skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Sadly there has been little in the way of measurable improvement in the sensor between these two devices."

Oh, gosh. That stinks.

> "Another sign that the sensor may have improved is the fact that slightly “dodgy” fake fingerprints that fooled the iPhone 5S did not fool the iPhone 6. To fool the iPhone 6 you need to make sure your fingerprint clone is clear, correctly proportioned, correctly positioned, and thick enough to prevent your real fingerprint coming through to confuse it. None of these are challenging details for a researcher in the lab, but are likely to make it a little bit harder for a criminal to just “lift your fingerprint” from the phone’s glossy surface and unlock the device."

Wait, so that isn't a measurable improvement?

iOS 8 still requires your passcode after a reboot, so you can certainly force a temporary timeout if you'd like.

I think some advanced timeout stuff could be useful, but I wish we could try and have a bit more optimism that regular people now are excited about having an encrypted phone. The rest of us carrying state secrets and nude selfies can certainly still trade off that convenience for potentially more secure phone.
IMHO This is the book to read: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Trading-DMA-introduction-s...
Didn't find an email in your profile. I'd love to discuss with you further. Can you email me at serge@parsehub.com?
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Smoke and mirrors? That's rich. What is the definition of "impossibility of oversight," if not the knowledge that you can lie to Congress with impunity?

These agencies are running completely open-loop. They can't be reigned in by the rule of law, because the modern security state exempts them from it.
I find the first job ad better. First of all, they work with military, so if you are formal language off-put you that much, you are not good fit. Second, I know immediately that I'm not qualified.

The second one provides very little useful information and it is all in last two sentences. I will write algorithms and they are expected to be scalable. I have no idea whether I am qualified. Maybe yes, maybe not. The rest of it just sounds like someone trying to be cool too hard. They can be cool workplace, or maybe just am intolerant workplace that kick your posterior if you have different preconceived ideas then them.

<rant>Why do people use pictures for purely textual information?</rant>
The value proposition is not for consumers. The value proposition is for the wealthy. Bitcoin grants allodial title to wealth. Nothing else does.
It sounds like people are trying to built something that just good enough to be bought by Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Yahoo so they can bailout, perhaps give a few talks and may rake in a few thousand Twitter followers.
>(also, what people do in Excel just blows me away)

Same. I work in Excel pretty much all day and rock at using it as a swiss army knife. But when people use it to build these hectic models then I'm still thoroughly impressed.
Agreed on this point. The automatic IP rotation is one of the bigger features I think.
Did exactly this and now he's earning market rate as a Rails developer.
Image out of sync with answer for me too.
That would be the normal way to do it at scale for this feature. Though with a small amount of users, I suppose they could just send the app a list of all the numbers they have and compare to your phone book...
????

When you file amicus/other briefs in federal court, you are often required to state whether or not you have a financial interest in the case or receive funding from the parties/etc.

Stanford filed a proposal in a case that involved Google. In order to fulfill the above requirement, they made a statement that while Google gives them money, they didn't use it for the stuff they are talking about in the brief. They then conclude "For these reasons, we do not believe we have a conflict of interest with either Google or with the Plaintiff class."

That's it.

Blogger then decides this is a request by Google, rather than a fucking statement of financial interest.

The only agenda here is yours :)
A C garbage collection library generally has to be very conservative because most C code is written with the assumption of not being garbage-collected. Having GC built in allows you to do more aggressive collection without worrying about breaking code that assumes it has precise control over memory. There's a reason why even people who like garbage collection don't tend to use garbage collection when they write C.
Especially in the case of Microsoft, it's more complicated than that.

Microsoft is subject to multiple jurisdictions, being a multi-national. US courts are ordering the part of Microsoft that's under its jurisdiction to do something in another jurisdiction that Microsoft feels is against the law there. It's not that Microsoft feels itself above the law, it is in the position of trying to satisfy mutually incompatible laws, because the US and EU both claim jurisdiction in this matter.
Even simply disabling "simple passcode" and using an equivalently simple alphanumeric passcode makes the task a lot more difficult for the brute-force cracker.

In fact, if you look at one of the cracking tools that law enforcement is known to use [1], iOS8 looks to have made things more difficult:

"iOS 8

Currently under version 4.0 Advanced logical extraction will extract less data compare to previous iOS versions."

[1] http://releases.cellebrite.com/releases/ufed-release-notes-4...
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You'd likely read the data in situ and just beam the info back. That's orders of magnitude easier than sending anything back here.
This is going to devolve into a flame war. I did read EW's speech and it was really good. She was talking about equality and problems that both genders face, and the courage and danger one has and will experience when doing something like this. HOWEVER, we can't just blame 4Chan. Anonymous message boards provide a bellwether for attitudes, even at the fringe. 4chan represents freedom of speech and expression for those on the channel, AND an insight into problems society faces. People are dissatisfied with the flavor of Feminism that does #killallmen(real trend) and crucified the scientists who developed the nail polish GHB test. 4chan and radfems represent the fringes of these groups, and it is important to have visibility for both in order to 1: define free speech, 2: better evaluate the middle (where most actors actually belong)
Sorely needed. I've been trying to find a tool that'll grab data from behind a POST form and none of the other scrapers as a service do it. It's so simple! Any plans for adding crawling to the service?
Right but it doesn't mean that nobody can make products using your patent; it means you benefit from it when they do. Which is not so much a societal problem.
But it ends up cutting out on quality, because people are used to put up with quite a big amount of crap. If it weren't the case, a whole great deal of business models wouldn't ever panned out.
All of Poettering's projects seems to be lifted straight from OSX.

Ran into a recent interview where he kept referring back to the OSX sound system when talking about Pulseaudio, and Avahi is zeroconf/bonjour. And with Systemd he constantly makes references to Launchd, the OSX "init".

BTW, Red Hat just now announced that the future of the company would be Openstack and the cloud. Fits perfectly with the push for containerization in Systemd.

More and more i get the impression that the "developers" mentioned as benefiting from Systemd are the likes of the Reddit crew. Reddit pretty much could not exist without Amazon's cloud services.

Meaning that for Poettering the future is two things, cloud computing and cloning OSX. And given the number of web monkeys that seems to sport a Mac, i am not surprised at all.

I just wish that they could avoid infecting the rest of the Linux environment...
Let's be more general. Set A = stuff you can buy with USD. Set B = stuff you can buy with BTC. Set W = all stuff. Set A will always be a subset of set W, and is getting to be a smaller subset every day. Set B will in the future be an exact match for Set W. Which unit of account would you choose? A or B?

edited: typo (C instead of B)
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It's a conspicious omission for something that's being sold as "The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job".
Good point. It seems likely that caw will suit most of the time, but I can't think of an exact replacement.
We've been doing the honey pulled pork recipe from http://www.thelawstudentswife.com/2014/05/slow-cooker-honey-...

I doubt it would win any BBQ competitions, but it's dead easy to make and is pretty delicious. We don't bother making the pancakes that the website recommends; we just grab some rolls from a bakery.

We don't make nearly as much use of our slow cooker as we should, but we're definitely looking for more recipes too. As we move into winter, we'll probably start trying to make stew, etc in it.
The point of bitcoin is that you don't need FDIC protection. You need FDIC protection with a bank because the bank isn't required to hold enough reserve to cover its deposits. If there's a run on the bank, and everyone wants to pull their deposits out, and the bank is insolvent, then the government guarantees to protect consumers by printing more money (inflation) to fulfill the bank's reserve requirements.

With bitcoin, you either have it or you don't. You can run your own bank, as long as you know how to safely store a private key.
Yes, you make a good point. My opinion - and that's all that it is - is that his (many) abilities lie in the Google [x] direction, not as a poster boy for MOOCs.
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"Free speech" gets more generally interpreted every day. On the internet it often means "any casual thought expressed in any way at all". It could mean something more restricted and still result in a functioning society.

Btw "free speech" as an American ideal is rooted in the government not interfering. It still allows private citizens to support/ignore/not publish anything they don't care to.

Also her speech was really good. Usually 'personalities' don't express themselves nearly that well.
No Android support?
Whoops, you're right. Point still stands though, comparing growth the way the GP did is misleading.
I agree the bar should be higher, I just don't think demonstrating a working invention should be a requirement.
Cool, simple, and creative. Bravo! I even love your app store icon. It's cute and eye catching.
Thrun's role as Google VP has been mostly moot for several years now.

Those close to Thrun have made no secret of the fact he's focused on Udacity and thus, whether he would like to work at Google or not, he can only do so much.
You know you can specify the folder screenshots are saved to by using:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder
Fortunately this release does include a Windows release. The home page doesn't yet include a news item for this round of releases, but 2.1.3 is available on the download page.

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
if your state is { foo: ['a','b','c'] }, you can either do:

cursor.refine('foo', 3).onChange('d')
cursor.refine('foo').onChange(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])

(indexes in a js array are the same as keys in a map)

It is possible to implement `push` and other list/object ops that are exposed by React.addons.update, they have not been implemented yet because they make the interface more complicated.

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html

I opened an issue for discussion: https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor/issues/10
I believe that's exactly what I was planning to do for my next project based on React. I'm very interested in your implementation.
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Agree in principle, but the fact is that most American content is subsidized in one way or another, and most other countries also subsidize film and TV production. From an economic view I don't like subsidies, but as someone who works in indie film I'm not going to be purist about it if one helps me get paid, it's difficult enough to fund and sell film as it is.

Cultural material is not a simple commodity that you can apply laws of supply and demand to, because cultural products are not economic substitutes for each other. This is one of the few areas where I think some protectionism may be justified, because if you import all your media then it tends to crowd out one's domestic culture, which in extreme cases can lead to social fragmentation. If you don't have any kind of domestic media output then that also limits your country's potential for tourism and inward investment.

I grew up in Ireland and although I was very interested in film from an early age there was very little domestic film or TV production going on; maybe 30-40% of what was on TV came from the UK and >50% came from the US (cheap for programmers to purchase given the tiny size of the market, and for political reasons we did not wish to get too much of our programming from the UK). There was only one TV channel for many years and it was quite demoralizing to realize that how little cultural output of our own there was. Apart from a documentary shot in 1934 by an Irish-American filmmaker, there wasn't a single Irish-produced feature film for nearly 50 years, until 1982 (when I was 12), and even that involved an English director. The domestic industry didn't really get going until the early 1990s.

As a kid, I would borrow library books and read magazine articles about film production but even the notion of 'home movies' seemed impossibly remote - I literally never saw a video or film camera until I moved to London. It didn't occur to me to pursue a career in film as a youth because the domestic industry simply didn't exist. Even with cheap digital technology available today, making a film is quite an expensive undertaking - there's no guarantee that filmmakers will simply bootstrap themselves as the inevitable result of market forces.
This is a really cool idea.
I looked online for alternatives since I have an android device, and while the best solution I found requires an additional device, it looks very polished.

Does anyone have experience with this?

https://atama.io/sesame2
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I agree that people should do what they can to act civily, however, The internet is not a "safe space" it is A SPACE. It is the core of freedom of speech. Things like threats, the suggestion of violence, and otherwise illegal activities are NEVER ACCEPTABLE. Misogyny always has a place in America as long as free speech stands. Freedom is the most important tenet of out society.
I don't get it. A 'bitcoin bank' may have exactly the same liquidity issues, if they reinvest deposits like commercial banks do.
We're at a slippery slope where we'll simply need more data points to better assess identification of medical predispositions based on gene analysis. Unfortunately, the negative externality that forms, and the one referenced when things like "should be" is said, pertains to patients' responses to this additional information. We don't even have enough data to full reflect on how patients are reacting to this information.

Right now, most medicine is reactionary-- confirming suspicions when patients are presenting x symptoms. These tests, however, hope to be predictive, and like many predictive aspects of life, will have associated confidence intervals. People, especially with regards to their own health, will have a hard time factoring in these odds when presented additional information.
Looks like winkdex.com has gone down under the load
I use Noscript and will usually enable JS at least temporarily for the main domain and a CDNA but often balk at a list of 10 TLDs that the page needs to load (particularly tracking and advertising sites). Sometimes I try to find the necessary ones and others I just move on.
Private Repo activity doesn't show up though, so it's not the best metric to take a look at.
You're right. I just meant a little different thing: that we'd better store JSON in conventional way of storing values in schema-full columns. For example, object {foo: {bar: [1, 2], a: 'b'}} would be three columns foo.bar.0=1, foo.bar.1=2, and foo.bar.a='b'. In medium-sized project you'll write DAO layer to convert DBMS view on data to application code view on data anyway for various purposes. It would be even better, because column order in SQL doesn't matter (but in Mongo it does for searching, as it's essentially just BSON string). And column names won't be repeated each time and take space.

Of course, if you have a case to store unstructured data where you don't know the structure in advance, in this case it won't work for you. But for your own data -- we'd better let DBMS maintain the schema, instead of maintaining it in application code (inventing the wheel).

Side note, regarding updates of particular fields in objects: a NoSQL datastore must provide some "compare-and-set" functionality to avoid race conditions during updates. PostgreSQL way is to use row-level-locking transactions, but MongoDB locks the whole collections (well, several months ago it blocked the whole database, so it's and improvement :). They kinda offer findAndUpdate() for "compare-and-set", but see my another comment below on why it doesn't work.
Seems legit: http://s.higg.im/image/0m2g2o1F2W1D
An open-source, CLI-alternative is maid. It really allows me to scratch my programmer's itch.

https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid
Crawling already works :)

One of the things that has been heavily marketed by other web scrapers is "crawling" as a separate feature.

With ParseHub, all the tools easily combine, so you don't need that distinction. You can use the navigate tool to jump to another page (see our interactive navigation tutorial in the extension for the details).

And you can combine multiple navigations to go as deep in the website structure as you like. For example, say you have a forum that links to subforums that link to posts that link to users. You can easily model the structure of such a site by using a few navigation nodes (one from forum to its subforums, another from subforum to posts, etc.). The result would be a big json (or csv) dump of all the data on the forum, in the proper hierarchy.

We've really tried to make our tools as general as possible. A side effect of the navigate tool is that you can use it to get "pagination" for free as well (another feature that's been heavily marketed).
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(update) The discussion here has convinced me; I have opened an issue to eventually change the nomenclature.
Right, caw is probably the closest; cf<Space> is what I defaulted to earlier in my vi-ing, which is a little further away but also usually close enough.
The one thing people seem to forget: MVPs are supposed to be experiments. You do an MVP to figure out whether it's worth your time to build a product for a particular market (i.e. whether there is "product-market fit"), or whether you should pivot to something else. You make them minimal so you can afford to do more of them, because it's unlikely your first one will work. You make them viable because, if they aren't, your experiment won't tell you anything (people won't use it, even if they need what it does.)

If you already know your product is something people want (e.g. something a bank would just give you a business loan for), you obviously don't need to do an MVP, because there's already product-market fit. Starting a pizzeria? Front-load your investment and make a really great pizzeria; buy huge ovens, etc.

If there's literally nobody serving your market, such that it's unclear whether it's even a "need" or not—please don't spend years building the perfect solution to the "problem." Find out if it's a problem first. Build a prototype. Show it to people. Get them to say they're willing to pay you for it. That's what an MVP is.

(And, as soon as you've found your product-market fit, and decided which product you're going to build? Stop thinking of that product as an MVP. It's a real product now: make it good.)
We're actually conducting a survey aimed at measuring the effectiveness of code bootcamps (as far as job placement rates, average salary, etc.)

If you're recently graduated from a code bootcamp, take the survey and share your experiences: http://www.codejobs.io/surveys/codebootcamp/student
Hey Tony! Great work on your Go implementation of BitAuth: https://github.com/codelittinc/gobitauth – would you mind sending me an email about your AngelHack issues? eric@bitpay.com
Assuming you meant set B with set C - what makes you believe set B will match set W one day? Especially right now set B is incredible tiny compared to set A and there is not much incentive to switch to B which in turn makes it unlikely that set B will quickly converge to set W.
RH just announced that their future will be cloud computing (Openstack). I think Ubuntu is following right behind. Suse i can't comment on as i haven't followed that distro in ages. Debian is more of a puzzle, but i suspect it was a case of "don't have the resources to be contrarian".

As for the Systemd design. I Think it started with Poettering drooling over OSX Launchd (his other projects also seem to be straight OSX feature clones), that since then has been hitched on the cloud computing push within RH.

In essence, the kind of server that Systemd seems to favor are cloud computing instances where storage and networking can come and go as the back end gets configured for new needs.

Traditional static big iron and clusters don't really benefit much from the "adaptive" nature of Systemd. If those breaks they usually have a hot reserve taking over while the admins get to work figuring out what broke.
A, until B has FDIC protections.
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Banks and hedge funds are both examples of buy-side firms. Confusing things further: the big investment banks all run operations that are morally equivalent to hedge funds.
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>You can't win with force alone.

Actually you can, you just need to use enough force and nobody is willing to do that. Ebola could become a threat to the point where the healthy start shooting people trying to escape quarantined areas or simply burning them down.

At the most extreme you could just firebomb or nuke the areas infected. That would be excessive force, but it would solve the problem.
Yes, they do. And I groan because it's an idea I've probably heard a thousand times. Companies will have success, but there will likely be another company in 5 years that overtakes them, and another 5 years after that. It's basically a zero sum market where the entrenched vendor's scale is too big to adapt to the new use cases that pop up every 5 years or so, so a new vendor pops up, becomes the entrenched leader, and the cycle repeats.

ServiceNow will likely just get acquired by someone (HP? SAP? Oracle?) and integrated as a module in a massive ERP system. I definitely don't agree with their valuation; they're trading at like a 300 forward PE which is just ridiculous for an enterprise technology vendor in a space as crowded as theirs. They're likely only trading at that level because the analysts are anticipating an acquisition and subsequent bidding war. That doesn't validate the value of their services; just that big enterprise tech vendors are willing to pay a premium to displace their competitors.
Working from home really gives you the advantage of living in area's much cheaper then you would normally think about for Tech industry. You can bring in drastically lower income and still have a higher purchasing power parity as someone working in the valley.
Except you're susceptible to physical robbery unless you store your money in a bank with FDIC protection. This is one reason Satoshi chooses to remain anonymous.