skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For physical authentication, vein scanning [1] seems pretty neat -- though it's no more a replacement for passwords than a fingerprint is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDo0W1tEkpk
How did JavaScript get disabled? And what makes you think the problem was IE vs your or your grandma's unfamiliarity with IE?
Much agreed. Verilog/VHDL are simply not programming languages. They are Hardware Description Languages. They describe parallel components that will actually be "wired" together.

My advice if you are a programmer or computer scientist and you get tasked with writing Verilog of VHDL "code" you need to be able to explain the difference -- You've just been offered a job as a hardware designer and engineer. Having spent 5 years doing hardware engineering and a lot longer doing software consulting I can say it's an entirely different set of skills if not an entirely different career path.
What are you even talking about??

"Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software"

This is utter non-sense. I think you are confusing "free as in freedom" with "free as in free beer". Stallman openly says free software can be commercially developed and supported. Just that the users should have certain freedoms to use it. The developers can sell copies of their free software if they choose to.
Also your G'Ma has usability suckage. Also old people and computers don't mix bra and you should probably call your G'Ma more often.
Indeed, African militias do not have a monopoly on "poisoning the well" or other scorched-earth tactics. For a fantastic Western example, I would humbly point us all in the direction of our own nation's conduct in the Vietnam War, viz., with Agent Orange.

The explicit aim of the Agent Orange campaigns was to render cropland useless, starving rural Vietnamese out of the countryside and driving them into (US-dominated) cities. Entire ecosystems were devastated as a result, and generations of Vietnamese suffered the aftermath.

This was basically the 20th Century equivalent of the old Roman tactic of sewing salt into the enemy's wheat fields.
The original NYT article was submitted, but barely upvoted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364340
The total reach of all porn is quite broad, but I strongly suspect that the number of impressions skews male, possibly by multiple orders of magnitude.

(Yes, I made that WAG up with no evidence whatsoever, so I'll be more than happy to see statistics or hear from anyone who disagrees.)
Lettuce and grains are hardly the only options. Potatoes, rice, olives, a wide range of beans, even aqatic plants etc are all with considering. After all the fact grains need little water is one of there main apeals, but water can easily be recycled in an enclosed environment so the constraints are vary different.
There's a difference between caring about something and thinking it's intellectually stimulating. There's no need to insult people because they think HN is a bad place to post good news that has no takeaway value.

(I feel dirty for using the word 'takeaway' but I can't think of anything that fits better to mean an overly-broad version of 'learning'.)
Fantastic!

Let's concoct some overly optimistic growth statistics for how this will stimulate the Kenyan economy. Let's say 19% for the first 10 years, then 15% for 10 more, then 12% for the next five.

Based on those fudged figures, we'll convince the government to take on excessive debt to pay for water development, etc. projects. Since the figures are fudged, and since we'll do this hand in hand with local elites / kleptocrats, they'll never be able to repay the debt.

We'll funnel this money right back to Western consulting and construction firms.

When locals who are having their lives destroyed by the development projects start to demonstrate, we'll squeeze them until they turn to violence and call them terrorists.

When the real international terrorists join in to fight the evil imperialists (us), we'll drone-strike, death-squad, and black-site them, citing our earlier failure to act in Sudan.

Can you tell I've been reading _Confessions of an Economic Hitman_? I am excited about the new iPhone, though.
To quote Charles Babbage:

"On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
A glitch in the 3.12 merge window
F-Droid (Android FOSS Repository)
Here's a novel idea: Post that WATEX publication and let's see how many upvotes it gets vs. this one here. Let's allow democracy to do its thing.
Outsourcing clicks - a solution to Twitter's bulk unfollowing/following removal
Apropos 'which', let me show 'type -a':

% type -a which
which is a shell builtin
which is /usr/bin/which

Convenient if you really want to know what you'll be calling.
First, I am glad that you agree that it needs to be addressed. If you disagree with everything else I think, we can at least agree on that.

I think your argument is that this is bullying, not sexism. I don't think bullying supercedes sexism. I think bullying comes in a variety of types. I don't really care if it's sexism or bullying, except in so much as it may make it easier to stop this sort of BS.

In my mind, You are teaching them to program, hence you are making them into programmers.

When I learned to drive, I learned both the mechanics of the car, but also the rules and expectations. Like let people merge, and wave a thank you to people who let you merge.

That said, there may be a better way to address the issue then trying to inculcate egalitarian values as part of being a good programmer. I didn't dig through journals to look at studies of bullying/sexism interventions in american secondary education. Feel free to do so.
Uh, what you are talking about here is not the same thing as RMS's behavior.
> This is a bizzare comment. The reporting here articulates the court's thinking in slightly more detail than the earlier piece

I was not basing my statements on the nytimes piece, I was basing them on the opinion itself, which is embedded in the wired story:

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2013/09/10/11...

Much of the opinion does focus on if wifi should be considered "radio communication"

The problem is that in accessing any open wireless access point you are "piercing the veil" whether you intend to or not. That's how IEEE 802 networks work: you get all the packets, you just drop the ones not meant for you.

I would argue that switching the hardware you're already using in every computer that talks to a LAN or WLAN to promiscuous mode is not at all analogous to installing a keylogger. But even if you don't switch modes, it still will only take an ambitious DA to argue that whether you intended to or not, you were capturing all packets when you connected to that business's wifi hotspot, which is another broken law to add to your list of charges.
WeWe need to fix it, and congratulate only after we fix it.

But it's far from a fixed problem currently.
No matter what he tried to explain they just kept replying that he didn't qualify for the reward. It sounds like they have become super defensive about acknowledging bugs because the reporter will immediately try to claim a reward. If so, it's the exact opposite of the intent of the program.

I once reported Chrome because it crashed when I tried to load a 65536x65536 bitmap image. Since it was a crash I, of course, claimed it was a security issue, in the hope that was enough to get a reward. Of course, they didn't accept that, but it does make me think the other side of this issue may be that Google is now receiving so many of these they are unable to properly evaluate them all and applying the "HR" solution (employ someone underqualified explicity to fob off as many people as possible so that only super-qualified candidates get through).
You seem to imply that a fingerprint scanner is the main selling point of the Iphone 5S, and that Apple's superior execution of the fingerprint scanner, and not its app store, marketing prowess, or the fact that there are almost two orders of magnitude more models of android phones than Iphones, will be the primary reason the Iphone 5S outsells the Atrix.

This time next year we'll be watching an Apple commercial that states "More people unlocked their phone with their fingerprint on the Iphone than on any other phone".
The positivity on HN lately is almost too much to handle.
Exclusive rights on this reserve bought by Nestlé in 3.. 2.. 1..?

http://www.worldcrunch.com/poisoning-well-nestl-accused-expl...
Sounds interesting, definitely be interested in a blog post with some details, for example, how it compares to the normal way of doing this sort of stuff (eg. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pcozzi/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsig...)
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I like the idea of a device/app you keep on your person or maintain on your phone versus something biometric. There may be times when I want to enable a loved one to log in for me or if I become incapacitated I'd like for someone else to have the ability to unlock my info. For those reasons Clef seems to be about the right amount of functionality and device dependence for me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't every service claim to be a "human manager" like this, then run a well built scraper to emulate a human? Unless they're going to have a camera on the humans, Twitter could just as easily shut them down on this premise alone. There's no way to prove there are humans there.
This guy should "keep a feet on the ground" about someone copying his work without his permission, profiting off it, and making it more difficult for him to use his own work down the line? I think he should be litigiously pissed, which he appears to be.
Africans at the moment are, as a group, the most corrupt people on earth [1]. This is equivalent to saying that Prussians were better than the French at making war.

However, this different from saying that Africans are inherently corrupt, or that every Frenchman is destined to make a terrible soldier. I intended to assert that Africans aren't inherently corrupt, and I think you were downvoted because people thought you were disputing this.

[1] http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/pub/global_corruption_b...
No argument here. Just saying that performance is about more than js performance.
I haven't been able to find a single forum/thread for the Apple announcements today (anywhere) that wasn't completely filled with either:

1) NSA flaming

2) 'lol no 5 inch / 1080p screen' style comments.

3) filled with disappointment that the iphone isnt a whole world more than what has been leaked.

How useful it would be to find a forum where actual on-topic discussion was visible and it was the crap that got filtered out, instead of the other way around.
My counter to your second point: Biometrics kinda disables mass hacks. you cant exactly chop off a huge number of fingers*

Oh and one can also say "A password merely proves you know the password. No proof that you are the person associated with the password"

* Though since passwords can be stored in hashes, they can be harder to steal as compared to biometric data which must be stored in raw (though possibly encrypted)
Http://www.spywareremove.com/safe-files/
I don't type usernames and passwords and neither should you.
There needs to be a kickstarter for bills. Issue by issue.
> I think this can be well developed if it isn't exploited by privatization.

Careful, you'll wake the Randroids.
Apparently that exists as a service already.. ( https://www.keytrac.net/ )
Crazy.
We should be positive. We're the ones who end up on Elysium. Also, the new iPhone is really cool.
No black iPhone 5S
In a NYC talk, Stallman readily said that software developers should absolutely never work for any company developing closed source software (ie. the vast majority of software companies) and should instead work as waiters, developing free software in their free time.

[1]: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/5844
Aren't there more alternatives? I'm in that particular situation, and I don't have formal education, nor money.
You don't understand what free software means. It means freedom respecting software; something that you control. Apple could still have audited free software into its appstore as it does for nonfree software currently.
Therefore it's a good idea to use your fingerprints for authentication?
What is your comment trying to say?
Apparently it came that way from Dell, helped her order it last week, it arrived today, she plugged it in and clicked IE and the first place she ended up said to enable Javascript.
Plastic is the new aluminum (although I really like the 5c, actually, though the case is an abomination).
Disclosure; I'm ManageFlitter's Co-Founder/CTO

Twitter recently stopped apps from offering any kind of bulk management services for Twitter accounts. We completely support Twitter trying to stop spam, but this action does nothing of the kind. Here's my full thoughts; http://blog.manageflitter.com/twitter-drowning-spam-why-thei...

Anyway the point of this service us just to point out how ridiculous the restrictions are. We will really be delivering it, however - the economics work. We're just finalising how we'll prove it's real people, most likely with a live stream going at all times.
I guess it would matter what you mean by "inherently corrupt". physiologically? very unlikely - but it could definitely be a cultural issue
Have you tried Google SketchUp? It might be the closest thing to this type of ease-of-use that I've seen so far, and it's free.
Reuters: Most 2006-2009 NSA queries of a phone database broke court rules
> So we will see. This could be a complete failure...

There you go guarding yourself from a possible bad decision.

The trick in hiring is to trust your gut. Your gut might be wrong, but it is often better than everything else.

A simple up, down, or sideways (which is usually down) vote by the interviewers without having to give a reason is much better than trying to rationalize and enumerate the pros and cons. It isn't perfect, because an interviewer could be a racist, sexist, etc. but the cultural fit is much more important than what is on paper to hire and it is hard to judge much else during the interview, other than the ability to interview well.

I'm a big fan of the 90-day trial period. If the person coming in knows right away it is a bad fit, they'll be looking for a job right away to avoid being laid off on the 90th day.
> Not all countries are as fucked as the US in wanting your biometrics.

Malaysia is another country that will scan your fingerprint when you enter the country.
I didn't find any demos that involved multiple fields at all. But "multiple fields" is not a concept that exists in most users' worlds. Names exist, and email addresses exist. They wouldn't try to search for "ona schamberger.frank@wuckert.com", but they will try to search for "ona bednar".
He did a couple rectangle ones too. And it's cylindrical tool handles a lot more than cylinders.
I don't think either of your points here are correct either. Once you're in the process for the green card you can apply for extensions of your H1B. And from what I've been told, there is a point where you can switch employers and still continue with your green card application.
Yes, you'd have to define inherently corrupt. Since it could be genetic, cultural, situational... etc.

And even then, you can't really jump to the conclusion that we are all the same.

Being corrupt or warlike are, in my opinions, just traits. They could be evolutionary adaptations to various environmental situations, for all anyone knows. Everyone on Earth is different, with different traits... Africans included. I'm not saying that's what Africans are, but I'm also saying you can't make the claim that those aren't inherent traits. It's a total possibility and nothing should be left out for scientific and reasonable analysis.
I don't think people are all that concerned about the dirty deeds of some nefarious black hat in this case. I think people are concerned about secret courts, a government that interprets its own laws, and a substantial portion of the public that hasn't graduated from issues commonly found in high school.
Lifesaving idea that might have failed to impress the Dragons
As a person from a Nigerian family, I'm already offended... but... let me try and answer you.

1) It's one thing to say something about a country(France & Prussia), it's another thing to talk about a race(Africans). Take a look at Youtube's attempt at defining hate-speech in their guidelines:

""Hate speech" refers to content that promotes hatred against members of a protected group. For instance, racist or sexist content may be considered hate speech. Sometimes there is a fine line between what is and what is not considered hate speech. For instance, it is generally okay to criticize a nation, but not okay to make insulting generalizations about people of a particular nationality.
"

(Note that I think Google should remove the "protected group" part and just say "any group of people")

2) How far down this endless rabbit-hole are we going to go? I can't prove to you the nature of any group of people, anymore than you can prove to me that you're not just another racist/troll that always shows up during conversations about Africa or African-Americans on Google+, on Reddit, on HN or any other site that always ends up derailing the main topic into oblivion.
What phone should you own instead? It seems like the only choice if you want to real privacy is to stop using a phone at all, but that's obviously unrealistic for many people.
Let's hope this isn't business as usual?
I've switched jobs on my H1B 4 times now. Your use of the word "slave" is fucking offensive.
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The best way to stop making people sign up is to have a universal authentication method that is trusted and used by everyone.

I don't believe we'll see a good one in our lifetime.

But, that would stop an involved sign-up process.
Does this mean that, in theory, if someone wanted to modify some GPL'd code to merge it into a proprietary project, and they didn't want to GPL the entire project, they could modify the compiler to compile the code with the modifications? It'd be a completely round-about way to do it, but in theory would this be legal?

If it were a GPL-licensed compiler (e.g. GCC), they wouldn't need to distribute the compiler-code changes, since they would only be using it internally and not distributing the binary for the compiler itself.

Of course, they could just modify and use a shared-library of the GPL'd code or whatever. At least, that's my understanding, could be wrong...
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> they emphasize who does it, and what is done

Yea, that's what process usually entails. I don't see outcome in that list.
now the original link was changes to NYTimes anyway
> Get your blogger to dilute the content to pander to the most of web so that the virality factor increases, and the author should use "interesting" language. This formula gets you pageviews, and you are on your way to explosive growth.

It's a long-established business model that works. Just look at food grain.
These days parts of the rural south and midwest look a lot like that.
Presumably you can query for the matched elements pretty easily and do your highlighting/whatever then.
If the point is to match our natural heritage of the stars and moon, then 100% blackout is not actually accurate. Even on a moonless night, starlight is quite bright--bright enough to see contours of the landscape.

I've slept outside in remote places many times, far away from city lights. It's not even near 100% black. So I would not kill yourself to get every little stray bit of light.
"How hard would it be to run a mobile scanner over public surfaces and correlate the data with security camera footage?"

For the NSA? A hell of a lot harder than backdooring iPhones.
The advantage of using CSS selectors rather than JavaScript indexOf() for search is speed

Where's the performance comparison?
perhaps. everyone assumed coming in to today that the "cheaper" version would hurt margins. Granted it was priced above expectations, I'm not sure it will have significantly higher margins.
I would mean it's never the users fault. In most cases it's poor design. Poor interfaces.

I'm not an apple fanboy but apple has clearly done something right in that ballpark.

If the user can't figure out how to use your software it's back to the drawing board and come up with a solution that the user understands.

On the same time it's a battle on which users you want to please the most. In the ideal world you have an interface that don't get in the way of either first time users or power users. But that is a pretty tough nut to crack.

Most non technical users has no clue what javascript is so asking them to turn on something they don't know what is in an unfamiliar environment is an uphill battle. Especially if it's hidden in some options in an options window full of tabs that has funny names for a first timer.
One example I can think of is searching for matching documents with some other method (on the server side), and then searching inside each document with this method.
EFF is a 501(c) group, as is ACLU, but they both cover these issues aggressively.
Yes, that is indeed what I meant.
Mike Masnick calls it a complete non-response from NIST, regarding the real issue/accusation:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/12371124473/nists-...
> At the same time, biometric sensors raise questions of security. When Apple’s sensor was announced on Tuesday, a flurry of skepticism and privacy concerns erupted online even though Apple said users’ fingerprints would be stored only on the phone — not sent to online servers or made available to app developers.

Yes, the thumbprint is going to be the bane of the iPhone 5s. It is a horrible idea. They think phones are completely personal. They aren't. I share mine with my daughters all of the time. Sometimes my wife needs to use it. It is going to be a problem.

I'm not sure if thumbprints are worse or Microsoft's racist facial recognition that wouldn't recognize very dark African Americans.
I'm starting to worry that reading Hacker News comments is going to drastically sour my outlook in life over time.
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Out of sheer curiosity, and anyone can answer, what would you imagine the tent poles of one to be?
I've actually seen someone choose to use Dual EC DRBG until I yelled "NOOOO DONT": Their software was implementing ECDSA signing, so all the primitives were already there!
Ask HN: A font that resembles the Latin characters in Japanese Unicode Alphabet
Is there a OTF font or TrueType font that resembles what Latin characters look like in the Japanese Unicode alphabet?

Here is a link with an example of the font I am looking for:

http://memory36recordings.bandcamp.com/track/- (the title of the track)
good point, but isn't more that the Medium staff, probably all web developers, is highlighting these types of posts?

I've written about basketball and other subjects and they literally get 0 views.
California, Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.
That's not what scarcity means. There is a limited supply of bottles, and it costs real pennies to get some and transport them full of water.

Low-cost is not no-cost, and digital copies made by someone else are actually no-cost.
What is criminal is that the so-called humanitarian "West" either does nothing to assist longer-term thinking (don't want to create self-sufficient competitors!). Instead we strip-mine, exploit and install puppet governments so our all-important corporations and their profit and resource flows are unhindered.