skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking that fingerprints would be phone numbers. Imagine getting calls routed to any phone that has been validated by your thumb print.
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Have you put this into production? Are you using Gunicorn on the server?
I find it interesting that moot was there talking about Canvas, they really snuck that in in the last paragraph.
Yes, that seems to be the only possible metric we can reduce to increase the flow of traffic.

Cut that number in half from 2 to 1 seconds, and you would approximately double your throughput.
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Some mid range UK developer posts pay that across the UK, but there are plenty out there that quickly pay more. London should be paying at least £6k more than that just for cost of living.
London is where developers go to earn the "kick" to their salary that they can then move to the sticks on.

More important is that the pay progression is like, given the difficulty in firing people in the UK compared to the US you often find pay ramps up quickly.
have you had to deal with chargebacks?
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Except TouchID, from what I gather, actually works. Not "works" in the sense of keeping bad people out, but "works" in the sense that when I use it my phone unlocks. I tried face unlock briefly on the Google Nexus I've got and disabled it shortly after when I found that it was unreliable. Poor lighting, too much lighting, a bad hair day, it wasn't even at 80% for successful unlocks.
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This is so true. Open source and hosted commercial products fill totally different niches. Sure, there are some projects where either one would suffice, but many where that's not true.

I'm working on an open-source Wordpress replacement right now. (No link yet. I want to get a little farther before I put it out there.) The basic concept is:

1) Use Rails, to ease development of plugins and per-site functionality.

2) Don't save content or site config in the database. Save it to disk.

3) Git keeps track of your content and config, just like a regular Rails project. The user-friendly admin interface is actually just a wrapper around Git plus a text editor and some menus. Developers can work in a text editor and a terminal while the client works in the GUI.

4) Because content and config are Git-controlled text files and not database records, you have a sane workflow for developing locally then deploying.
Thanks. I guess I am concerned with the founding team not seeming hardworking enough to succeed.

I think I may just end up doing that as a test. Thanks again.
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Yea, I'm ready for a long haul. What I'm really going to make sure of is that I remain focused on validating the concept before I invest too much time/effort/money into building the wrong thing.

So at least if it takes a long time, I'm making small incremental steps in the right direction.
As a related note, nowadays it's becoming more common to use image processing to restore audio from old film reels. It's way easier and more efficient to first remove scratches and enhance contrast of the optical audio track before going through standard audio tools.
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Yes. A simple assertion does little to convince me of anything.
We push to production constantly throughout the day, whenever a new feature, fix, or update is finished and the developer is confident that it works (and the unit tests pass). We have a system set up to do one-click (well, four-click) deployments to all of our servers, plus rolling graceful restarts and point-in-time rollbacks or specific-commit deploys.

We do double-digit deploys daily and as we get more developers that number increases. We did 30 deploys yesterday, and >300 in September, and the amount of time, trouble, and frustration it's saved us is immeasurable.
We will eventually monitize this app through in app purchases, but decided to launch it open source. I'm not sure we got the license right, but it seems like we can provide the source as an example to the community without losing too much.

Obviously it would be cool if other people got involved in keeping the game content fresh, but that might not be realistic.

I think it would be cool if more commercial applications were open source for learning purposes, but I know that might not be feasible for most products.
Designers make unsolicited redesigns for shits and giggles all the time. I've had jobs interviews from startups that asked me to redesign a portion of their site and I had to give up rights for them to use it if they chose to (they will claim it's in case their internal designers already came up with something similar but it's completely unethical). Ruby-lang.org on the other hand isn't profiteering off the work of designers. This will appeal to a niche crowd though - designers aren't going to be super familiar with the site and generally don't like working for free, even if it's for a bit of publicity.
But what if the objective isn't to steal the phone but to surreptitiously collect or plant information?

I can think of some examples:

* jealous spouses who want to look at call logs, emails, text histories

* unscrupulous managers looking to see if you've been talking to headhunters, competitors, etc.

* stalker coworkers who are looking for "private selfies"

* frenemies who want to post inflammatory messages using one of your social media accounts
Since it's a text editor, users will be click back a lot. And god forbid they accidently defocus the text area when they press back...

Maybe move the cursor back to the text area.
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I think what stygianguest meant was that values worthy of respect are not specific in their applicability according to the nationality of the agent.

For example, if a Russian spy in the NSA revealed some documents, or if a US spy in Pakistan revealed documents, the author's value judgment against Snowden would not apply, because it is specific to a home-country actor breaking rules of the home country.
Here's a crazy idea: You're a developer. If it's too complex for your customer, then simplify it. Fight the urge to build something new just because you can. You're really the only person that cares that you built it, everyone else just wants something that works.

I understand why you're following 37signals' simplicity model, but those markets didn't have flexible CMS' to start with like we do. The beauty of WordPress is that it's easy to hide and remove extraneous features. It has everything you need and you can just remove the stuff you don't, just like the way a sculptor chisels away the unneeded parts. It's building from a different direction.

WordPress is a tool, not an end product, and it's been around for over 10 years.

Face it, websites are a commodity these days. What new features, processes, or anything else exist that WordPress can't do with a few tweaks? Front-end editing, one-click setup, drag and drop, it's all easier to add than building from scratch.

If your goal is to create value, then think hard about what problem your customer is trying to solve. If it requires something new, then by all means build it! But I don't see this as one of those cases.
More accurately: there is not enough good-quality evidence vs. the sample size to tip the needle.

If we had very very few observations of Loch Ness -- like say if it was Lake Vostok -- but we had a few Nessie sightings, that would be different. But we have only a few Nessie sightings in a place that's constantly being observed and photographed.
I was thinking the same thing while reading it. We do have a way to go before consumer camera technology is good enough to capture moving spaceships (or even jet liners at night).

Cameras are not very good at catching sharp movement of low lit objects. Just to photograph sports clearly requires several thousand dollars in equipment and you can be as close as 50 meters most of the game.

That will change a lot over the years as sensor technology continues to improve and eventually your point will be important.
Yes. Cheaper/better plans == subsidies.

There are cheaper and better plans available, but ONLY if you make the income cutoff (~$45k for individuals with no dependents).

Whether you buy in or out of the marketplace has no bearing on the rules that healthcare plans have to follow. All healthcare plans must cover rules outlined by the act, or you will be fined.
If Find My iPhone is on, that locked phone is essentially a brick, it cannot be activated even if completely wiped, since its still associated with your Apple ID on the server side.

You need to be able to sign in with the Apple ID to remove the association.
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There's tons of UFO videos on YouTube. The problem is that if you exclude the obvious CGI and other hoaxes, that leaves a data set of unidentified objects captured on camera. But that provides little evidence as to what that object might actually be. There are many prosaic explanations: illusions, imaging artifacts, really good hoaxes, top-secret experimental aircraft built by us, ball lightning, etc.
Subtract 6 years, and I'm in almost your exact shoes. I'm a professionally trained musician and music teacher, and while I love those activities and would never want to stop doing them, I always wanted to expand my abilities to include software design as well (plus, regular and/or better pay is always a wonderful perk). So I'm in the middle of doing what so many on here already suggested:

1)MOOCS (Coursera, edx)
2)Crowdsourced resources (wikibooks)
3)Free/freemium online books (http://programming-motherfucker.com/)
4)Many open-source communities (git-hub, stackexchange)

As far as the learning is concerned, constantly switching between different sources above to hear the same information from different resources and taught in different styles is crucial I think. I know this from my formal teaching background and feel comfortable with the learning part of this entire venture.

The second part of your questions though about finding work I'm not so sure about as I'm not there yet. I personally have chosen python as my language to learn because I've found that:

1)It makes sense to me after trying out a couple of different languages on codeacademy
2)The clean syntax and forced indenting structure allows me to focus more on the problem domain then the language itself (or which indenting/bracket style to use). This can be said of any language I'm sure as people have different preferences and perspectives, but this was clearly evident to me early on.
3)With the discovery of Django and so many other python based tools, I realized that I could actually achieve a lot by specializing in python. But of course I need to include html, css, and perhaps random java script as well to get a dynamic web page going, but at least Django frees me from needing to get into php.
4)I personally have a creative mind and less of an engineering mind. Learning C or some other lower level language would drive me nuts I think AS A FIRST LANGUAGE. I'm able to casually learn about different algorithms and data structures in python without having to fully master them just to make a basic program (as I would in C for example).

Now my goals might be different from you, I have a long list of projects and ideas that I would like to do on my own that could possibly make money, so I'm making all my decisions from a passion perspective, not as a supply/demand one. But maybe that's not quite a bad idea after all? You're already starting from scratch, why not try your own projects first doing them in exactly the languages you want to do them in? I've always felt that there are always plenty of people doing the "standard learning" track for the "standard jobs" that the market demands. If your trying to follow a market, you'll always be at the whim of the market. Why not make your own market?

I always come back to this quote:

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

― Howard Thurman
The ironic thing in this instance is that in a way the author is clearly negating his point by needing to show the crossed-out text. Imagine you had followed the link, and the only text was "Fewer words create a more powerful message."

We would likely feel cheated at some level, like "That's it? How did one sentence get a whole HN link?" In a way we're conditioned to expect a bunch of garbage filler that we merely skim, and because that's what's in demand right now it's what authors are incentivized to provide.
Writing a C# version of haskell infinite fibonacci series function
I was so eager to apply to spacex and so disappointed when I saw the residence requirements. I hope this changes in future
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If you're using it to check your own site, presumably you know what the target of any 301 is beforehand, and can aim at that URL in the first place. Even if you're using a proper monitoring system, why force your server to handle twice the number of requests than it needs to?
Well the UK doesn't have a constitution in the sense of the USA, so technically there aren't any rights there in that sense.

But, yes, some countries enforce their laws on companies there that deal with anyone. If you're not in the USA or Canada and have a Facebook account, Facebook is bound by Irish Data Protection (i.e. privacy) law. You, as a non-Irish citizen, or resident, talk to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner and get them to enforce your rights. And Austrian person did just that: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

Additionally in the UK, you are entitled to some forms of free medical care from the NHS, even if you're a non-UK resident just visiting: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/uk-visitors/Pa...

So no, not all systems work like the US system.
To be honest, I disabled face unlock the moment my brother unlocked it with his face... Yeah, touch id won't let that happen.
Not sure what system my library uses, but mine has a wait-list that will check out the ebook for you when it's your turn.

Either way: given that many public libraries offer ebook rentals for free, Scribd should be marketing to them rather than directly to customers.
I explored this options as well. In my testing I was able to get a factor of 6 speedup simply by reshaping a 1D array into 2 dimensions.

The FFT on the 1D audio would not work because the FFT of a sub sample would not be immediately recognizable in the FFT of the whole. This is why I took the spectrogram approach, which is many FFTs over time.
In school I had a project that used edge detection to find certain patterns in audio samples. There were probably better ways to do it than looking at the spectrogram but I didn't pay enough attention in that class to know what they were. I was always curious about what else could be done with image processing algorithms and audio, it's cool to see a thread about it.
Yep. In fact, I've noticed performance appearing to get worse and worse in both my Canary browser and regular Chrome. Canary always seems to perform quite a bit worse than regular Chrome. Not sure if that's just due to bugs because of the unstable build, or further changes they're making that is continuously hurting performance.
> Not "works" in the sense of keeping bad people out, but "works" in the sense that when I use it my phone unlocks.

I think that's the key distinction here. In any given authentication scheme it's important not to have false positives (incorrectly identifying a bad guy as you) or false negatives (incorrectly identifying you as a bad guy). In this case false positives break security, false negatives break usability. However, false positives won't outright stop adoption whereas false negatives will.
I worked at a company that had a policy of no changes to production on Fridays, unless our service was completely down and we were losing people's money.

Given that it was the sort of place where one developer didn't have access to deploy code and had to go walk a senior developer through making the changes by hand (and we didn't use a revision control system), that was probably an optimal circumstance.
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Ahh philosophy...

But if cryptozoologists are unscientific by the Popperian criteria then so is SETI.
Can you buy content with Face Unlock?
US.gov - including NASA et al - quits the internet. Is the UN running it now?
This is really cool. The app is beautiful to look at. I find the search useful, particularly being able to pin results to the document. Highlighting a word and getting a list of synonyms is great, too.

This fills a niche similar to Microsoft OneNote's, but with the complexity scaled down admirably. Great job.
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It was/is a bubble and your timing was right on.
I expect good baseline performance from a combination of both the HTML and JavaScript code of the page, and the browser. Sure it's nice if the browser does some tricks to make a badly written page that has 2 GB of image data on it play somewhat more nicely on the system, but if that page loads badly its not the browsers fault, its the fault of the web developer who didn't paginate, or use Infinity.js or something like that.

The reason why I call the Firefox fix a workaround is because the proper way to solve the problem of 2 GB of image data on a page is by using a UITableView style wrapper.

But HTML 5 doesn't have such an element for us to make use of. The proper fix would be to add such an element to HTML itself, but obviously that's something that takes years to do and to get it adopted across all browsers.

So in the meantime tricks like what Firefox is doing are nice to help prevent inexperienced web developers who create abominably inefficient webpages from consuming too much system resources when an unfortunate victim downloads the page.
AFAIK, from my super super secret source (I joke), is that all of the HUMINT and SIGINT will still occur but the analysis will be effected, mainly because the essential analysts won't have their typical support staff. For instance, maybe they need a particular piece of hardware. Procurement of that hardware will suffer because that dept. will be staffed by a "skeleton crew".

A lot of those workers are contractors and will be placed on the bench, some paid some not, depending on who they work for.

The Federal workers seem outraged in the DC area, but most civilian workers are used to the instability of markets and have little pity, from what I hear. That's public info, not private. No super secret source for that one, just callers on WTOP.
Based on a partial print from the screen or body of the phone? (It wouldn't work every time, but it might be feasible often enough to be worth trying.)
I enjoy it when the problem is in my code. I despise it when the bug is in a third party library or utility. That's usually the last place I look and often the hardest to fix (or have fixed).

And sometimes you find a limitation that can't be overcome and you have to think of a totally new way to do everything. For instance, some API documentation says you can get X but the documentation is outdated and half the data is missing. Back to square one.

Just typing this out is raising my hackles.
I think v4 has a very different message from v1-3. 1-3 seem to be saying value your readers time by writing as succinctly as possible whereas v4 says a shorter message is more powerful. This may sometimes be the case, but often it is not. Many of the most powerful speeches use repetition and deliberate at length on their message in order to emphasise it. Shortening them would probably have made the message less powerful.
I wasn't trying to be nit-picky, as nekopa discerned. I am aware of the derogatory connotation and choosing to dismiss the homophobic person by treating them like an ignorant child. I've rarely seen argument ever convince someone they're wrong; Instead, I do not legitimize their bigotry and save myself valuable time.

Like a person using a racial slur -- they immediately demonstrate the quality of their character.
They're fundamentally different forms of communication suited for different purposes?
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Brevity isn't always a time-saver in technical writing, either. Sometimes it's confusing and ambiguous.

Just consider that your words are real things that other people are going to encounter. Those people are often likely to be stressed, confused, or even angry – especially if you're making a web page.

Is your user someone who has a problem that they want to solve right now? Then be as clear as you possibly can. Don't try to be funny or clever. Don't even try to be exceptionally brief!
OK, you are a criminal and got 1000 000 fingerprints.
You can start collecting them right now, on every surface you have access too.
Then what? You will print them all using whatever technology required to fool fingerprint scanner and try one by one? Wouldn't it be just easier to try and lift one off the device itself?

> It's about a consumer shift to finger prints as a primary
> security feature

No. It's about shift from zero security (no passcode lock) to some security (fingerprint). Yes it can be fooled but it is effective enough to stop casual attacks. Just like lock on the most doors — no problem for a determined robber but good enough protection from the opportunistic thief.
You should just say that directly then. Something along the lines of...

"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week. If you're young and energetic, come join us. However, we'd also like the wisdom and experience of someone more senior. We understand you have a family and will need more life balance, and we're very cool with that."

I'd find that refreshing in a job ad. I'm 42 with a family, btw.