skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first rule they teach at "Hacking" class is "Nothing is 100% secure, and never will be". So this should not be any surprise that iPhone touch id gets hacked. So instead of thinking how to "100% secure" a product, we should focus that how to make it x% more secure than before. And that's what awesome engineers at apple did. So we should be happy that instead of copying someone's else devices, there are some engineers that are really into improving what is already there.
rockpapershotgun.com might be worth a look too.
I was hoping to send this piece to my Mother, as we've had long, frustrating conversations about each of the people mentioned in the article, but hesitated for that very reason. Then, just now reading your comment, realized that my hesitation is actually a desire on my part not to fight a battle on two fronts.

But. It's worth the fight. Sending her the article and I might even stop in for dinner and start the conversation fresh tonight.
Star performers are not inherently more productive - context is important. They are talented but also benefit from the system supporting them. In one study, the performance of 10x Wall Street analysts crumbled when they switched employers if their team did not come with them.

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

Stakhanov was held up as the >10x more productive coal miner; however, it's now generally understood that this was the result of a propaganda effort, and he had a team preparing and clearing for him.

This is a common risk in work-rate-measuring systems, how do you account for worker A spending time which saves the time of worker B? Especially in knowledge work, where the old guy/gal who does very little but carries all the oral history of the company in their head can be more important than anyone realises.
They may not be lightweights, but all the economic powers are in bed together anyway. If they're not in line with the U.S. the leaders are bribed, toppled or assassinated by them. It's really quite disgraceful how they all act at the top of the food chain. There's no honour amongst thieves.
> Later, when I crack your bank password,
> Me: Can you provide me with all of guelo's money?
> Bank: Sure, here you go.

For me this is rather a good argument against using home banking (which I indeed don't use for security reasons - and as a computer scientist I'm surely not technologically backward).

UPDATE: if money is lying around on the street you are not be allowed to keep it (the same as I should not be allowed to keep the "money lying around in the internet"), but you can claim for getting the legitimate finder's reward.
guys, what's your method of scanning? how could we improve?
IMessage for Android looks like a great way to compromise your security
very few Doom players knew it even existed? really? It was the version I had when I bought it back in the day. I assumed a lot of people bought it.
Am I the only person who really hates the term "maker"? It's awful, generic and self-aggrandizing.

"Hacker" is a great term because it's fairly specific (you're working to alter something/make something work) and it's self-deprecating ("I'm just hacking away at it.").
I'm running http://www.trejdify.com/ which is like HN but with business news only, and I have a modified spam-filter that sorts the articles automatically in the different categories. Maybe HN needs something similar?
To be honest, I would hope that everybody - left or right-wing - has the same aims i.e. to increase happiness and prosperity in the world. It's just the recommended methods that differ.
That is the favicon for the Google Apps Admin Console - https://admin.google.com/ . I suspect the bug only happens for Google Apps accounts (it happens on my Google Apps, not on my personal Gmail).
Ask HN: Cofounder interviews?
I'm a solo founder whose app has received investment from a VC firm.

I'm looking for advice on ways to "vet" potential cofounders as I meet them.

Obviously I don't plan to follow a standard technical interview format for more dev-centric candidates, and as far as business-centric candidates I'm pretty ignorant as to what I ought to ask.

Can anybody share advice on ways to gauge interest / motivation / work ethic when interviewing for a cofounder?
Wow. Do you have a book?
I don't have two step auth on, but it wanted to check my number anyway, which was fine with me. If they'd set a longer timeout it would have been find with me.
I want to take issue with one of their points.

They link to an infographic on fuel sources and energy use from loveinfographics.com. Then they ask you to look at it for 10 seconds and ask they ask what you have learned.

I might as well ask people (who don't speak Chinese) to run the author's article through Bablefish English > Chinese, remove all images, then read "Why We Hate Infographics" article carefully and tell what they learned. It would, of course, be a useless article, but that does not reflect badly on the article: it was never intended to be consumed that way!

The infographic they link to is the kind of infographic that I find extremely valuable (and also quite difficult to create). A diagram which conveys a VERY significant amount of information in a very concise format. Looking at that graphic I can glean the following facts:

* Gas and oil make up a little more than half of US fuel supplies.
* Electricity is used roughly equally by residential, commercial, and industrial clients (well, slightly less for industrial).
* I heat my home with fuel oil. Apparently I'm a minority in that, but not by an extreme amount: we fuel oil users make up maybe 5% of the usage (not the population).

None of that information was a specific detail that the chart authors wanted to convey, so using less detailed methods would never have conveyed the information. A series of charts with numbers could have conveyed the information, but not in a form I could have processed with my brain (unless maybe I used it to build a chart like this).

I want to defend complex data visualizations that convey large amounts of information in easily perceived ways. I still think the "infographics" that just just illustrate things with pretty pictures are stupid.
I understand where you're coming from and I concede that you might be more efficient with your current setup, but I disagree about the debugger. Pdb, gdb and any other command-line based *db-s are what people first started using a few thousand years before entering the stone age. I've used gdb extensively and I can tell you there's no substitute for a good IDE where you can see the code, variable values, stacks, threads and watches, all at the same time; it makes life so much easier. It can be done in the old fashion way but there's nothing to gain from it.

On the other hand I haven't seen any good free Python IDE-s (like Visual C++ is for C++) and you are sometimes forced to use pdb for the lack of a better option (Python Tools for VS are decent but took me a lot of time to setup properly and I didn't like the workflow).
That said, the lack of good tools doesn't mean the old ones are good, only that the language lacks good tools, mostly because people get used to the stone age tools. And sadly that is the case for a lot of programming languages.
The Next Evolution
Well they do if they've read Declare anyway. Not enough people properly appreciate the Kim Philby connection.
1) fit 30 items on one screen;
2) remove wasted space and visual noise in the bottom, top, left side and right side.

PS: I am not your target audience.
From the article:

> If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone.
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You're missing something. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of this particular situation, it's self-evident that a right to freedom on expression is not carte blanche to publish anything – you're still rightly subject to controls.
Get over it. All this effort so some rich kid can go to a private school overseas?

What about the 99% of kids with autism who's parents can't afford to send their kids overseas four times a year to a rich kids school.

Their kids get stuck in a shitty British school. Even worse it might not even be private!

Seems to me this school is in the 'not really proven' category, which would make me extra cautious it's not just a scam given the normal scams run against parents of autistic kids.

But all that's irrelevant, the parents can spend their money as the wish and assuming Heathrow is not tax payer funded they also may do as they wish.

But saying 'Ok, now i finally understand why our governments treat us like filth.' because people here on HN see through fluff stories is a bit much really.
They are so fond of telling us, "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."

What does Obama fear?
Okay, then you can jail people if and only if you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the downloaders they enabled were going to buy that music otherwise. Criminal court? Criminal court standards.

Six years is still pretty fucking ridiculous. And I somehow doubt the newspapers will see any management go to jail for grabbing people's photos from Flickr.
You don't, but you get free membership in the Church of Emacs if you switch.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ChurchOfEmacs
Part of the reason Doom95 wasn't very popular was that came along so late. It didn't come out until 1996, which was 3 years after Doom originally came out for DOS and the same time Quake arrived.

I didn't have a Doom-capable computer until 1995, and it was hard to find people to play Doom/Heretic/Descent since everyone had moved on to Duke 3D and some game called Warcraft...

It was nice to not have to play Doom in DOS anymore, though.
I feel a little bit ashamed to post this but whatever. I used to write bots for a popular online game that would harvest materials and sell stuff in the games auction house. At first I only wanted to automate some tedious, boring tasks in the game, but over time I got really good at it to the point where I wouldnt have to touch my guy for days. Anyway, there where lots of bots on my servers and we would all undercut each other to a point where our materials where worth almost nothing. Around this time the company released an API where you could pull auction house data for your server. I wrote some scripts that would pull the data, store them in redis and crunch some numbers that I would later feed to my bots, to gain some advantage. Basically, I was able to withhold my stock when the price reached a certain threshold and buyout all of my competitions stock at super low prices. By that time I had already "scaled up" and ran several instances on various servers, all full automated by some python scripts. I wrote a web socket based web interface that allowed me to see my bots log messages in real time from work. I set up alerts when game masters messaged so I was able to answer them to prove that I was not a bot, all remotely. It was so much fun. At the end of each month I would sell the in-game currency to some chinese companies, the last few months I made between 300-500 € / month, double that amount around christmas. One day, the bann hammer (rightfully so!) hit me hard and I lost all my accounts. It still was a fun experience that introduced me to several new technologies.
> If you're effectively saying that any individual has free reign to do whatever they desire with trade secrets, sensitive diplomatic information, and whatnot because of a moral injury they may feel the system is giving them, then you've effectively destroyed any form of organized human activity that involves trust or secrets.

That's a straw man argument.

There are lots of innocuous things that could destroy our civilization if everyone chose to do it all the time. If everyone had their A/C turned up to MAX on a hot summer day, the entire continent will suffer a blackout and all industry will grind to a halt. If everyone exercised their right to travel on public roads at the same time, there will be a massive traffic jam everywhere. What saves the day is the mundane fact that not everyone exercises all of their rights all the time. Just like the bandwidth of your internet connection, rights are routinely oversold with the expectation that not everyone will use them at the same time. Otherwise everyone will have ridiculously low bandwidth caps.

Most people who support Snowden believe that some people sometimes have a right, or even a duty, to divulge secrets. Organized human activity as we know it will, of course, grind to a halt if everyone in fact divulged everyone else's secrets all the time. But the mundane fact of the matter is that most people will keep secrets. Common sense, not strict laws against divulging secrets, keeps human civilization alive.
I appreciate the appeal to reason and evidence, but these arguments miss the root: trust. Many people don't trust the medical establishment. If more people did trust the medical establishment to consistently provide optimal treatments and self-correct in case of error, the whole nonsense over vaccines would never have happened.

And if someone doesn't trust you, look in the mirror. I mean, look hard. The authors of TFA look in the mirror, love what they see, and ask the reader, "how can you not love me too?"
This is what I found with a quick search on the Constitute Project:

"the right to freely express and spread thoughts, ideas and opinions through words, in writing or by any other means of reproduction."
> (although the judge is given a great deal of latitude and only egregious cases would be overruled)

This does depend on where you are, different jurisdictions will draw the line in very different places. E.g. England has particularly strict rules on bias and the appearance of bias in judges: in a famous recent case, Augusto Pinochet successfully got a ruling that he could be extradited to Spain overturned, because one of the judges on the five judge panel (Lord Hoffmann) was a director of a charitable trust linked to a body (Amnesty International) that had submitted an amicus brief in the case.[1]

(Not that it did Pinochet much good, since a differently constituted court later came to the same conclusion as the original one).

[1] http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld19989...
This sort of landscape memory has happened extensively with entirely unrealistic, fabricated worlds too, though (cf. MMORPGs (World of Warcraft) and even games such as DOOM).

Surely the fact that there are people out in the real world conversing with one another about places in your fabricated one is a selling point rather than something to be discouraged?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

There is something verifying and controlling what the watchers do (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...). The problem is, that system hasn't been effective at stopping the abuses some of us would like stopped.
My expectation is that any device I own is as secure as possible by default until I choose otherwise.
It's funny how they used "US citizens" instead of "people".
Here's an example of the kind of logical trap you are falling into: http://boingboing.net/2010/11/19/odds-of-cancer-from.html
In this context I'd say it is fine, because it describing people who are specifically doing hardware hacks. 3D printing and the like.

But I agree that in general the term 'maker' has become very overused to be point of not meaning anything at all.
>They're all apart of the council on foreign relations... This in my opinion, is why we won't change...

So was Carl Sagan, Angelina Jolie, Paul Krugman, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, Aaron Ross Sorkin, etc etc.

The CFR is a collection of influential Americans who meet to discuss and influence policy on the gamut of topics. It isn't a place where the Illuminati lizard-people meet to perform occult rituals and determine how to enslave the population of the earth, despite how the interwebs tries to paint that picture.

It's hard to say they have any specific agenda when you actually read some of the (vast amounts) of work they produce. You are welcome to disagree with their policies, but don't act like they're some powerful entity that's ruining the world. It's incredibly naive.

>Expect less worker rights, more outsourcing, more free trade, more deficits

So, on the one hand you criticize others for apathy, but on the other you criticize outsourcing, which moves jobs into the capable hands of the denizens of other, poorer countries, rather than hording them in your own country; free trade, which is hugely beneficial to everyone involved, always, provided everyone actually practices it; and (I assume governmental) deficits. Why are there high deficits, currently? Oh yeah, social safety net. Should we get rid of that?

My point is, these subjects (even TBTF) aren't black and white.
Yeah, it's even got Thy Flesh Consumed which was from Ultimate DOOM (the last official id DOOM 1 release, which came out years after DOOM was first released).

I think Newell's comments are about showing developers that Windows games could have good frame rates. Which is reasonable.

The Neogaf poster is confusing that with Newell showing the DOS version to people to prove that the PC could have awesome games.
I said it was daft in the context of his recount. You seem to miss important parts and move the goal posts a lot there and the passive agressive reuse of others language and the cherry picking stuff ain't my thing at all, so I will leave you going at it alone. I do not wish to engage at that level at all.
simple - JSIO.
I would say this is either driven by Gabe Newell or Linus Torvalds's middle finger.
> They may be more risk averse than someone younger with fewer obligations, for many of the same reasons outlined above.

Arguably, if they're risk averse they have no business in the startup game. But that's neither here nor there.

I see where you're coming from. I guess when I read it I understood it as "Hey, let's get together for an evening an work on something - I'll even pay you with it if it's for our company" type thing, which sounds entirely reasonable. Then again, taking a PTO day to do a trial day of work has a really minimal level of risk to it.

I think there's a happy medium between where the industry is now and the line you're unhappy with crossing. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. :)
But... how does it work? Without such information this article reads little better than an advertisement.
I agree with the comments.

On HackerNews main page, I can see the top 24 links without scrolling. On MakerNews I see 8.

The drawings on the side are nice, but it's the first thing I see when coming on the page. I need to self consciously blind the side of the page to focus on the content.
Came here to say this. Gabe is welcome to his version of events but like all humans is suffering from selective memory syndrome. Alex St. John is the one who "made it happen" in my recollection, and I was pretty close to the action.
The alignment of the two ages is actually pretty recent, at least in the US. Traditionally, military conscription age was 18, while voting was 21. It was moved (in 1971) due to agitation from people who argued that it was unethical to conscript people to die for their country, but not trust the same people to vote for their leaders. But that's merely an argument for why voting age should be <= conscription age, not necessarily an argument that it should be ==.
I really like the visualization component of this analysis. It's really neat, but I wish I could search by school.
Unfortunately true, the only thing keeping them in line is the odd street protest or risk of revolution.
Problem is things need to become very bad before people start going into the streets.
This would imply that it's not against the law to post a link to other material regardless of the legality of that material. It's exactly the same as saying "Go to X address if you want to obtain illegal drugs" and then getting arrested, charged and imprisoned for sending someone to a known dealer...
Apple launches faster iMacs with 802.11ac WiFi, Pro graphics, improved Flash
Can you revise your comment? I can't understand it.
In order to read this website, are you supposed to 3D-print yourself some special glasses that render light blue text on white legible? Is that the secret handshake?
Nothing, 0 ;( But after seeing so many success stories here, I hope one day to overcome that internal brake inside me that prevents from trying.
And if someone doesn't trust you, look in the mirror.

What do you do to gain trust if someone is continually spreading rumors about you behind your back?

http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
Pretending the Spanish government has no responsibility for its actions makes it so much easier for the US to get its way, but I guess it makes people feel better.
Statistics Show Why WordPress is a Popular Hacker Target
A research shows that more than 70% of the most popular WordPress websites (in Alexa top 1 million sites) are vulnerable to automated hacker attacks.
Somehow after reading the linked site I found the term 'operating system' misleading. My first thoughts were, how would all these poor people manage to install a new OS on their machines in the first place?
I wonder how much power it takes to desense a GPS receiver, however.

Terrifyingly little, it turns out. Signals from the GPS constellation are about as 'bright' as a light bulb several thousand miles away, and the modulation format usable by civilian receivers is not exactly jam-resistant.

Thankfully there's no reason for a GPS antenna on an aircraft to look anywhere but straight up. It can be well-shielded against interference from within the cabin. Still, GPS interference is a real, reproducible and documented issue, unlike the cargo-cult science being discussed here.
> Wait, what. You meant to come out against ageism, then you criticize old people for voting "wrong"?

No, I'm simply pointing out that in this day and age, we have more older people voicing their opinion. This leads to policies that favor this group and disadvantages other groups (youth).

I think Thomas Jefferson had much to say on the tyranny of one generation to the next.

> All in all, if you take a step back from you criticisms, there's a common point: Legitimacy. Submitting a ballot every few years is a very weak foundation for a government as sprawling and powerful as most modern and western ones. Fiddling the knobs of who can vote does little more than shift the balance of power inside the political class.

Agreed. However youth suffrage is an important topic. You say that society needs to protect childhood, but to me, it seems like they're protecting them from their own opinions and values... Like the article mentions.
No, just a programmer with a philosophy degree who occasionally tries to convince himself that the degree was worth it ;)

Peter Ludlow, who wrote the NYT piece, is a real Professor of Philosophy. If you're interested in philosophical treatments of cyber rights, hacktivism, and online communities, read his books!
My thought exactly. My gut feeling says the value is in the range from "inadequate" to "bullshit" since I cannot see a way in which software on an external device can run with higher priority than software on the server itselves to which it is connected.
at Codeship (https://codeship.io, I am one of the founders) we support Bitbucket and have been for a while. We use LXC as well and are currently looking into Docker for our next infrastructure steps.
Ref: the simplify point. The famous (via Tufte) graphic of Napoleon's invasion of Russia (http://www.improving-visualisation.org/vis/id=205) is widely cited as as a great example of conveying information useful and dramatically. If you accept this as an exemplar--you don't have to of course--it's anything but simple. Rather, it's a graphic that requires study but, given that study, offers up a great deal of information in return.
Since you asked (but not really)...I've actually always thought the term hacker sounded silly especially when spoken. Not sure what else I would go with but something about it feels cheesy and self-involved.