model. Everyone working on them and everyone investing in them gets that. Advocating for someone to do something completely different by starting a low-growth business is somewhat irrelevant to the conversation.
OT and FWIW https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=E...
Moral of the story is: there's more than one way to found a company and the current startup model ( place hundreds of bets, hope a few win big) doesn't work for all of them.

This story and others ( like the one of Gumroad: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...) that show that success can be achieved even when others consider you a failure are refreshing and should taken as an inspiration from those who wish to become an enterpreneur (and possibly by everyone to be applied to life in general).
It’s under System Security, in the Touch ID and Face ID sections:

> The probability that a random person in the population could unlock your iPhone is 1 in 50,000 with Touch ID or 1 in 1,000,000 with Face ID. This probability increases with multiple enrolled fingerprints (up to 1 in 10,000 with five fingerprints) or appearances (up to 1 in 500,000 with two appearances).
That was also my first impression. Sounds like someone from Basecamp.
Is there any indication of whether this only happens if the screen protector was present prior to training the fingerprint?

> After buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could unlock the phone.

This suggests that an attack of "put a malicious screen protector on phone to unlock" is possible. I'm curious whether there was any re-training after applying the protector.
Ep. 90 Scaling Up Product with Box Featuring the Chief Product Officer at Box
We didn't have to be first. Other primates might have picked up the rock before we did, but eventually lost the race. Maybe the fire-cooking, rock-throwing domesticating niche is just that competitive.

So it might be more like "we are the ones that remain", but yeah, either variant is a spin on the old weak anthropic principle, which is never quite satisfying.
Long pins and passwords make you a lot more susceptible to casual attackers, as they can be gotten from shoulder surfing and casual video, like e.g. surveillance footage.

Fingerprint replicas (or your actual fingers) are obtainable by targeted attackers of some sophistication. But if you're targeted by attackers willing to go that length for you, you have other problems. IMO, fingerprints provide the best practical security.
150k it's not a lot of money for Silicon Valley, that's just enough to keep the light on for a few months. But they outgrew that, I mean in course of only a few months they hit 100k and still growing. And I agree, they really don't those money unless they somehow think investing those in something, let's call it "magic dust" that in next month will allow them to hit the threshold of millions. Otherwise they should just forget about YC and just rack in the dough.
A slime mold that can solve the shortest path problem
>"Gosh, I haven't thought about this before in quite this way," Osterloh said. "It's quite important for all these technologies to think about all users... we have to consider all stakeholders that might be in proximity."

How much do they not care about privacy that a chief exec with an army of lawyers and advisors "haven't thought about this before"?
Every industry sees the world though a partisan lens to some extent. Those criticisms also apply to energy, education, repair, etc
That's a matter for police then. Any thing involving location data and semi-public information could land you a stalker.

Anything can happen to anyone. Whether to care about it at all, involve the state or solve it solve it yourself depends on probabilities involved.
I did say as much in my original post: Algolia and Rekognition are marketed at CTOs and directors of engineering who want to be sold on a magical line item that removes a whole concept area from their concern, especially one associated with the difficulty of hiring and affording good machine learning staff who can work on the problem both pragmatically and theoretically. They want to be sold a story.

I will say though that your 1% claim is way off in my experience (which includes 3 medium and large ecommerce companies). These companies employ armies of product managers and analytics staff that measure the shit out of everything from the color of a button to the size of font in a banner display for a discount promo code. These things aren’t usually measured because they find value, rather just to give the appearance of data driven decision making and justify job perpetuity.
It doesn't appear to be dark, but transparent, AFAIU. For an object to be "dark", it has to be actually absorbing light, and I think dark matter doesn't actually absorb it, it just doesn't interact with it (except for gravitational lensing).

Or at least, that's what I've always understood. Not a physicist though.
Yubikeys can do FIDO along with storing a static complex password. I know android phones can lock with a password so it seems possible but it would be extremely clunky to have to plug in your key every time you unlock your phone.
If you've ever tried installing ElasticSearch and then switched to Algolia you'll understand how great of a product it is.

Now if Firebase could only buy them out and add decent search to their suite of products that would be swell. Mind boggling that Firebase - part of Google - still lacks a decent search solution.
The ruse is that Trump is making money on his hotels, that's small potatoes. This is how he's making big money. Don't be fooled, he's a wicked genius who is fleecing the world.
JavaScript isn't a functional language itself, but you can use a functional library like lodash/fp (https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide) on top of it to get all that lovely functional goodness in your frontend and node code. Using lodash/fp has made my frontend state management code a lot nicer, and I'm really only just starting out with it.
We are growing fast. But if we take $X Million yeah we will grow SUPER fast. So yeah. But whether you should do it is up to you, there are horror/success stories on either side.
It makes no sense to me to put Bitcoin under different scrutiny than, say, Christmas lights, Netflix or the US Military. We need to decarbonize our energy sources, but Bitcoin or not is not the answer to how.

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption-us-...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9062282/netflix-energy-crisis-...
http://theconversation.com/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-...
An example is when you are developing/testing distributed systems. Many tests which used to require a cluster to run can now be run on a single machine, which helps a lot with debugging.
The truth of what the code that you develop actually does, is in production; often buried in log stores and timing stats and other "ops" places.

It's better if that data is unearthed and fed back into the development process, it's better if that feedback loop is closed, it's better if that separation is removed.

That's one of the reasons for "DevOps" as originally formulated.
Why don't you reply back to genuinely interested candidates?
You are definitely missing out on some great international talent
My development environment has 12 discrete docker processes. The more cores the merrier!
Yahoo is going to stop allowing use of Yahoo Groups in one week
https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

It is even in the title: Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

But of course, they say it is only using a similar API and no code. We have no way of verifying this.
Some of the California people should be asleep but are making the poor decision to stay up late ;)
Y Combinator isn't just money. If you have a growing company with a vision, you can definitely find some investor interest. However, that should rarely be your goal, unless you flat-out just can't move your business forward otherwise. Y Combinator is what some would call _smart_ money: money that comes with a network of advisors, constant input and a nagging push to improve what you're doing. All of that combined can be worth more than the actual money.
That doesn't appear to be the case based on the reporting.

> After buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could unlock the phone.

This suggests that the issue started happening after putting on the screen protector, and after recording the fingerprint.
Does two-party consent even works if it's a 3rd party doing the recording and it goes who knows where?

I'm sure this will also work just fine in Germany.
Right. When the new executive is tasked with “cleaning up the misogyny problem at Uber” (as an example) it can only be be accomplished by discriminating against misogynists, by removing them and especially through not-hiring new ones.
As I understand it, PG&E is a weird situation, as they're a for-profit but heavily regulated monopoly with no competitors. So, in terms of wildfires their options are:

1. Spend their savings on network maintenance. Not possible as they've got zero money having been liable for a bunch of costly wildfires.

2. Stop serving loss-making wilderness customers who need costly-to-maintain cables run through forests. Not possible due to legal service obligation.

3. Raise prices for loss-making customers who need long runs of costly-to-maintain cables. Not possible due to legal regulation of prices.

4. Raise prices for all customers, to pay for better network maintenance. Not possible due to legal regulation of prices.

5. Transfer loss-making customers in fire-prone areas to competitors who can serve them more efficiently. Not possible, as they have no competitors (except much more expensive options like diesel generators)

6. Go out of business. Also seemingly somehow impossible, despite having their finances wiped out by all the wildfires they've caused.

7. Pay for network upgrades/bankruptcy by cutting executive bonuses. Legally possible, and maybe politically popular, but it's nowhere near enough money, and what sort of chump would take a job where their pay depended on solving financial problems with their origins 20 years ago, in political issues outside of their control?

8. Make the problems worse, in the hopes massive outages will motivate politicians to give them cash, let them raise prices, or let them drop customers. Or maybe just nationalise them to put them out of their misery <--- YOU ARE HERE
I'm using https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver , it has support for databases and files which is important for the groups I want to archive.

It's not my project, but I'm working on improving it, somewhat fixed the database support yesterday. Trying to figure out how to add support for links, but I'm stuck at link subdirectories/folders; I can't find a way to list the links that aren't in the root dir with the API (though once I have the link name I can get them with links?filename=DIR/LINK.url)
Except this would be prohibitively expensive. The labor cost of those specialized employees as consultants would be huge.
I’m not so sure. I sometimes meet startups, at meet-ups or conferences. Many that I have spoken to seem to just run their startup according to some kind of start-up template. There is an expected trajectory, just as you said. Maybe that doesn’t apply as much here at HN as many have read stories like this plenty before, like you said.
But, I bet many don’t even consider that there are completely different goals one can pursue with a startup.
Managing Dependencies Using the Swift Package Manager
For context, 1920 is five years after Chicago doctor Harry Haiselden murdered disabled baby John Bollinger to widespread public support from all the best people (Clarence Darrow ofc, Hellen Keller ...), and three years after he released a film about it. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-black-stork-9780...
Not sure it's a direct challenge though, it is an open question. Our interpretation of the age of the universe is based on matter interactions and measurements alone. It is an assumption that the big bang produced both matter and dark matter. What if only matter was produced in the big bang, and dark matter existed long before that?
We are based in Sweden. And no, nothing to do with Basecamp. But I’ll sure read up on how they run the company.
The Reddit thread, IDK why, feels more to the point than HN’s one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dj1048/gitlab_...
The video explains how JavaScript started out as a Scheme-dialect (Lisp) but for marketing reasons they chose a more Java-like syntax and adopted Java into the name.
On the last point, Go has the same situation, where playing the game to its full extent requires giving up a lot of information to be publicly displayed.

Gym ownership in particular is needed to get in game coins (required fo basic things like extending pokemon storage), and will reveal a lot about someone’s life patterns to anyone willing to put efforts in knowing.

It gets worse with “friends”, it’s a very powerful leveling up mechanism, but gives the same insight in a more granular and extensive way.
Wouldn’t the whole brexit thing be easier if there wasn’t a UK anymore and 4 individual countries. Scotland for sure and Northern Ireland I guess want to stay in the EU. England wants to leave. Wales I’m not sure about.
A better anology would be to consider a person with very special dietary needs, and then say “why buy dinner when you can make it yourself and actually be sure it meets the dietary needs.”
It's amazing that every dark matter discussion goes the same way, with the same amnalogies to aether or epicycles, completely unlinked to the actual evidence. (Unlike the blog post, where Hossenfelder suggests a specific methodological problem, and that GR may in fact be completely correct. This is completely unlike anything people have suggested here in the comments.)

Dark energy is less well established, but based on the evidence we have, Occam's razor points strongly towards dark matter. Dark matter is a specific theory that makes predictions, and as far as we can tell these predictions are borne out. There was a competing hypothesis -- that GR itself is wrong and needs to be corrected. These were in competition, but the evidence has decisively broken in favor of dark matter. If it was just a question of fixing the equations, then you should be able to predict the apparent pattern of dark matter from the distribution of ordinary matter. For a while it looked like maybe you could, but more recent evidence has shown that you can't. (This is the reason why the Bullet Cluster comes up as an example so much -- the Bullet Cluster looks like what you would predict if galaxies have dark matter halos and two galaxies collided.)

People also misunderstand the incentives here. If you could write down a modified theory that could explain all of the evidence, you would be the greatest physicist since Einstein, maybe the greatest since Newton. You would achieve immortal glory as one of the central figures of the 21st century. So people try to write down that theory, but it turns out to be really hard to do.
Well, what you don’t do is rush to buy a wrong thing because you’re desperate and it has good marketing.
Not everyone in England wants to leave either. Not everyone in Scotland wants to stay.
A referendum with the choice between remain and this deal would allow for this deal to be voted out without too much loss of face on the Leave-side — which is all that seems to matter to most of the backbenchers not in favour of an outright hard brexit.

An election before a referendum on the deal would make this election all about brexit (again) in a time where other priorities should get the focus.
A computer can never be conscious
The author Thomas Claburn is not entirely correct when he writes:
"GitLab, a San Francisco-based provider of hosted git software, recently changed its company handbook to declare it won't ban potential customers on "moral/value grounds," and that employees should not discuss politics at work."

The segment on discussing politics within the company has not changed for a while and doesn't explicitly exclude discussing politics at work, but does so in a public context. From the handbook:

"Religion and politics at work
We generally don't discuss religion or politics in public forums because it is easy to alienate people that have a minority opinion. It's acceptable to bring up these topics in social contexts such as coffee chats and real-life meetups with other coworkers, but always be aware of cultural sensitivities, exercise your best judgement, and make sure you stay within the boundaries of our Code of Conduct."

I regularly discuss topics like politics and religion when I feel free to do so as it's part of my identity, of course I try to be considerate to opposing viewpoints.

And I get the point to do business with others regardless of their political views. For example

"A pro-democracy restaurant in #HongKong offers free meal to student protesters. A pro-Beijing woman took her daughter there for the free meal, but kept complaining the “rioters” are “destroying” things etc. Restaurant owner waived her bill and told her to leave. "

He said... “This is a private property. I can call #HongKongPolice to get u out but I won’t, coz I don’t believe in them.” Later on he said “u asked why we are doing this (to her daughter)? Then ask yourself why did u say those things (about the young #HongKongers)? I don’t want your biz!”
https://twitter.com/ajmm19923493/status/1184173217474207744
BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50079385
The alternative for the DUP if the scupper this will be a united Ireland referendum
Ultimately its a device you're carrying around with you, if someone wants access they're probably going to get it, all you're aiming to stop is chance opportunists.

Pin, fingerprint reader (that works) is enough.

Btw, I don't think 'casual attackers' really fits with access to, and willingness to go through cctv.
I'm not sure if it's the final version but you can get a first impression:
https://codesandbox.io/embed/zk15o120xl?referrer=https%3A%2F...
Yes it is. We have 3847 registered players out of which 131 have top scores... We don't show the full leaderboard; only the top 30, and then you, you +3, you -3 so you know where you are approximately. Granted, this could be made clearer...
With first-past-the-post, the Brexit Party doesn't have much chance of gaining more than a few seats, just like UKIP.

The EU parliamentary election does not do first-past-the-post, so they could gain a number of seats proportional to the number of votes received there.
A delegate would not have a vote on the house floor. They are more like an ambassador than a representative.
Only one of those can unlock your phone while you are unconscious, or with a body part that has been removed.
djent players love this one weird trick
That is precisely the hypothesis of the article. It looks indeed like a plausible possibility. And a scary one, because we cannot just solve the equations with total precision. From my layman point of view, it looks like a very interesting but very difficult problem.
Politics is always a matter of compromise. Allow Scotland to stay while England leaves, and give everybody some time to move if they're unhappy with the direction of their country.
You’re wrong. If you think Bitcoin’s mining is wasteful you don’t understand what is valuable in Bitcoin. If you think there is duplication - you don’t understand how modern bitcoin mining even works.

Proof of stake doesn’t work and trust based models are the very thing bitcoin is designed to save us from.

If you have ideological bias here I won’t try to convince you, only time will.
Essentially it is a fingerprint collector for the deep state.
Thank you, that was interesting. I've programmed microcontrollers, but I've never tangled with ASICs or FPGAs. Too scared, I guess.

Your article has reduced my fear (and also, you mentioned the price of that Tiny FPGA board; at that price point, I don't mind too much if the magic smoke gets out).
A Norway-like deal was never on offer from the EU as far as I can tell. What's more, even Norway said that they would not support a Norway-like arrangement with the UK joining EFTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Associatio...
Scrapy and AutoExtract API Integration
This is not an example of that.

Everytime someone (whether in the UK or EU) said "There's no other deal possible", it was always in the context of the UK and EU red lines.

Surely as a hacker you must see that once the constraints change, the problem space to explore also changes.
One-Electron Universe
This strategy of calling antisemitic to any criticism of the state of Israel could work for a while, but, at some point, it's going to be too obvious.
Nobody says it's proven. It's just the best what we have so far. Any theory that would work just as good and explain anything on top would be welcome.

And I can say myself that not everyone agrees with that discovery: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/09/astronomers-cant-agree...

Well, people still debate about the Bullet cluster. But if it's correct then it's actually a good (relatively) confirmation for some sort of dark matter. It two similar galaxies look the same but have dramatically different mass distribution then there's some mass we don't see yet.
Well life span is not the point of the story imho, so don't worry about it. The data will prove that too in time.