skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's specifically to do with GPL licensed things.

The GPL (v2 anyway, unsure about the others), forbid placing any restrictions on the rights to modify and use the software.

As running modified applications on iOS requires a Developer License from Apple for a fee (and associated additional Terms), some believe that the GPL is fundamentally incompatible with the Apple App Store.

Any license that imposes a similar condition (other GPL variations etc) are also likely to be incompatible with the App Store.

Disclaimer: IANAL.
I think you're wrong in both premise and conclusion.

"Cryptozoological creatures like [God] are (supposedly) large animals living in large areas, and both have decades of 'evidence' to suggest that we might film one someday—as we did the giant squid."

Nope. Doesn't quite work.

Further, a religion is typically characterized as an organized system of beliefs, rituals and rules used to worship a god or group of gods. Maintaining one particular irrational belief does not a religion make.

(Although I'm sure "What Would Bigfoot Do?" bumper stickers would sell quite well.)
I found that good books describe things in rich details.
It is hard to compress a sentence without losing information.
Are thousands of engineers wasting their careers getting people to click ads?
I find it amazing that when faced with a general question about a "security" feature the median internet tech nerd responds with an attitude of absolute paranoia (c.f. 4096 bit RSA keys, multi-word pass phrase choices, ssh key forwarding pedantry, general NSA tinfoil hatism....)

Except when confronted with an Apple product. Then it's all "Nah bro, relax. No way could you lift a fingerprint from a glossy phone screen". :)

I'll say it for the third time. It's cute feature (like face unlock was before it). Use it and enjoy it. If you honestly think you're buying a serious security mechanism you're simply wrong.
> It's sort of like psychologists who know talk therapy is a waste of time -- they may still be psychologists, but they're not making a living at psychology

I know you hold anti psychology views, but some forms of talking therapy are evidence based and are as effective as medication for some mental illnesses. They are quick and achieve good rates of recovery (both amount of recovery, sometimes total, and length of recovery, sometimes many years.)

I'd agree if you'd used the terms "counselling" and "counsellors".
Wanted to wait for this, currently most usertests show that people use it for not many, but long documents (ctrl+f works for them in this case). As soon as the note/user count goes up, we'll think about adding this.
Flask users will be grateful for support of web-sockets, because beginner in python can use flask & now flask-sockets too for building small but useful projects.
Thanks Reitz for this.
If you use that fingerprint code, any thief that steals your phone and wants your data will have it. It offers no protection at all.

Now, if you arguee that no thief will ever want your data (and you'd be probably right), it doesn't matter if you lock your phone or not, and it won't matter how you do that. In this case, locking schemes are completely useless.

(Now, I'd be content with a fingerprint reader that recognizes a finger - any finger - and unlocks the phone. It's enough protection if my pocket can't defeat it. Unlocking only by specific fingerprints looks like a pain, nobody else will be able to unlock my phone? Thanks, but I'll pass that.)
I disagree.

You understand my context, though, right?
Thanks for this. A few months ago I looked into getting gevent-socketio up and running to do real-time messaging between a Flask app and an iOS app. gevent-socketio provides event handling and a messaging protocol on top of websockets that I thought would be useful.

However, based on my testing, in its current state it's nowhere near ready for production. There are some serious bugs relating to memory leaks, improperly closing stale sockets, and deployment on Gunicorn with # workers > 1 is not currently possible. (And in practice I don't think you would want to deploy on anything besides Gunicorn.) The project also seems to be somewhat inactive, there are a lot of open critical issues and there hasn't been any real activity in the last 6 months or so.

At this point I am considering removing the library and using a straight websocket implementation with a simpler protocol instead.
Thanks. I've looked at Flurry and heard great things about localytics.

Do you prefer any of the two above (Countly & Localytics) in particular?
You have your phone in your pocket, I want to access your data.

With touch unlock, all I need is my buddy to hold you for 3 seconds while I twist your arm and unlock the phone.

With passcode unlock, getting the password out of you will take some more effort.

Oh, and in this scenario, I can be a thief, or a police officer, or a borders agent, or an abusive husband, or many other things :)
The military will get paid during this particular shutdown, and the military will continue to function as it always does. A lot of essential workers, determined by the government, will still come to work and get paid.
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Or maybe a animated GIF image.
I know that some larger law firms have processes to give you "free" legal representation. I have worked with a large law firm before that was willing to take on promising start ups in exchange for a note (converted during the next round). The additional benefit of this type of arrangement is that their Rolodex is usually pretty deep, and they have business analyst that will match you up with investors that "fit" your startup best. If you want more info about what the details of my arrangement where email me.
im using windows and the regular firefox (so it doesnt have this fix) and i notice that chromium always scrolls a lot slower than firefox anyway. which annoys me hehe.
I'm confused. What exactly is this entire thread, an your previous comment in particular, about?
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It most comes down to the human condition, the need in our psyche for some mystery, things to keep our eyes and mind active, even when occasionally the rational part tends to point out the unlikeliness of the creature or event.

Some like Bigfoot, some Aliens, some Nessie - me personally, I am fond of the tales I was told as a young child of a few remaining dinosaurs in the large remaining land masses, such as Central Africa, and Brazil. Probably unlikely, yet, nice to dream that perhaps, maybe, a few select dinosaurs are at this moment hiding away.
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> With passcode unlock, getting the password out of you will take some more effort.

Given that there are two people, capable of violence, against the phone owner I'm not sure that getting the password is going to be that much trouble.
A while ago there was controversy over the VLC for iOS app and it was taken down due to licensing concerns
Counterpoint (specifically in the field of advertising), titled "Do long copy ads work? Let’s ask some of the greatest names in advertising history" [1]

Answer at the end: "Every one of the authors I have quoted is a giant in the field of advertising... And they all agree about the [positive] effectiveness of long copy ads."

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> But if cryptozoologists are unscientific by the Popperian criteria then so is SETI.

Not at all. Cryptozoologists assume their subject exists, SETI researchers assume it doesn't. Surely you don't think SETI people assume a priori that they will hear a transmission from an intelligent alien species? Or that they have heard such a thing?

There's a single report of an anomalous reception, now called the "Wow" signal, that no serious SETI person thinks represents an alien broadcast. By contrast, there are any number of books and articles by cryptozoologists that analyze, but don't doubt, the many reports of Bigfoot, Yeti, Nessie, etc. sightings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Quote: "Ehman has voiced doubts that the signal was of intelligent extraterrestrial origin: 'We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times. Something suggests it was an Earth-sourced signal that simply got reflected off a piece of space debris.'"

Spoken like a true scientist.
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>> what's the payback for cracking a fingerprint scanner, just to get access to a metaphorical Grandma's phone?

Well, if said Grandma is rich and is sharing dirty selfies with someone she doesn't want Grandpa to know about... being able to steal and use that information will probably be worth much more than the value of the phone itself.
0,0 is where coordinate conversion fails end up. As a GIS developer, when something is not showing up on a map, I always zoom over to W Africa to see if it is showing up there.
I don't find myself working more hours. If anything employees are (usually) salaried so making them work the extra hours while the consultants are expected to charge 40hrs a week.
It's a simple substitution cipher, not a shift/caesar cipher. Neat idea, but I wonder at the effectiveness of it.
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I agree! Imagine yourself being drunk or having a deep sleep. Anyone can unlock your phone.
Only the mind is secure. I think this is all fairly obvious: we need to build thought reading technology to have entry-less authentication.
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Why is BB chasing consumers and not enterprise?

Consumer was about 80% of their revenue, I can't find a source for this currently but it was very high.
Why not use a Ruby tool to generate a static page for Ruby's website?

I'm sure there's plenty of designers, who know Ruby, who would do this.
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> Most assumptions are that there is life on Mars and time is simply whittling away at the probability ...

Certainly not, at least not among scientists. To a scientist, there's nothing up there but sand and thin air, until evidence proves otherwise. Popular reports naturally enough get this scientific, appropriately skeptical outlook completely wrong.
Clever use of the word median to obscure the fact that you're conflating a two different attitudes which likely don't exist in the same person.
You don't have to talk about politics here, though you have so far. The rest of us might though as the subject of the thread is fairly political.
I like the idea of having an ideal environment to use to start a project.

The deployment ease is probably nice for people with complicated programs, but my deployment is just an ANT task that FTPs all my changed files to a given server.
4chan recently created self-serve ads to help boost revenues, perhaps the same model would work for Tumblr users.

Then again what would a bunch of 15 year olds be advertising to each-other?
A default Reprap won't be able to reproduce a fingerprint, but all it would take is increasing the reduction rate of the motors, using a smaller hole at the hot end, and a material that flows better (or increasing the temperature).

It would probably take a few tries, but seems well within a person-sized budget.
Boston isn't that appearance-conscious, at least as far as clothes go. It's much snobbier about academic pedigree, which books you've read, and how much interesting trivia you can recall.

I'd say that the fashion corridor runs from New York (epicenter) down the eastern seaboard.

Paul Graham's "Messages cities send" piece is a pretty interesting reflection on this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
I don't think it's because of C# as programming language, but mostly because that C# is backed by Microsoft.

C# is great and everything that is great should get a chance.. At least, that's how i see it.
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I'd also like being able to open that many tabs and have my browser perhaps release some of that memory and just reclaim it when I open the tab for reading again.

Chromebooks do a great job of this -- inactive tabs are often freed when memory is needed elsewhere, and reloaded as necessary. I wonder if that feature is going to come to Chrome outside of ChromeOS.
That's a low CTR for that amount of PV. Try putting a large ad right under the headline and lose all the share buttons there since you've got them in 3 other places, it should incrase your CTR quite a bit. http://i.imgur.com/71d9E4U.png
Can't someone write an app that stays in the background on their phone and copies fingerprints of people who touch your button?
What is the least amount of money that you could get away with? Do you even need a lawyer for a seed round if you're not doing anything fancy?
It's peculiar how there are a billion beginner-level articles on d3.js, but the people who get stuck usually need something between that and intermediate.

If someone considers writing a d3.js tutorial, I'd urge them to use a real example, since this is where people realize they should use features like line.defined(), figure out how to implement gridlines yourself, and so on.

As great as d3.js, it's really hard to dive into the official wiki/docs as well as hit them for help.
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Quick little nitpick thing, but how do you scroll within the document? I was messing around putting a ton of newlines, but I wasn't sure how to get back to the top of the document without using my keyboard arrow keys.

Beautiful UI by the way. Nice job!
removing that wipe feature would be a nice tidy way to destroy the secondary market for iphones...

did I just predict iOS8?
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An ideology of "Its good enough to thwart 99.9% of the population, therefore its good enough for me." is a very harmful ideology to have when it comes to security because you do nothing to deter mass adoption of the insecure technology.

While an individual person might not be at that great of risk because the amount of crackers willing to exploit touchID is limited to a minute demographic of people, the real harm comes when many iphone owners who share your ideology start using touchID instead of the more secure locking features their phones provide just because its more convenient.

Consider what happens when there are 100,000,000 million insecure phones out in the world. To a motivated cracker/spy/terrorist this is a huge ocean of potential suckers/victims vulnerable to exploitation. While most of these people aren't worth targeting, 1000-10,000 people might be.

This is why rejecting broken security technology is a cause everybody should rally behind. Even if you are never a victim of a black hat, you may very well suffer indirect consequences from the exploitation of somebody else.
I went with MIT + a single condition saying no final work could compete directly with my app. I'm not very experienced with open source licensing. Any recommendations?
Building, no. Using, everything. A non trivial amount of plugins/themes an average user is likely to install are major security risks.
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I grew up around the Campbell Folk School... there is a great community of craftspeople that you should be reaching out to: http://folkschool.org/
Really neat tool. Thanks for building and sharing this.
I think you're not understanding the premise.

I don't work for "a company". I work for one of several companies, depending on the week/month, and sometimes two or more at the same time.

Personally I prefer shorter contracts, but I have constant offers of longer contracts, so I could go that route if I wanted. But I also want time to work on my own projects.

Though, in the abstract, sure, it's not always possible. This is advice along the lines of "Be Really Awesome and Have an Excellent Business Network." Not everyone can really follow it.

But there are a LOT of freelance jobs floating around right now, so it's a good time to give it a try if you can.
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It's not at all clear that the absolute paranoiacs and the people saying that it's unlikely that any but a vanishingly small number of regular people will ever have Touch ID hacked are from the same set.

When you say it's not "a serious security mechanism", it sounds as if that's defined in some absolute terms. But if the effort to hack it is hundreds of times more difficult than the possible payoff from hacking it (which appears to be the case for nearly anybody but James Bond), then it acts as a serious security mechanism for that user's context. Literally nobody is going to make a mold of my finger to unlock my iPhone — they'd have to be absolutely insane to think that was worthwhile. So it's a serious security mechanism for me. Would it be a serious security mechanism to cover nuclear launch codes? Of course not.
Yeah, or VM/runtime bugs. I bet I go bald from that time I had to use Mono.
What about paperwork? More or less?

Also the plans on ehealthinsurance can't require preexisting conditions ?
No, overcommit is turned on (overcommit_memory=0, overcommit_ratio=50). Ubuntu 12.04.3 x86_64, kernel 3.8.0-29-generic.
Why's the iPhone 5C so expensive?
In the not so distant future, collecting fingerprints will be just a matter of writting malware, and uploading it. No need for labor intensive procedures such as collecting them from real stuff.

Now, in that world, what will criminals use the fake fingerprints for?