skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: it's still in beta and not yet open to the public, for the very reason that the creator is still sorting out these questions.
If that's true, it should be well documented somewhere for reference. Please share a source if you get a chance.
I was going to argue with your statements but than I turned the screen in my phone off and realized that the front part of the screen is covered with my thumb prints, and they are ripe for photographing.
Interesting statistics! I was homeschooled by my mother and feel that it was instrumental in shaping my path into both computing and entrepreneurship.
I'd be willing to bet that over the next couple of years millions of people will try to log into somebodys iPhone that they shouldn't have access to, but in the process are prevented from doing so by the fingerprint based security.

I also bet, in 99.9999% or more of those cases, the attacker doesn't even attempt to bypass the security by faking the users fingerprint.

I'd also be willing to bet that these figures are substantially better than the current situation where people don't bother to lock their phone at all. People will use it because it's a gimmick, not because of it's security properties, but it will still work.
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One interesting, high quality source I've used for exploring new areas is the Introducing series of graphic novels [1]. The main topics covered are science, philosophy and psychology. I've gone through the majority of the philosophy ones. My favorite is Introducing Nietszche. It gives an overview of his life, major works, and impact. Another good one is Introducing Postmodernism.

In general, these books are quick to read and act as a good launching point for a deep dive into any topics you find interesting.

[1]http://www.introducingbooks.com
Apple fingerprint lock defeated
That would work in the sort of Hollywood movie where the government has everyone's DNA on file.

Then again, I guess we've seen that you literally cannot be too paranoid.
> I used to build tweet spam bots, I am very familiar with how they get detected.

I would have thought that the content of a tweet is quite low down on their detection list. IP address, user account, frequency of tweets etc would be much higher.
I liked the idea without passwords https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6330994
Small fortunes:

Marijuana, online privacy, personal defense weapons, batteries, patent law.

Big fortunes:

Ocean mining, fuel and energy, long-distance wireless communications, medicines, education.
>> "Pretty good security would be to require both the fingerprint and a PIN (for unlocking the phone, at that stage a fingerprint is fine for authenticating iTunes' digital purchases)."

I believe that's the opinion being referred to.
Make things. Music, art, stories, games, movies, buildings, robots, etc. Pick something you don't know how to do and figure out how to do it.
Gmail has a feature that lets you see what IP addresses you have logged on from. (Look for the little link at the bottom right.) Would LinkedIn's IP show up there if they are using your google password? Has anyone ever seen this behaviour?
This is really good. I'm sick of Photoshopping avatars, using Gravatar or finding an image elsewhere. This is going into the bookmarks for sure.
Yeah py2deb or py2rpm are great. Now do the same for all your dependencies. And their dependencies. And their dependencies. And their ...

Single artifact does not mean 'your code'. It means 'the whole damn project including all dependencies recursively'.

Think myapp-1.0.war that contains all dependent JAR files. Drop it in a container and it runs. Or your Go compiled tool that is one single static executable that has no reference to external code or libraries. Run it and it works.

I know how I can package my own Python code. I am not too worried about that. I am however really tired of packaging the whole thing every time. And then dealing with stupid things like python packages that need a C compiler to build. Or specific patches to dependent C libraries. Or specific versions of things that some distro might not have. Or dependencies for which I need a newer version than the OS provides. Or .. sigh .. there are so many stupid gotchas that are complete time wasters to deal with.
Using the method employed by the CCC to break the security is not trivial...
Are Silicon Valley Startups solving fake problems?
So is it art imitates life which is imitated by life again?
You raise a good point. I did some research to see the general percentage of public education costs are dedicated to payroll. According to [0], payroll + capital + debt service accounts for 84.2% of education costs in Texas, which are costs that homeschoolers cover in foregone salary, home costs, and mortgage interest.

[0] http://www.fastexas.org/study/exec/exhibits/ex7.php
Can VM be built separately from the compiler, so it could be used on small MCUs?
Actually, I did. I have a tweak from Cydia which autocompletes my Apple ID password when making a purchase from the App/iTunes Store.
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Don't take these suggestions the wrong way: even though the security won't be perfect for a while (or ever), these projects, which make encryption available to the mainstream are priceless.

Crypto.cat uses a browser extension, I think (disregarding all of cryptocat's woes) that is the way to go.
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Could someone add "[infographic]" to the title?
The full marketing text on the subject:

>You check your iPhone dozens and dozens of times a day, probably more. Entering a passcode each time just slows you down. But you do it because making sure no one else has access to your iPhone is important. With iPhone 5s, getting into your phone is faster, easier, and even a little futuristic. Introducing Touch ID — a new fingerprint identity sensor.

Put your finger on the Home button, and just like that your iPhone unlocks. It’s a convenient and highly secure way to access your phone. Your fingerprint can also approve purchases from iTunes Store, the App Store, and the iBooks Store, so you don’t have to enter your password. And Touch ID is capable of 360-degree readability. Which means no matter what its orientation — portrait, landscape, or anything in between — your iPhone reads your fingerprint and knows who you are. And because Touch ID lets you enroll multiple fingerprints, it knows the people you trust, too.
Individual instruction should increase test scores by about 2 standard deviations[1] but the linked results are only about 1 standard deviation above normal.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_Sigma_Problem
Other than a more intuitive grouping/categorizing and less crashing, it'll be interesting to see if anyone can improve on Downcast.
Well, they have to store fuzzy hashes rather than cryptographically secure ones since they're going to get a different section of the finger and slightly different features within that finger each time. There's a good chance that whatever form of fuzzy hashing they're using is reversible in the sense that, given a hash, you can create a fingerprint that isn't necessarily exactly the same as the original but will match that hash.

For example, the obvious approach is to store fingerprint features, which will be then matched by any print that has the same features in the same positions. If you do a good enough job of generating the new print you might even be able to fool police investigations, since they compare prints the same way.
The NYPD seems really obsessed with preventing stolen iPhones. Why is this?
Slows development end of story. Since the dawn of the library people liked to be able to browse freely!!! meaning they could pick up and put down knowledge at will. Think to the shitty D&D movie and how the thieves want to sneak into the mages horde of knowledge and what a shitty hitty world that was
Learning new skill will make you smarter. Something completely different from what you usually up to. If you spend most of the time reading books try tennis or dancing lessons. This will give you a new perspective.

Traveling is very useful due to the all the same reasons. You learn a lot of new things and getting a new perspective.

Being physically fit plays a huge role in your mental abilities and it's proven by many researchers.

To sum it up, the more diverse is your experience and the more things you try the better.
That is vaguely what I recall from my loose following of things, and wikipedia seems to more or less agree. The relevant citation is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables...
At Twitter Peak Hype, when journalists were writing silly things like: "Twitter is nothing less than a new internet protocol!", I had a perverse fantasy of implementing TCP/T(weet).

If someone were to do this, it would effectively subsume all further "I implemented $X on Twitter" posts. Sort of like showing that a language is Turing complete.
Thanks everyone for checking out the site. Would be great to get your perspectives on any of the following:(i) Do you think I should add a custom ConcussionJS sign up/login, or stick with Google/Facebook authentication?, (ii) what kind of projects would you use something like this for, (iii) what additional features would you like to see?
>I ask because, for instance, it is harder to run a company in Denmark than in the US.

That affects company founders (and mostly of non serious startups, that don't bring much to the job table in the first place).

The reverse, which affects employees (which are more numerous than employers by definition) is that it's easier to be an employee in Denmark than it is in the US.
The statistics details are listed below the image.
The VM, the AST parser, and the Bison/Flex frontend are built in a layered manner: you could (with the appropriate Makefile) build only the VM, the VM+the AST parser, or all three. I don't currently have Makefile options for this, but it would be pretty trivial to add.
Try to be skeptical without being cynical.

Remember that you are not your ideas or beliefs. At most those things are you at a specific point in time.

Being shown to be wrong about something does not make you a lesser or bad person. Merely wrong, and you can change that.
http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-passwo...

A journalist leaked the password given to him by Wikileaks by publishing it in his book. At that moment the encrypted file was already all over the internet.
Because CPython came first.

Because Python isn't about performance.

Because it's not really 6.3 times faster for most(any?) use cases.

Because VMs are misunderstood as superfluous abstractions where a good interpreter should be instead.

Because VMs are understood as superfluous abstractions where a good OS should be instead.

...

And most of all, because better hardware costs less then the extra man hours involved the transition.
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Gruber is an ignorant fanboy.

There are too many examples to pick from, but here's a recent one.

In his iPhone 5S review he rambles on about how Apple is an innovator and picks out the A7 procesor, TouchID and a new burst-mode camera feature:

"But the real innovation — there’s that word — is software, right there on the device itself, that makes it easy to select only the shots from those bursts that you really want to keep, and to throw away the rest."

Yet Samsung did the same thing for the S3 back in 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXEAyuoyQk
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Well, since they've never put a fingerprint authentication system in their hardware, I think that their claim still holds...
Always hard to predict, but one area where I'm sure there's lots of room is starting startups in industries that didn't previously have them. To use one example of many, LendUp.
Smashing media hype: iPhone 5s biometrics not really “less secure” or “hacked”
Hackers claim first iPhone 5s fingerprint
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I don't disagree that politics and software have close ties. But I fervently disagree with the particular politics of the FSF, even though we share common goals.

However, the FSF is absolutist and views their particular politics as inseparable from the goals, almost as if the politics are the goal itself. This is at best childish, because mixed in with their message that contains "inconvenient truth" they also include a lot of unnecessary BS. The logic that accompanies their political reasoning is patchy and convoluted at best, but these holes are pasted over with overwhelming passion and feeling.

I could support a more rational organization or lobby group, even if I didn't agree 100% with their politics, if we shared common goals. The FSF makes that impossible. They will therefore see no support from me, despite my continued support for our common goals.
I'm sorry if I sound nitpicky but where did you find the $225k figure for equipment cost? If my memory serves me right, David Pogue / New York Times quoted a much lower figure (and remember that this is not a production system) of about 70k (just the hardware, without the car). I can't find that link right now but I couldn't find anything about the cost in the economist link at http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21576224-one-da...
Nice - although I have to wonder. It says "96% understand politics, vs 60% of non-homeschoolers". What would be the corresponding quotas for evolution theory?

Also it would be good to have a comparison of pupils from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Otherwise "homeschooler" might just be a proxy for well-off parents?
Read more, read more things that make you think and that wow you, learn new skills, expose yourself to new forms of expression, meditate, try nootropics (Cerebrolysin, noopept, pramiracetam, etc), push your boundaries, watch videos on YouTube.
>Whether or not they would agree, being able to fire people at will is critical for job creation. In countries where you can't fire people expanding your operation is a much bigger risk.

And who said it should be risk free?

Better it being more risky for the employer than the employees.
a shell command is indeed not really deterministic but docker won't repeat a RUN step as long as it's not preceded by a non-deterministic (for docker) step such as ADD.

So a good way to optimize your Dockerfile is to put commands in an order like:

* dependencies, e.g. apt-get, useradd...

* containers configs PORT, ENV, USER from less likely to change to more likely to change

* ADD commands

* final RUN commands to setup your image
I was disappointed to see that this hack shows the sensor isn't relying on the "microscopic capacitive surface" being claimed by Apple. So it's really just another CCD camera under the button?
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the average homeschooling family spends $500 per child and year, the average public school spends $9953 per child and year

When you see this kind of statistics you immediately ask yourself who wants what from you and why. Of course the school district is more expensive, they have to maintain their buildings, transportation, and have to offer up remedial services by law. Most of all, they have to pay the teachers' wages, and the opportunity cost for the parent not taking work outside the home isn't counted.
To corroborate your point, here is the transcript from the 5S launch:

"The third feature is all about security. Now we have so much personal information on our devices that we want to protect. <snipped> So we have to protect them. The most common wave of course is to set up a passcode. Simple four digit passcode or more complex one if you want. This is something you do, dozens of times a day to unlock and get access to your phone. Unfortunately, some people find that's too cumbersome and they don't set it up. In fact in our research about half of smartphone customers do not set up a passcode on the device and they really, really should. That's the team has worked so hard in the brand new technology to make this easy and fun to do."

http://www.earningsimpact.com/Transcript/83555/AAPL/Launch-o...
>And this is the typical reason I cannot take Apple anymore. I've paid for numerous RogueAmoeba software licenses over the years and they are top notch.

Well, RogueAmoeba wares was always a bunch of semi-legal stuff, utilizing kernel hacks, private APIs and such.
Why?

In the mobile space, a race to bottom of the price point along with operating in China is making it increasingly hard for hardware companies to maintain their IP. Life sucks when your team's design has been stolen.
Does that actually work? I'm having... trouble... googling it.
Since smartness happens in the brain mostly, specifically neocortex, brain, memory, analitical thinking concepts are good places to start, So that you can understand why most of the advices are good. In order to give you a list.

Social skills:

- Learn to really listen other people.
- Learn to ask correct questions
- Body language, gestures
- Meeting new people from different cultures, especially people don't believe in prophets and hell and heaven stories

Improving brain:

- Playing a musical instrument
- Learning another spoken language
- No TV, no football, soccer bullshit, not too much porn, talking about girls & boys or cars& houses, celebrity etc.

Gaining Knowledge:
- Mathematics, Physics, Programming, Astronomy, Biology, Paleontology, Evolution, any science branch you are interested.

- On the other hand, i personally think, the best way to learn about a different culture is to travel whether it is local or not.

Some good resources:

- Here of course
- wikipedia
- documentaries
- coursera
- youtube, if you can avoid stupid girl podcasts, otw you will end up with bad recommendations.
- Follow inspiring people on twitter

I will stop know, i also want to learn what other sugesstions are :)
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>Touch ID is better than nothing and that people use Touch ID instead of nothing is better than the current state

That makes it great security.
Thanks everyone you guys are all very helpful. All the information in this thread should keep me busy for a long time. Exactly what I was looking for!
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> Other people are saying that researchers tend to write code that just works at a bare minimum...

That isn't specific to people with PhDs. Every programmer without job experience does that. Back when I worked on a Unix/C application for a company that hired new grads it was common to have code checked in without any error checking at all.

If the person is reasonably intelligent (and everyone who finishes a PhD is pretty intelligent) it takes all of about two weeks to break them of the homework coding style.
NYPD have been stopping people and asking them to upgrade to iOS7
I think this is great, and I'd use it. The marketing material needs some work though, took me a minute to understand what you were offering. Part of it is that I don't think Avatar is a widely known term for what many call a "Profile Picture". On XBox my avatar is a full 3D representation of a person, for example.

Somehow make it clear that is is a crazy-fast way to get user pictures on your site from a variety of sources.
Oof, The Economist is awful. I should know, I read the damn thing cover to cover for 15 years. Here's the short version: markets good, sarcastic captions.
There was a documentary about Apolcalypse Now and I think it was Coppola who said that they had to remove footage which showed US soldiers desecrating vietnamese corpses (even though these shots were based on actual photographs/eye witness accounts) because otherwise the US government refused to give them helicopters and whatnot.
"you don’t have to enter your password" != "you don't need a password"

As I understand it every now and again Apple will prompt you to enter your passcode/password, such as when you restart your device or if you haven't unlocked it in two days. Hardly a signal that passwords are done.
I will say that I've been lucky to be afforded some of the opportunities that I've had without a degree. I have at times made quite a decent living. But Danes aren't really bad off in that respect either. It's typical to see them completing high school and university later than other Western countries because they're afforded the ability to take time off (to work or whatever) and still complete their education.

The problem though was something that you mention yourself - the difficulty of obtaining assets. Real estate prices in the Valley right now are through the flippin' roof. Arguably the definition of a middle class is the ability to obtain your own assets.

If you're making a high wage but can't convert that to assets where you live, are you really middle class? If you're making a high salary but spending most (or nearly all) of it on rent and upkeep on debt, I'd argue that you're still working poor; you may be comfortable but you're dependent on a paycheck coming in.
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It says "96% understand politics, vs 60% of non-homeschoolers". What would be the corresponding quotas for evolution theory?

Further down, the text version says, "Consider politics and government too complicated to understand (4.2% / 35%)." I'm not sure how much to trust self-assessment here, and that phrasing makes it sound like this isn't even as strong a result as the infographic claims ("that isn't too complicated to understand" does not imply "I myself understand it well").
This is a tiny piece of information from a very large and interesting graphic, but it scares me that ~1% of homeschool teachers didn't graduate high school. I'm not saying a high school dropout can't be very intelligent, I'm just not sure they're the best substitute for a public education.
Maybe it's just me, but I consider purchasing Downcast a mistake. Complete lack of subtlety. Annoying noises to refresh and check for new podcasts, by default, seriously?
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"We need a truly open source mobile operating system."

We have one - Firefox OS from Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
> Just use brute force or dictionary attack over the wire. Given that most users use 4-digit pass codes, this can be done usually in minutes, almost always in less than an hour.

It's clear you've never actually attempted this. The timeout between passcode entries increases with the number of consecutive failures. Get 10 wrong in a row, and the device is wiped (if the user has chosen that option).

> Or, if your target is paranoid and uses a very long passcode, target the charger rather than the device itself. iOS assumes any physical device to which it is connected when unlocked is secure. Replace the usb brick with a small computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi) in a convincing looking Apple-esque case. Then wait until your target plugs in his iDevice and unlocks it. You can then dump the drive, or side load malicious code.

This no longer works on iOS 7. The user has to manually choose to trust the computer they're attached to prior to any communication going across the wire.
Combinatorical problems tend to grow in the amount of effort to try out all possible elements quite quickly, and quickly growing things in turns often hit physical limits. The following post on Security.Stackexchange explains it quite nicely; excerpt: the sun doesn't emit enough energy over its lifetime to power an extremely efficient computer able to try all combinations.

http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25878/25947

So basically we need some new form of computer (one that's not flipping individual physical bits), and not "just faster" ones, to crack certain encryptions by brute force.