skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question...what is the chance that tech companies would be doing this if the sector weren't doing so well and there wasn't so much competition for talent?

My gut says no, and I hope I'm wrong come the next economic downturn that has a significant impact on said companies.
I use Postfix, I'll have to check how it makes outgoing connections but I'd assume it's unencrypted. My client connection to my server is encrypted but never thought to use it for the connections to the servers my server delivers mail to.
Any significant dataset should be wrapped with an object. Especially so if multiple scientists/programmers are pulling data from the dataset.

Ever tried multiple algorithm variants? Wrapping an algorithm in an object and then passing it to the data provisioning code means you can be 100% sure that the only thing that has changed in your code is the algorithm.
This was the original published statement:

If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120526080523/http://www.justic...

Yes they offered him 6 months finally but that is not how it starts. Plus in this country you get caught red handed you get a nice plea bargain and get less time than someone who might be innocent and they went to trial because they don't feel guilty and boom higher sentence for not taking the plea bargain.

90% of cases never go to trial. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/the...

My friend who swore he was innocent and went to trial on a he said she said had zero evidence was offered 18 months went to trial and got 12 years. That was more than some murders, man slaughter and rape. If you have a FBI trial your defense will cost millions or you take the plea bargain. Justice system is broken.
It works alright, but as the parent mentioned it only provides an overlay. It can't change the underlying colour temperature. (Basically it can add orange, but it can't remove blue.) I've used Lux with and without root, and the experience with is definitely superior.
I recommend reading responses to other branches of the grandparent that address this.

I agree that if people do decent studies and get null results, it would be nice if the data became publicly available so further studies can be seen in the context of previous negative results.

But given the need for novelty in results, I wonder how much work actually duplicates work previously undertaken with a null result. I suspect it's much less than many people in this discussion are assuming.

And secondly, there's the issue of forcing people to do decent write-ups. Study results are useless without a very detailed description of both the experimental setup and the data collection/analysis procedures that were followed. Those write-ups take time and effort, and for an unpublishable result many researchers won't find the motivation. One could argue that funding agencies and institutional IRBs must force researchers to write much of this ahead of running the experiment. That might help a bit, but will still leave substantial holes.
While I'm a rabid defender of rights, I don't agree they are not bestowed upon us, nor that they are unable to be taken away. Ask anyone in prison or a wartorn or repressive country if they still have all of their human rights. They don't. Rights CAN be taken away, and routinely are. The question is do we fight to retake and retain them.
Gmail will warn users for this, but not for soft failing SPF. That doesn't make sense.
Methinks the commenters in this thread are exactly the PC problem those who support free speech are fighting against.
Millions of people have used f.lux on other platforms. Hundreds of hours of real-world testing per user, multiplied by millions of users, leads to expectations about the behavior of f.lux on iOS. This is also known as reputation, credibility and brand recognition. For those who need what f.lux offers, this empirical data means more than Apple's walled garden theories and non-liablity EULAs.
There is a gigantic amount of closed-source freeware available on the App Store. Literally hundreds of thousands of apps. Roughly zero of which have had any security scrutiny. Apple's review process only checks user-visible behavior. (Edit: and a quick check for private API use, which is not user-visible, but nor is it relevant to security.)

If iOS's app sandbox is inadequate, then those are all threats too, but Apple doesn't seem to mind them. If the sandbox is adequate, then apps like f.lux are safe even if intended to be malicious.

Apple's position is only really understandable if they don't understand their own technology. Which considering who is probably making these decisions could very well be true.
Stop blaming it on the right. I'm left, and I agree that this shit needs to fuck off. Identity Politics is the worst bunch of assholes that I'd quite like to not be lumped in with.
I'm only three minutes in and I'm already loving this. Thanks for sharing
Are images uploaded to facebook though? Or are the face features extracted on the device? It's one thing to upload every picture in full to FB, but it's another to upload only a feature vector to Facebook.

What if the entire recognition pipeline happened completely on the device without any data being sent to Facebook?

Even if you have 1,000 friends, it might not a huuge deal to download a gallery of 1,000 models to compare to.

Of course, we can't be sure how this system works without the source.
The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon, colonial ancestor of Thomas
if they're talking content, Roku is definitely the best bet. the article seems a little bit condescending towards the "smaller company" which has so many different providers and doesn't lock you down
You have to install a certificate if you want it to be encrypted.
Ask HN: Video Conferencing
Hi All - we have been using Google Hangouts with a chromebook/projector in our office for meetings and have been frustrated by the experience (low quality, frozen video, poor audio)

We've though about Chromebox for Meetings (https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/for-meetings/) or Highfive (https://highfive.com/)

Does anyone have experience with either of these, or anyone have any other recommendations for low-cost always-on video conferencing for a meeting room?
> The renderer is not some minor detail like how tcp connections are made, it's practically the whole thing!

It's totally not.

All the things you list are just components of "showing a web page in this rectangle". That is akin to "how tcp conections are made". The renderer used to be hugely important because many renderers didn't work at all for some sites and features, or were massively slow. That's still true to an extent and why the renderer is still an important point.

But the browser itself is more about application features (and maybe cloud features).

How do you manage windows? How do you manage 10 tabs, or 250 tabs? How does it store your passwords and how do they sync across devices? Can you pull out your phone and easily jump to a web page open on your desktop back at the office? Does the browser crash a lot? Can the browser remember your font zoom settings for each site you visit? Can you override preferences for certain websites conveniently? How can you visualize the current set of websites you are on, or this history of sites you have visited. Can you easily restore a bookmark set of twenty websites? If so, does it restore your window sizes, positions, and tab order? Can you easily identify which window/tab is making annoying sounds? Does it have a 1Password extension? Does it override standard OS features like Print (to PDF) with its own lame-ass UI for the same thing (lookin' at you Chrome)? When you copy text, is it smart about putting the different representations of the copied data on the clipboard so it works optimally whatever app you are then paste into? Does it let you have different profiles to keep e.g. your work cookies separate from your pr0n cookies? Speaking of cookies, how easy is it to inspect and deal with them? How does its extension mechansim work, and what is its defense story against the installer-malware that comes with e.g. Java? Is it fast to launch? Can you easily re-open closed tabs and windows? If so, do they retain their state and Back/Forward history? Can you easily customize things like font and zoom and override bogus sites? Does it have an ad-stripping "reading" mode or does it need an extension? Etc.

In modern times, those things are a lot more important to me than the renderer (unless the renderer is broken).
Oswald spengler - decline of the west

Spengler on... Democracy, media, and money

Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media is the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.

Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy). Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. "Free" press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.

Spengler admits that in his era money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away.

Spengler's analysis of democratic systems argues that even the use of one's own constitutional rights requires money, and that voting can only really work as designed in the absence of organized leadership working on the election process. As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.
Why on earth would you trust it if it were?
Unless you are trying to argue that iOS is replacing desktop operating systems, I don't see why the presence of a locked-down device is a threat to a general purpose computer. I find general purpose computers are not expensive at all and I don't particularly expect that to change.
This is your fault that you have let this to happen. It is time to make it right again.

After this comes the next solution, and next, and then next. Think about it.

Edit: of course I am half joking, but only half.
IBM's 2014 revenue was $93Bn. IBM's 2014 costs was $46Bn. Therefore their gross profit was $46Bn (after rounding).

This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%.

If I looked through the NYSE I'd find no shortage of companies with a gross margin around 50%.

A gross margin figure of 50% alone is really nothing to be mind-blown about.

(To be clear, I'm most certainly not defending this company. Just saying that it would be wrong to be horrified with a 50% gross margin.)
Every time I see one of these studies I just laugh. As if Facebook is something that is used universally in a single way and can be determined to be good or bad.

Speaking as someone who has a ton of friends (actual friends) who I only get to see once or twice a year, Facebook is a godsend. It let's us stay in touch with people we care about who live on the other side of the planet.

Yeah, if you use it as a meterstick on how "good" you're doing at life, of course it's going to make you depressed. Same goes for if you watch HDTV and do that. If you spend all your time looking at the things and lusting after the things you DON'T have, how the hell could you possibly be happy!?

And to the people complaining about clickbait, the simple fact is Facebook wants you to stay on Facebook which means if you get a shitload of clickbait, you're probably clicking a shitload of clickbait. I dedicated about a month of my daily use and deliberately hid every single clickbait-y link, photo, etc. as well as unliked pages that posted that shit at ANY time. This culled me down to a selection of pages that actually post interesting stuff, and to the friends (and what they post) that weren't clickbait. Sure, I get one every once in awhile but I'd say it's down to about 1 in 40 posts are something crummy, and every time I get it, I hide it. Facebook's news feed is actually extremely well curated, it's just designed to give you things that you will pay attention to, positive or negative attention counts.

Just my two cents of course, your mileage may vary, etc.
The feature isn't live yet, is it?
I believe not but if you read snapchats terms they can do anything they want with your photos
I do not agree with your recommendation to hide score information.
Especially individual comments score.

Individual comments score helps me to decide what comment to pay more attention to.

Of course they system could be improved by counting comment wait based on my past preferences.

(E.g. if my upvotes correlate with patio11 upvotes, then patio11 upvote is more valuable to me than average user's upvotes).

But even without upvote score calcualtion improvement - it is better to have existing "averaged" score, than no score at all.

Finally, if vanity is not your thing - just do not pay attention to your own score. Upvotes score information is valuable for other reasons.
That applies to trademark cases, but I don't see why it would apply to this. It sounds like legal folklore.
Neat trick, but besides that…

At the time I'm typing it the post has 516 points and 201 comments, so many people have been here. Now: how many people will actually stop doing that after reading the post? Because I don't think I will.
He got to 7m in revenue before raising in his last business.
Then you might want to leave the entire Internet, it's pretty much the coin of the realm (unfortunately)...
This is a sad sad day that just collaborates in providing the illusion to iOS users that they have choice.

No, I've never met an iOS user that knew that Chrome isn't "Chrome".
Someone working a minimum wage job 70 hours/week makes less than a tech worker working 20 hours a week.

They are doing it for survival not because they have a choice.

They also have no time or ability to increase the overall demand in the economy.
BadBarcode: Start a shell by scanning a boarding pass
I'm sorry to repost the exact same reply, but...

IBM's 2014 revenue was $93Bn. IBM's 2014 costs was $46Bn. Therefore their gross profit was $46Bn (after rounding).
This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%.

If I looked through the NYSE I'd find no shortage of companies with a gross margin around 50%.

A gross margin figure of 50% alone is really nothing to be mind-blown about.

(To be clear, I'm most certainly not defending this company. Just saying that it would be wrong to be horrified with a 50% gross margin.)
Why evil? Why not just tragic?
I wrote about DDoS attacks, and yup my website got DDoS attacked
"I think it would be an oversimplification to compare a vegetable (OK, technically a fruit) to a drug with nearly 500 known compounds with varying effects depending on levels in the plant and physiology of the individual ingesting the compounds."

You appear to be unfamiliar with the fanaticism and the breadth and diversity of the products of the tomato breeders. The differences in color, flavor, texture, size, hydration, phytochemical profile, and smell are very much like that of other subtle specialty plants. In fact, the first modern explosion of tomato varieties in the nineteenth century may precede the others.
I go both ways on this.

On the one hand, I can think fairly deeply. Yes, I do regard that as a positive quality. And yes, a lot of social interaction gets in the way of that. ("Interruptions shatter mental momentum" - I forget who said it, but when you're trying to think deeply, it's really true.)

On the other hand, I need human interaction - maybe not as much as most other people, definitely not all the time, but I need it. I need to be able to be a person, not just a thinking machine.

So maybe I'm "unsocial" without being "anti-social"...
If you're not doing inheritance (which you often aren't,) a module of well-designed functions does a pretty good impression of OOP.
Vacuum-Packable Foam Bed: Camping Hack
I'm Not on Facebook is the new I Don't Own a TV.
Is this CNN trying to drum up a terror in the air story?

"Strikes were reported in 10 states as well as in Puerto Rico and Ontario, Canada, said the FAA. Aircraft flying over major cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas were among those affected."

So like a lot of other nights? I flew for the regional airlines and got nailed by them every week or two. No big news here.
This unfortunately shows you know little about the forward momentum in the email standards. There have been many changes in the last few years that you just didn't see. DMARC creates policies on authentication. DANE creates policies on SMTP encryption. These technologies are gaining wide implementation and acceptance.

MAAWG meets three times a year to move these things forwards.

Just because the standard dialog here is "SMTP sucks, let's replace it" doesn't make it true. People are working harder than you think on solving these problems.
Lectures from the Dawn of Computing
Here's one possible way they could have implemented it:

All the recognition happens on the device. Faces are detected, poses are estimated and frontalized, and features are extracted on the iphone. Then, the feature vector is compared to a small gallery of your friends' features living on the telephone. No upload.

That's what I hope happens.

I don't really see much a problem with the above potential strategy, but then again, I wouldn't want my recognition model living on my friends' phones. (One could imagine an attack that tries to extract the images used to train the recognition model given just the model blob...are there any private images there? sounds like a juicy paper!)

Or maybe the features are extracted but sent to Facebook, which returns a recognition result. I consider this less trustworthy because Facebook would learn the identity of everyone in any picture I take, even if I choose not to send the full picture to facebook.

Or: perhaps faces are detected, but then cropped and the image fragment containing the face is sent to Facebook.

Or more Orweillian still, perhaps the entire image is simply sent to Facebook and the recognition happens there.
> I'd sign for it. Just imagine: millions of people that can't switch providers that you can charge whatever you want.

So would I!

My only point is that, in general, a gross margin of 50% is not that impressive for a company. It's pretty common.

The article described it as a "a whopping 51 percent" but I would've described it as "a pretty boring 51 percent."

Of course, that doesn't mean that I'm for their business model. I'm totally against it.
The engines of a 747 are much more complex and designing them takes many more man-hours of engineering than does designing comfortable and spacious seats.

But assuming the engines don't fail to perform correctly, which one do you think 99.9% of passengers care more about?
"Yes! My friends' choices are completely my fault!"

"I should never have allowed my friends to use their telephone in the way they want!"

"I should in fact terminate my friendships with any hooligans who don't use my preferred choice of social network!"

(To be honest, this sentiment doesn't make much sense to me)
Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs into Turbulence
I think it's just a terminology thing. Naturally our rights are inalienable, but we tend to rely on our governments to enforce this reality.
> So for encrypting a single short message, where an attacker is unable to obtain more output, this should be sufficient for such a purpose.

This is fairly vacuous as there are tons of really broken cryptosystems for which this is true; futhermore if you are going to only send a single short message with a given key, an OTP could probably be described in 140 characters of English prose and requires no machine to implement.
I fucking hate this company, but I'm drawn into it's gravitational pull like so many of us wanting to connect with long-distance family. There has to be technological way to stop these sons of bitches. What is it?
I think that part of the problem is that the legal system is not just maintaining some basic population.

And even if it was maintaining some basic population, the incentives become misaligned when you start introducing a for-profit prison industry.
Can you really call a $7M personal investment "bootstrapping"? I've always associated that term with its more literal meaning, "pull yourself up by your bootstraps." Most people would happy retire on a small chunk of that.
The parent was speculating! Please be careful. This is how rumors get started!
The modern workplace doesn’t just make us lonely, it can make us physically ill
You misunderstand -- I'm not saying they can't be taken away. What I'm saying is that they cannot be /given/, /granted/, or /bestowed/ because governments don't make or own rights.

Every human is innately free whether or not a governmental entity likes it or not. Whether or not those rights are oppressed or not is another story.
Watch the video that is an hour long about him catching a hacker in the early 1980s
"an existing industry based on smoking"

Nobody wants to be compared to an industry that kills millions, ruins lives, and addicts children. Weed dealers have a reputation to protect.
The terminology here is absolutely key, though. A government cannot imbue someone with "rights" -- only privileges.
Its titled 'Help us create vets.gov' and I don't see any call to action where I can contribute or find out more.

What sort of help are they looking for: content feedback, or hands-on stuff like front-end code?
The more computational journals are keeping track of this. I've had a manuscript returned for revision because I didn't have enough unit testing in the code. Wet-lab journals, on the other hand, probably let a lot of stuff go on the computation and statistics than they should.
Yes, mob rules, I get it. But this is exactly the problem with the PC crowd.
Even if I don't use Waterfox, I'm glad it exists. Browsers are very close to including DRM content and advertisements. When that happens I don't want to be stuck without an alternative. Thank you (if the developer is reading) for the effort and I hope you continue with this.
Interesting, I never noticed that. Unfortunately my phone (a Galaxy S5 Active) can't be rooted, last time I checked.
Do IT Printing Workarounds Really Work?
>At least those bonds appear to be strong to the people on the outside, and that's all that really matters when you're talking about survellience stuff.

FTFY
I've seen this declining in the last year or two. My Facebook feed is now pretty much dead.