skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, when you read statements like this in an article: "lthough we cannot directly test whether the unique 28S rRNA structure contributes to the increased fidelity of translation, we speculate that it may change the folding or dynamics of the large ribosomal subunit, altering the rate of GTP hydrolysis and/or interaction of the large subunit with tRNA during accommodation, thus affecting the fidelity of protein synthesis."

it's a strong suggestion that the authors are searchng for impact- that is, they found some mildly interesting data from an experiment that is replicable. The rest of it- the speculation- can just be tossed out. Their data is not strong enough to support it, so it's just speculation.

I once had a prof who seemed really arrogant to me. He said, "when I read a paper, I skip to the methods. if the methods make sense (IE, they actually know how to run a basic experiment) then I look at the results. That's all."

I thought that was arrogant, but in retrospect he was giving sage advice: the only content in most papers is in their data sections, not in the introduction, conclusion or discussion. Spend your time looking at the data, not what the authors think the data means, and make up your own mind.
It's like Wordpress has turned into Drupal and Drupal flipped the hell out and is trying to become Sharepoint. Crazy pills.
I'd leave at least a minimum safe distance between my vehicle and the one in front.

But Parent suggested that it's a good idea to leave more space in case someone jumps in. I'm not sure I understand that - if they jump in it's always dangerous because you don't know what the person behind you is going to do and you don't know when the jumper is going to jump in. Thus, you want to try to prevent them jumping. This is achieved not by giving them more room (which encourages jumping) but by leaving less gap (reducing jumping) but still leaving the safe minimum.
Unique? Maybe. Unreplicable? I can't imagine so, we're all just a bunch of molecules.

At some point in the perhaps-not-too-distant future, we will likely have very sophisticated brain-scanning technologies, and combined with advances against biometric methods, basically any form of authentication will be useless.

I have absolutely no idea how to get around this, and can only hope that our society has advanced enough by that point that we don't need to keep any secrets at all. Not much chance of that really, IMHO...
This seems more accurate to me than the OP.
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If they would make the tree-style tabs very aggressively swap to disk, or even discard state entirely and seamlessly become a bookmark that would reload when clicked (perhaps this behavior could work only for white-listed domains, like wikipedia.org), that would be perfect.

The main usability problem with bookmarks over tabs AFAIC is that the bookmark UI does not encourage pruning bookmarks, so most become stale over time.

Another idea I've been kicking around for a while is "tab decay". Have tabs start to decay and close themselves after not being viewed for a configurable amount of time. 1 month would probably do it for me, it would save me a lot of cleanup time.
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dbuder, you're hell banned, for reasons that aren't obvious to me. But you said, "Most people fit aftermarket pipes for more power, that doesn't make them dorks." If there were some objective way to answer the question, I'd bet a large sum of real money that people fit aftermarket pipes to make more noise or a noise more to their liking. Even I have an aftermarket pipe, complete with a Power Commander module to make sure that the pipe actually does increase power, dyno'ed to make sure. But you wanna know the primary reason I put a pipe on my VFR? Because I don't want to ride around on something that sounds like a sewing machine (which stock Hondas typically do). I'd like to think the pipe is not obnoxious, though my neighbors might disagree.
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RESTful anonymous multi-factor authentication
Something you have. Something you know. Something you are. The point is to have more than one, not switch one for the other.
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sounds amazing, wish i was a software engineer! (mechanical engineer with some python experience)
Let me take a look - playing around in it now. Thanks for the heads up!
and it keeps going... you guys are fun!
Thanks for the reply! I was just curious, so apologies if I sounded rude there.
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Surely, those are divided in several steps/pages? Anything over 5 fieldsets and I’m sending it to the server first and then present a new page with the rest of the questions.
The Margaritaville stages of debugging:

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2. It could be my fault

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I'm sure 5s's are fetching at least $400 on the conservative side. If all I have to do is spend like $5 and follow a how-to on a website, I think a lot of people would be willing to make the investment.
Hmm? This shouldn't be surprising at all given the rather large assumption that one car passes a fixed point each two seconds. Go as fast as you like... an observer on the roadside must still wait two seconds for each car to rocket (or crawl) by. Imagine having an ethernet card that could only send one frame a second to a party on the other side of the globe: would you care if the additional network latency due to switches and the speed of light were 1msec or 200msec?

Where we may see great improvements in road throughput is in driverless cars that greatly reduce that gap.
There's research supporting my claim:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/02/1...
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My security keypad will actually be a fingerprint scanner. Anyone who watches someone press a sequence of buttons or dusts the pad for fingerprints then subsequently tries to enter by repeating that sequence will trigger the alarm system.

Why not have the sequence remain the password, but also scan fingerprints? If you have the wrong fingerprints (username), the right password still won't work.

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Alternatively, fingerprints should be used as 2FA. They're something you have. Supplement it with something you know (or that your encrypted password store knows) and you're golden.
SC2 at least uses ~half the keys on the keyboard. Anyone above the absolute bottom rung (bronze) is going to use these extensively.
> Ants have no momentum

And collisions between ants are not catastrophic.
I am addicted to tabs and have 260 tabs (yes, I have a problem) open and running smoothly in Firefox. That was not possible in Chromium last time I used it.

Firefox currently uses about 3GB memory, which means I have plenty of memory left on my computer. So I do not think memory usage in the general case is so bad for Firefox and neither is scalability or performance. The problem Firefox historically has had and still to a degree has is lack of responsiveness.
These days there's a "+ New" button at the top of every single page of a Wordpress site - both the admin section, and the public section if you're logged in - that lets you add a new post, piece of media, page, or user. Or more; I use the Comic Easel plugin to manage my webcomic, and it lets me add a new page that way.

That said if you want a CMS that only does the five things you need, you don't want WP.
Since when has CAPTCHA stopped spam?
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I'm completely unsurprised as to how Istanbul is at the top of the list. Istanbul is an ancient city on top of 7 steep hills. It's also the largest city in Europe and the 5th largest in the world. Istanbul even particularly in the slightly older parts of town (by which I mean only 500-600 years old, not the 3000 year old bits) was mainly built for tall buildings and narrow roads for hand and horse carts, not for cars and trucks.

In the winter it snows quite heavily in Istanbul, meaning that all of the hills tend to get cars that aren't properly chained sliding down the hill to the bottom.

I've often joked that the main reason there aren't more fatal traffic accidents in Istanbul is nothing to do with the way people drive (which is extremely aggressively by western standards) but more to do with the fact that it's hard to sustain a speed over 30 mph in most of the city for any real length of time.
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Wouldn't the revocation process be very simple? If some one has acquired your prints, just stop using touch ID? I mean, there are still 2 other authentication options on the iPhone.
I think the quality of work being done in the disciplines you call "verticals" is improved by increasing the degree of development in the "horizontals" -- and that includes recognizing that those "horizontals" are legitimate fields of focus on their own, because the further development and focus on the "horizontal" feeds back into the tool sets available to all the "verticals" the "horizontal" touches.
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Makes sense. Just like in a PGP web of trust, where that key is your unique identity, so will these fingerprints be. But it's a lot riskier to use them as your passwords (either against the NSA or other dedicated hackers).
I actually find 37s' Campfire works for both async and synchronous communication.

It's obviously a chat-room for immediate talking, but the highlighting and ease of scrollback (without having to have irssi or similar running constantly) mean you can easily catch up and pick out messages left for you when you were offline.

Which makes me think the post is just about the upcoming book.
Toothbrushes are a solved problem.

Sure, if you don't mind spending several minutes doing it. I, for one, would love a toothbrush that got it all done in six seconds.

solve flossing instead

According to the article, this "toothbrush" also substitutes for flossing, since it can put bristles between the teeth.
Fair point, I spend most of my week working from home, and when in the office we have a rota for people making lunch which we thence sit down to eat, so I'm a little out of touch with the lunchtime rush!

I'm totally behind the idea of lunch at work, I just think its something that can be handled far better than dumping a meal at your desk
I saw the CCC video and I think you are right, a suitable print being found on the phone is a bit slim, although not impossible.

However, I think the point of the article is that you can change a compromised password, you can't change a compromised fingerprint. As is mentioned, there are plenty of databases with fingerprint information. Also, for the crowd that is paranoid about government accessing their data, an authority might have an easier time getting into a device when they already have your fingerprint as opposed to figuring out your passwords.
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Indeed! I actually have a whole laundry list of Cowen quotes I need to incorporate at some point - not just from that podcast, but also from his book _Make Your Own Economy_.
An automobile is a horseless carriage. Many new objects that displace older objects are refereed to initially in reference to the established product. This serves the same purpose as a toothbrush, so its entirely sensible to refer to in terms of a toothbrush. Calling it a "whizgonger" or some such is neither descriptive or useful for anyone.
If your objective is to sell a stolen iPhone then you still have to know the owners Apple ID and password due to activation lock. Being able to bypass Touch ID isn't going to help you.
Va. starting to develop a master identity database
The most surprising thing is there might be any correlation between performance of top end search engines at such widely divergent areas of human experience, low quantity weird software errors and high quantity pointless hollywood blather. Certainly a junky demo search engine could be beaten all around by any top end search engine. But I'm surprised at the top end they are competitive in both areas.

It would be like finding out olympic class weight lifters tend to also be olympic class marathon runners. Or the best commuter vehicle and best 100 ton mining truck happen to be the same vehicle.
I'm having a very hard time accepting the claims of original article, "The Physics Behind Traffic Jams."

Recently, I've tried to perform a few basic hypermiling techniques, especially "timing a light": if I'm the first car to encounter a red light, I leave extra space and can sometimes be moving through the light at 20mph or more when it turns green instead of stopped. It seems analogous to leaving space in front of you during a traffic jam, so that you can exit the jam at a faster speed.

The problem with this is that other drivers will often take advantage of your behavior. They think the most appropriate thing to do is race up to the red light. So instead of profiting from the faster speeds out of the light, they instead cut you off and start the light cycle at a predictable 0mph. You haven't done anything except swap places with these jerks.
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Aren't the works of the federal government, by letter of the law, public domain? Wouldn't this negate their terms of service?
the problem is that these 'filler' posts are manually curated to the front page. HN is plenty interesting and active without this noise. why should i 'live with' quality degradation over time, especially in a curated medium?
I prefer to be pessimistic about other drivers' ability to judge whether they have enough room to cut in front of me. I'd rather not try to go fast enough to "discourage", as there will inevitably be some person who either doesn't notice me, or misjudges my speed (via a side view mirror) and mistakenly thinks he can cut in front of me safely.

A lower speed increases the chances of this, but reduces the risk of a catastrophic result. ;)
function getCurrentEnrollmentYear()
{
//TODO: add logic
//hardcoded 2014 now
return "2014";
}

I cannot figure out whether that is horribly lazy or a great iterative design of not supporting requirements until you need to.
PHP is used as a small layer that enables talking to our C code from javascript. We have a custom (Protocol Buffer-like) protocol to manage our RPC, the PHP embeds a native module that implements that protocol and exposes a webservice to which our Javascript code can talk in order to provide some valuable user-experience on top of our C-written technologies.

Nowadays there is so little intelligence in the PHP that we only consider it as a pass-through layer.
This might be true for things that truly need to be secure (bank vaults, super secret government facilities, etc.). Clearly in those cases just relying on a fingerprint that could be compromised by motivated attackers is not enough. But personally (and I imagine this is true for many users) I'm not trying to secure my iPhone from highly motivated and skilled attackers. Those individuals will probably be able to access the data on my iPhone fingerprint or not. Given that, it just is a convenience feature, allowing me to secure my phone from the everyday person trying to pry into my phone and give me access much easier and quicker.
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Why technology history matters
If that's not what you're questioning then IMO don't phrase it as a .NET problem; it is broader than that. There is a pocket of the .NET community that talks as if they shafted .NET in favor of native code, but WinRT is probably more disruptive to the existing Win32/C workflow than it is for people writing C#.