skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thing i stayed away from braintree, paypal be a perfect match for them considering both are shit
I would be very surprised if the fingerprint is sent over the wire. Instead, I would expect the "secure enclave" to validate the fingerprint, and then emit a time-limited certificate of some sort to authenticate with servers. The fingerprint information - or derived information such as hashes - never needs to leave the phone.
He is not using the same finger.
> You can't explore someplace you never actually reach in any case.

Meh, the Soviets sent all kinds of robots to the moon. Orbiters, landers that made pictures, moon rovers, three robots that sampled soil and returned it to earth... Not too shabby I'd say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme
more like terrorists, which turn out to be terrorist trying to infiltrate and undermine the holy american militar complex posing as honest contractors.
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For definitions of 'tank' that include 'armored truck' and exclude a cannon, treads and other features you kind of expect on a tank.
Where do you find out about the non-blocking io?
The U.S. got their edge in space (which I agree is preposterous to rug sweep) after Korolev's death. Without the motivated challenger, bureaucrats-led Soviet space programme (especially the deep space missions part) has stuck in 1960s since.
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Wow, that's quite a margin of error to estimate $630 but for it to cost $60k. Image if you were off by the same factor in your own favour when paying your taxes. That said, a trillion spent on this sort of thing beats a dollar spending on killing and maiming etc, which is what usually happens when big countries face off.
Well... yeah, but there is quite a lot of smearing.

Will the quality of the finger print you can extract that way using whatever means you have be of high enough quality?

It is not obvious to me that you'll be able to get something that is 2400 DPI quality.
A little late, given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6427390.
There could be ways round the big-data-required problem. You could charge different transaction fees depending on how good your data is on somebody and allow them to provide data to improve your confidence in them. Or require deposits from people and return them over time.
Upvoted because I'm a strong believer in visual programming languages. But also a bit underwhelmed. Flowcharts are useful I guess.
Interesting, thanks for the info.

It still leaves me wondering:

1. Why a university would be expecting vehicle mines or even IEDs on campus; and

2. What value an armoured vehicle responding to that situation would have anyway.

My understanding is that a vehicle mine is pretty useless once you know it is there. This seems like a vehicle designed for regular trips over highly contested or hostile (but reasonably well-maintained) roads.
How many grams in total do you get in a pack?

In a lot of Europe (certainly UK, I heard also France), you can only buy 16 pills (about 8g) at a time, unless your doctor writes you a ticket.

The pills themselves may contain a lot of chemical, but the whole pack doesn't contain enough grams for a successful impulsive suicide. You would need to go to a second drug store, by which time you'd probably decide not to do it. Hence the reduction in death rate.

The problem of liver damage due to chronic over use continues .
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The campus security IS the police department. A lot of large state schools have fully-fledged police departments, not private security.
Actually this seems ridiculously convenient, if I'm sitting at my computer (which I almost always am). Easier than picking up my phone and setting a timer, even.
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I hear nothing. I get some error when I'm trying to change volume. Where do these great comments came from?
Not really anything new here. This was done a decade ago when bio-metrics were shown to be a weak form of authentication/verification. Still, the iPhone scanner is a deterrent and thus adds value.
Does this mean, that we're able to translate python into javascript with emscripten or is there additional work to do? (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki)

Edit: Furthermore, how practical is this?
The Tu-144 "Concordski" wasn't exactly a nearly identical copy of the Concorde. The retracting canards were one significant difference.
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which are are your hw spec?
I'm not talking about Github the app/code, but the contents of Github.
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I'd add that though we've adapted to the look of a cursor, the designer in me cringes at the thought of outlined text (though I'm willing to allow that there are probably applications of this that work elegantly; I just can't picture any).

Sometimes the answer might be yet a different color of text (not black or white), although that too has design downfalls.

But all that said, tools to help text and other elements adapt to background images are mighty helpful. I'd definitely consider using this, even as is.
I think the problem is that unlike ":)", too often people use passive-aggressive ";)"s, not meaning them in the friendly way they were originally intended but with a slightly bitter aftertaste.

But this is getting a bit off-topic I suppose... :)
Nothing happens at that page for me. Could the reason be that I'm redirected to google.se (which does not have this feature, yet)?
Look at your finger. Actual ridges are not that dense.

A sampling frequency of 20 points per mm is high enough to visualise a fingerprint in sufficient detail for identification purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint#Research

Random #s: 20dpmm = 5,080dpi? Sounds like 2400dpi sensing is certainly insufficient for research-grade identification... and therefore maybe easy to fool? :)
I would personally bet on payments, insurance, fashion, and banking over space, robotics, desktop manufacturing, and augmented reality. The former are things that virtually everybody does as part of their daily life. The latter are things that sound very sexy and have had some big wins in specific industries, but aren't related to what people do day-to-day. When pitting reality against dreams, reality usually tends to win out.
Another commenter mentioned the police's vehicles get flipped by rowdy sports crowds. The vehicle is probably surplus from the Iraq wind down. Some of LAPD's helicopter fleet is, apparently, military surplus.

I would think that even if their MRAP is free the logistics would make it more expensive that whatever vehicle SWAT is using. I would think that an Armored car (like a bank would se) would also be a good choice if they're just looking for a heavy and protected vehicle.

Realistically, it seems like if the crowd is that ugly, the local PD should be called in. I don't think riot dispersal is really a great responsibility for campus police.

Re the mines: I'm guessing you don't get much of a chance to check for mines, especially on convoy routes. Car bombs at checkpoints (like the video I linked) are probably impossible to detect before someone is in the blast zone.
Google probably review their top searches periodically to determine utility related keywords and custom fit solutions to them.

It seems that if they continue to do things this way, sooner or later, Google is likely to replace thousands of utility websites.

This seems like a change in their philosophy from sending users to other websites in as little time as possible, to using Google as a portal.

Interestingly, this change in philosophy by Yahoo from a search engine to a portal was what made Yahoo lose out to Google.
That very serious post is much funnier with the typo.
A script I use for this occasionally:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
done = Time.now + ARGV[0].to_i
while(true) do
sleep(10)
`say "Time's up!"` if Time.now > done
end

Or the alarm clock version:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'time'
done = Time.parse(ARGV[0])
while(true) do
sleep(10)
`say "Time's up!"` if Time.now > done
end
In my opinion, someone who does their job well and professionally is just fine to work on side-projects. Ideally, your productivity and focus stays the same as they did before your side-project.

I truly do not think it makes sense to demand every person on a job is passionate about the job they are doing. There have been many times I have had to (even at a job I normally loved) do long, boring, and fruitless work. I did not do them out of my passion for the "Mission to Save the World of Enterprise Banking", but because I am a professional who does what needs to be done and who does it to the best of my abilities.

When I said passion before, I was trying to express two things.

First, I was intending to express the attitudes that cause someone to stay abreast of their field, keeps their own saws sharp, (and ideally helps teach/inspire others to do the same), comes in and works hard, and pushes themselves and those around them to be better. Perhaps the best word for that is just professionalism.

The second concept is that I would rather be around someone who, while acting like a consummate professional, also enjoys at least some part of it. I love the fact that software development has more than I could probably ever learn, and it is a worthy challenge to seek to master its different forms. I have worked with several professionals who really do enjoy parts of the craft that I only barely tolerate, and I enjoy that about them immensely. They open to me a new worlds of appreciation for the craft. Just recently, I had to work on a few hundred legacy bugs for a few weeks in a row. They were unexpected, not caused by me, and deeply tedious. Some took hours to locate the cause. One of my coworkers really came alive doing that. He just loved the hunt and chase, like a detective working out a mystery. While I was mentally moaning and groaning after week two, he was just getting started. We talked about it for a few minutes one day, and I decided to try and see things his way. While it didn't cause me to love bugs like a fine wine, I was able to bring my attitude around from a silent scream up to mildly interested. Maybe the best word for that is having a good attitude? Enjoys some parts more than others, and keeps quiet when they don't enjoy it? I am not sure, but that whole concept I find to be important. The person who reads books about development and enjoys reading them is going to bring a wonderful attitude to the team, and can motivate others to pursue their own interests.
Profit making isn't a bad thing - its only bad when the extracting of profit isn't aligned with interests of society.

Banks do serve a useful purpose - dont get me wrong. But i think lately, the value a bank is adding to society is somewhat deminishing, compared to the burden they weight. A bank makes its profit by "taking on risk" of loaning capital to someone who doesn't have it, and extracting the surplus generated by the capital (ala, as interest on the loan).

This is ok, as long as the capital is used to generate "real" wealth - that is, production of goods and services. I feel that at times, a lot of loans are not used to generate product and services, but to "gamble" (ala, stock market?, buying and selling as a middle man ?). The process a bank goes thru to loan money creates extra currency, and this extra currency, imho, is what causes inflation. In fact, so much of economic activity is now tied to bank loans, that a failing bank means collapsing a corner of a table.

But i have no solution - as long as the illusion of stability is maintained, the system works. When it breaks, its chaos, but so far, all chaos has been prevented by either bailing out, or some other form of tax payer funded activity. Meaning, some people/organizations are using this as an opportunity to profit as a parasite of this system.
Oh you mean like arduino? The very thing that he is using to create this? He has so far achieved less than I did in a high school tech class 20 years ago (and kids do far better in high schools today) and he wants some kind of funding? are you kidding? Forget the piss poor presentation. There is no product. Not even a virtual prototype of what he hopes to accomplish. I sure hope that he doesn't quit his day job over this.
If you want to break it, search for "timer for 23 hours 59 minutes 60 seconds" ... For some reason the code seems to be configured to max out at 24 hours. I am too busy dealing with my own broken JavaScript code to take a look, but maybe someone here can view source and figure out why they made that decision?
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I tried it on google.com/ncr and it didn't work there either...
Could a profile option be added to toggle on/off the availability of the downvote button? I browse HN on my phone a lot and am always a little paranoid that I'll hit the downvote arrow rather than the up-vote arrow due to the inaccuracy of touches v.s. a mouse pointer.

I've been zooming in a ton before upvoting (which works fine) but it would be nice to avoid that.
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Interesting side effect. There's this web site:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/

which comes up top of the google search results for "timer for 1 hour" for me. Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google's own offering from an SEO perspective.

While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.
Always keeping it classy in Columbus. Go blue
Yup. Was intended as a nod at both that, and the ongoing UM/OSU rivalry.
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(I'm shouting both because it's very important advice and because I'm now deaf)
I wondered the same a while back when I'd often get old and out of date Google Code results showing up before the actual Github ones which I wanted.
>"He became an investment banker."

I'm not sure you actually understand what an investment banker is.

>"He became a capitalist."

Implying that somehow, after he sold his company and co-founded YC with his friends, he suddenly realized: "Holy shit. I think capitalism might be on to something!"

>"He is in the trade of making percentages off of real work."

Are you implying that YC provides zero value and merely siphons a percentage of founders' rightful gains?

>"He is a creature of greed."

Surely, he is a creature-- and a greedy one! You know, not a person with a family, friends, and interests outside of your one dimensional perception of him.

Take a break.
My alarm clock 15 years ago was:

$ sleep 28800; while :; do cat /etc/termcap; done > /dev/audio

These days /etc/termcap is disappearing from UNIX machines, but back then it was always available. I found it had just the right amount of structure to make a really annoying noise.
> Because the two fields are imperfect, they are therefore of course completely and entirely wrong.

Wrong? No, just dangerous to children and some especially foolish adults.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Riley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Newmaker

> His approximate view is that if a field can't be held to the same evidentiary standards as experimental physics, it's not a science.

That's how any scientist looks at a field that the public trusts to deliver medical care. In fact, because physicists don't have clinics, they are off the hook with respect to this issue, but happen to be far more scientific.

http://xkcd.com/435/
I'm guessing they decided they had to put a limit somewhere to ensure nothing broke, and decided arbitrarily on that.
Latex milk, white glue, grocery-store gelatin— they all work. You just need something thin and flexible that'll take an impression.
I had to hit "Request desktop site" for it to work for me (Chrome, Android, Australia.)
It's based on how many years the person heard or read about zuckerberg, and how many years he's spent on earth learning about life. The statement is an opinion (and is phrased accordingly), and it's based on his or hers unique perspective of life, in other words - the personality. Don't dismiss that, it's your biggest asset.
Also works with

timer <time of day>

E.g. timer 7am

Original Reddit link that started it all:
http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j3pnv/ysk_us...
My occasional alarm clock is:

$ sleep 8h; mpg123 <something>/pandemonic_hyperblast.mp3

There is no way to fail to wake up with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Den-CQ6jk .
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well, sometimes you do want a layered image, just not so much layered. For example, most images will be layered on top of a small number of base OS images which you don't want to download all all over again.
Well, you can set the timer to 99 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds if you type in the values, so it doesn't seem to make sense that 23:59:60 would break it. I'm really curious as to why that happens.
I'm still waiting (4 years now) for method#to_source. sigh

http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/2080
I built something for this exact purpose a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, I would put it's functionality in one of the top 10 things I use now.

http://errk.se/remind_me_after/
This result is consistent with what one would expect because of the geometric effect of the recently discovered Dark Energy. A saddle-shaped overall curvature is consistent with a universe accelerated by Dark Energy.
Heh, I've certainly done the same, albeit with different songs...
Along with the other bollocks that has been linked he even chucked this one up just before the weekend, http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/20/touch-id-star trashing the linked news article.

Number 1 on the list from the Toronto Star was "How long before hackers crack the security function?" How 'misinformed' of them.
That's a good point. I don't really have any hard information on which is more dangerous in terms of ulcers. I find conflicting information online. One thing is for sure: you should NOT take either aspirin or ibuprofen on an empty stomach. Always eat something first.

I tend to lean towards aspirin for a few reasons. It's older (100 years versus 30 years old) so we've had more time to figure out what other side effects it has, as well as interactions with other drugs. The blood thinning effect reduces the chance of heart attack or stroke (while it's in your system), which is always nice. There are some studies which seem to show that aspirin has anti-cancer properties, but I'm not sure if I believe them, because they have not proposed a mechanism of causation. Finally, ibuprofen seems to be sold in higher doses in general and have a more intense effect, which isn't really want I want. I just want something that does the minimum most of the time.
Ask HN: Is it good to include educational qualifications in your business card?
I know this sounds very 'childish' and is probably not a big deal, but I would really love to hear about what this wonderful community has to say about mentioning degrees in one's business card and if at all it affects conversion rate (Ex: an investor looking at your card and calling you back = conversion)<p>Cheers!
All the l33t kids will quit their current jobs and go to work busing tables, where they can surreptitiously lift prints from every glass or coffee-mug they carry.
MDMA would be a much better substitute for alcohol, since it doesn't cause long-term cognitive impairment or lung cancer.

Of course, I don't encourage anyone to use drugs that are currently illegal, since what you're getting is not pure.

Either way, it's off-topic.
No, but I'm also interested in this. I've been looking at Ember.js / Backbone.js / Angular.js for a new cross-platform mobile project and leaning towards Angular.
> but maybe someone here can view source and figure out why they made that decision?

Chances are it's a classic case of choosing a register size such that the time counter wraps around at 86,400 seconds, and to avoid this, they would have to explicitly include days -- and chose not to.
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Not the same feature. Those Google Code pages have better PageRank than the corresponding Github ones (older pages more links?). I don't think Google Code is given any preferential treatment in the results--if so, the UI would be presented differently.
LVM snapshots have some issues:

* you have to preallocate the size of the snapshot back storage.
* you create N snapshots of the same base block device. For each block changed in the base, each of the snapshots will get a copy on write block added to the snapshot backing storage.
* you cannot resize snapshot (I mean logical volume size, not the storage area for cow data)
* you cannot shrink snapshot backing storage

snapshot aware filesystems solve these issues. The slowness of ZFS you mention is only true for the fuse based toy driver. The license incompatibility between ZFS and the linux kernel is source of much confusion. All it means is that you cannot distribute linux kernel binaries linked with ZFS code (where a kernel module can be seen as parts of the linux kernel API linked with ZFS code). However nothing prevents you compiling the module on your machine, and there is a nicely packaged solution for doing this for, with support for distributions:

http://zfsonlinux.org/

there is also a new place for promoting zfs: http://open-zfs.org

AuFS seems to me a rather pragmatic approach for those who don't need the advanced features and performance of an advanced filesystem, yet don't want to waste IO bandwidth just to provision a lightweight container.
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I think? I like what you're trying to do here, but it's really unclear what you're offering.

If this is a way to pull profile pics from service, I tested twitter and facebook for my own account: no dice.

I'll check back again in a few days. Normally, I see awesome things come out of the Chute team.
It showed for me in Chrome, but not in Firefox. The same with Google's new flat icon/grid services homepage, actually.
Thank you for that low brow insight gem.
Lesson: don't put to much stock into a product that can be replaced by a few lines of code on a search result page.
> I know this sounds very 'childish' and is probably not a big deal, but I would really love to hear about what this wonderful community has to say about mentioning degrees in one's business card ...

It depends on your field. If you're an academic, or if your professional standing depends on your academic credentials (i.e. doctor, scientist), then yes. But in many cases it's not a good idea and distracting as well.
That's a good idea - but I suspect it'd be a much harder sell to end user merchants (and their web developers).

Explaining "our fees are based on your customers fraud risk, only 0.9% + 25c per transaction for people who've liked your facebook page and have more than 100 facebook friends and an account more than 24 months old, up to 5% + $1 per transaction for people using TOR or coming from ex-Russian-state ip addresses" isn't going to go down so well as "Paypal costs 2.9% + 30c/transaction and works globally in any currency, you can probably get half that rate from you own bank if they'll give you an internet merchant number - but they'll probably only give you local currency transactions."