skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheating is rampant, but that doesn't mean that we all as a society don't still ignore that fact! It's a beautiful display of cognitive dissonance. There's no way to know if someone truly achieved their degree, so you have to test them, which is one of the reasons the degree was valuable. You shouldn't have to test someone if they had certain credentials. They've passed their rigorous training program.

I'm not really a fan of no tolerance policies; I would rather the system be re-evaluated so that credentialing and training are the goals of the system, not pushing as many credit hours through the administration as possible. :)
And low flush toilets.
You appear to be unfamiliar with the fanaticism and the breadth and diversity of the products of the tomato breeders.

Believe me I'm not. My partner's a vegetarian, which pretty much makes me a vegetarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger...

I think I'm perhaps not emphasizing the point that a plant with almost 500 psychoactive compounds that exhibits varying behaviors when ingested depending on the huge number of possible permutations in compound levels and the widely differing neurology and physiology of every individual. We're talking about the complexity of medicinal chemistry, not the flavors, shapes, shades, or textures of fleshy fruits from the nightshade family.
Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users
Week in Review 13 November 2015 – MailShark
Many Facebook users are in the third world / financial situations where data is very expensive and presumably engineers are designing for this. I cannot imagine they're stupid enough to run up these people's bandwidth bills with every single photo they take. Privacy concerns may be ignored, but "the latest Facebook update cost me $500 in data and I make $400/year" will not.
The Tesla-driving cofounder of Google X was booted as a driver for Uber
I've got an old copy and have read it through twice ... and it's currently sitting in my bosses office waiting for him to read it.

I'd say that it's one of my two favorite non-fiction books (the other being "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman").
eclipse with emacs key bindings?
> This doesn't seem to be a winning strategy with Apple

I'll go one further, it (being polite as possible) is not even what happened. They weren't polite at all, they took a dump in the pool:

also because we were asking hundreds of thousands of people to use Xcode to make accounts and sign our software
Redox is Serious
ALWAYS?

I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/google_mobile_uses_private...
My guess is that they will simply start using free SSL certs from StartSSL or LetsEncrypt.

Edit: reading the thread more, I guess it depends if they're actually gonna authenticate the certs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556544
I feel much the same way. Especially centered around worthless electives classes when I was studying maths. If I was interested in "Movies & Music," I would be reading about it already, and it's completely unrelated to my subject matter.
Cliff is a wonderful, wonderful human being. He once did a series of free physics classes for middle schoolers in his garage. Learned how to measure the speed of light from him.
Bringing iPhone-style medical research to Android
This great concept and as someone who hires agencies/consultant semi-regularly it's surprisingly time consuming to find good options beyond the obvious names. And frustrating when you know there are a bunch out there to be found but get buried in the forest.

To make this usable I feel you need at a minimum 1) location filtering as a main point 2) Public feedback on agencies from their hires. Without this it's hard for me to trust, or filter agencies via the work they do well vs all the options they claim, especially as options grow. 3) You need to allow clients to post jobs and let the agencies chase them. Currently the onus is on the job owner to chase an agency. Often the reason I use these services is to save time as our internal resource is booked vs lack of skill-set. The more time you save me the more I'm attracted to your platform.

Good luck as I hope someone can build a quality version of an Elance type site.
There are a few people I barely knew in High School that I follow on Facebook specifically because their posts include many about how they are struggling. "Today I tried to not drink, but I failed. I need help and I never knew how badly until today." I am grateful for these people. They remind me of what it is to be human. I comment from time to time, or send them messages both on that topic and off.
I disagree that it was only during OS X. Classic Mac OS, and going back further the Apple IIs, were great for power users.

I also don't understand your counterfactual. Apple didn't build OS X from scratch, they took NeXT's OS and ported it to Mac hardware and tweaked it. The result was something both powerful and easy to use. Making UNIX easy to use is not a trivial accomplishment! Yes, if Apple had done something completely different for their next-generation OS then maybe they would have ended up with something worse. But they didn't.
Ditto, and replaced a tank water heater with a tankless.
DraftKings and FanDuel Look Wobbly, and So Does $220M in TV Ads
But in the video I shared, it's claimed that the fancy salts can be entirely reused, and that extracting them takes relatively little energy. Thus their ongoing energy impact, and the longer-term impact of their initial cost should be relatively low, no?
I'm in Seattle, that's the funny part! I used to work for Google, too, and I never heard about any hackathons there, though it was a few years ago now.

If it's primarily a student thing, it makes sense that I wouldn't be hearing about it, though, as I'm long past that part of my life and have no connection to the academic world.
Did they put software plus engineer in the same sentence. Uh oh!!
As does Google. Or has "fastboot boot" stopped working on Nexus (and many other bootloader-unlocked) devices?
When hundreds of millions of people keep buying things you believe are awful, perhaps it's time to ask how broadly shared your views are.

For every nerd who complains about not being able to root their iPhone, there are probably a hundred people who think “I/my kids/my parents won't get mal/ransom-ware”. Repeat for almost every other security or reliability issue.

I'm not entirely in love with the effects but I'm not going to say those people are wrong because they value stability and lack the extremely high level of skill needed to operate a general purpose computer safely.
" Air exchangers are required, muting the gains on efficiency"

God not this again. Active ventilation in 2015 (actually, in 2005) has heat exchangers that recoup most of the heat and do not nearly negate the efficiency advantages and improved comfort of a sufficiently air-tight house. Please review all the literature from the last 20 years which will tell you exactly this.
Create UTF-8 Encoded DataMatrix Barcode and Reading Aztec Code from Image in Java
How mich bigger is an nyc apartment compared to its Londen equivalent?
Since this is a Jekyll site, I'm not sure what we could wrap tests around. The beauty of the static site generator is that it just always works -- at least as far as the html content is concerned.

Is there a specific javascript feature or interactive feature that you'd like help with testing?
Watch your health. Being unhealthy can make you want to choose easier (lazier) tasks. Also, make sure you sleep well (not just long enough, but of high enough quality) since poor sleep can lead to laziness and diminished stress tolerance. I would recommend meditation or playing an instrument if the problem appears to be having too many things going on mentally at once.

Also, entertainment items give near-instant gratification and often very high stimulation. If you have been exposed to a lot of these lately, it may be necessary to stay away from excess stimulation for a while before you can adjust to the calmness of programming. Going straight to software would be like walking out of a concert and into a quiet library. Taking a long walk in a peaceful place could help.

The trick afterward is to avoid the urge for instant gratification.
What about the environmental cost? I suppose you believe these factors are accurately represented in the free market?
Valve Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]
I am wildly speculating here but maybe all the friends are in the Facebook. All of them. Now they also know that if they leave FB, they are cut of from information about cool parties, because as it seems, nobody cares about people not in FB. So they are all kind of locked in.

The situation of course is already familiar in the business world and many companies try to mitigate this kind of risks by supporting open source for example, or open standards.
They have similar, but simpler ones on the Thames. I was surprised this was not mentioned. It might have been in the link about trash. Basically they have cages with an open end that are fixed at certain point son the river. The pick up any of the larger debris as it goes down river.

Here you go - found an article: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/88158
> Too bad the TPP didn't include EU countries (I know), maybe there would have been ONE benefit.

You think the TPP including the EU would have led to better privacy protections? To it seems obvious that the point of addressing privacy in the TPP would have been watering down the EU's existing protections, not trying to increase the privacy protections available anywhere else.
Hi Josh! :-)
With this (uncommon) usage of the word "monopoly", all companies of course have monopolies on their own products. Honda: monopoly on Accord, etc.

This isn't what monopoly means in normal legal usage.

edit: typo
What kind of job can you get that actually is ethical? I don't know of any. To me, it seems like you just have to pick which vertical scam you want to give your labor to, and choosing between them based on which affords you a better/more comfortable life isn't unreasonable.

If there actually was a credible alternative, that would be one thing. But what is it? Start-ups? Yeah right. Non-profits. Please. Government? Medicine? Law? Commerce? Entertainment? Education? Research? Who considers any of these ethical? Some fields may have generally nicer people within them, but the people on top (executives, university or hospital administrators, corporate attorneys, investors, whatever) are generally paid way beyond the value they add through capital or labor, and implement many policies or pursue regulatory capture or whatever else to ensure this type of arrangement persists to their benefit.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that it's a problem of mate selection. If by agreeing to work in a certain field you are tainted with a social stigma that prevents you from attracting the type of mate you want, that might motivate you to use some kind of ethics argument as a rationalization for the true behind-the-scenes status argument.

But I have a hard time believing this matters to finance. Money still tends to be a huge factor in mate selection, ethics be damned. Maybe it matters if you're very low-level in a huge bureaucratic bank, so you get all of the social stigma downside but not a lot of the financial upside. But apart from that... I don't see it. No other choice available to you is significantly "more ethical" than just personally being honest and working in a financial corporation whose higher-level scamminess you can't influence or control.

I mean, it's certainly depressing that it's like this... but this is just how it is.
Is ‘First Come, First Served’ Really Fair?
Kind of – they ban everything which does runtime code generation for security reasons. That has some nasty side-effects but it's at least consistent and more defensible than “no competing browsers”.

I would love it if the FTC, etc. made them open up with, say, the ability to set the security requirements they use and accept anything from companies which make similar commitments.
I had a Mac before the iPhone came out but after Lion I switched to Linux.
it's not meaningless. It's a data point that adds to support the theory that late stage private valuations are too high and companies should be going public sooner.
He deigned not to mention that his bootstraps are made of solid gold.
Can this be used on React-Native?
> Energy efficiency is a big scam

It works both ways. Some vacuum cleaners had higher power rating labels to make buyers think the machines were more powerful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29021886

Disposable washing machines are definitely bad for the environment though.
Why does the title have React.js when they are WebGL examples?
Google researcher: Quantum computers aren't perfect for deep learning
For reference, the most popular screen dimming/warming apps for Android:

- Lux (free/$3.80): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux

- Twilight (free/$2.99): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
The problem of poor communication is not solved by anyone. Still. Therefore, we have hundreds of systems to communicate, but they do not work effectively enough. In my company we use Slack (for communications) and Asana (for task management). These are good tools, but not universal.
I'm surprised they're surprised. What a strange bubble they must live in.
I'd be curious to hear more about these issues, either from founders who've encountered them or VCs who've created them. I understand the idealogical variance at stake, but the key difference is not whether that money will be spent, but how quickly.

I think the ideal situation for a founder would be to grow the company organically, while having money in the bank available to overcome hurdles that can sidetrack a bootstrapped company.

There is a balance here that I believe maximizes a company's long-term sustainable success rate. Sure it requires discipline, but that's a foundational attribute for startup success of any kind.
RSA is pretty short (just modular exponentiation). The problem is all the stuff that goes around it: key generation, padding etc.
You could also have used the fact that S² is homeomorphic to the 2-fold sum of S².
I went to university both in Spain and Canada, and the approach to cheating is very different. In Spain cheating is pretty much acceptable as long as you don't get caught. And even if you do get caught, usually all that happens is that you fail the exam and you have the option to retake it a month later. I don't know about the rest of Europe.
As I understand, and I could be wrong, they have a limited term civil service appointment, not a contract for a fixed term; this is a maximum period for which they can be in a position, not a set time for which employment is promised.
You should also watch the related video about how he stores Klein bottles under his house. It's fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
Yeah, I'm not sure why some people make such a huge deal about avoiding Facebook personally. Some of my friends use different apps like Whatsapp, Facebook, Skype etc. more than others so I use multiple apps to keep in touch with friends. I can keep in touch far better compared to when we only had phone calls, emails and txts, and don't see what detriments Facebook is causing me at all. Is it really that difficult to not check it too often and unfollow people that post content you don't like?
Apologies, I see why that wording was confusing.

A more specific phrasing would be "the Haskell code just caches the results from the linear search in an array for each possible input."

The Haskell code does not cache the RNG output itself.

I've asked Llogiq to update the wording.
Given the app involved would you say "Rose tinted screens"
I'm pretty sure this is because internally, it has multiple copies of the assembly supporting different instruction sets. So it will have a lib with < SSE3, and then another copy of the same code with the SSE4.x optimizations applied. That way you get the speed benefit of SSE4.x on machines that have it, but it can still fallback to SSE3-only if it doesn't have that ISA.

The Microsoft compiler works similarly. This is why "Release mode" builds with optimization on produce bigger binaries than "Debug mode" builds.
Sending Snaps to other people is often pretty genuine. It's a great way to build a connection with someone you don't quite know just yet, as you get a lot of face time with that person. And of course, drawing lets you express your creativity. You can manipulate your looks, or the environment around you. It's a lot of fun.

Conversely, Snap Stories can indeed get very Vine-like. They can be quite fun, but if you're making them for the wrong reasons (to get attention) then they lose their meaning.
You're not wrong, but don't those same arguments apply to every other device and platform?

Obviously if you prevented people from running non-Microsoft approved binary code on Windows, we'd see a staggering reduction in the amount of malware activity. Is that something you'd endorse?
It also might be easier to tolerate if you do a ketogenic (very high fat, moderate protein, very low carb) diet for a week or two before. That way you transition to burning exclusively fat, but you can still eat.

The not eating thing is actually pretty tolerable if you are already ketotic. But the transition to ketosis can be rough, and it's easier if you can eat while that happens.

One of the biggest things when you fast or do a ketogenic diet, you lose a lot of water (and with it, salt!), so maintaining electrolyte balance is huge. Your blood pressure will go down, and you'll feel awful if you don't add in some salt.
Learning Human Identity from Motion Patterns
It looks like this is the next step in the British tech community's long road of denial to hell: smug overconfidence tightly coupled with plain ignorance.

The blog post makes an absolute fundamental mistake about security in cryptography, and even when corrected you trivialise the correction! Let me make it absolutely clear: the blog post author has no idea what he is talking about and his words disqualify themselves.

"Is RC4 secure? For this use-case, yes."

This is absolutely not an even faintly correct statement to make. NO IT IS NOT SECURE. When a cipher is developed, there is some belief on the cost of attacking it. As time goes on we gain more knowledge about it, and the believed cost for RC4 today is pretty much trivial. "Cost" refers to the cost of an attack, not the cost of research. What, you think that because the research (that has already been done) was hard, that attacks are hard? Classic naive "[in]security argument" fallacy. Also, what the fuck does it even mean to say "For this use-case" on a public blog???

There are actual formal precise definitions of "security" in crypto. Learn them. If you don't know them, you can't possibly hope to draw the correct conclusions about what cryptography actually is, and what one does with it, and you should not make wildly inaccurate public blog posts that only serve to further confirm the ignorants' own beliefs.

Yes, it is possible to make lives so hard for non-ignorant real cryptographers doing actual research, such that the economy effectively has no strong cryptography. Then you don't need to ban it outright. So dismissing this attempt by the UK government is extremely naive and dangerous.

But hey, this might backfire as good cryptographers leave the UK and head elsewhere, and the UK economy ends up with people that don't know shit about what security means.
tl;dr

8. Conclusion

From a modeling perspective, this work has demon-
strated that temporal architectures are particularly efficient
for learning of dynamic features from a large corpus of
noisy temporal signals, and that the learned representations
can be further incorporated in a generative setting. With
respect to the particular application, we have confirmed
that natural human kinematics convey necessary informa-
tion about person identity and therefore can be useful for
user authentication on mobile devices. The obtained results
look particularly promising, given the fact that the system is
completely non-intrusive and non-cooperative,i.e. does not
require any effort from the user’s side.

Non-standard weak biometrics are particularly interest-
ing for providing the context in, for example, face recog-
nition or speaker verification scenarios. Further augmenta-
tion with data extracted from keystroke and touch patterns,
user location, connectivity and application statistics (ongo-
ing work) may be a key to creating the first secure non-
obtrusive mobile authentication framework
I am generally for efficiency and conservation, but goodness, how I hate those things.

I understand some models these days may have two flush modes of differing volumes -- I guess, for #1 and #2 respectively. Or for waif vs. lumberjack. Maybe those work better.

But otherwise, those damned "low flow (volume)" toilets just end up too often taking extra flushes, none of which work very well, and keep one standing around as well as a plunger at the ready next to the unit. OR, you're the next person, after someone who doesn't take such care, and you find you have to hold it a bit longer while you deal with their lingering... "surprise".
Honestly who considers these their primary goals? Every company I've interviewed / interacted with has focus on real numbers or a sense of why something ties to underlying strategy. Most likely I'm suffering from selection bias, but honestly curious what companies run like this.

This must be directed at first time, earliest stage founders.
us0r's assertion was that Microsoft reports certain recognition results to the government.

You're replying with a list of some of Microsoft's technologies that use face attribute estimation.

That's not what I was asking for. These are two very different things.
> Isn't that how most every exploit and virus seen on Android work?

Actually, no. Stagefright was about exploiting holes in the parsing of malformed media files (no installation required). Tons of other vulnerabilities were of the form "thing that shouldn't be accessible via JavaScript in the browser/WebView is".

Not that there isn't malware that spreads via installation, but Google's "Verify Apps" service (for sideloaded apps) has been quite effective:

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/04/android-sec...
> popular culture totally dominated by a right-wing media machine

Are you like a crazy delusional person?
It's the medium, not the message. I would suggest that it's excessively stimulating and this causes maladaptive neurochemical changes. The same applies to computers.

Of course, no one seems to understand the precautionary principle. If something is potentially implicated in health issues, the rational reaction is to exercise caution. Instead, it's full-steam-ahead, and before we know better it's too late.
I don't go to that extreme, but I did find Facebook was much more manageable when I started just unfollowing anyone whose posts/reshares annoyed me more than a couple of times.

I've probably only unfollowed about 10% of my total friends list, but the difference is immense, a lot of the noise tends to come from a small subset of the people, in my experience.
Something about making 3D primitives into a DOM-like hierarchy with update-able props: https://github.com/toxicFork/react-three-renderer#implementa...

Still wrapping my head around it.
Gene Amdahl has died