skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome. I tried tweaking the URLs to see if I could find some of my first stuff (1999), but no dice.
I don't think the goal of Touch ID is better security nor is it an attempt by Apple to prevent the loss of iPhones from theft. The goal of Touch ID at the end of the day is to make it easier for people to make purchases, entering passwords to make an iTunes/App store purchase is a hindrance to Apple's bottom line. Currently because of the steps involved, people have the ability to rethink their purchases during the time it takes to enter and confirm they want to make a purchase. Touch ID takes away a few seconds of time to make a purchase, touch your finger on the reader and BAM! instant purchase.

The steps in which the Chaos Computer Club took to break into an iPhone, no criminal would even think of undertaking. In the criminal world the longer it takes to steal something, the higher the chance you'll be caught. It's no different to an engine immobiliser that prevents a car from being stolen. If a criminal were to take their time, they could pop the bonnet and start the car, but most criminals will just take your stereo and car contents and leave the car if they can't get it started within a couple of minutes...

Although, having said that. Apple's marketing speak does make Touch ID sound much more secure than it actually is. This might come back to bite them in the behind one day if the wrong person has their iPhone and data stolen and decides to act upon Apple's somewhat deceivingly clever marketing speak in a court room with dollars to spare.

And besides making it easier for people to spend money without having time to think, a fingerprint scanner to the not-so-technology inclined sounds futuristic and cutting-edge, which in turn will sell millions upon millions of iPhone units. While many who frequent HN can see past the marketing spin and realise a fingerprint scanner isn't all that exciting or new, the lowest common denominator who buys an iPhone sees things differently.
it is convenient to own a computer, but if you really can't afford it, you can get an old computer for pretty cheap nowadays or even a new one shouldn't cost you 500. Or, if you are broke, you can try the library or try to get a free computer somehow. A lot of people at my church donate their used computers to people who need them. Homeless people go to the library and use the computers all the time. It's not as convenient, but definitely possible.

That's if you use a computer. My opinion is that you do not need a computer, just a library card to a decent library. Or access to a local college library. I feel that the library is still the best place to get a free education.
We tried using this a few months ago. Its a nice way to be able to setup a profile picture system quickly. The big problem with it though, and why we no longer use it, is that there is no way to use your own default image when a user hasn't logged in via a social network. The default image they force on you is horrific.
Not recent enough!
That has already happened, if the absence of a moon base is any indication.
You know we are talking about China right? They don't build 400sm plots with a pool and a backyard. They build highrise apartments.

I thought I made that pretty clear when I said "med-high density houses".
iPhone market share is much smaller worldwide than in the U.S. In the U.S. they're around 40%. Android has almost 80% worldwide.
Yeah, I don't see much difference between 50% apple juice 50% water, and Gatorade. They're both great. I'll drink whichever is on hand.

After all, they both do the same thing: give you sugar and water, in a good balance for during- or post-workout. (Soda is too fizzy, too sweet.) Obviously, the fruit-juice version is probably healthier.

Gatorade isn't about your mental state, I don't know where the author got that idea. It's about water and energy in the form of instant calories.
Or in industries that didn't previously exist.
Unfortunately, they seem to be the majority.
The Soviets undertook missions of exploration for much the same reason as the US did. For scientific reasons, of course, but also for reasons of national prestige on the geopolitical stage.

If you look at the Soviet manned spaceflight missions things are very much different though. Around half of the "Salyut" space stations were actually military "Almaz" stations (Salyut 2, 3, and 5), at least one of which was armed with a fully automatic cannon designed to engage other spacecraft. The Soviets also pioneered the development of anti-satellite systems starting in the 1960s, long before the US had even started an anti-satellite program. The kicker is "Polyus", the first payload of the Energia launcher, it was an 80 ton orbital warship. It was a prototype designed around the missions of anti-satellite/anti-spacecraft warfare and laying nuclear "mines" in space (in contravention of the Outer Space Treaty, of course). Polyus itself did not contain mines though it did contain a set of test targets and a 1 megawatt laser. But Polyus failed to achieve orbit due to a glitch during the launch.

As far as exploration, the US has contributed more to interplanetary exploration than any other nation or group of nations. It has sent more successful missions to other planets and been the only nation to send probes into interstellar space. Excluding spending on ground-based ballistic missile defense the total spending on "Star Wars" is less than the cost of Apollo, ISS, or even NASA's fleet of space telescopes.
Another counter-example is the automobile market. Can I take an engine from BMW and put into a Buick? Can I swap stereos? Can I mix and match body panels from Japanese and American cars? The answer is no. And the reason is that an automobile is more than the sum of its parts: to appeal to the target market, the entire experience of the car is customized and optimized. Inefficiencies from specialization are not as important as the conceptual integrity of the whole.

Homes are another example: pre-fab has yet to catch on, because almost no two homes are alike.

I think you see integrated approaches whenever the performance of a particular product is highly multi-dimensional, such that global optimization is very difficult.
sorry.. I meant vim not vi.
The potential damage is zero. You (and everyone else in this thread) are forgetting that you can't steal an iPhone for more than 30 seconds anymore without Activation Lock locking you and everyone else out, forever, period, paragraph.

Activation Lock + Touch ID = all the security that almost anyone needs on a phone and much higher security than any of us have been used to up to now.
You are forgetting the key point: it really shouldn't be the DoD's business to influence movies. That is an incredibly perverse role the DoD is taking.
I haven't been able to watch the video because I am at work, but I do have a question.

The statistics on mining now show that it is quite unprofitable - http://blockchain.info/stats
Even if those figures are taken with a grain of salt, its clearly not the profit machine it once was.

Given that running a mining rig is becoming less and less profitable, won't we end up in a situation where the only people running rigs are the ones that have a vested interest in keeping the technology going... Probably reducing the total size of the network down to a small group of collectives. Even worse will be when there are no new coins being mined, profitability will be reduced even further - and the mining difficulty will be massive given all the dedicated mining rigs in the market from the boom time.

I jumped on the bandwagon early this year and speculated, gambled, purchased and ended up cashing out before the issues with Liberty Reserve arose and caused issues with my ability to deposit/withdraw from MtGox. So I have spent quite a bit of time using the technology, but have been out of the loop for a few months now.
We see him register his index finger. Then he places his supposedly artificial index finger on his middle finger, and the phone unlocks.

Since it uses RF and goes beyond the outer layer of skin, how do we know that the middle finger wasn't already registered?
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The Australian National Broadband Network board have submitted resignations
There was one of the atmospheric test frames just sitting in a vacant block on the outskirts of Sydney about a decade ago. I climbed all over it with a friend one night.

(not my video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tNp4bldzQ
Europe and much of america has tiny populations compared to china.

So is this story really: "Lots of people live in china" ?
Only an idiot would buy a jailbroken phone without a clean ESN on it. Those who do, know what they are getting. And you're forgetting Activation Lock, which a jailbreak will not defeat.
DRM is going to live long
If it autocompletes your name as well, would you say you don't have a name?
Thanks for the suggestion, it's on its way to my Kindle for later.
I was not talking about market share. Of the raw number of iPhones sold, what percentage are sold in the US?

(This by the way was not even my primary point. I can't tell what your primary point is because you've contradicted yourself.)
This makes me want to sign up for another LinkedIn account so that I can try this out! You're possibly an expert growth hacker...;)
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Doesn't the trail get cleaned off when you put it in your pocket?
You misunderstand me. The prices of high-end smartphones are the result of market pressures, not carrier policy. But the market pressure is, primarily, between the manufacturers and carriers; not the manufacturers and consumers. Carriers would like to pay less, obviously, but they make so much money by keeping people on expensive contracts that the market prices the phones where they are.

They prices of high-end smartphones have virtually unchanged in years, where the price of mid-range and low-end phones have plummeted. My assertion is that the reason for this is that high-end phones aren't targeted at consumers.
One of the problem with your logic is that getting support from the US military would lessen the appeal of the film to the reddit demographic.

Another one that comes to mind is the fact that redditers believe it is their God given right to pirate movies.
Thanks for all the input, Ruby is basically the equivalent of ESL to me. I'm an Objective-C programmer by nature (self-taught at that, I have a Bachelor's in Graphic Design as it stands). These are all really good points, as I get better in this language.

Logging in does generate and set the UserKey. I'm making a rolling, resetting SessionKey, so as not to keep one session alive forever. Every action makes a new one (also hence the primary key resetting that happens when it approaches the limit of a 32bit signed int).

Also, regarding tabs, I just can't get a damn editor to actually do these correctly. I've been using Sublime and then switched to RubyMine recently, but both are awfully annoying. Clicking in a new line doesn't automatically start the cursor at where the next tab should be, it starts it exactly in the line where I clicked - making me have to hit return again to get a new line in the appropriate place. Sometimes I just go on because I'm trying to put the idea down, resulting in shitty looking code. The only IDE I've seen that does this right is Xcode, and I really wish RubyMine could do it, because it's also been very nice so far. But poor UI in IDEs is neither here nor there for this project. Thanks again for the input.
I find it interesting that something that looks so similar to the shuttle (at a glance) is actually a completely different design & configuration (how/where thrust is generated).
Might I ask, what do you think the FSF should do regarding software patents?

The state impose the fact that there is software patents. FSF don't want software patents. Ignoring software patents resulted in the Novell deal and Microsoft "be very afraid tour". The tour which is explained by (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9019238/Update_Micros...) and (http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2007/05/microsoft_foss_.html).

What would the FSF best action be here? The kernel team's opinion seems to be that we should be ignoring the patent situation in favor of contributions from companies who have lawyers who will take the broadest possible interpretation when assessing patent scope. (http://lwn.net/Articles/200422/)

I can understand the kernel team point of view, and FSF. Both is valid approaches, but at the end you got to pick which devil you want to fight against. Currently, I dont see any patent agreements being levied against FOSS users, nor do I see any patent owners trying to claim ownership of the linux kernel. Maybe the GPLv3 patent agreement clause wasn't needed, or maybe the linux kernel is an exceptional project. I will need more data before claiming which "side" is right, or if both are.
This: "Every app needs avatars, we make it hassle-free"

doesn't actually explain why every app needs avatars, and or why I should use their service (hassle free isn't much of an argument these days, it's proclaimed everywhere). Saying it, doesn't make it so. Why does every app need avatars? Since when is it hard to host my own avatars? What's the overwhelming value proposition, such that I'm going to hand over a piece of my app?

Where's the sign-up button? The contact info? How much does it cost? Nowhere in top half of the site does it say anything about whether it's free or costs $x, you have to scroll to the very bottom to see that (no short-cut link to it either).

The site is seemingly designed backwards to how you would actually want to design a web service site.
Where have I contradicted myself? The iPhone (and other high-end smartphones) are less popular in countries where they are purchased unsubsidized. Are you disagreeing with this?
OP here.

This is a wonderful point. I'm in general a big believer in the "jobs-to-be-done" idea, but this is absolutely missing. Thanks for sharing.
First comment:

> It doesn't matter than the iPhone costs twice as much

Most recent comment:

> The iPhone (and other high-end smartphones) are less popular in countries where they are purchased unsubsidized.

This reads as a contradiction to me, as I've stated. I pointed out that your first comment didn't tell the entire story, and ever since then you've seemingly agreed with me. :-)
Since they'd reverse the charges anyway if it wasn't you who made them, what exactly is the problem here?
If you read this article by Apple, you'd imagine they were doing something sophisticated, that would not be defeated by a high-res fingerprint image. I honestly thought they were doing something better.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5949?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...

It gives a false illusion of high security to common people. People might feel their phone is now secure enough to store their bank passwords. I suspect some already do anyway :)
When most payments are under $5 it's probably ok. It's good enough for the credit/debit card payment industry, at least. (They relaxed the rules so you don't have to sign or enter a PIN for small purchases.)
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Have you seen Kerr's full appellate brief on Aurenheimer's behalf? Imo it's more compelling than the post you link, at the expense of being considerably longer: http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WeevBrief.p...
Baseless FUD is OK as long as Linux ain't the target, right?
I'm a huge fan of both Naval and AngelList. I'm excited to see what they do with this new war chest. AngelList played a big role in getting my company funded & I was lucky to have Naval as an investor as well. To me, the most impressive thing is they run AngelList like any other startup. I remember emailing Naval about a bug and 10 mins later he responded with news that it was fixed. The implicit data they are collecting is incredibly valuable and there's no one better positioned to capitalize on it than the team they have put together.
> I hereby dispute the idea that the DOD has made it impossible for big-budget Hollywood movies to criticize the US military, and suggest instead that the bias Hollywood in favor of the military is responding to customer preferences and not leading it.

Of course it's not impossible. There is a scale from possible to impossible, and the truth is somewhere in between. Contrary to what you suggest: (1) clearly the DoD doesn't think that this propaganda strategy doesn't have a substantial effect, otherwise they wouldn't be spending their funding on it (2) clearly Hollywood's script writers think that their audience would prefer the original less pro-DoD script. It's not impossible to go with the original script, but the original script without aircraft carrier would be a less competitive movie than the modified script with aircraft carrier (according to Hollywood decision makers).
I think this as well, but i'm also keeping my eye on graphene transistors. And then there is the quantum computer stuff which is beyond my ken.
'Tptacek mentions a great list. What I'll add to that is that, contemporaneously, criticism of the military doesn't sell movie tickets. Nobody wants to watch a movie about how American soldiers might be put in harm's way for a bad reason, or might not behave honorably, at least not unless the event is historically removed enough that the audience can separate the message of the movie from their own family, friends, and kids on the front lines.
> This reads as a contradiction to me, as I've stated.

In the first statement I was making a comment on the U.S., where iPhone is most popular, in the second I was making a comment on globally, because you brought it up. Both statements are true.
Think of it in more relative terms. The average iPhone user isn't going to be using a 4 character PIN, let alone a 22 character one. While the approach taken by Apple has a number of very real drawbacks, upgrading from no security to good (but still hackable) security is a huge deal.

This isn't going to keep the NSA out of your phone, but it will serve to keep the average smash-n-grab thief or other low-skilled random out of your phone.
This caught my attention, but then I read this:

"Things like passwords, debit card information or social security numbers lend themselves perfectly for Onions."

You can't be serious about that. Even if you could perfectly safely store SS numbers, don't even dare try to convince the public of that, they're going to think you're full of it instantly and the trust you require will be gone (deserved or not). You have to remember to account for the irrationality of people when you design a service, things they're scared of (even if they shouldn't be, and so on).

I'd argue that in general people don't feel great giving their SS number to the most secure companies on earth. Giving it to Onions.io? Forget about it. Don't go there unless you have the extraordinary reputation to overcome the fear people have about storing such sensitive info online.
I have a slight tangent to this topic: Why does every language need their own package manager? I can understand avoiding a specific distro's PM but do we need to reinvent the wheel for every single language? Do we need to poorly reinvent Make just so the build syntax matches the source?

It seems like a better solution would be to declare a common interface, both to users and to tools, for each language's package system. At least that way there's some guarantee (or at least a strong hint to the author!) that any given tool would support some nice-to-have extra functionality.

A use case for me is that I see a really neat thing Foo written in an unfamiliar language. Install instructions go something like: "Just run 'simple_make foo' to try it out!" or perhaps "Just run 'curl http://get-foo-bar.baz/rootme | sh -'". Okay, now perhaps it's installed. It might even be installed where I want but it probably won't be. But what happens if I need to update it? How can I keep all of these pet projects up to date? I have to go and learn easy_install, gem, leiningen, sbt, maven, npm, go, quicklisp, cabal, etc.

I mean, I'm not too lazy to read up on each tool but it adds up quick and not every tool supports an Autoconf-like --prefix or apt-get {update,upgrade}.
Switch to IPv6 and get rid of NAT?
I'd bet only some tiny fraction of that 7% is part of the crowd that supports wiki leaks. Reddit is a very diverse community. My wife frequents several mommy/pregnancy subreddits. She's totally not on board with the political views you might see on /r/politics.
The interesting thing is that, from when I talked to the guys at AngelList, the bigger market (with larger monetization potential) is not its funding platform. It's the hiring platform.
this app looks so much better than what is available at the moment. would really like to see an android version too
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
Amazing 30 minute animated explanation of how the economy works.
Unless he's constantly making tweets like this.
Right. I don't value the fingerprint scanner as some security breakthrough, rather it's just a convenient way for me to login to my phone and buy things in iTunes.
> A $100M exit doesn't get most VCs excited but angels and syndicates of angels prob love those.

Sure, I could see an angel who put $50,000 into a $250,000 seed round for a company at a $2 million pre-money valuation being happy about a $100 million exit if said company never raises additional capital, but I'd be interested in knowing a) how typical this type of scenario is and b) what the overall returns are, on average, for angels actively making these kinds of investments.
It's not surprising this was posted on a Sunday.
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>So is a thief who walks through a door carelessly left unlocked "accessing it exactly in the way it was intended." It's what he does afterwards that makes the difference.

If he takes some pictures and leaves he certainly isn't guilty of breaking and entering.
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True, I still need add a note in the video about the public key. As far as I know, this doesn't impact the security of the system, just makes addresses easier to pass around. Also true about the inputs. It's extremely hard to explain Bitcoin piece by piece without telling some fibs along the way!
Hadoop and the latest version of Lucene come with alternative implementations of strings that avoid the UTF16 tax.

Second, I've seen companies fall behind the competition because they had a tangled up C++ codebase with 1.5 hour compiles and code nobody really understand.

The trouble I see with Python, Mathematica and such is that people end up with a bunch of twisty little scripts that all look alike, you get no code reuse, nobody can figure out how to use each other's scripts, etc.

I've been working on making my Java frameworks more fluent because I can write maintainable code in Java and skip the 80% of the work to get the last 20% of the way there with scripts..
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Right, in personal use software, I can essentially ignore the existence of software patents; however there's an ongoing chilling effect if I distribute the software, and especially if I choose to sell services around it.

I would personally prefer something as destructive as patent be extinguished along with the only institution capable of enforcing it, but that seems like a stretch goal.

I implement all sorts of things personally which I'm only comfortable sharing with friends, which is the real problem. I'm not sure the FSF has any leverage to help people in the free software community freely express their implementations of various restricted technologies.

I have no idea what the FSF should be doing, and it seems they don't have much more of an idea.
How Tu-144 could be spied if it flew earlier?

Buran was copied in shape and in overall capabilites, once on orbit, for the reasons mentioned. Buran wasn't copied both internally and on the launcher side - so we might say Buran copied some things, but had others originally developed.

Soviets were great copiers, in many areas - and in many others there weren't where to copy from. They had to develop great many things themselves.