skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with A&A as well, and rural based, wouldn't touch any other provider with a 100ft long barge pole.

Our village finally got FTTC cab#1 activated at the end of December (cab#2 which served a much smaller segment of the village went live in September), has made a world of difference for us folks working from home.
It's 15 minutes[1] by default, I believe.

[1]http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=363558&sid=1dec9...
Same with me. Live in central London, about 1 km away from the 'Silicon Roundabout' Fastest internet I can get is ASDL with real-life speeds approaching 8 mbit.
I forgot to floss this morning :(
Indeed - what I enjoyed and got out of this article is a fairly easy correlation to what separated good teams that I have been on from bad ones. I had classified the difference as "camaraderie" - but the idea of psychological safety is a little more useful. Camaraderie is the superficial outcome, while psychological safety is the enabler.
I believe they are saying that the 400 hours they upload every minute are 400GB worth of data.
Originally, it was all just British Telecom, which was a government-owned monopoly. That was split up into BT and OpenReach and privatized in the 1980's, as part of a general market movement.

Putting the infrastructure into public hands has upsides and downsides. If the public is willing to invest money, you can get a pretty workable system: e.g. the Paris subway. If the public isn't willing to invest the money, you can get a very bad system, e.g. Flint Michigan's water supply.

More often than not, public ownership leads to under-investment. In the U.S., for every enlightened municipality like New York that carefully manages its water supply, there are dozens that keep water rates far too low and consequently lack the money to upgrade miles of decaying lead pipes.

All told, BT OpenReach is probably one of the better ways of organizing this function at scale. It's ostensibly private, but it was privatized with a carefully-designed system of incentives to keep investing in infrastructure. OpenReach is, for example, much more profitable than Verizon's wireline division. That's why they're still at least building fiber, instead of trying to get out of the business entirely.
http://imgur.com/5bxGwMl

Some commentary:

1) 7 million households (can be single or married people) earn over $200,000 per year in the USA
2) 25% of US households make less than $25,000 per year
3) 25% of US households make more than $100,000 per year
4) Median income for average US household is $53,000
5) Asian/White households are significantly higher, 70-90k per year

So I'd say not everyone is making above $100,000 per year but quite a large number are... say 31.1 million households (8-9% of the US total population)
Actually currently C# isn't easy to use on Linux and Mac, however this will change soom (tm), especially when Project Rider is ready. I'm really happy if I can try out the EAP and work a bit with C# .NET core.
> Discussing defenses against this attack is outside the scope of this paper. Previous work suggested the use of adversarial sample training [15], Jacobian-based reg- ularization [16], and distillation [31] as means to make DNNs robust to adversarial samples.

It seems like it would be very simple (given you already generated the examples) to take half the generated adversarial examples and train your original model more with those examples to check effect (adversarial sample training). This has been shown the improve model performance while also nullifying this "attack" in other (practically similar) settings. At this point, practitioners should be doing that anyway to maximize accuracy.

Attack is a strong word people like to latch onto; the paper could also be titled "Generating new training examples with transfer learning". That said, there is a very real contribution here as to new ways to generate adversarial examples (which should then be used as further training examples).
You're not referring to netbooks are you?
The tar contains erlang runtime. It has config file as well which can edited to change the setting.
Personally, I find there's a ton of things that ought to be concurrent but aren't.

What sort of things? I've been writing web software for ~20 years, and the vast majority of things that I've made boil down to "request comes in > validate input data > transaction to database > check transaction worked > write a response". Concurrency has never really been a problem, or even something I've wanted.
Yeah, I was a bit lazy...I could have used moviepy (which I currently use, but merely as a wrapper around ffmpeg) to add subtitles to show which identified word was identified...I'm hoping to make this into a command-line tool for myself to quickly transcribe things...though making supercuts is just a fun way to demonstrate the concepts.

The important takeaway is that the Watson API parses a stream of spoken audio (other services, such as Microsoft's Oxford, works only on 10-second chunks, i.e. optimized for user commands) and tokenizes it...what you get is a timestamp for when each recognized word appears, as well as a confidence level and alternatives if you so specify. Other speech-transcription options don't always provide this...I don't think PocketSphinx does, for example. Or sending your audio to a mTurk based transcription service.

Here's a little more detail about The Wire transcription, along with the JSON that Watson returns, and a simplified CSV version of it:

https://github.com/dannguyen/watson-word-watcher/tree/master...
Youtube speech recognition is getting quite good, at least for talking heads in English. Are there additional top tier API's other than the IBM?
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nosurf [1] is a pretty popular CSRF protection package for Go. You need to realize that Go's built in "web framework" is extremely minimal unlike Django. It's more comparable to something like Flask, which also doesn't have CSRF protection built-in.

[1] https://github.com/justinas/nosurf
Variable compression and video resolution?
Is there a practical attack for this usage? The attacker would need to have a bunch of your passwords already?

EDIT: Not that I'm justifying using Math.random, I just don't see why you so strongly recommend against using this tool.
>This is not how negotiations work.

You mean it's not how oligarchs want it to work. Proponents of unpopular policy proposals want to govern people, but they don't want to have to explain themselves to the people they propose to govern.

>You don't make preliminary talks public.

Just because it doesn't always happen, does not mean that it never happens, shouldn't happen, or can't happen.

>Making the above process public will tie the negotiators hands.

Which is the point of democratic processes. It is exactly what people want. I'm not sure what they're worried about anyway, in the US the proletariat has been convinced to go along with all manner of political and economic policy that goes against their best interests; they beg for more of it.
I host mine on gogs.sr.ht, a private git service I run for myself and friends. I used to host it on a private GitHub repository. There are other options like a private Bitbucket repository, or even just a public repo on GitHub - since the passwords are all encrypted, you don't really have to worry about that.

I'll happily give an sr.ht account to anyone who wants one for this purpose, mention HN in your application comments: https://sr.ht
> biting the hand that feeds them

Samsung seems to have no problem doing this.
Frankly I don't think you can have the moral high ground if you live in a first world country ...

I'm French so of course I would tend to agree about UK (;-) but if I start to look at my country there are a lot of things not to be proud of ... and if I look at the neighbors it's the same, even Switzerland helped South Africa back in the apartheid days on a project to gas their ghettos !

Maybe Iceland ?
400 hours video/min = 400 GB/min = 400 x 60 x 24 GB/day = 0.576 PB/day.
Close enough.
That's about how much it should cost. Cheaper providers don't offer an acceptable level of service.
As someone who just certified a residency match list last night, I'm glad this system exists.
Wow. Lots of interesting points, and a few things that made me say WTF and wonder how much this will be torn apart in the comments.

In other words, a very worthy read.
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This argument sounds so hokey. Similar to the non-exectation-of-privacy-when-using-tor argument, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166991 The US legal system appears as a special case
London is very much overdue a correction.
Genuine question: Do people take Cryptome seriously?

I tried reading one of their publications [1] and found the writing absurd. Phrases like "few observers were aware that the re-territorialization of detainees would be undergirded by the courthouse’s archeology of evocative discursive foundations" or "recisions may condemn immigrant sites as exilic borderlands of unlitigatable extraterritoriality, a condition of spatial quarantine that transforms them into the new lazarettos of the metropolitan system".

I don't want to come off as anti-intellectual, and maybe that all makes perfect sense to other people, but for me whatever point they were trying to make was lost in the verbiage.

[1] https://cryptome.org/cartome/Natsios-Voir-Dire.pdf
> Young: Snowden says he gave them to the public; no, he didn’t. He gave them to a bunch of self-interested journalists who decided to run a certain story with it, i.e., to explain it to people. And their fucking explainers really have a problem.

> Natsios: It’s a serious conflict of interest. They’ve written themselves into the story as heroes, co-heroes of the story. It’s a conflict of interest. They’re not at a distance from their source. They’ve embedded themselves in the narrative, and therefore all decisions are highly suspect because they benefit from the outcome of the narrative in every sense.

As far as I'm concerned, "We the People" need heroes. The fact is that the vast majority of the public grows up looking up to them, whether via History class or movies. But The Left keeps tearing its own heroes up (usually for righteous reasons- they're dangerous etc), while The Right is much more likely to prop theirs up.

So, without going into the rest of the piece, I do kinda like styling people like Snowden and Manning as heroes. I'm okay with some self-promotion and so on.
>The nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, BETWEEN TWO AGES: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
Wisdom here:

> Consider it a cheap lesson overall about gradual ebb/flow of trust
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Thats a great question:) Smartmockups is a result of our personal frustration. When you need to send a design to a client or to put together a quick presentation, you don’t want to go through hundreds of mockups and to deal with a lots of features. Also Placeit can became quite expensive.

With Smartmockups we want to put quality of mockups over their quantity and make the process seamless and fast. It will remain free and we plan some other revenue streams (to cover the costs) like bundles or Mac app with some advanced features etc.
Do you drive around in a 1 litre CC car? Or do you buy a car with a bigger engine?

In both cases, when was the last time you drove it at its maximum speed all the time? Or ensured that you were using maximum torque at all times and always sitting in the maximum power band for the engine?

If you find that you haven't done these things, you probably should ask yourself why you have a car, right? After all, you're never going to drive the full speed of the car, so why have the car in the first place?
From the article:

"An obvious question is why are we talking about spinning disks at all, rather than SSDs, which have higher IOPS and are the “future” of storage."

"The root reason is that the cost per GB remains too high, and more importantly that the growth rates in capacity/$ between disks and SSDs are relatively close (at least for SSDs that have sufficient numbers of program-­erase cycles to use in data centers), so that cost will not change enough in the coming decade."
Interesting, but even Apple doesn't use switf on iOS. So is there really a point?
First, how many programmers, even in the Bay Area, have base salaries of $175k and higher? I'd wager not very many at all. You'll frequently see total compensation packages quoted in that range and higher, but those include various forms of deferred payment that are not guaranteed (like unvested stock options, whose value is often measured in a fairly unreliable way).

Second, one's cash salary is the primary determining factor in how much house one can "afford" (and I use quotes because I think there's a vast gap between what a bank tells you you can afford and what you actually can afford, but that's a different discussion).

If you just use the 3x rule of thumb, the $100k programmer can only afford a $300k house and the $175k doctor can afford a $525k house. But of course in SF people more often use the 5x rule of thumb, so the programmer could "afford" a $500k house and the doctor an $875k house.

Don't forget also that there are many doctors who make vastly more than $175k in salary. $300k+ salaries are not all that uncommon among specialists. Indeed, $284k is the average for specialists: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2015...
Using a device that is controlled by an external "cloud" server is even worse - you've just given an untrusted 3rd party root access to a device on your lan.
Just so we're clear: your assertion is that because the password generator uses a non-cryptographically secure PRNG, generating unique 20+ character alphanumeric passwords for every login is worse than people's default behavior?

I mean, I get that it's worse than other keepass implementations - that's obviously a problem - but if this gets people to stop using "hunter2" or "p4$$w0rd" that's got to be worth something, right?
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For talking heads speaking clearly in English, YouTube speech recognition is improving noticably.
we may programming in voice in near future.
Gandi and Namecheap have quite good security models for normal prices.
It seems two people here were left thinking "I'm going to down vote this because the truth hurt me :("

So I am sorry for that :)
>Does anybody know why the update is announced a couple of days in advance?

For server operators to be prepared. (And I would prefer if they would narrow the timescales more for that.)

>Are e.g. maintainers of corresponding packages in Linux distros or *BSD given access to the code ahead of time so they can build new packages?

Yes, but that doesn't require a public announcement.
Your suggestion that non-US people shouldn't have .com domains is a fringe-extremist position, and is likely to be ignored by most people.

My business is on a .com domain and that will never change. I'm a businessman, not an extremist idealist.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but if I were Apple and had just been forced to implement back doors with a gag order, I might be announcing that my new phones were unhackable too.

Is anyone aware of anything that makes this more than a leap of faith?
We may programming in voice in near future.
Please don't regurgitate guidelines that long term users know and deliberately ignore.
Knowing how the negotiations happened is quite interesting, and should not be kept secret now.

For instance, discussions about late, seemingly small changes can reveal agendas. Commas, minor word substitutions and other small-distance edits can have major alterations in meaning.

To the extent that minutes and logs of meetings were kept, they should now be published.

To the extend that minutes and logs were burnt or destroyed or avoided, the TTIP should be treated similarly.
What's interesting about Xamarin is that they are very local about OSS (Miguel) but what they did was not very "open sourcey" - obtaining a perpetual license for Mono and this way making sure that no one else can put Mono on Android / iOS. Ever.

And then charging 1000$ annually per developer, per platform.

On the other hand they've made something that developers love (from what I've heard, I've never used Xamarin's stuff personally) so they deserve the credits.

Congrats to the team.
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That is unbelievably naive, or immature. One of the two, I'm not sure which.

Public discourse isn't the same as what happens when the media spins a narrative about a piece of legislation. You and I both know they don't need truth to make a story.

And small-time politicians looking to make a name for themselves will always impede the process, regardless of whether or not it's a good process.

Having the public voice their dissent is good. Letting a piece of legislation get ripped to shreds because some small-name representative has a hard-on for one of the bill's co-creators is not.
1) They promised they would give at least a year for people to see the final draft before voting on it. Looks like they might vote on it this summer already, and the final draft is not even out yet.

2) The Parliament can vote it down or up, which means there's a 90% chance it will pass, unless there are large protests all over the EU, like it happened with ACTA. However, this time they need to be even bigger because ACTA was mostly about copyright, so the EU Parliament didn't care that much about it. This is about trade and they care much more.
If a "Stuggling with X?" window came up on bottom right hand corner I might not be as creeped out if I thought it was just help
Seems that on the actual page for that mockup, the thumbs display correctly: http://smartmockups.com/mockup/47
It's never the case of "all other things being equal". The GP was saying that he switched from Apple to Android - presumably because there was a relevant difference between the two - but he's considering switching back to have a feature that he'll never use.

Of course there is always an appeal in the numbers. I'd go for a 40MP camera instead of a 20MP one - who cares if the quality of the lens is such that there is no difference beyond 10MP. It's marketing. It's curious how people so wary of being observed or exploited make themselves so prone to basic manipulation by entities who want to get their money.
It's ARM, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. You're effectively limited to Windows store universal apps (which are usually pretty terrible), plus MS Office.
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The "totals" seems a bit off...

16 + 7 = 19?

5 + 31 + 12 = 36?
Yes, you did miss it. The FBI/etc are very clearly and deliberately looking to set a precedent for use in any and all future instances. Just because you don't seem to value personal privacy and security doesn't mean the rest of us are willing to throw it away for no good reason.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/apple-standoff-escalates-local...

http://www.leadertelegram.com/News/Front-Page/2016/02/20/Off...

http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/02/18/sf-police-c...
Yeah, the whole point about popular sovereignty is that people get to complain -- and have their complaints feed into the process of making rules which will bind them. So, people getting to complain while the deals is being negotiated about draft terms that bother them is a feature, not a bug.
Swift isn't a significant improvement over C#. Also, keep in mind that C# benefits from the whole Microsoft ecosystem, which includes Visual Studio.

Beyond the language, what's even more important is the application model. That's where frameworks like React Native have the edge. This might change if Microsoft upgrades Xamarin.Forms into full-blown Universal Windows App support (think WPF on iOS and Android).
I grew up and still live in London and I have no possibility of ever buying anywhere to live in the city, let alone remotely near to my parents.

I would say the house earning more than I do is probably more the norm than the exception at this point, save for some very large high-fliers.
I'd be willing to bet that Sakaguchi has read "The 5 dysfunctions of a team" [1]. One of my favorite books about how people jell together in groups.

Like him I was also in a military setting before I became a programmer. I haven't yet experienced the same level of engagement and team cohesion outside of the military but I believe that the answers are to be found in the kinds of insights that studies like this uncover.

[1] http://www.tablegroup.com/books/dysfunctions

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If the expectation is that the non-tech guy is gonna do so little work there is something wrong. There is a lot to do in a healthy venture for the non-tech founder.
> Sometimes I just want to think those treaties' function is to curtail multinationals

It is exactly completely opposite. And documented many times over. Just google.
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To myself, and I imagine many others with the same views of self sacrifice and patriotic comittment, there was no need for the reporters to make Snowden out to be a hero.

Simply the act of putting oneself in such a dangerous situation, risking ones entire life and livelihood and ability to be with the ones they love to try and make their nation a better place, is one key part of what it means to be heroic (As long as the actions themselves do not cross certain lines.) And as per my initial paragraph, this is speaking as someone who sees this disclosure as very fair, those lines were not crossed, he truly is a hero on his own merit to a level of which we have had very few since the founding of this country.
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Wasn't a very useful comment, but what I think he/she meant was that Apple doesn't actually use Swift much in its own apps:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/apple-making-spars...

A lot of devs take this to mean Swift should be avoided for now.

Edit: To be clear, I don't agree with this sentiment! Swift is awesome. Just trying to clear up the parent comment's confusion!
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I've had two students in six years who could perfectly reproduce the information on a textbook page after one look at it, even if they had no understanding of the material.
Is strong-encryption something that 1password is fundamentally opposed to, or something they just haven't implemented yet? If I'm going to switch, the answer to question is pretty important.
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But Westminster is also the area where most of the MPs live, and it doesn't get more central London/densely populated than that. You would assume it would be at least on BT's radars. Not even...
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