skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is projecting his preferences onto others as if they were objectively obvious. It is a very arrogant thing to do. Let the dreamers dream. Ridiculing their aspirations in a moment of tragedy smacks of Schadenfreude.
So a fingerprint is like a username and password you go around writing on everything you touch. Got it.
What did these refusals look like? How were you presenting to these companies?

I'm surprised; if I approached companies and offered them talent without asking for money, they'd jump all over it. Or was the issue that this person was trying to negotiate on your behalf as well?
I suspect we're likely to solve greenhouse gas emissions long before we're able to get humans out of the solar system.
It only took 8 / 9 years between Gagarin's flight and landing test pilots on the Moon. Which is still remarkable.

Since this sub-thread has invoked tourists and the implied safety and convenience of a commercial operation that carries passengers and other payload. Tourists are payload, test pilots are ... test pilots.
Of course, once they terminate the TOS for any reason, the next line of the TOS doesn't seem especially relevant.
The issue with slack is that they have these NUX notifications all over the place. If your product is that complicated, there's probably a deeper issue.
One benefit is that you can do simple O(1) equality comparisons in UI libraries like React to determine whether data has changed (and thus whether UI needs to be refreshed).
> Biometric information is a means to verify identification. A username and a password is also a means to verify identification. A fingerprint is no more a username than a password is a username. In the case of a username/password it's the combination that's required to verify the identity.

Is it really? I think if I send you an email at colinbartlett@whateversitehostsyouremail.com I've verified your identity as much as I need with only your username.

A username and password is a case of identification (username) and authentication (password). Authentication is proof. When you have authenticated identification (like a username and password) it's proof that the person is why they say they are.

The reason people conflate identification with authentication is that we typically use the two together. But there are lots of cases where we only care about one or the other.

For example, many systems (such as routers) implement administrative tasks with an administrative password. You don't care who performed the task, you only care that they had permission to do it. That's authentication without identification.

Similarly, there are plenty of cases where you don't care about authentication, you only care about identification. For example, anyone can send you an email. On many systems you can send people messages anonymously: there's no authentication necessary, no proof of anything necessary to be allowed to send the message. The only thing necessary is the identity of the receiver. That's identification without authentication.

Fingerprints are identification. They are used as authentication because the difficulty of collecting the identification gives a small barrier to falsifying authentication, but they're pretty terrible for that purpose. You leave your fingerprints all over the place: it's like if you just went around writing your bank PIN everywhere. There are already proofs of concepts of people constructing fingerprints from polymers; this is a simple case of privilege escalation, where gaining one level of privilege allows you access to a higher level of privilege. Given that most people give everyone access to their fingerprints that's a pretty low point to allow escalation from.
Can confirm that this is a bad idea as manfuarcturing defects do happen. Took a shipment of brand new NetApp toasters this year and they all had the same WWN/WWPN's!

Needless to say NetApp where quite embarrassed and we are glad that we noticed it in pre-prod otherwise it could have been quite bad.
Right, they could've chosen any syntax, but they can't necessarily choose any semantics. Dalvik (and now ART) doesn't just look like Java, it behaves like Java, which means that if you're a Java programmer you can pick up Android basically immediately and have a good idea how it works. If they'd chosen a Python syntax but left out, say, keyword arguments and metaclasses and overloading of built-in operators, I doubt many Python developers would consider it the same language.
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I would agree that we would like the values of scientist to mirror the values of the general public (although it is easy to see how different values may lead to a different likelihood of becoming a scientist).

However political beliefs are a combination of values and factual beliefs. For example, consider gun control. Part of the debate is a value debate on who has the responsibility of protecting the people (if you believe that it is the government's responsibility, you are less likely to be pro gun than if you believe it is an individuals responsibility). However, there is also a factual debate on if private ownership of guns actually protects people.
To say nothing of its merit, it looks like they're going to rely on the justification that reversing past deregulation policy would create a situation where their own past arguments would be used against them in court when the ISPs inevitably challenge their decision.
> basic hard laws such as the speed of light, the laws of thermodynamics, etc. say NO

This is not true. For travel within the solar system the speed of light is no more than a nuisance delaying communication. The laws of thermodynamics don't stop space travel. No one is saying "we always find a way" to do the impossible. We are saying "we always find a way" to do that thing that we already know how to do and have demonstrated lots of times, only this time we need to make it cheaper.
Did you take any precautions to limit the risk of getting scammed? I'm worried that whoever places the winning bid will file a dispute claim stating that they didn't receive it or some other nonsense and ebay seems to always side with buyers.
You could have said the same thing about early airline travel: how awful that pilots should die so rich jet-setters can get to Europe quicker.

History proved that airline travel is pretty worthwhile for connecting the world. I think it's too early to dismiss the impact of eventual mass market space planes.
I would advise to have them write on the account that in no circumstance are they to authorize you without the passcode.

This is the weakest part of the chain. We all forget our passwords.
"Banks haven't seen an advantage in speeding that up, even though the lag is painful for businesses and families."

And

"What the U.S. needs, the Federal Reserve said last month, is an entirely “new infrastructure” to keep banks connected day, night and through the weekend. Then last week, the Clearing House, a group owned by the largest banks, said it would build a real-time payment network. It didn’t specify a time frame or release cost estimates."

Guys, this exists. It's called Bitcoin. And it's incredibly powerful.
This was always Facebook's library, but it didn't always have a pretty homepage. You might be thinking of mori? https://github.com/swannodette/mori
Also other trusted devices can bypass 2factor.

Less secure, of course, but my desktop and laptop bypass two factor.
A hybrid has a few other failure modes too. One is called hard start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_start

Another - nitrous oxide can become explosive in gaseous phase. If enough of it became gas, the oxidizer tank may have exploded.

There are also inherent instabilities of hybrids - higher pressure accelerates the burn, which increases pressure, which...

We'll know more after they finish the investigation.
This is precisely why I thought Digits was such a terrible idea (check my comment history, it's there.) SMS is so incredibly insecure that anyone relying on it should not consider themselves security savvy. SMS TFA is lipstick on a pig. Cellphones are so cheap these days, they should all come with a TFA app pre-installed. I'm also not too keen on websites making it so easy to change your username. The story of @N on Twitter comes to mind. Is anyone working on Digits without the SMS part?
If a regulation is putting human lives at risks, the regulation has to go.
I've been having similar thoughts about the purposes behind the prohibition being misunderstood. There are many effects that the war on drugs is having, and the people that are executing the process are more aware than any of us what those effects are. As a clueless civilian, I have been attempting to come up with some completely conjectural ideas about what those might be:

- Strengthen law enforcement through constant practice, and provide revenue to supporting companies

- Siphon money from one industry (drug trade) to help support the government and therefore support other industries that it feels are more beneficial to society

- Stigmatize unproductive habits, conditioning society to more productive/controlled behavior, incarcerating individuals who resist to make the society seem more productive overall

I'm sure there are many intentions that are well known that might overlap with what I'm suggesting, but I think the main point is that the war on drugs is not for the purpose that most people assume: to eliminate drugs from society. I think in a lot of ways it intentionally has the opposite effect. Also I think if society would have tolerated alcohol prohibition that the government would have been happy to keep that going as well for similar reasons.
I would expect auditing if not compartmentalization, and big legal risks from unauthorized access that mean a majority chance of getting fired.
I grew up in regional Australia in an area where you needed a car to get anywhere or do anything. It was hell. I fled from there to the middle of a city the second I was old enough to do so and could not imagine going back.

P.S. based on the short amount of time I've spent in Texas I would rank it as one of the most horrible places I've visited on the face of this planet. I cannot comprehend how anyone would voluntarily live there. The same goes for anywhere (including suburban Australia) with vast expanses of low density housing. You have all of the bad parts of living in a city (low privacy, crime, lack of natural spaces) with none of the good (proximity to services, cultural density, high quality mass transit, entertainment etc).
"Broccoletti believes police still may be unable to unlock the phone because it should require a password, in addition to a fingerprint, once it has been shut off."

What a great ending to the story.
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That's a problem "low-level workers can get full access". I expect that someone with a higher rank than a low level.

That kind of people could work as little as several month (or even just weeks), make a huge damage and then what. No control?
Sure, as a provider, you want to have absolutely no binding obligation to the person you are providing service to.

Of course, conversely, as the person receiving service, you absolutely want the provider to have binding obligations -- and "we can cancel this at any time for any reason or no reason with no obligation to give you anything, including your data, afterwards" isn't what you want from a service you are relying on in any kind of business use.

> As a separate matter: if these clauses discomfit you, speak to enterprise sales.

Or just don't use the service that offers them. The reason services use boilerplate like this isn't that its essential, its that the perceived cost/benefit ratio warrants it because most people don't read TOS and don't change behavior based on them.
I do something very similar: 64-bit IDs start with a timestamp with a custom epoch, and fill in the rest with random data. I store these in bigints in Postgres.
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> I'm completely bewildered by the changing bus/train schedules and don't understand how anyone can juggle all of those routes and times in their head

I think bigger cities have a journey planner website and a mobile app to go with it. For example, here's the one for London: http://tfl.gov.uk/

Also, the trunk transport lines (they can be metro, train or buses) should go every 10 minutes, or every 5 minutes, so one does not need a timetable to use them.
I am genuinely interested in knowing how we go from here to there. Alcohol for example after prohibition - what was the transition from illegal to legal like. Did more people drink suddenly? What organisations sprang up to legally manufacture and distribute? Where the mafia still involved?

Saying "decriminalise" is all good - but if at any point in the supply chain we dip into the underground market we shall not escape the violence and control of crime. So are there plans for movin from prohibition to open market?
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Incredible the lack of barriers in place for adding a forwarding number to a cellphone account. Maybe the attackers got the last 4 of his CC from a hacked set? Or maybe the same for his social. And from there they were able to authenticate with the telco rep
> If not, why you need to call anybody at all?

I like that in your world there is only "illegal" and "perfectly fine", with nothing in between. You should write about your homeland. Dystopian fantasy novels are so popular lately.

> People sometimes do behave badly, but they have no obligation to provide you with a phone number to tell on them.

People in general don't. People providing certain regulated services in fact do, at least around here. We like it that way.

> And here we are back to name calling. Take another cookie!

No, when I say "idiocy" I'm mocking your ridiculous ideas. If I'd meant to call you names, I would have said you were an idiot.
I know this decision was "expected", however, I can't help but get the feeling that in an "ideal society", where governments wouldn't abuse their powers, and people's rights would be much more "reasonable" (in a good way), the government would not be able to force you to put your finger on something.

After all we have so many laws that offer similar type of protections already, such as a wife not having to testify against her husband. At some point the society decided that it's the "right thing" to do.

Perhaps the society can decide that having the government force you to unlock your devices with your finger is unacceptable.
Not surprising if you think about the law. The historical bent of the Anglo-American legal system is that courts have very expansive powers to facilitate the collection of evidence. The 5th amendment is a specific limitation to this power, which prohibits compelling a person to serve as witness against himself. Taken literally this is a very specific limit, but has been construed expansively. But a physical action like unlocking a phone with a fingerprint is not testimonial at all.
The browser "back" button for the website is broken...
Hah. I thought: "That sounds like an interesting topic. How could it have escaped Stack Overflow's ruthless prohibition against interesting reading?" And of course it hasn't.
No. I don't see how. Be more specific if that wasn't a question.

Now, my idea works if you assume that the collapse is instantaneous, it doesn't travel at all. Therefore the logic that the equations show that the information ends in the past doesn't apply.
This transcript of Roger Hui's talk casts more light on the general idea: http://archive.vector.org.uk/trad/v094/hui094_85.pdf

It's interesting that what he calls "Parsing" is more typically known as term reduction by pattern matching in the functional world.
My take is that the main haters of node/npm are people who don't understand it.
Uh, this is just a total misunderstanding of how and why these systems work the way they do.

Of course command grammars are recognized on the device, otherwise you wouldn't be able to turn your TV on using a command or use basic functions in a speedy manner.

And, of course they send audio data to a server -- because your TV does not have a complete language model for up to date web search or even tv guide installed a priori. i.e. good reasons that have nothing to do with "capturing revenue stream".

Sigh...
This “security company” is full of it
I didn't realize this is from Mojang. This seems pretty useful.
> Ideally what I'd want is an NFC ring or a smart band/watch that can use FIDO's U2F or a similar protocol that works through NFC

I've got my eyes on a Yubikey NEO for just this kind of use: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...
I think I saw Matthew Green propose a solution for this: Apple could allow you to use a different finger to force the phone to prompt for a password. In theory you shouldn't get jailed for contempt over this since you'd be doing it much earlier than being in Court in front of a judge - like when you see the cops coming.
I don't think that the engineer in the story about the radio actually understands the radio. He could reproduce an identical radio, but he doesn't understand what's really necessary for a radio. He doesn't understand radio-ness.
It really shouldn't. B-trees have O(log n) insertion time, they shouldn't take much longer when your dataset grows.

But then, it's MySQL. I was surprised by your experience, but not that much.
Sounds like C++ with better syntax sugar. Is it really compiling already? That's impressive.
Of course, I'm in.
You should have the same answer for all security questions and it should be an easy to remember pass phrase about the service
Here is a summary of the crash-only software paper at muratbuffalo blog. It is a really neat concept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/01/crash-only-software...
Must be frustrating to have to use your phone in public.
God said to accept poison for as long as the dumb fuck insists.

He is harming himself and his offspring.

Turn the other cheek. It's very clear.

God is perfectly just.

I take the meds and laugh at the niggers.

The only rational thought is God castastrophically wins. It is irrational for God not to win.
Did you consider the Yubikey neo, a FIDO U2F NFC/Mifare keyring + usb keyboard? it pretty much does that.
I've been using the same already without knowing about this, but with a few exceptions. Most notably, I indent with tabs, because I can use a heredoc with tabs, i.e.

hello() {
cat <<-MSG
Hello, world!
MSG
}

Here, I have tabs before "Hello, world!" and those are ignored by Bash. I also have tabs before MSG, i.e. I don't need to start the line with it, which would be pretty ugly. I understand the rationale about not using tabs, but I think tabs are needed for more readable code.
If he still wants to ensure that the Cops should actually have to do more work despite this decision, then there are four possible outs:

- If Touch ID hasn't been used in 48 hours, you'll need to enter your passcode or password to re-enable it.

- If your iPhone has been rebooted or reset, you'll need to enter your passcode or password to re-enable it.

- If a fingerprint isn't recognized 5 times in a row, you'll need to enter your passcode or password to re-enable it.

- If a remote lock has been sent via Find my iPhone, you'll need to enter your passcode or password to re-enable it.

Remote lock - or delay for 48 hours - or - give the wrong finger 5 times in a row - or get the phone reset/Rebooted

(careful of contempt of court - there few things more unstoppable than a pissed-off Judge with contempt powers)
UUID is not a universally available primitive type like integer or date.
I'm thinking the ISPs will probably challenge it anyway. The impression I'm getting is a lot of them wanted nothing to do with Title II.
From the chart, I probably live in a Neighbourhood Commercial Zone which is weird for me coming from Canada. There are small factories making sheet metal or agricultural products right next door to or across the street from someone's home.

I live in a city of 400,000 people. The sheet metal factory has been in business for 65 years so I'm guessing that they were here first and as the city grew, the area was designated as a Neighbourhood Commercial Zone so they could stay but allow houses to be built since it is close to the centre.

Some other weird things in my area:

- there will be 3-4000 sq ft mansions and then down the street there are people living in basically what amounts to something a little bigger than a shack

- there is one new house near me that was literally built in a parking lot. It is surrounded on 3 sides by a parking lot and the back side faces right onto an apartment building.

- another house comes directly up against a graveyard
Yes, very convenient that he was always on the popular side of the issue.
Random observation -- what's up with almost 20 of the 24 'contributors' to this project mostly having made 1 edit changes to the README? Is this some kind of pervasive Github resume padding scheme that I'm just now picking up on? (it will show the repo in the "Repositories contributed to" section of your profile even for just those 1-line README edits)

https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js/graphs/contributors
I've had the chance to talk a bit with Bill Atkinson about this. I think there are a few things at play here.

First, HC was built before the popularization of the internet, and as such a distribution model for stacks didn't really exist. I can literally remember mailing stacks on floppy disks. So, people could make things, but not easily share them.

Second, there was a fundamental shift in which software became a commodity. I really think in the beginning it was about selling computers; it took a while for people to realize that software was not a 'value add' for the machine but a place to make much, much more money.

So when HC was conceived, it seemed natural to provide a tool to let people author their own software. As the business model changed, this idea lost out. Software should be something that people bought, not something people made