skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s not all that much being done that demands thirty years of experience

That is key isn't it. I don't live either in the Valley, but observe it through HN goggles.

There seems to be an infinite amount of money thrown to vastly similar projects. That's like brute forcing as much marketing ideas as possible and see what sticks, using cheap resources cajoled into that life by ego boosting measures: countless meet-up, conferences, conveniently all across the country (amazing how traveling makes people feel important). You are no mere developers, you are talents. Only you can do it, and your time is running short: by the time you are 30 you are braindead. Do it, you only have one chance to show the world who you really are.

Reminds me of the 90's, it used to be selling stuff online, now it is distributing ads. Hopefully this time it will not stop violently like it did last time, and for the time being that is at least a sector where money go to the younger generation.

The negative point IMO, is that prominent figures try too hard to drive people off school.
Sure education price is absurd in the US and I understand that a ROI is necessary, however, there are many many industries that will not look at you without that piece of paper. When time get tough (and they will, a career is 40 years long !) even the company that are hip and open right now will use that token when scanning a stack of similar looking resume.

They did the same trick during the Internet bubble. Countless of people self learned development, change career, and paid the price after the bubble had exploded. PHP God / Web Developer was a golden ticket to any company or sector, but as of 2002, you better had that backed by some formal education to catch a high paying job, or even a job at all.
It is more difficult to defeat a touch sensor than face unlock. With face unlock, I just need a photo of the phone's owner.

With a fingerprint unlock, I need to go to at least a little trouble to fake the fingerprint.
"Eschew surplusage", in the words of Mark Twain.
And I think that's the main problem with it. People think that it's actually a true replacement for a password, even though it's not.
I would be very surprised if it is that high now even with the early adopter skew. Reports say that last year it was around a quarter of smartphone users use passcode locks on their work phone (http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/02/28/sizing-up-the-byod-...). I imagine 5S rates are higher than that, but 90% would be insanely impressive. When it comes to computer security, as usual, people's apathy is the biggest problem.
And you don't think this has anything to do with, for example, the fact that a lot of the available resources in the world of technology and philosophy are in English?
Why does this link to the second page...?
A phone screen unlock is not like passwords as used elsewhere. It has to be short; otherwise it is impractical. We know that short passwords don't have much entropy. We also know that we can examine the grease on the screen and make a good guess as to what the password is.

If we consider phone unlocking mechanisms to be in a different "not fully secure, but at least practical" category, then I think it's perfectly acceptable to use a fingerprint as an unlock.

Mitigation is possible too. For example, the phone could lock out and require a proper password if it detects tampering (which, AIUI from other comments, the iPhone does).
I was waiting for this kind of message for months!
Hm, is the case on all platforms, nothing is lost though. Which behavior would you expect?
Red Hat releases upgrade to older Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL 5.10
GOOGLE GLASS hacked to broadcast live through YEVVO iOS app
Yeah I think that's the crux of the age-ism too. Anything that's going to lead anywhere in the same solar system as consciousness uploading is going to be a wee bit harder than serving ads at volume from the cloud. The lack of a large enough market for skills at that level speaks of the lack of problems that hard being tackled.

You're right about SV being underpaid, too. Those salaries look big until you factor in the cost of living and the number of hours you work.

Hint:

If you make $120,000/year and work 60 hours a week, you actually make about $80,000/year when compared to someone who works 40 hours a week and makes $80,000/year. Now plug that into your cost of living calculator in a city with $3000/month for entry level rent. Now you make the same as someone who makes $50,000/year in Austin, Texas.

Six figure recent college grads in SF/SV are cheap labor.

Oh, and I wonder who owns all that real estate? It couldn't be the same people who own a lot of the VC funds and large shares of the tech companies could it? Think about the journey the money is taking from the point it reaches your pocket. If that's true, it ends up right back where it started in short order minus taxes.

Bottom line:

You are a business selling your labor. Your net profit per hour worked is what you make, not your gross income. If you live check to check, you make nothing.

Edit:

The only minor wrinkle here is debt. If you have a lot of debt, then making the numbers bigger works to your advantage provided you use those bigger numbers to reduce your debt in nominal terms. Example: paying 10% of a 100k income against your debt will pay it off exponentially faster than paying 10% of a 60k income. This is why politicians love inflation. So if you have a 200k student loan maybe you should chase big numbers in nominal terms until that's gone.
Launched my iOS game as Open Source
Nope. I was wondering what kind of planet it was.
Interesting, they're using 3DSystems' Visijet material which is approved for use in 'guides.' I wonder if they're safe to put in your mouth every day?

Very few 3D Printing materials are actually safe for consumption.
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In my experience, when NO R-MOTE is not mentioned explicitly, it usually means that it is negotiable.
The Tennessee firefighter story has come up on HN before, probably because it was used as an allegory in discussions about the Democratic PPACA health care plan (which I support, ftr).

Some addition fun facts you want to know before making up your mind about what happened in this "disaster":

* The structure that burned down was on unincorporated land outside the tiny town of South Fulton, which is about as far as you can get in Tennessee away from any major metro area (it's approximately equidistant from Memphis and Nashville, near the equally rural southern tip of Illinois and Indiana).

* The owner of the structure deliberately chose to live in an area that had no fire coverage, unlike people who live in incorporated South Fulton and thus contribute directly to the South Fulton FD.

* The owner had no fire coverage because they refused to pay a $75 annual fee to extend coverage to their property.

* The structure that burned down was a doublewide trailer whose value might not have been that much higher than the assessable cost of firefighting service (when this discussion last came up I found numbers ranging from 20k to 50k). You can find estimates on the internet of fire department costs for one incident hovering in the mid-thousands, assuming no complications, and that's the FD's cost basis, not the chargeable cost.

Ultimately I don't think there's much to learn from what happened in Obion County. It will always be possible to situate your home far from the reasonable service area of a fire department, and it seems unreasonable to suggest that merely by doing so, the nearest municipality should be on the hook for providing coverage.
Nestopia (Open Source NES Emulator) ported to iOS 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness#Epidemiology

Look at the difference in Salmonella rates between the US and France for instance.

And yes, regulatory capture is an issue with the FDA, that has periodically resulted in scandals; but the meatpacking industry knows that without some obvious checks on their hygiene their industry as a whole is worse off. If one plant cuts too many corners and starts shipping moldy meat, the entire industries sales suffer; so it's in the meat companies interest to have someone policing defectors from good practices.
The approach seems fine when considering sightings vs (lack of) data for a specific potential-creature in a specific habitat.

But it seems rather flawed to group together all the various "large ape", "ape/human hybrid" type legends under the single umbrella of "bigfoot", so as to dismiss it as being "spotted too frequently to likely exist".

Why do this for "bigfoot" but not for giant squid? Surely the incredible breadth of "sea monster" legends and stories and sightings dwarfs the limited evidence that anyone had that a species of giant squids might exist.
Six Months to the End of XP Support
Oh, Oh... time-consuming website!
Seems a lot like the razor for all of your facial hair: http://www.shavingstuff.com/archives/011601.php
Brands like Stock Mfg. Co. are already doing this: https://www.stockmfg.co
This article accounts for some of what causes traffic jams, but have a look at this video. It shows a study done where people tried to drive on a circular track at a constant speed.

Things start out okay, but it quickly devolves into the back propagating wave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
Nice. This means that SeaMonkey will be getting these updates a day or two after FF.
One weird trick for whiter teeth!!!
Depends on scenario. If you steal a phone from a bag on the subway, you'll never be able to get that photo but can probably lift the print right off the phone itself. So maybe iOS has better-yet-still-mediocre protection against snooping yet inferiorly-mediocre guards against identity theft. Yawn.

In neither case is the phone meaningfully protected against serious attack. Why must we have this argument? It's a cute feature. Use it.
There is one function i looked for and couldn't find. It would be easeInOutCirc, but instead of being a combination of first easeInCirc, then easeOutCirc, it would be the opposite: First easeOutCirc, going into easeInCirc.
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It's not cognitive dissonance for two groups of people to have different goals, and ways to reach those goals.

Fresh young startup CEOs only hire other young people because they're more interested in getting paid to play Xbox than they are in actually getting work done. The goal isn't to make money, it's to make friends and network. Programmers don't need 20 years of experience to write a shopping cart in Rails.

The companies who actually solve hard problems are still hiring anyone they can get their hands on, regardless of age, because if HR's willing to spring for an extra $100k a year they can hire the co-inventor of TCP instead of a new grad who wrote their first client-server app a month ago.
I you want to monitor elastic search with Graphite then Collectd provides an excellent curl-json plugin which works really well with the ES health api

https://gist.github.com/dc2447/6783658
In every case, if you can't predict what people around you are going to do, it's better to leave more space in front. If the guy behind you is following closely and might rear-end you, leave more space so that you can slow down gradually, instead of slamming the brakes and inviting collision. If the car ahead of you might have to slam on the brakes, leave enough space that you can slow down gradually.

If someone in the lane beside you might cut in front of you, leave more space so that you can see them making their move and react in time. That reaction might be to speed up and prevent them before they change lanes, or to slow down and let them in, but in either case, leaving more space is a better idea than tailgating.
Yes, that is true but there is no problem with just 60 tabs. I have 260 open tabs and my browser is not sluggish and the memory usage isn't too bad either, 3GB.
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Those would be superior to the alternatives on Windows undoubtedly - the questions is what % of users in a scenario are using those commands vs how many are using spreadsheets. I'd suggest there are more spreadsheet users in most organizations.

Regardless, I'm not even suggesting who necessarily wins, I am saying it is a very important consideration that should be considered if you are truly trying to calculate an accurate TCO comparison.
Yet another notetaking app, What about sync across devices; security/encryption; lock-in? Only ten notes in the free plan. What does this offer over notational velocity or Simplenote? This semantic research thing will have to be shit hot to justify even nine clams a month. What even is the archive, ffs? Haven't seen any searches. Is Disconnect or adblock+ killing them? [Update: searches appearing after about 10 mins] At first sight - and how many apps ever get a second? - this is laughably misjudged. And now I've noticed it doesn't zoom text reliably in the latest Firefox, trimming the top or bottom line. To expect to charge for this right now seems a bit bloody cheeky.
And in use: http://oi40.tinypic.com/8xn3sy.jpg
> I'm not certain why you believe that you need to run double blind clinical trials on a tooth brush

Double blind means that neither the researcher nor the subject knows which device the subject got.

I don't think that this is possible (he said, with some understatement) when comparing a standard toothbrush to a bristly mouth guard thing.
wtf? Google Calendar? Google? Boggles the Mind. Boggles the Moggle. The Moggle Calendar. Without my calendar, I don't know what I should be doing.
I have several ebooks for sale on Amazon. I tried to DONATE unlimited access to them to my local public library, and I cannot get them to return or even acknowledge my repeated emails about it.
This is a pretty good summary of the XPocalypse :-) I noticed when I went in to talk to my doctor that the roll around platform he used was running XP. I asked him if they were going to change it, he didn't know.

One of the largest issues seems to be that the new OS needs new hardware, but the existing hardware and OS are "good enough" so it isn't an urgent cost.

It makes me also wonder who, if anyone, is planning for building an OS that will run for 10 years. Interesting times indeed.
URLs do not contain scroll position on the page.
Where is the search function? A good notetaking app should have awesome note search.
At least it won't go thirsty.
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I'm not protecting my phone, I'm protecting my data. It does a pretty good job of that. Don't think we're somehow deluded for thinking that the data is the more valuable part of the thing.
Isn't passcode required to get exchange email on iOS?
Maybe you should say what story he's pointing to that's obviously fake?

I'm sure you mean the "Apple is sharing fingerprints with the NSA" link...
"And you can floss your tongue simultaneously" -- way to trigger my gag reflex.

No, seriously. I'm sure this will work for some people, but for those of us with a strong gag reflex this is a nightmare device. (I know whereof I speak; I've had to have dental imprints taken for prosthodontic work several times, and I always come close to throwing up -- when having my jaws packed with something not dissimilar in size and shape).
Not Firefox, which is why I use it instead of Chrome. I am not saying tabs are without problems but they fit way better into my usage patterns than bookmarks.
Agreed 100%

I'm sorry if my post was confusing. I didn't really mean to go to infinity with my theory. I really only wanted to point out the flaws of the article. I didn't mean to say that traffic jams can be avoided. I simply disagree heavily with the author and agree with what's been out there in traffic theory for decades. Part of what you described well in your post!

Again, I'm not suggesting anything radical or want to emerge a new theory. The existing ones are good. I'm just trying to point out flaws from the OP.
but can probably lift the print right off the phone itself

That doesn't seem to be the case to my knowledge. The evidence from the successful attack is that you need an excellent-quality print from one of the specific fingers that has been programmed into the phone. Some phones probably have that on them, but it appears likely that many do not.
Do yourself a huge favor and skip steps 1-3. Have a deep, abiding, instinctual faith in your own incompetence.
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Let's say criminals manage to build a database of everybody's fingerprint. Now, I steal a phone, and have access to that database. How do I query it?
ah yes, because trying to be decent & inclusive to persecuted minorities is the comparable to supporting an obsolete browser - yr analogy is a perfect illustration of the grotesque intersection between the Valley & bigotry.

also, "the hypothetical case where gender matters" is a glorious illustration of straight privilege
Ask HN: What are some non-verbal ways of letting others know not to bother you?
Just out of curiosity, how do you let people know you don't want to be interrupted while writing code?
90 dead elephants in Zimbabwe are proof that the ivory trade has gone industrial
Ehh, I haven't crunched the numbers, but that's not necessarily true. Instead of taking a still picture, use video to take a few images and generate a rough 3d image. While I don't think the initial face recognition on Android had it, I believe they (or someone else) did later.

I have no idea how finger print vs facial recognition compare in accuracy, but a decently implemented facial recognition system shouldn't be compromised by a still image.
The "revisions" aren't really revisions; they're part of the article. If you have the proper context, you don't need to be verbose. For example, if I go to your startup's website, I don't need to be told that "Company X is a lightweight web application that..."; if you have visuals and a context, information like "lightweight web application" is redundant.
Fundamentally, a username and password are parts of the same thing - a collection of information (often a string of text) that you need to get access to something. The 'username' is usually just the part of that isn't necessarily hidden.

Part of the problem is that Apple's iOS has no username, just a password. Thus, one of the differences with a fingerprint 'password' that I haven't seen much discussed is that it would make him harder to share that tablet with his wife, since they can share one four-digit passcode, but not (as far as I know) two different fingerprints. The fingerprint makes it much harder for the popular family use cases between letting one person in and letting everyone in.

Edit: OK, cool, my comment is invalid.
"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"

I am hardly a disciple of it, but most writing guides encourage brevity, and the notion that writing is easy, while editing is hard. Every word added should add more than just length to the work. Okay, I could remove that second sentence. And the third. And..
As others have joked: Imagine how much people would freak out if Apple devices had a microphone or a camera capable of recording you surreptitiously!

If you're worried that Apple will roll over for the NSA, and that the NSA will, at some point, be out to get you, the quantity of information they could gather through backdoors on your phone is so astounding that it's hard to understand why hashed fingerprint feature analysis would be the last straw.
How do decisions get made at GitHub?
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>I just need a photo of the phone's owner.

As they said when they unveiled the feature and people mentioned this: give them a little credit.
Oh, no problem. It's a great web app. I just thought you probably accidentally reversed a couple of lines of code and would want to know about it. And, yes, I was using FF 24.
Realistically 1) most people don't use a PIN code, 2) those that do use their birthday MMDD or DDMM.

If you think someone where you work/live might have to tools to lift your fingerprint from a beer bottle or spacebar, you probably have more serious problems than the contents of your iPhone.

I'm sure security nuts will put their iPhone in a shielded box with a coded lock on it, in addition to using (and painfully entering on each unlock) a high entropy passphrase that's as long as possible.

More power to them.

TouchID is a good enough to prevent my daughters from seeing the naughty texts I send to my wife (none of your business either), and that's more or less the level of security TouchID is designed for.
This article was already posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6478322
I'm sure opt-in/opt-out is a major factor, too. I don't have a 5S, but I'm pretty sure it's opt-out. I think even after upgrading to iOS7 I had to opt-in again to turn on the numerical pass code.
I guess for lower end computers that could be more critical (netbooks and etc.).
Worked yesterday. They are probably getting slammed today.