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Show HN: Gazepass Passwordless Login API
Hey everyone ,

Taus from Gaze here. We are super excited to share our passwordless login API with you! Here's a video on how it works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nb3vU9kCTGg . You can also try it out: https://gazepass.com/

Passwords add friction during registration and login. Our mission at Gaze is to eliminate them from the Internet. We do this by enabling brilliant hackers such as yourself to remove passwords from your products.

Meet Gazepass—a fully passwordless login API that lets your users sign up with just a few clicks, and subsequently login seamlessly.

Here are the highlights:

- Social Accounts: Users can register with Google or by typing in their email address (more social logins to come in the future)

- Native Biometrics: They can subsequently login using native biometric auth (like Apple Face ID, Windows Hello or Android's biometric-enabled devices)

- Camera Face ID: If they don't have a biometric sensor on their device, they can choose to sign in with camera face ID—our own face ID technology that runs on any webcam/front facing camera

- User Choice: If your users prefer not to use biometrics at all, they can disable biometrics altogether and login with a single click

Integrating Gazepass on your website is easy too! We have already released our JS SDK for integration on websites. We will be releasing our mobile SDKs very soon as well (currently under development). You will also find relevant API endpoints on our docs (which are constantly being improved -- launching comprehensive docs very soon).

This is just the very first version of our product—there's lots more in store. We would love to hear from you and get your thoughts/feedback. You can join our Slack workspace by visiting https://gaze.ai/slack -- we'll be waiting to start working with you! Alternatively, you can reach out to me via email anytime: t@gaze.ai .

Early adopters (before Nov 30) get 1 year of all existing features (unlimited logins/users) for free!
Carpet bombing can be seen as a rational response to the V2 rocket which was indiscriminate of it's targeting of Londoners. War is often a case of responding in kind.

If the Germans had had the capability of bombing London they would have (but couldn't thanks to radar). This was not a small conflict but an existential fight for existence between two groups of countries.

I have a hard time judging the decision to carpet bomb during WWII harshly given the circumstances. Note that both sides had nerve agents that were not deployed because neither wanted that escalation.

There are definitely events, and even wars, where the US has committed atrocities but I don't think carpet bombing during WWII is a good example of it.
Check the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. It has a trackball module.
LaTeX: A first introduction without code
AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years
[Warning: the following comment of mine likely doesn't take the full context of the conversation into account, and much of what it says is likely not particularly applicable to the situation at hand.]

Maybe one can't completely avoid politics, but there are reasonable senses in which the word "politics" is used, such that, in those senses, one can avoid politics to some non-negligible degree.

If there is a discussion of one topic which people don't really tend to get upset about much, and then someone makes a big stretch to connect it to some other topic which has a lot of rather heated partisan controversy around it, the person who made the stretch to make the connection is doing the opposite of what might reasonably be called "avoiding politics". Not to say that anything like that happened in any of the relevant cases at hand, just to give an example that I think demonstrates why the concept of "avoiding politics in some sense to some degree" is a sensible concept.
I'd alter your conclusion that open source work isn't production ready. As long as it works as described, it is production ready for at least some subset of use cases. There's just a lot of low hanging fruit re: performance improvement.

It's entirely valid to trade-off either a more straight-forward design or minimizing development time for performance and just throw hardware at the problem as needed.... companies do it all of the time.
I have a 2008 Prius and the gas pump repeatedly "shuts itself off" due to a faulty mechanism within the gas tank. Certain pumps are too high pressure and they trip the shut-off very easily, other pumps if I hold it at just the right angle, the gas will flow through. It's super tough on some pumps, it took me 30+ tries to get it to continue flowing at the last fill-up.
I think just a letter or two... Anything more and I'd want to edit. Anything less and I'd worry about whether it was working.

But, I will try it with my screen off
Basically describing the conditions of a majority on social media...
Oh thats because you are missing the specific version manager for each part of your build toolchain

And dont forget to make a script that automatically sets the right versions of npm, webpack, and python all at once!

This is fine, I am okay with the events that are unfolding currently.
You know friend, I haven’t tried your project (yet) but your documentation is excellent as are your responses to all the comments on this thread. I think you have a whole lot to be proud of and I haven’t even tried your plugin yet!!
That's nice for you. What would that path be?
The way you avoid problems with a .0.0 release is by not upgrading to a .0.0 release. You would have to do that by hand; npm and yarn have been pinning major versions for a long time now, so that upgrade only happens when you do it by hand. So if you don't want to deal with breaking changes, all you have to do is nothing. Meantime webpack 4 is not going anywhere.
Perhaps the laws are more strict outside of the US re fraud. Most of the issues I’ve seen on Amazon are directly related to shady third party sellers or commingled inventory.

They are responsive to regulatory action - when I filed a complaint about COVID related price gouging via my state attorney general’s office, they acted within two hours of receipt. A firm hand is effective.
Do you guys not read the article at all? How is it clickbait to describe what he did - the Nobel Prizes aren't that interesting as science goes (good science is good science from the day it was published until now), the human side is what draws many to an article like this.

There is the "Science is interesting, and if you disagree you can fuck off" approach, but why not give it some style.
You weren't watching it? Do people actually engage the pump and then just walk away and assume it will all work out?
Do I get Covid in airline cabins? New results
>> but from what I've seen from the few reports so far, the prices aren't all that different from other services.

Current prices include a safety driver and small scale. Prices should go down in the future.

And sure, regulation and trust should be huge barriers. But besides the customer service issue(which seems too pessimistic), Google should be leading over others, on the trust issue(no accidents, more miles, highly skilled tech company), And on the regulation issue(good ties with Washington).

But those 2 are still a big risk, like you mention.
Tangential, but I was surprised that the article kept referring to her as “Andrea” instead of Dr. Ghez until the end where the author stated that they’re friends. From that perspective the author likely meant for it to have a warm, friendly tone. At the same time, given its publication for a wider audience and the occasion, it is perhaps more fitting to refer to Dr. Ghez more formally.
Kind of. H-1B is still supposed to be a guest worker visa. INS didn’t enforce that requirement prior to 1990, but state department did: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/the-convoluted-path-from-h.... Which led to H-1B’s being unable to leave the country until receiving permanent residency status because state department often wouldn’t issue return visas for people who obviously intended to immigrate permanently. The dual-intent EB system was created in 1990 to alleviate the pain from that, but there still wasn’t real agreement on a permanent immigration visa. That’s an example of how executive action has been used to force Congress to make changes to avoid negative consequences to immigrants who are already here but stuck in limbo. (DACA is another example of that. The President can’t grant legal status to undocumented childhood arrivals, but can trigger a situation by executive action that forces Congress to choose between effectively allowing more permanent immigration and imposing negative consequences on sympathetic people.)

Under the 1990 dual intent system, you basically say “for now I want to just work temporarily, but if a spot opens up I might be interested in staying.” In theory, the government should be able to say: “okay, well, no green cards for the foreseeable future” and H1-Bs would say “okay, I’ll wait for a spot to open up” or “okay, I’ll go home.”

But of course that’s not what happens: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/coronavirus-t.... People flip out because they (for obvious reasons) view the H1-B as the first step to a more or less guaranteed path to permanent residency and citizenship.

The current immigration system is a complete clusterf—-ck. It’s not fair to voters, who have the right to have an immigration policy that actually reflects what Congress enacted. It’s also not fair to “guest workers” who get stuck in a precarious limbo.
Yeah, I bought the DAVx/ICSx pair (as well as CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync pair) to get Android syncing. I found it more understandable than when configuring Fastmail on iOS given the way Fastmail makes you (or made when I initially set it up years ago) use separate app-specific passwords.
Zimbardo (the Stanford Prison Experiment) is a fraud. You can check Wikipedia, and even on HN there were many stories; search for "Zimbardo" or "Stanford Prison Experiment".
Almonds are really high in oxalates. Hopefully no one involved developed kidney stones...
If you're talking about command line programs (as opposed to fchown/fchmod on an open fd), there's still a race whereby an attacker in the shared group can make a link and get you to chgrp away one of your personal files.
There was never regular tipping in this case in the US as far as I can recall.

It really went out during the gas crisis in the 70s. Before that, it was the norm to have full-service which also included washing your windshield and offering to check your oil (which needed to be done more frequently early-on). You were also often paying cash although oil company cards were definitely getting more common at that point.

(But as something of an aside, I recall getting turned down for a gas card in the early 80s because I didn't have a credit history but was able to get an AMEX or something along those lines which helped me establish credit.)
You can't pump up the gas in Oregon and New Jersey.
Everyone else's iphone isn't theirs though. Apple's abuse of their users is directly contributing to the consolidation of power in the world, which will likely lead to violence against and abuse of poor people.
Aha, thank you for the pointer to that!
Amazon may be awful elsewhere, but it's miles better than our local French online retailers. I've got a lost mouse (the package was delivered empty), Amazon immediately refunded. I had other packages not delivered at all with other retailers, and they wouldn't refund until they enquired with the delivery company, which had to do an internal investigation. And some of them wouldn't refund but gave vouchers instead.

Also, Amazon returns are refunded as soon as the package is scanned at the post office, not 2 or 3 weeks after.

I'd really like to buy from a French company, but every time I try, they go out of their way to send me back to Amazon.
From the paper's Introduction:

> The regression of the median artery commences at approximately the eighth week of intrauterine life. However, the median artery persists in a considerable number of foetuses of gestation ages 13–38 weeks, in newborns and infants and in adults.

I'm guessing no to epigenetics unless it involves a change in the intrauterine environment.
I’ve not heard this argument before. Isn’t saying “there is no entity that would experience anything” begging the question? If the system is capable of understanding, why wouldn’t it also be capable of experience? That is what we see in animals.
I'm not sure why the study was designed this way, but it seems poorly thought out. 16 hours of fasting is eating dinner at 6pm and then going to brunch the next morning. They really should have done 20 or at least 18 hours. My personal feeling, is that there are a whole bunch of factors involved, and time restricted eating is one of them. I'm looking forward to the science being done on this.
You're not wrong. Eight years of Obama was enough for the racist cancer in the heart of American culture to finally metastasize and start to consume the body politic.

It doesn't help that Donald Trump basically shares many of those extremists' beliefs, prejudices and conspiratorial mindset (he's the man who made birtherism a thing,) and so does nothing but fan the flames and grant them an air of legitimacy. But he's more of a symptom than a cause IMHO.
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> -o pipefail doesn't exist in plain POSIX shell

I think this changed lately[1]. No clue where's implemented, though.

[1] https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789
> (in short, if I only eat until I’m full for a 6 hour period in a day, I simply don’t eat as much)

Maybe for some people that will work, however as a food addict I can safely say that I can very easily consume more than a days worth of calories in a lot less than 6 hours. And have. A lot.

I am not surprised by the result. The only thing that really works for losing weight is CICO, and anything else is an abstraction.
Back when I was in grad school Andreas Ghez gave a colloquium talk about her work in my department. The basic idea behind the technique she used is that the resolution from images in modern telescopes is limited by atmospheric distortions. If you can get rid of the distortions, you can get much sharper images, and in her case, resolve the stars orbiting Sag A*.

Adaptive optics is one way to reduce distortions from the atmopshere. With adaptive optics, you observe some star (or more commonly a spot of light created by a laser) and rapidly distort one of the mirrors in the optical path to compensate for atmospheric fluctuations.

Andrea Ghez went further than this, though. Atmospheric fluctuations are fast, but they are not instantaneous. If you can take an observation faster than the atmosphere changes, you will get a much sharper image. You can sort of imagine that an any given instant, a star is a very sharp point of light (or actually several points of light due to refraction), but over time, these points of light move around randomly over an area to create a smeared out image.

Of course, there a number of huge technical difficulties to taking these very rapid images. But if you can manage it, you can resolve the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy. (This technique is called speckle imaging.)

I also remember her joking that when most astronomers write observing proposals, they'll typically apply for a few nights of time on a telescope. But she was applying for a few seconds of observing time over the course of a decade.
> Investors want me to get traction with $2M, our needed engineers are at $600-$800k comp (300 base) how do I make it work?

Are you admitting that you want to hire H1B in order to find cheaper people?

If you can't find any local people to employ, then either you put your hand in your pocket to afford international or you can't afford to do business and your business model is broken.
Wasn’t Hawaii And Alaska independent from the US until after ww2?

Not defending isolationism, but wasn’t the last invasion of the US around 1812?
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Though Jordan is a very safe country, petty theft and crime does exist. Exercise the same safety precautions you would at home and be especially careful with your passport.
> How can a non citizen pay taxes?

How does not having citizenship make it harder to pay taxes?
Also, if you know the capacity and the current level, it’s easy to figure how much it should take to fill. I rarely fill to the brim anyway, only on a long trip.
I really enjoy when people enjoy poking a bit of fun at themselves:

———

Here is what people have been saying about ctypes.sh:

"that's disgusting"
"this has got to stop"
"you've gone too far with this"
"is this a joke?"
"I never knew the c could stand for Cthulhu."
You can read more about ctypes.sh and see it in action on the Wiki
It helps to pin dependencies so that only the exact specified version is downloaded/installed/used.

I recently updated the dependencies of a frontend project. `vue-apollo` from version 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 had a breaking change. The discussion in the commit on GitHub proposed to release it as v4. But in the dev’s mind it was a fix so he released it as a patch version.
People with green cards, by definition, are not citizens.
I’ve been doing this all my life and didn’t even know it could go wrong. I just assume everyone inside the store did this too.
I believe the thread is being edited, but I read multiple comments along these lines.
> Wasn’t Hawaii And Alaska independent from the US until after ww2?

No, both were US territories.

They weren't states, but they weren't independent, either.
If you have multiple projects of almost any language that are stuck on different versions, you basically end up with the same problem and solution.

I will definitely keep my version managers, thank you very much.
I think most people really don't get this: reality is not a Hollywood movie.

If some guys somewhere got to bootstrap an AGI somehow, the AGI most probably is offline and turned off most of the time.

Nobody in the field would be crazy enough to allow, even some hard AI software loose on the Internet, or capable to access unlimited resources or capable to mess with the external world in any way.

So if an AGI thing exists somewhere it will probably be closely monitored, poor humans are trying not to mess with it and studying to replicate it, and not let the thing to replicate by itself.

If GPT3 would be an AGI I imagine there is some kind of reward system in place: we get you some real world input (human generated text), you reply with some prose.

All expectations of course should be on the subject: the AGI should not get angry with us.
I'm under the impression that that was an actual statement made by a man from New Guinea to a missionary (who was presumably trying to make the case against.) But it might just be a joke anthropologists tell each other or something like that.
You can also run those (OpenShift/Ceph/Rook/etc.) both on-prem and on various public clouds which gives you a degree of portability and compatibility across platforms.
My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook where he's up on stage and Vanilla Ice is sharing the mic with him. And now I read he's been doing fine for money all along. Much respect to the man for valuing the pleasure he brings to other people, independent of the money.
'Technology is neutral' presumes equal access to technology. Technology without uniform access yields a power imbalance.
I was watching the price going up on the display, and not the actual hole in the side of the car where the fuel goes in.

For UK pumps you actually need to stand there and physically hold the pump nozzle the whole time. If you let go it is spring loaded and it stops pumping.

Of course, you don't have to look right at it while it is pumping...
When you cite your skepticism, are you saying those doctors aren’t exploratory in their opinions of diet?

How did you work with these doctors in a way that’s relevant to the topic?

Apologies for my ignorance and assumptions but wouldn’t you need to gain weight after surgeries for cancer?
The downsides to automation. More often than not, even if you are 90% of the time alert, you get fairly comfortable and not watching.

I do watch my car while i am doing some other stuff or looking at my phone, but seen some other automation related stuff that makes me lazy. Like not locking the door at home when going out, because it's automatic.
> In what particular hellhole have I even landed that we are now using the terms of a Twitter fight to discuss brutal, indiscriminate suppression of protests?

I don't see any part of the comment doing that. Can you quote it?

I see internet terms being applied to the actions against the police, and those actions aren't brutal at all.
Eventually the packing part can be done in a compiled language. https://github.com/evanw/esbuild is very fast at doing some things already but not others.

And I guess webpack wins because you can configure it to do anything easily already? And with compiled languages 'configurability' is hard to do?
The advantage 2 was only released in 2016. I myself have the advantage (1) since about 8 years. Sorry for being pedantic here, but that's why that statement tripped me up.
Absolutely works for me. Time restriction is the only "way of eating" for me that's ever been able to maintain results for years on end without yoyo-ing.
Online "try before you buy" shopping, where you return everything you don't like, is more common than you'd think. Amazon actually uses this phrase as their pitch for the Prime Wardrobe program [1]:

"""
Try before you buy. Exclusively for Prime Members.
1. Choose up to 8 items.
2. Only pay for what you keep.
3. Free and easy returns.
"""

[1] https://www.amazon.com/b?node=14807110011
> But if you want a portable Python then you still target Python

I am still supporting systems that came with Python 2. You get portable Python the same way you get portable bash: build and deploy the interpreter with your code.
The author makes a point that I relate to. I've been on the receiving end of a couple 'Statistical Learning 101' courses. These courses go roughly as he describes it in his blog post: they first teach you how to multiply two matrices, then launch into linear and logistic regression, then classification via clustering, then decision trees and SVMs, then CNNs and deep learning. Along the way, they do a lecture or two on reinforcement learning and HMMs.

In the end, I ended up with a thin smear of half-baked knowledge in my head, where I stop understanding the math once we are half-way through the material.

So how to you achieve this level of deep/intuitive understanding:

> Without understanding the mathematical underpinnings of key models and techniques in full detail, students aren’t able to quickly choose the right models for certain scenarios.

Does anyone have a good study plan with MOOCs and so on? If you have any practical advice, I would appreciate it!
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Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?
Honestly, I do. My usual routine is to open the fuel hatch, check for card skimmers, swipe my card, punch in my phone number for the loyalty program (if I'm at my usual gas station), punch in my ZIP, grab the nozzle, select a grade, stick the nozzle in the hole, set the trigger on the lower speed, head into the store, buy beer, put the beer in the car, wait for the pump to finish (if somehow it hasn't), put the nozzle back, close the fuel hatch, and drive off on my merry way.

This all seems to be pretty normal where I'm from.