skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that this would usually trivial to protect against in practice by checking any attack vector against multiple different neural networks (ideally trained with different(ly permutated) data, and different architectures).

Having said that, the MNIST examples might fool multiple networks. But one should note that the "3" example would probably fool a lot of humans on a single casual glance.

Also, this paper gives an excellent way to build a feedback for adversarial training (maybe some kind of semi-supervised auto encoder thing?)

Edit: I noticed that Ian Goodfellow is a co-author of [1] so he's probably thinking about the adversarial training idea.

[1] http://gitxiv.com/posts/eFw3ArCyvhaFJ6bzb/adversarial-autoen...
I must admit I don't do a morning scrub-down a la Vincent in Gattaca :)

It's true that DNA can also be 'non-obviously' collected. But there are two key differences between DNA and voice auth, when looked at from the perspective of a national surveillance agency:

1. 'Non-obvious' DNA collection occurs after the fact, and is much more costly. You have to send someone to the physical location, collect samples, and process them in a lab.

2. Because of (1), DNA could never be used as a 'always on' mass surveillance system. As opposed to voice auth, where you just need enough microphones, covering enough area, streaming data back to a server for processing. Sorta like how Batman finds the Joker in 'The Dark Knight' :)
"just use something else"

That's what I do!

(Actually, I do that from the start of the project, so that adding something as pedestrian as concurrency doesn't involve a complete port to another language.)
Technically... probably possible. Feasible... that would be the R&D required. :D

Undersea cables are run for comms. So, super-massive-XXL sized superconductor versions of that...? ;)
> Requires code generation. Not a big hassle especially if your IDE hides it, but a hassle nevertheless.

I've never understood the objection to code generation (or IDLs). If you actually care about what the serialized form looks like (and compatbility, etc.) this is by far the sanest way to do it.

It's also incredibly simple (i.e. transparent to inspection), it's a good way to do cross-platform/language marshalling.
Is that defaulting to EXT4 or XFS ?
Binaries can be converted back to assembly and quite often even back to equivalent C; bugs are most often found by fuzzing (intentional or not) which does not require source code. The difference between open and closed source is that open is more often analysed by white hats who rather publish vulnerabilities and help fixing them, while closed by black hats who rather sell or exploit them in secret.
Assuming the box is resealable you could just return it to the store in selling condition. Or little more unlikely you could by 10 from a different store, hax 'em, go to another store and put them back on the shelf
If you have many hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars a day lost if your DNS is redirected, you might want to consider Cloudflare as your registrar. I wouldn't be shocked to hear that they charge 4 figures to register a domain with them though. (I didn't see any pricing)
If you don't mind sharing, include the number of responses you got in your email. I'm curious. Thank you for organizing.
Hm, I don't think WPF is abandoned.
Do you have plans to add mockups with multiple devices in a single image? I make those the most to show the flexibility of responsive design
Down in Australia and New Zealand.
Take a look at Django [1], for instance.

[1] https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/
I guess if you were the kind of company that would hire remote software engineers, then you'd have very little reason to have the rest of your operation in expensive SF either, so there's a weird chicken-and-egg loop there.

There seems to be enough money sloshing around that you'd think someone would be arbitraging it successfully and employing rockstar programmers that live in cheap shacks around the country/globe, but apparently for the mainstream that's not considered viable.
I was unable to find a definite answer to this, but seeing he was Greek I guess he should have not used it.
I understand this is a translation, but changing actual facts in a script then addressing it to someone seems like too much creative freedom to me.
Xamarin studio can be run against .net on windows, it's not mono specific.
> Making a photo sensor must be thousands of times more complicated than ultrasounds sensors.

What makes you think that?

Photo sensors have no moving parts, photons are the carriers of the electromagnetic force, so they readily interface with electronics given the right interface material; any semiconductor material with a matching bandgap will do, photons interacting with a bandgap produces free charge carriers; this is exactly what you're after. The rest is chipscale manufacturing, i.e. lots of sensor cells in a repetetive pattern. You can easily mass produce that in large quantities using photolithography methods, yet even if your process were to bad, that you'd get a low yield it would still be profitable.

Ultrasound on the other hand is acoustics, i.e. mechanical waves. So you're dealing with moving parts, mechanics. Transducers are discrete parts, they can't (yet) be manufactured at chip scale. They're ceramics, and there are lot of parameters that go into manufacturing ceramics which limit the amount that can be produced in a single batch. And then you've to deal with electronics that's not over waaay beyond your typical hobbist level; it's in fact so complex that it goes over the head of most professional electrical engineers and there are companies who are specialised in ultrasonics transducer electronics consulting, doing the difficult design work for the large brand names.
Seems that Mailgun + Gmail would give you the same and cheaper. Am I missing something?
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But you can build for Windows and Windows Phone right now for free in a better toolset than Xamarin. Visual Studio is much better.
> A lot of the design problems have been solved already. Questions such ... how to design forms effectively, what makes a good call-to-action

That's what I thought too until I tried to get the homepage of a web site designed. I'm using a popular "run a design contest" site with a higher bracket prize to try to attract good designers. Unfortunately, some of the crap the designers are turning in should be embarrassing for anyone calling themselves a designer :-(
I think they're really talking about scientific stereotypes.

It's this kind of thinking that starts to give rise to so-called scientific explanations of why certain races are "inferior". The average man concept lets you compare races and genders and all sorts in a way that can appear scientific - in method at least - whilst ignoring the fact that there are so many variables to account for in the human condition, that any result must be taken with a lot of skepticism.

But people in general, particularly around the time, were astounded by the leaps and bounds that science had been making. So anything "proven" in a scientific enough manner, must be true. No skepticism to be found.
Portugal Startup Unbabel's AI Puts Google Translate to Shame
Pocketsphinx/Sphinx with a small, use-case specific dictionary showed much better accuracy for my accent and speech defects, than any of these cloud based recognition systems. I used a standard acoustic model, but it probably would have been even more accurate had I trained a custom acoustic model.

For simple use cases like home automation or desktop automation, I think it's a more practical approach than depending on a cloud API.
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I learned to read by using Text-TV when I was three. Figured how to get subtitles for Swedish tv and that helped. Then I spent most of my time browsing all pages. I memorized the pages for the tv time schedule so I could find out when stuff like Spider-Man and Batman aired. Good times.
It's been WPF since 2010.
It's the same Google ASR on the backend.
Slightly off-topic, but will there be a consolidation of oasis, ocamlbuild, corebuild, to go with opam?
Strong unions are symptoms, not causes. Blaming unions because rich/powerful people have a tendency to fuck over the powerless is exactly what the rich/powerful want you to do. The rich and powerful benefit far more from low taxes than the stereotypical "tax payer".

Addendum: for God's sake, your precious karma score is a number on a website. If it matters to you so much that you create new accounts to say something people might not like, you need to take a long hard look at yourself.
Exactly what I thought - we're a small dev team who have used Mandrill on a bunch of projects that have minimal transactional email needs. A proportion of those have moved into the paying tiers, the majority stay under the free limits.

The tone of the announcement, and miserly transition period leaves a pretty bitter taste that will make recommending Mailchimp in future hard.
would be really cool if it just accepted a url and showed the rendered version of the page on all the images available...
Maybe set up an option to enable it if it's easy to implement? Because people make typos or you might want to make up addresses on the fly similarly to mailinator (but with corporate addresses).
I guess that depends on whether you are developing candy crush or a aircraft guidance system. Everything starts with prototyping, but only on low-risk software will engineering procedure be discarded for the sake of 'failing quickly' or being first to market.
The taxpayer ought to be ashamed of short changing people.

They also ought to have the common sense that it's better to pay a living wage, than pick up the bill in welfare.
Market leader in what sense?
> But to me it doesn't look appreciably closer to practicality than cold fusion

The figure of merit is Q, the fusion gain per input energy. For cold fusion, this figure is infintessimal; for lasers I think it's about 0.001; Tokamaks have reached Q=0.7. Not to mention, theoretical break-even ("effective Q">1) was achieved in Japan, but they do not have access to Tritium, which is the only reason it wasn't "real" breakeven.

Since your dad was a teenager, fusion efficiency has outpaced Moore's law for microelectronics. Real progress is being made.
Are there any restrictions which don't 'harm the economy'?

Why can't I interpret the analysis to mean the population of the city is willing to pay an extra (made up number of) $300/month per capita in order to preserve the current system?

> New housing supply benefits the entire city, even if that new supply takes the form of luxury condos. Tenant activists have regularly objected to new luxury developments as just another sign of gentrification. But even if that housing is intended for high-income tech workers, it will take some pressure off the existing units that those tech workers have occupied at the expense of middle- and lower-income residents. In effect, this means that affordable housing advocates who want to block new high-end developments are simply making the city more expensive.

Let's consider this more closely. Would a restriction on luxury condos harm the economy, using the same analysis factors? I assume the answer is yes.

Would a restriction on luxury condos, but increasing the number of apartments, make the city more affordable? I assume the answer is yes.

If both are yes, then it means that actions to make the city more affordable can end up harming the economy. Which then means that 'simply making the city more expensive' cannot be used by itself to justify having luxury apartments.

If one or both is 'no', why?
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A similar thing happened in DC. Defense contractor bubble rapidly expanded in the '00s, housing prices shot up drastically.
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On your pricing plans page [0], there's a misleading statement that Cloudflare's free tier doesn't provide DDoS protection, but Cloudflare's pricing and feature page [1] states that the free tier does come with basic DDoS protection. Whether or not there's a difference in the type of DDoS protection provided by Kloudsec, this feels deceptive.

[0] https://kloudsec.com/#/pricing

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
I've often wondered about this. There are any number of desktop environments for linux, but I haven't come across any that are speech oriented.

One reason I can think of is that there was no incentive to build speech recognition because in most organizations that use computers, people talking to their computers is likely to disturb everyone around. But with more and more jobs becoming work from home, this may not be such a problem in future.
Beijing now has more billionaires than New York
I don't understand the question: Gmail has one address and it is not on your domain? Can you elaborate please?

Simple use case: you've got several startup projects with different domains, and multiple addresses on it. Migadu makes that painless. Family domain with emails for the whole family? Easy.

And..of course there are many alternatives. No intention to reinvent email here. Just making things more pleasurable to manage and use, by getting them out of the way.
> Now I wonder, if he would still be alive, would he use Internet with tablet. He also used to read newspapers, but teletext was cheaper :)

He would want to, but I'm not sure if any site would be accessible enough for him.

It's really annoying that some developers ignore the fact that many people with disability are early adopters of tech.
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Your actual voice is one regular warrant away, with a wiretap on your phone.
More fiber will not help you with gallstones at all (had to deal with them, too); it's fats you've to be carefull about. The problem is not fat in itself, but which other foods you combine it with.

> They wanted $600 to ultrasound

Well, they were asking that for the procedure, not for the device. The problem you had is, that you're probably living in a country with a laughable healthcare system. Guess what I did pay for my ultrasounds? Nothing, because it's covered by our mandatory insurance system. In fact most general practitioners have ultrasound machines (quite modern ones, too, I'd like to add).
The downside is that you will catch all spam too, and more importantly you will not bounce back the message to the sender informing them they've sent to the wrong address.
Is it that hard to have the phone display an encryption key and have the user copy it to dead tree?

As above, not a good idea for a default, but don't see why it wouldn't be technically viable for opt-in protection.
100 billionaires in any one city is mind blowing.

I wonder how many millionaires each city has.

But Beijing does have 50% more population than NYC (12 vs 8 million)
“These Bugs Are Impossible to Fix Without Rr”
You need to take into account that firefighters sometimes get injured and even die doing their jobs. Getting laid off isn't the only way to lose their job.
In case rr doesn't ring a bell: http://rr-project.org/
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I'd imagine it's more likely to be the engineering tolerances required to keep the vertical movement to a minimum at double the radius? But I have no real insight, just a guess.

It does strike me though - why do disks do serial reads, couldn't the head read several tracks at once? Why not have several heads angularly spaced around the drive? Presumably such things have been tried and found lacking in some respect. Looks like I need to do some research ...
"however, our Legal Team must take action when they discover a trademark violation whether they discover it early on or much later."

Are they joking? This site is very well known. There's zero way Google would not have been aware of it years ago.

Someone better let Apple know that MacRumors exists..
Unbabel (YC W14) AI Puts Google Translate to Shame
The actual unit Aristotle used was the "mna". A mna was 100x as heavy as a drachma. According to Wikipedia (which is always right except when it's wrong) the most commonly used standard in ancient Greece made a drachma weigh about 4.3g, in which case a mna would be about 430g, compared with 454g for a pound weight. So "pound" or "lb" is a pretty good translation for "mna".

(The "mna" has rough equivalents in other ancient Near Eastern cultures. There's at least one "mina" in the New Testament, and in the famous "writing on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast -- MENE MENE TEKEL PHARSIN -- "mene" is basically the same word as "mna".)
I agree that it is quite long, but if you are interested in these types of books at all, skimming it yields some interesting stuff on habits as virtue. I confess I enjoy seeing how successful people strive to improve themselves.
I mean, with Mailgun you can have inbound email addresses on your domain forwarded to a Gmail inbox, for example, and Gmail also allows you to send email on behalf of those imported email addresses.
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What happens if you download new javascript code and use that to control your app?
No, they're probably referring to this, from the second letter,

"One of the strongest suggestions we [Apple] offered was that they pair the phone to a previously joined network, which would allow them to back up the phone and get the data they are now asking for. Unfortunately, we learned that while the attacker’s iPhone was in FBI custody the Apple ID password associated with the phone was changed. Changing this password meant the phone could no longer access iCloud services."

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/answers/
Exrm looks good for updating an already established application. Doesn't look like it does anything for the initial setup and configuration of a new system though.

For me, the ultimate test is can I copy my application to a flash drive, walk it to a new clean system, and "paste" it to that new system. Go really does let me do that.

> But i didn't find any mature libraries like Phoenix.

Yup. But then I tend not to need larger frameworks with my Go apps. Like you allude to, Go apps tend to be less monolithic.
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> I think that would be about 20 lines in Java. You've got to make a `HttpUrlConnection`, then call `setDoInput(true)` (or is that `setDoOutput(true)`), wrap it in a `try`, etc. etc. etc.

Nothing prevents you to wrap those 20 lines in a generic method.

Also there are other options in Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy besides pure JDK API calls. Here Scala style, easy to mimic in Java 8

val result = http.postData("http://example.comupload").header("Content-Type", "image/jpeg").responseCode

> Go's standard library is amazing.

So amazing that is doesn't have proper database drivers for the SQL databases that matter.
Very simple reason: have a separate email for each website that requires a signup. That way, you'll know directly which website leaked your email address to some spammers.
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Why is he being downvoted? I don't get this site sometimes.
San Francisco is a union town--get used to it. (It might be the last union town.)

Yes--firefigheters, electricians, plumbers, cops, etc. make a very livable wage.

I've been in a San Francisco union, and never felt so--what's the word--protected.

No--I didn't like the fact that everyone was paid the same, but in retrospect I was wrong. There will be a day where you are not the best in the room. You won't be the Rock Star. You will thank the socialists for that union.

To be honest, I think certain sectors of tech would benefit from a union. So many of you go to that fun place. You get free food. You get free sodas. You get the fun office hootenannies. And a salary that's barely livable.

We're still in a bull market in tech. All the Ayn Rand/Rebublican mantra will get very old when it gamblers decide to pull that money back in.

Sorry, I'm a fan of unions. Worked too many non-union jobs; jobs that were worse than not working. For some reason, owners only like to pay just what they get away with.
Insurance?
had the same thinking when consulting few years ago... but every scenario is different, everybody has different expectations and all this change as we age. You are right there is no job security in perm job, but there are some true benefits.

I have 25 fully paid MDs per year, another 9 public holiday ones, 2 weeks of fully paid sick days. I can have a month with few MDs of work done and still get full salary. While consulting, when thinking about vacation, by far the biggest costs were not of actual vacation, but time lost not consulting. Which made the price explode 4-5x and effectively prevented me to have much better life.

I might get back later, for a while, but realistically, it ain't worth it. This might be different in other locations, where consulting vs perm job difference is much bigger, but here, taken all into account is less than 10%.
What future for BT and the UK's broadband?
Yes, but what is the value of doing that instead of using Visual Studio?!
Can I send email as admin@mysite.com through this (actual site is hosted on Linode)? I've been using mandrillapp for this purpose, but it is going paid-only so I'm looking for alternatives.
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For what it matters, CloudFlare protected my site against a 200mbps layer 4 attack on the fre plan. That's a small attack but it's great for a free basic offering.
If it was, it doesn't matter whether the update goes over HTTPS or not: if Mallory The Evil Empire has Alice The Carmaker's secret key, neither Bob The Driver nor Charlie The Car have a way of telling them apart.

In other words, if a malicious payload is signed with Alice's legitimate key, transit security is irrelevant: you're getting a malicious payload anyway. Proving that the private key is only in the hands of legitimate user is hard, and proving it's being used legitimately borders on the impossible (scenario: Alice signs a malicious update while Mallory holds a gun to her head; how do you find out from the signature? I don't think this signature scheme has duress codes). The only thing you can do is revoke the key - but how do you distribute the revocation to the vehicles?

However, this still prevents J. Random Crook from walking by your car with a USB stick and an unsigned malicious update (or serving you an unsigned malicious update while you're downloading it via his MITMed connection).
With Mailgun you can and almost for free (10,000 messages per month).
On the other hand, "turn it on and let it do its thing" is a terrible idea from a forensics standpoint. You want to lock the account down ASAP to prevent potential accomplices from remote wiping your evidence.
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I'm grimacing with ironic amusement reading this-I actually quit my job in SF for a slightly better paying one in Portland, precisely because its too expensive to live here (here for me being Fremont, for a few more weeks).

San Jose (and Santa Clara County for that matter) is remarkably non dense and very, very suburban. There's so much room to expand, and build an adequate housing stock, so that even a crappy 1 bedroom apartment doesn't cost over 2K. I've participated in FB convos in which even non tech Santa Clara County residents think that's a bad idea-oh noes, Manhattanization! Goddamn SC County needs that. Besides, as anyone who's experienced the recessed 1 story office parks offset from 6 lane roads by massive parking lots that are the hallmark of SV, SC County is so very, very far from being Manhattan.
Brilliant! Kickstarter fraud just got even easier. Now you can fool your customers into thinking you have a working prototype in record time!
democracy was dismantled a long time ago by corporate manipulation

remember how Obama was going to ban lobbyists? ha
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