skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, you can't get a decent sized adjustable wrench for less than $15 nowadays. Even the cheap Chinese ones that loosen the parallel alignment on the jaws after a few weeks cost more.
The net immigration trends strongly suggest you are mistaken.

Things being worse elsewhere doesn't make things good here. That's like saying the back of the Titanic was ok because so many people wanted to go there.
Some people seem to be forgetting what this is being used for.

This is an OPTIONAL replacement for the pass code.

However you feel about its level of security it is definitely more secure than a passcode which is the other option.

If someone wanted to target you for whatever reason then how long would they have to follow you with a high zoom camera before they would see you type the passcode in? The passcode/touch ID is to stop opportunistic unlocks not a determined attacker.
Capturing and Storing CO2 in One Simple Step.
Great quotes. Much as I hate to buy books of tweets I did get this one.
The bar for passing technical interviews is pretty low. All you need to do is to get reasonably competent in one or two mainstream programming languages (I emphasize reasonably, you definitely don't need expert knowledge), say Java or C++. This shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks of focused effort if you already have some degree in CS and know programming. At the same time you have to refresh your memory about data structures and algorithms. Dust off your favorite algorithm book, and go through sorting, searching, binary trees, hashing, elementary graph algorithms and dynamic programming. If you have taken a relevant course before and paid attention to it (you were told this was going to be your most important CS course ever, no?), it shouldn't take more than a day or two to remember this stuff (again assuming that your undergrad CS degree was not a waste of time). Then you need to solve a few exercises to practice, mostly to become confident in yourself. Topcoder, dozens of online sample questions would do. You won't need full coverage of every possibility, but to assure yourself that your brain still ticks and backed by your knowledge you can approach the problem presented to you at the interview. In total you need a week and a half or two weeks to get to top shape to pass interview at the likes of facebook, google, amazon et al.
Another issue I see is that it doesn't take into account any of the elements which are already in position. Placing the small circle over the large circle hides it.
But supposedly what's defined as average is someone who's features look like most other people. So by definition, the good looking should be a plurality in the population right? That's probably a good thing, otherwise most of the population would end up with people they think are ugly.
errrm, why not just `func Copy(dst Writer, src Reader) (written int64, err error)` ? avoid having to select/poll and just let the io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces do the work for you... and if they implemenet WriteTo, all the better.
And false positives in case of stem cell transplantation (a treatment of leukemia). There was a case where they got a false positive because of that. They discovered that it was a false positive because the alleged culprit had an alibi: He was in prison.
A KDF wouldn't help with a 4 digit PIN
What are the actual trends on jailbreaks for iOS on current hardware?
> I am African American, so there is no racism here.

That's not very convincing argument.
The second link reads as

http://maxcdn.com/

but actually points to

http://higg.im/maxcdn/

which of course redirects to an affiliate link.

If you're trying to earn some cash through your blog, that's okay. If you're not upfront about it, and in fact try so hard to hide it, that's ridiculous at best.

Therefore I flagged your submission.
It is a phone, you can bypass the passcode with a computer anyway - the passcode/touch is designed to prevent opportunistic unlocks not a determined attacker and it is much better than a passcode at doing that.
So your point is that there should be no shared dependencies, or centralized collections of trusted software?
Sure, but his post was about stealing data "over the Internet". That's not possible.

All bets are off with physical access to the hardware, of course.
This is a great idea. Go for it. -Brian :-)
That shouldn't be an issue considering most people don't have a passcode set.
Maybe we should lick the iPhone to provide accurate DNA biometric lol
If you want personal development, the best way to do that is to seek out the things that you believe you are no good at, and do them. For example, if you've always identified as a shy, introverted kid, the best thing you can do is to talk to strangers, make some friends, organize some events, and generally become the life of the party. If you've always identified as a learner and not a doer, the best thing you can do is take on a task that seems both pointless and challenging, do it to the best of your ability, and see what you learn from it. The way you phrase your question makes me think that you identify success with knowing things, rather than experiencing things or doing things. So if you want to grow as a person, the most productive things you could be doing are to get way out of that comfort zone and see what happens if, say, you traveled to another country where you don't know anyone, or if you took on a highly-visible project where you might fail.

If you want to seem smart at cocktail parties, the best way to do that is to know just slightly more than your friends at all the things they care about. Some resources for that: Wikipedia, pop science magazines like Discover or Popular Science, Mythbusters, Science Reddit, and all the stuff linked from there. Also stay up to date on your celebrity gossip, pop culture, and sports scores.

If you want to make money, the way to do that is to pick an area that is currently in demand in the economy, specialize in that, and go deep, enough that you have more knowledge than anyone else. Computers are hot right now, as is SEO and online marketing. Biotech may be hot in the near future, as is clean tech. You basically want to deepen your knowledge as opposed to broadening it. Whenever there's something you don't understand - and I mean don't fully understand, it's easy to have a superficial understanding of things - go seek it out and learn as much as possible about it.

Learning about something for achieving an objective is similar, but the objective is chosen by you instead of by the economy.
Your complaining about not being "rich" just sounds like trying to make excuses so you don't have to feel bad when I work full time and have trouble paying for both food and shelter. Do you think you really do that much more than me?

I'm going to guess like most wealthy people, you simply have adjusted to the standards you can afford on that kind of income, and see it as "normal", and assume that most people have similar access to wealth.

I experience that quite often with people who are in the top 1%: "despite these vacations we take, the expensive things we eat and buy, and these other things you couldn't afford if you saved all year for it, which are regular course for us, we're not /that/ wealthy, because the 0.1% has so much more!"

So go ahead, knowing that I can barely afford to stay alive while working full time, and tell me that you're not that much more wealthy than I am.

The reality is that you'll make more this year than I'm likely to make in a decade.

(As a less aggressive side note: a better measure is worth than income, because as you point out, income is transitory.)
Many people I discuss this with leave off the /s and straight-faced assert that income and employment are directly controlled through hard work. These people tend to be employed and well compensated.
Were people saying that this was secure? I thought it was just another fancy unlocking method like Google's "use your face to unlock"
The subcutaneous structures are, from what I've read, basically the same as the surface ridges and crests.
Not the same result at all. You now have lost your phone and the cop has to argue that you smashed it yourself out of spite. There may be more witnesses or evidence after smashing a phone. Presumably there are even phone company records showing when and where a device went dead.

I am not a lawyer but it seems to me, 9 times out 10, the cop would prefer a cleaner result - they confiscate your device, and oops, when you get it back, the video is gone.
How is it less security though? You don't have to follow someone for very long with a high zoom camera before you can get their passcode and that is a lot easier than duplicating their fingerprint. And yeh it is much much more convenient.
Your demo does not work at all on mobile. I suggest you try pep.JS for drag and drop.
A "deprecated plugin" that works regardless of the Wordpress version though.

It does 'one thing well', which is the old UNIX philosophy. I am aware of W3 total cache, but it can prove to be too advanced for most people's needs.
It's good to know it's changing. But it's still a centralized system and awfully bureaucratic. You need to register as an "Entity", where they give you a difficult to remember ID (unlike my easy to remember username at name.com, for instance) that is tied to your CPF (Tax Registration Number).
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Isn't it rather easy to obtain somebody's DNA, and also clone it? Seems even easier than obtaining somebody's fingerprints.
That depends on how you define algorithms. If your definition of algorithms is simply step-by-step procedures then I apologize for not having elaborated on that. But I don't think it is accurate to label the title as "inaccurate".

And I shall apologize for posting a link to this Wikipedia article if this has caused you any inconvenience. I didn't know it has been posted before.
Not that expected. I know a lot of people were BSing about how much more secure Apple's fingerprint sensor was and how the usual techniques for faking a finger wouldn't work on it, including some security researchers.
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LOL, actually never. You have very sad times in front of you if you don't like Bitcoin.
(author here)

Thanks! Pairing the fonts took a little while, and fiddling with it took a bit of time - so thank you! :)

Yeah. The goal here isn't to stir the pot in the middle of a massive flame-war, but it's the sort of thing where I see a part of one of these viewpoints now and again.

The hope here is that this can be something that will be given out when someone expresses a viewpoint that starts to stir up this same-old flame again, as well as make people think a bit more seriously about issues regarding integration between language (and native) package managers (on both sides).
IBM BlueMix aimed at AWS (impressions from JavaOne techical keynote)
My front door does not have a picture of my key on it. My phone has tons of fingerprints though. It's a touch screen phone. One of those words is "touch" which clearly implies your finger coming in contact with it. Even if you wanted to use gloves you need special ones for it to work properly with the capacitive screen. Unless you are continuously wiping it (the screen, not the data) it will have you prints on it.
Because the world's climate is a public good, game theory predicts that this kind of thing won't ever work.

We are semi-rational actors in a dynamic competitive system. We can all want X to happen, and be willing to spend money to make X happen, but realize that doing so would make our own lives worse because of the non-participation of others, and so we contribute to making X happen not directly, but instead by trying to put rules in place that enforce participation.

I refer you to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
It's not clear cut like that. Sometimes your application will depend on a particular release of lxml or PIL, while the base system is already providing one (because it's a dependency of something else). Or sometimes you can't install python packages that require compiling on your server because it doesn't have gcc and family installed (a common security practice). That's when apt/python packaging starts falling apart.
The twitter social avatar doesnt work.
Importantly, this has been demonstrated. The CCC has been doing it for years and published a howto with material costs in the low one-digit Euro range.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
To unlock your phone? Each time you need to use / check it?
Hackers claim to have foiled Apple's new Touch ID system
Ask HN: HN meet-up at Oracle OpenWorld/JavaOne
Would anyone be interesred ... Propose time and place.
It will be interesting to see what he will come up with as all of the current podcast apps IMO leave a lot to be desired. Also interesting considering Apple resently released a podcasting app.
We need a truly open source mobile operating system.
I never noticed any performance problem with Python-based GUI programs. Well, calibre's start-up time is a little too long, but once it's running I don't notice any slowness. If you have a special program in mind, would you explain a bit about it?
22 if they also use their nipples.
Yes, they were - for example http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/iphone-5s-fingerprint...:

"As for the tech itself, Rogers explains fingerprint scanning as a whole is more secure than the four-digit passcode. Copying someone's fingerprints remains a cumbersome process, not to mention pricey -- as much as $200,000, by some estimates."

Edit - and http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/12/5s-fingerprint-s... which someone linked elsewhere in this discussion:

" And like the sensor in the iPhone 5S, the sensors ... can detect the ridge and valley pattern of your fingerprint not from the layer of dead skin on the outside of your finger (which a fake finger can easily replicate), but from the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger, using an RF signal. This will protect you from thieves trying to chop off your finger when they mug you for your phone (assuming they’re tech-literate thieves, of course), as well as from people with fake fingers using the fingerprint they lifted from your phone screen."
I think the intermediate images are a deliberate feature, at least during Dockerfile development. They serve as a cache of the results at each step, so that expensive steps don't rerun between invocations of the Dockerfile, even if you've been editing later steps.

I'm basing this off the documentation I've read, I haven't tried it myself.
Difficulty of lifting a good print is probably proportional to the resolution needed. Ie, you need a higher quality print to get a higher resolution image to contain additional information.
Great job! I was looking for a small and simple embeddable language (smaller than Lua) for a long time. Solid looks very promising to me.
Yes. I anxiously await Gruber's lengthy post-mortem about the fingerprint reader being just as bad as all previous fingerprint readers, equal in number, length and enthusiasm to his previous posts about how wonderful and advanced it is.
"Thermorectal cryptanalysis" it is called in Russian, and involves a soldering iron.
The opportunity cost of buying iPhones and Cronuts
Well, they were wrong. Quite obviously. I'm just saying that I was very much expecting an attack like that to work.
On makerjuice.com you could get the SubG+ resin that shrinks "less than 3.5%", but the shrinkage should be consistent enough to compensate for that by printing slightly oversized parts.
Wouldn't it? E.g., what if you did the derivation from the PIN in combination with a securely stored random salt (that could, as an added bonus, change every time you changed your key code)? That was, incidentally, what I meant by "properly used their KDF".
That's not the same program.

You're using a set literal ({}) instead of a list ([]) or a tuple (()).
>Basically what I'm trying to say is that if I did make it into that 10% "elite", I see a better opportunity by leaving than staying.

So, even as someone who is kinda upper-middle class, economically speaking, from what I can tell, other countries are more focused on class markers like degrees;

As a 10%'er[1] without a degree, well the USA seems to have much more opportunity for the 'I have experience, but no degree' type than the rest of the world does.

(Now, I did a whole bunch of research on this a few years back, but I didn't actually try, so I could be wrong. From what I saw, it would be hard, but not impossible without a degree, and once I moved, well, I wouldn't be getting paid more than I can get here, and in most cases, I'd be getting paid rather less.)

So, uh, yeah. From what I've seen, yeah, you are way better off as a poor person in Europe, once you are in; This does alleviate some of the worries that come with entreprenuership. but getting in? yeah, they are going to make it difficult for you if you don't have the traditional markers of the upper middle class. And generally, you are getting the most cash on the barrelhead for your time here in silicon valley; If you want to finance your venture through your own labor (and are willing to live on the cheap) this is the place to do it.

[1]typical overpaid bay-area sysadmin/programmer contractor. Top 10%, in terms of income, if you mean the whole US of A; not so much if you only count silicon valley.

As an aside, I find it interesting that Americans tend to count income more than assets. Perhaps because it's easier? I am struggling to own some means of production, but... what I do own is difficult to value. Actually, at the moment, my income is way more complicated than that, too, as I'm dumping everything into that aforementioned means of production. But, eh, when I looked into this in 2006, I was making six figures working full time, so everything I said was true as of that time.
Spend time around the people you want to be.
The message of the FSF is not particularly relevant to economics. Free software does not mean "non-commercial," it's free as in freedom. If you want to have control of your own computing then proprietary software is not necessary for any purpose; avoiding it is a must.
politics and software are tightly coupled independent of whether you pretend it's not...

regarding your second paragraph, fsf needs money to carry campaigns to tell the people about the inconvenient truth.
If this gets marked as legal, I'm going in to the business of legally phishing your passwords.
Can the fingerprint reader work with other parts of your hand ? For example if you can use the back of your finger or part of your palm then it could be a little more secure because you don't leave the prints of these everywhere.
I read that as

> Android users are sick of being called [names] by a handful of smug, condescending posers [iPhone owners].

Silly name-calling goes in both directions, and silly accusations of name-calling go in both directions. Same old story.
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> Fingerprint scanning is absolutely better than a pass code

How often can you change your fingerprint? I can change my pass code virtually an infinite number of times. How often do you inadvertently leave your pass code in random places just by touching things?

A good pass code is absolutely better than fingerprint scanning.
In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future going to be made?
Let's discuss...
Don't worry too much about posting a duplicate. It is basically Paul Graham's fault that this happens so frequently. It is rooted in site design. As far as I know, absolutely nothing has been done to address the root causes of this phenomenon. In fact, it appears to me some newer aspects of the site only make it more likely/more necessary.
More context, for those of us not up-to-date on German politics?
Inside the Kowloon Walled City (2012)
Thanks! Quite honestly, my primary reason for making it was that I didn't like the Lua object model and Python/Ruby/Guile are a bit inconvenient to embed.
While I agree with the spirit of your post, there is in fact a method of security that is definitively unbreakable (if used correctly/precluding side-channelling): the one-time-pad.

But as you imply, the reason we don't use it is because the opportunity cost and hassle of using it are too high for many uses.
> So your point is that there should be no shared dependencies

You can have both, where it makes sense, instead of everything being shared by default (e.g., you can provide all your software a base OpenSSL version). See how FreeBSD solves that with jails and sharedfs.

> or centralized collections of trusted software?

All you need for that is app signing (e.g., App Store). You can still update apps independently, there's no dependency management.
I don't know. I'm an artist, and while I enjoy getting paid to create and preform, taking money for reproductions that do not require further effort on my part always feels weird.

I don't feel I have the right to tell anyone not to reproduce my art at their own expanse. If I play you a song, it's your right to record it and play it to your friends - just like it's your right to whistle it. Just like it's your right to remember it.

To me, intellectual property feels like a diversion. Instead of having an audience that pays me for my work, I have a middleman that makes me work for free so that he can overcharge my audience while I wait for my percentage.

I don't need to restrict anyone's freedom to make a living. The middleman does. And if grooveshark hurts his income - he had it coming. He's been hurting both our incomes (artist and audience) for years.
All the credit unions in my county (sw usa) charge monthly fees for "low balance" checking accounts unless you meet several stringent requirements, like: >= 30 debit card transactions, >=1 direct deposit, e-statements, etc. These are and'd requirements, not or'd.
I always wondered how much of that effect was due to the smoothing out of irregularities in the skin that averaging produces. Reading http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychol..., I get the impression that that is a main cause of the effect. I base that on the findings that

"the more attractive the original faces, the more attractive the resulting compound face (r=0.75 for female and r=0.68 for male faces). Thus, not simply the number, but also the attractiveness of the original faces influences the average attractiveness rating of compound faces. This result is in contrast to the 'attractiveness is averageness' hypothesis."

and

"Rather, it seems that not the proportions but the surface characteristics (e.g. skin texture) of a face decide wether it is regarded attractive or not. In terms of facial proportions, this means that the 'attractiveness is averageness' hypothesis is clearly falsified."

Edit: of course, further research is needed. For example, the subjects doing the ratings all did their shoppings in Regensburg. That's way better than the typical selection of around-20-years-old psychology students (at least 80% female) of late 20th century Western European upbringing, but it will have had an effect on what constitutes beauty.