skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US DMVs do not require fingerprints, no. However, they do require images to be taken of you, that are entered into a database ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/state-phot... ). So when discussing 'biometrics' as a whole, government agencies routinely collect and share it.

Plus, let's not forget the data sharing arrangements that were highlighted by Greenwald; the US collects fingerprints from anyone entering the country ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Biometric_Identity_Ma... ), and I'm sure they're happy to share that information with other countries, who may be prevented legally from collecting that info from their own citizens. And vice versa. So traveled overseas? It's not unreasonable to assume your home country now has access to that piece of biometric data. Certainly, the country you traveled to does.

And of course, if you are arrested, your fingerprints are entered into a DB as well (though you can fight to have them removed if you are never found guilty of anything; good luck with that).

In general, our biometric data is collected routinely, and so makes a really bad choice for a password. I never see the equivalent of this for passwords - http://thefreethoughtproject.com/st-louis-police-fingerprint...
Oops, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Grammar nit: I believe that "complementary kitchen sink" would mean that the kitchen sink goes really well with it, while "complimentary kitchen sink" would mean that the kitchen sink is included at no additional charge.
The driver problem perhaps could be disrupted. Suppose during installation you had the opportunity to pay the driver vendor directly for installing the driver- in other words, the disruption came because we let go of some of the "free" requirements, and came to do business directly with the sources of our tech.

This would be disruptive in that it would reduce the stranglehold the Microsoft is able to exert over the OEMs. Akin to selling cars directly to consumers, there would be an upside for the driver vendors that they may get behind.

So HNBuntu isn't "free"- it costs $15 to install on your system.

Perhaps the install has a fallback to the 'free' mode (for secondary devices, etc.)
> From my standpoint. The cheapest option, and best option for everyone really, is to continue using (an up-to-date) Mono and instead allow for writing games in C++ as well.

Yes. It seems logical that there have been some licensing negotiations that we're not aware of, and maybe all this is part of ongoing negotiations too.

What's puzzling is that they're keeping il2cpp closed. Opening it would make sense and would show they mean serious business but keeping it closed makes me wonder if their risk will pay off or if it's just a bluff.
Had a similar thought but with the Transmeta processors. Having said that is this much different to how X86 currently simplifies to micro-ops (at least for the translation side of things)
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Isn't there a lot of potential to waste time that way though? If they're expecting to pay 80K and you're expecting 140K?
Regarding the C# -> C++ -> JS thing, it really must alot easier to do a C# -> JS conversion...
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The parallelism is there in most of the algorithms, and it gets taken out by a human translating the algorithm (which is inherently parallel) into some arbitrary language that the computer understands (most of which aren't parallel).

If you do a REALLY good job of pattern recognition coupled with some execution in a simulator you might be able to figure out what the core of a program is and go to work on that.

I'm skeptical of anything that reverses arbitrary machine code from serial to parallel but that's not to say it can't happen.

I did some work patching binaries on "basic blocks" which are chunks of code between branches. Inside a basic block you can reorder instructions however you'd like so long as you don't step on your own feet. The key piece of insight that enables this is that as long as the program state is correct by the time you get to a branch, it doesn't matter the EXACT order in which it got to the correct state.

If they've had some kind of bigger insight, it's not unreasonable to come up with short-timescale virtual threads. Cache latencies are on the order of a few to say a hundred cycles. Core to core latency should be about the same if you design it well. Having an insight that's bigger than basic blocks and scales up to say maybe 1000 cycles would enable you to shuffle computation from one core to another and back in time to make an improvement.

CPUs which do out-of-order execution already have a commit engine which either commits or throws away the results of speculative computation as a result of the branch predictor. To make something which operates at a larger (though not program-wide) scale isn't impossible to believe.
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All I got from that press release was a mental image of a car labeled "Soft Machines" driving headlong towards a wall with "Amdahl's Law" spraypainted on it...
Ask a few questions, and make a few demands (because they're implicitly making one of you)....
1) A trial is not uncommon - it may mean they're skittish of any hire do to past history. Find out exactly WHY they want to do a trial, so that you can make sure to address all of those points while you work. [Eg: did the last guy quit, have poor skills, etc]
2) Determine if you will get paid and have an officer sign something stating the amount, and when it would be due. How is up to you. For consulting projects, I've agreed to X deliverables up front - with a pre-payment fee of 50% and 50% due on completion. Keep the scoping small.
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I agree 100%. It's far less usable than it was. The removal of text is yet another one of those silly design trends I'm sure we'll look back at with disdain in the near future.
do not care.

i've lost interest in systemd stuff now. use it. don't use it. whatever
This is basically how Nutrisystem works. They send you prepackaged meals, and you supplement them with fresh fruits and vegetables. (It's really hard to overeat fresh fruits and vegetables, even with poor measuring.)
This is probably the clearest most concise rebuff of the Assange's talking points and I completely agree with you.

However, in the interest of transparency, I wish you would have included that you work for Google.

On another note, not only do I agree with your points, but I think you've got a great writing style.
I'd gotten the impression they and their supporters had started to self-identify with the term.
You lose weight by eating less in the same way that you achieve success by working hard. One doesn't necessarily follow the other but unless you do it you can't possibly expect anything but more of the same.
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If we are, it doesn't look like the first one, and I'm not sure what it "popping" would look like.

Startups aren't burning through a few hundred million and shutting down inside a year. There's no mass of IPOs by companies with no revenue and no realistic plan for getting revenue. And I don't see IPOs posting 500% gains on the first day.

Airbnb's been around for 5+ years, provides something people want, and obviously has revenue (though I wouldn't know how much). And so far its investors are all VC or private equity, including a lot of VCs who saw the first bubble up-close. Really, are there any funded startups right now without VCs who came out of the first bubble?
That's exactly what the GPL is for.
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Still better than seeing this as "installation instructions":

curl http://not-ssl.somesite.ru/ba.sh | bash

Often without an https:// option available at all.
Sadly, network effects. The same reason that eBay doesn't have any serious competitors, despite the awful experience they offer.
I agree - but 99% of Fortune 1500+ companies do not have the staff or knowledge in how to implement, analyze, operate these.
:)

You are becoming more valuable (in the sense of being able to deliver more absolute value). But you are becoming less of a commodity, which means employers are also becoming less of a commodity for you.

To prepare for the future, you need to look into marketing yourself "wholesale" (that is, sell completed projects rather then into a team), and/or establish a network of people who care about fundamentals and not the latest hotness.

I turned down a hadoop job awhile ago, because it was hurting me to do things so stupidly. (I managed to do the same thing on C at 1/10 of the time on one machine as the project did on 10 machines using Hadoop, but they insisted that "hadoop is the thing"). If I was hungry for food, I might just deal with these pains. I'm obviously less employable right now than I was in my 20s when I was happy to use any stupid technology - but I'm happier for it.
I think "a few words" is probably just slightly nearer the intended meaning than "the few words".
The question of "...is what you eat more important than how much?" Went unanswered it appears. Essentially, what if he ate the same calories each day but improved the number of calories he burned per pound of body weight? A hypothesis I've seen scattered around the t00b lands is eating sugar effectively lowers that value (I think it's alpha in his analysis). I wonder how much one can change that and how so.
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As far as I can see this "story" is simply a rewriting of Frank Jacbob's blog, which is referred to but rather unsportingly not linked to: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/643-agloe-the-paper-town-st...

I normally love the NPR but this piece looks like blatant blogspam to me.
Maybe kill the link to the story next time, though? Let the thread live, but not the promotion of bad content or (more importantly) the framing that content provides for the thread.
Did we read the same thing? I got the impression that the author realized at the end that "technically privileged" was just an illusion, and the whole point is that they don't exist.
Agree with cz. Put that in a box that plugs into a wall and gets warm and sell it tor 30k to enterprise companies, and you could have a product.
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Just wondering what the community think the biggest pains of being freelance are?

- Getting paid on time?
- Finding new customers?
- Project changing scope?

Any & all suggestions welcome.
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I would suggest startups are the wrong area. Startups barely have money to pay for staff and often don't know or care about their security risk. They also tend to use tools which allay some of that risk (eg: Stripe, etc for credit cards, non-storage of PCI-Compliant data). Mid-Sized companies often have sensitive data, older techniques, and/or budget - and can be convinced of their risk. I would suggest going the routes of medium size business up to lower Fortune 3000 companies. Reason, the CISO position is increasingly going to those in security with Penetration background rather than other areas of sercurity (eg: physical, Identity & Access, etc). You might look at a strategy similar to http://Phishme.com which is selling into larger accounts.

[my background: used to implement and sell security into Fortune 1000 account and SMB's]
this looks good - why are u guys hating it? Snowden said that we should ditch Dropbox and go with Spideroak or some other service. this might be good since they accept bitcoin :)
I think this would be a tough sell in enterprise environments because the analysis of log data takes time and analysts are likely to say they have enough data from their own logs. They would also get stuck on the differences between the honeypot environment and their own network.

That said, it would be valuable if I wanted to blacklist certain IP addresses.

You may also consider a data sharing service that would provide access to anonymized log data shared among subscribers, this would allow subscribers to get data from real systems. Some vendors market similar services (such as RSA's eFraud Network).
It happened with Facebook and other companies. I can't find the specific article about this topic (I think from Fred Wilson).

The logic is that there is an inconsistency in growing a company to the billion scale while you are just having a salary. It gives a financial safety to the people involved in the key decisions.
This is what I did; I live in central France but work in the UK (fully remote; I fly up once or twice a year normally for social gatherings).

I found the company where I'm not CTO via HN "who's hiring" in 2010.

My colleagues are scattered as well, and I don't know their ages. I haven't even met several of them in person, though we know each others' voices quite well by now!

Note to OP: it's worth posting a bit more about your father's experience; we're only sort-of hiring (and so haven't been posting to the threads on HN) but we're not doing Django or MongoDB... so it's hard to say if we'd be interested. No hard in sending a CV my way, anyway (see profile).
Because running a trading algorithm on a non-idempotent stack is such a good idea.
The roundtrip version might be faster in some cases because it's not Java anymore, but native code. AFAIK, Apportable uses GNUStep libraries and the Android NDK, so the translated version would be an ARM binary on Android.

Of course you can't do that for a real app because they use the Android APIs, not just the foundation libraries supported by j2objc.
> The main mistake people do is thinking of it as a diet, instead of changing a lifestyle.

Yes. It really gets to me when people say they're going on a diet. There's no such thing as "going on a diet." There is only "changing your diet." If you change your diet for a while, lose weight, and then go back to your previous diet, you will gain the weight back.
In fact, Scott Adams proposed this in The Dilbert Future as a workplace scheme to improve productivity (he called it 'OA5'). He may be accurate in thinking it's up to the employer to destigmatise leaving 'early' (when in fact it's a symptom of an employee having a good work-life balance, providing his performance is sufficient).

However, I've been thinking about this recently - the logical extreme is that you should never expect the employee to turn up at work at all, provided he performs his tasks (say via telecommuting). Perhaps employers mandate 'desk time' because it's important to have regular physical access to the employee, for example in order to talk to him? I can think of HR/legal reasons where a private in-person interview is needed in order to inform the employee of something or to retrieve information from him. Consequently, if an employee only came in to work for these meetings, it would be obvious when the employee was engaged in some sort of 'serious' communication with the company. It would make mass layoffs especially conspicuous and difficult for the company to hide.
> I can't imagine having to look at the worst humanity has to offer for eight hours a day. It should merit hazard pay and unlimited psychological counseling at the very least.

I doubt it's that bad. I think those people are in autopilot mode and just click "reject" all day long based on a few keywords and pattern.

I found amusing when people in news forum think they are censored for they supposedly controversial thoughts. What actually happened is that some poor worker that couldn't care less rejected their post in a glimpse.
Please tell me where this happens, and I'll do my best to explain. Last I heard, this kind of expense is always covered by your employer.
Guys, there's still lots of opportunities in the cloud storage market. Dropbox, for example, recently began to hunt enterprise customers and Box has been doing it (very) successfully for a while.
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Wisky lets you find restaurants in London based on how long you are willing to travel.

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"Suspected abusers" - what can that mean? They used a lot of storage? That's what the plan was for.
Did you read the paper? They studied women with and without diagnosed eating disorders as part of the research.

From a cursory read, it looks pretty damning to me - I'm not qualified to do a deep dive in the research methodology, but the conclusions look sound.
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Neither of these are true. Plenty of people work hard but don't achieve success, just the same way plenty of people eat less but don't lose weight. The body is a wonderfully efficient and adaptable machine and its own processes can sabotage your efforts to change it. There's also genetic predispositions that are a factor as well.
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, there's a diet called "The Hacker's Diet" [0] that is based upon this calorie in/out theory. The website also has a simple webapp where you can create your own chart to track your weight.

Personally I think this is a great way to control your weight. The diet doesn't say anything about what to eat, just how much (in calories). It doesn't necessarily make it easier, but it does give you constant feedback, which can help you stay motivated.

[0] http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/
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Sounds like you're running into some bug. I've never run into any perceptible lag.
> The main case against binary logs is their corruptibility. This happens more often than you’d think, due to not having any transaction consistency, as an RDBMS would. The advice of the systemd developers on handling this? Ignore it.

To be honest, if the format is done well there is no reason you cannot still read all the non corrupted records. textfiles corrupt too, you just generally live with them being broken because you can read the unbroken stuff.

Going by the bug tracker the journald approach is to make the reader work with broken files better.
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That sounds odd. Did you try to strace it and see what it actually does?
I believe body fat estimations based upon weight and electrical conductance measurements are really flawed, especially for individuals outside of a quite narrow 'normal'. It's only a little better than a BMI measurement in my opinion. If you want to know, get yourself to a bodpod or some other accurate measurement system.
To be honest: that's kinda to be expected if you run it on a slow machine. However you can configure it to be in-memory only and forward to syslog and you have it as it was before.
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Local improvements are funded locally, an that's great. But a large project managing the church's closely-held fabulous wealth is a very different matter. Never mind my neighbor donates to the Fireman's ball; he wants me to help put sprinklers in his art gallery, I laugh.
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I use MFP and weigh my food. Everyone gets caught up on the science and numbers. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the calories are exact or not. If you aren't losing weight then you trim some more out of your diet. If you are losing weight and that's your goal then you keep doing what you are doing. The tracker just helps give you a guideline and history.
Doesn't that description fit eBay? Yet it has a $60B market cap.
You've bought in to Brave New World. You love your servility, and have abandoned aspirations of freedom.
Don't think in terms of offering the lowest price. When you are selling your services online, price also tells the client how much your work is worth. Never compete on price, just ask for whatever you think is fair, given your knowledge and experience. I work on oDesk, and I've always obtained well-paid work. Just a question of patience and establishing a reputation.
I've been shopping there for years so they must know me pretty well. I can't figure out why they have young women's dresses above the fold. Total miss. I'm logged in so they should be able to tie it all together.
As a note, while, as others have mentioned, it's non-idiomatic, and dropped in casual speech would come across as a trifle awkward, it -can- be made tenable in sufficiently florid prose that is clearly intended to be delivered verbally.

That is, while "some few" is ungainly, pausing and delivering it as though 'few' is reinforcing or clarifying 'some' (through a change in tone or similar) would sound a little archaic, perhaps, but completely natural.
Its all part of the problem. Isn't LA something like 40% devoted to cars? Counting roads, parking, service stations, sales lots.
I'm curious why you would want to navigate to the Amazon homepage to make a search - wouldn't you just search from the URL bar? In Chrome, at least, doing so is trivial after your first search.
We already have a caste system, in the form of unearned wealth, and that divide is increasing rapidly.

I think that media, public discourse, entertainment and most especially industrial schooling are already tuned to condition people to accept servility to capital. There's a whole economic religion set up to perpetuate the superiority of the top 1% of the capitalist caste.

There's more to it, but it's not a conspiracy, it's not a conscious thing, but it is an emergent properly of the system we've set up, and individual incentives exist that perpetuate the system.

I think it's unstable - the trends observed by Piketty cannot continue for more than a few more decades without significant risk of social upheaval. But for now, the system is fairly unassailable, and it is very like BNW already.
How often do you think the FDA verifies that calorie labels are correct. I'm willing to bet it's not that important to them.
If we want to look at investors through the lens of a customer, I think that we should also acknowledge that sometimes you need to fire / turn down a customer. Different investors have different expectations, and compromising fundamental beliefs about how you want to run your business in pursuit of cash is going to be a horrible experience for both you and the investor in the long run.
The solution no one talks about, is to stop breeding. Having 1 kid in today's day and age is bad, having 2 is criminal.
"if you start at a young enough age"

My understanding is that less than 12 is a good definition of young enough. (Although, ironically in the context of this discussion, my google-fu is too weak this morning to find the reference that convinced me of this. :)

In any case, a distant 2 years of high-school German coupled with 6 months of effort last year (pretty nearly an hour a day) was not enough to give me the skill to even read a children's book in German. For some of us, learning a language is hard.
This is a very good initiative.
But linking "GNUisms" to the communist party website is just dumb.