skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why use cosine to interpolate v.s. a linear smear?
How many people were there? Did he have any way of estimating the entropy of the signatures? Did you try the demo over multiple days, and at different times of day, to see if it continued to identify you correctly?

>it's only drawback is the lack of necessity

No, that's not the only drawback. Be very careful when talking about cryptography and security never to assume that you are aware of all of the weaknesses unless you've got a formal proof.

One very big drawback I can think of off the top of my head is that it would essentially be like having the same password everywhere, and being completely unable to change that password. If someone records your typing style once, they will be able to get to absolutely everything that identifies you based on typing style. At least with retina scans and fingerprints, there are mechanical obstacles to producing a facsimile.
You don't need the source code. Search for InstaSign/iReSign.

And you don't need a relatively new Mac, just a Core 2 Duo Intel or newer (I have a 3 year old MBP and can sign/develop for iOS 6 beta seed 1).

And it requires absolutely zero technical knowledge: You just drag and drop an .ipa file, and sync with iTunes.

Xcode is free.

So, only your first argument ($99/year, for 100 devices) is actually correct.

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I hate being forced to defend Apple in a case that I don't agree with what they did, but your very poor criticism made me to correct you. I'm sure you understand that it's nothing personal, and doesn't mean I agree with what Apple did.
The problem is that a large percentage of the world isn't that way. So it might not be the best survival strategy once you are back in the real world among normals and their problems and back stabbing. Unless you are from a rich family and lead a life where money isn't as important.
Indeed, I'm pretty sure a lot of people are missing the point by commenting that this isn't a successful replacement of the password login mechanism.
Alternatively, there's no higher proportion of mobbish vigilantes now than there has been in the past, they can just form into fewer, larger groups thanks to instant global telecommunication, and you can come across them more easily for the same reason.

Just like there aren't any more natural disasters than there were 100 years ago, we just hear about more of them because it's so much easier to send the news now; and there aren't any more... say... underwater-basket-weavers now than then, they're just easier to find now because they're gathering on facebook and etsy.
The domain landgrab, by the numbers
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Almost certainly not. Remember this happens about every 1½ years, so this has happened a few times recently. I cannot see how you could take advantage of it, since it's the sort of edge case that you'd presume the designers of stock markets would know about.
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You'd probably type your name or email. I know I've got more training on that than anyone else I know...
Why? The algorithm could acknowledge and adapt to a changed password, and try to learn the timings anew, instead of expecting the same speed as with the older one.
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Yes. A friend of mine has a patent on a gun that fires only for one person. The gun has been extensively tested and works great. The fire/no-fire decision is based on the way the trigger is pulled.

Gun manufacturers hate it because it has scary gun control implications. But if/when it does become available New Jersey police will all use it.

Keystrokes should be way more distinctive than a trigger pull.

EDIT: Michael Recce is his name, http://www.njit.edu/news/2003/2003-125.php
It could just be a set of separate tools one could pipe data to.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113231
How about this line in my post: Did they carry paid-for backpacks with paid-for laptops inside, each with several paid-for apps, from Keynote to Microsoft Windows?
Really appreciate this developer's frank style combined with non-dickishness (offering refunds etc.). An example for others.
You know, you shouldn't expect that "internet vigilantes" be consistent unless you know they're the same person. Yesterday I saw a website that was for gay marriage. The day before that I saw a website that was against gay marriage. But I'm not going to complain that the internet should make up its mind on the matter.

Second, it's quite possible for someone to be upset at FunnyJunk threatening to sue The Oatmeal even if they don't care about FunnyJunk's copyright infringement.
Hit me up I am always open to working on projects.
It seems to me that the author was and still is an asshole, never mind becoming one.
Holy hell, that was one sentence.
Length Of Email And The Response Rate
Powershell on Windows does something like what you want:

PS C:\Some Directory $sum = 0
PS C:\Some Directory dir | where { $_Length -gt 1MB } | %{ $sum += $_.Length }
they should replace the gears with tighter tolerance ones then and clear this up permanently
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I like your observation but I don't like your conclusion.

I think the major thing missing from the world is easy piping a la Unix. You can't pipe your list of paying customer's email addresses to paypal at the command line with some switches - really, no matter how many switches you use - and bill each one the amount stated, because "paypal" is not a commandline app. You can't pipe the results of some long-running analysis to Twitter to announce that you've finished computing it, no matter how many switches you add, because twitter is not a commandline app.

The direction you're suggesting we take things is, in fact, a fuller API. These exist. They're slower and worse.

The amazing thing about text is that it's a lowest-common denominator. Think of communicating with a person.

Communication is faster with a mind-meld where you're looking at another person's face and picking up micro-expressions and body language. That's also the easiest thing to misinterpret.

When you pipe through such a 'human-readable' lowest common denominator, you're actually setting the ground for a very dynamic and versatile channel.

I don't know what the easy solution is to the problem you bring up, but I don't think your proposal is it.

Maybe there is no easy solution. Several unicode characters to abstract away the tab character and the newline character to instead n dimensions of characters, and corresponding negative characters so you can put something on a 'line' out of channel, (negative tab comment, tab, text, newline repeat) would probably solve some issues but is too abstract to even discuss. What we have really isn't that bad.
> UTC is basically TAI plus leap seconds

This part seems a little muddy. UTC isn't a number of seconds since an epoch, it's a number of hours since midnight, a number of minutes since the beginning of that hour, and a number of seconds since the beginning of that minute.

Accordingly, UTC can bend the rules by saying, for example, that just this once the second 23:59:60 exists before midnight. It refers to a different second from 00:00:00; only when converting into POSIX does that become ambiguous.

So UTC and TAI agree on the number of seconds since the epoch, it's just UTC doesn't encode that number in the current time. Going the other way, TAI doesn't encode the current solar time. You need a lookup table either way.
Given the military history of the US, I think that is wishful thinking. It didn't stop Vietnam or Korea from happening. Since better connected men and all women are exempt, it was unfair.
Is War Inevitable?
Lower prices for support apparently.
Uniform Invoice lottery (increased collected taxes by 75%)
That's fascinating. Can you share more detail? How do they key it to the individual? Do people really not pull the trigger differently in high-stress situations vs at the firing range?
Woody Allen: "I have never sent an email in my life"
Well... the building number appears after the street, but beyond that it follows the standard address convention, does it not?

Piazza di San Cosimato 63, 00153 Rome, Italy

Also, I'm don't know if Japanese addresses are reversed in Japanese, but when the Japanese express them in latin scripts, they are always in standard address order clear down to floor numbers and room numbers. Here's Sony Computer Science Laboratories:

3-14-13, Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Straightforward address ordering.

At any rate, the IP address scheme was invented by Americans, so it seems natural that it'd use an American (and generally worldwide it seems, at least in roman scripts) address ordering.
This is the more compelling case for me. Train it across an organization and then you can monitor who typed what. In operations, this is my killer use case.

The problem is that we have 'server' machines and a system which requires 'root' access to do certain things. We'd love to know who on the operations staff did something on the server (a workaround is to set an environment variable but which works in the 'normal' case but fails if someone is being a bad actor). So you train it up across the org, and then when ever you have a session where the signal from the type sig doesn't match the logged in UID, you alert it (or log it). SO instead of 'root just changed the date to last year' you get 'Chuck just changed the date to last year'. That would be a very very very useful tool to have in one's toolbox.
I must admit that you've surprised me with the numbers on solar vs RTG. (I've learned something today!) But of course you can always strap multiple RTGs together. According to wikipedia's article on RTGs the most efficient ones produce about 4 watts per kilogram, so you'd need a couple of tons of 'em to equal Dawn's 10 kW at Earth, well in excess of Dawn's mass. Solar panels still rapidly become useless (like the square of the distance from the sun) as you get further out, of course.
From what, and how is that worse than wearing a bluetooth headset, or having your phone against your hip/thigh all day?

We have a looot of radio waves around us all the time
Curious question, is there any good open source application out there supporting voice and video? Possibly, multiple people as in G+ Hangout?
Why aren't the "ng*" attributes prepended with "data-" to make them valid HTML5 attributes? It's a minor nit, but kind of annoying nonetheless.
I ran into a wall when trying to use unix-y tools to do somewhat complex, regex/replace functions for code refactors. Basically, anything inside a single line is easy, but once you cross that line barrier, the complexity increases dramatically. That rendered the changes useless because most programming languages allow you to add arbitrary new-lines between any token in the language.
Entrepreneur Father Helps Son, Nicky Bronner, Create a Snack-Food Business
I think he was talking about the weird ASCII art that appears to depict a penis, not the fact that he couldn't import Nokogiri.
"the world’s biggest problem—the fact that comfort for the few rests on exploitation of the many"

Having thrown that into this piece, I wish the author had provided some observations from her travels to back it up.
Inside Adobe's Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox
Solar is way denser than an RTG in terms of power per kilogram, at least out to Jupiter and probably to Saturn as well.

This doesn't mean that RTGs don't have value. They are continuous and keep things warm, which may be very important depending on your mission.
Samsung TecTile is an app which lets you read and write TecTile NFC tags.
I don't think the necessity of writing your app so that it exposes APIs has any correlation to whether or not the traditional web server interface to your app can still serve HTML from the server. It's just as easy to wrap API methods on the server and feed that data into a server side template as it is to call the API from a client side method (well, it's actually much easier, no need to manually futz with the browser URL/history and all that).
The intro video is interesting, but the suggestion that apps in Angular are going to be "much more like HTML" seems to me to be belied by the fact that the second example has a more or less Backbone-like Model definition.

I can appreciate the desire to have declarative relationships within markup, but if there's going to be Javascript running anyway, what does it gain?

Plus, <html ng-app> is an abomination…
Waaah my flying carpet doesn't come in red!
Interesting! Anyone else have any reaction to this or disagreement?
Hunting Monsters in the Night
> However the real life harassing of this individual is not something a civil society should condone.

The real life harassing of an individual making web comics by stealing and re-branding his content when all he asked was not to photoshop out his brandings at the bottom, trying to incite people to go after him(funnyjunk's mail to its userbase), then threatening him with lawsuit unless he pays up when he is done nothing wrong is also not something a civil society should condone.

> internet vigilantes

All people are doing is making some noise in their blogs and other social media outlets, and sending the lawyer mails.

> I know this lawyer has done something we think is both morally wrong, legally dubious,

I have a problem with both morally wrong and legally dubious. I am just a lawyer for my client shouldn't get you off the hook. I am just doing my job has got to be the most irritating and weakest excuse in the history of mankind. From where I see, the lawyer shouldn't have difficulty in comprehending funnyjunk, and not oatmeal is the one stealing ; and there is 0 sense in harassing the oatmeal over it, yet he is doing it. I don't see why the lawyer deserves my considerations.

I believe there are provisions to get a lawyer debarred for frivolous law-suits, but they are difficult in practice, and take a lot of time and money. Matthew Inman happens to have the money and the following to stand up to this bullying; there isn't much a smaller web comic creator would have done. The lawyer's situation is much, much more pleasant that what theoatmeal's would have been, had he lacked the money or the resources to fight back.

This lawyer, or funnyjunk, doesn't deserve my sympathy. If you think otherwise, we must agree to disagree.

> I would hope that at least the mob of individuals who frequent this web site would be a little classier then both Matthew Inman ,and the internet at larges response.

But while you are disagreeing, please get off your high horse.
I think it would be an interesting PR campaign to ask people what they would do with 1 more second. if time is money, how much money do we inject when we add a second to the year?

Of course we wouldn't have this problem if we just counted seconds from some particular point in space time moving forward. Who cares if the Sun is exactly overhead at noon anyway :-)
Is there a good rule of thumb as to what constitutes a "large number" of Views? I tend to assign Views to Models rather than Collections, partly because I hate storing Model ids as DOM attributes and extracting them in event handlers (as in the grandparent comment). I've gotten away with several hundred Views on a page before, but that doesn't feel quite right either.
IOS 6 requires user permission before accessing contacts and photos
i did something like that at my last job - the cluster manager was designed as a set of command line tools, and every program had a -j flag that would make it parse stdin as json and write json to stdout. we then wrote wrappers around all the linux utilities we were using, to enable the same behaviour. once the basic system was in place it let us experiment with new features very rapidly indeed because everything could be tested in isolation from the command line using automated test scripts. what was especially nice was that we could use the same test framework to chain several utilities together and test the combination, because it was all a black box with json going in and coming out.
You can use several binding declarations styles, including data-ng-*:
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
Your writing style can identify you. 'Jstylo' is a tool that detects authorship. 'Anonymouth' is a tool that spoofs authorship (ever wanted to write HN replies as if you were JK Rowling? You can do it.)
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You can do both.

And actually, since the charity fundraising in question[0], which had an initial goal of 20K$, is up to 160K$, my guess is that fueling this issue, giving it press, and making people excited/angry about it ends up, as a side effect, raising even more money for the charity. Works for me.

[0] http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood
Huh? All Cocoa drawing takes place in points (they're floats in most cases), not pixels.
The major problem is the speculators risk OUR MONEY for THEIR PROFITS. If they win, they take their captured marbles home, if they lose, well, they were playing with other people's marbles.

This privatization of profits and socialization of risk is what's at stake. If actual accountability (even if it's not entirely symmetrical) existed, I doubt anyone would care.

Right now, it's heads==they win, tails==we lose. That's a fools game, and we're the fools.
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Apply for DART for Small Business. It's Free, and when/if you get big the transfer to the premium version will be easy.

But I think you're free up to a few millions of impressions. (Will also save you hosting costs).
http://www.google.com/dfp/info/sb/index.html
If you use SQLite, you can use Goatfish[1]. It's not production-ready or as robust as Postgres's hstore, but it's embedded (since it works with SQLite) and also allows you to index various properties.

[1] https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish
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That's not a bad idea, and I did offer to pay upfront when I was denied but the corporate managed properties seem to not be as flexible there.

Regarding the credit issue, long story short -- my girlfriend is Indian and her parents are rather 'traditional'.. so our relationship has for a number of years been on the down-low. That given, her signing on the lease isn't really much of an option right now. (i talked to my landlord in TN about this and he worked with us on it, so that's how I got my current apt)

My plan now is to either sublet a place or find a private property owner who is more willing. As you said, money talks.. and I'm definitely willing to put some down to get into a place at this point just to save my sanity.
right that's why they don't show right above where the actual content of search results is displayed....oh wait...
Normally I prefer short articles, but this one had me particularly interested, and was disappointed that it was so short. I would have been interested in learning more about the things the author experienced.

To be honest, there was the article that came out recently, I think it was posted on HN, that talked about how when Peace Corp volunteers got raped, the Peace Corp would essentially blame the victim and not help them in any way. This portrayed the PC in a really bad light, so I was interested in what ways the Peace Corp appealed to the author.
This is indeed interesting! Any googler want to comment how is this different from its cousin Google Closure Library? It looks like it is leaner and more modern. Any other difference?
StartupBus Saved 2 Guys Who Got Burglarized in NYC
In the preamble I freely admit that this project was based on naive assumptions and ideas. On the other hand, I believe that I was successful in building an architecture that a compiler writer would design, free from the knowledge of how actual hardware works, simply because I only implemented things that were obvious and easy for GCC.

Note the lack of any kind of instruction scheduling, unnatural addressing modes, weird arithmetic, etc.

The ggx processor's successor, moxie (which is part of the upstream GNU toolchain), is slowly developing characteristics shared with real architectures as the FPGA implementation develops. For instance, I just introduced a pipeline hazard with my new multi-port register file implementation that will benefit from some instruction scheduling in GCC.
While you may be right about comparisons with other similar sized cities, I feel that I've seen quite the blooming of tech startups. Admittedly, I'm very biased as I live here. But with the arena project and all of the entertainment venues planned, Lincoln will look very different in 10 years.

Here is a list of some tech/data startups in the area (Lincoln, not Omaha):

http://www.macpractice.com/mp/

http://gitpilot.com

http://www.socialassurance.com/

http://archcrowd.com/

http://www.firespring.com/

http://www.getlockr.com/

http://www.cmsdm.com/

http://www.dontpaniclabs.com/

http://www.icora.com/

http://www.ec3h.com/

http://www.beehiveindustries.com/

http://eliteform.com/

http://the42.com/

http://www.archrival.com/

How long have you been gone?
That was my exact reaction when I read that greeting. It almost seems like an invitation for them to consume as a regular dinner.
vim/Sublime Text.
While the response by oatmeal in form of blog post and fund raising campaign was funny and comical in nature, he has got a legal counsel in Venkat Balasubramani and here is the legal response :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/96850920/FunnyJunk-The-Oatmeal-Res...
Could one take real recorded noise and add that rather than noise generated via algorithm? Wouldn't that force attackers to solve a real problem (removing background noise from an speech sample)?
vim/Sublime Text
You can play around with it on Plunker. Check out http://plunker.no.de/edit/JVl3Jx?live=preview for an example.

I didn't write the example, but did make Plunker.
> I was arguing that a "lynch mob" can and does exist on the Internet. Like the parent said, lynch mobs harass and sometimes kill people.

This is what I mean for a bit unfortunate, because it obviously refers to actual death.

The argument, of digital lynch mobs being able to heavily damage (which is one definition of kill) corporations or people, I agree with.
Komodo edit or gedit. I usually switch between the two.
I'm more surprised, that it was actually comprehensible.