skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, even when walking between two places in the office (the toilets) for example, I'll have my headphone in and connected to my phone, just so I can't be distracted by the inevitable drive-by interruptions.
What should be interesting is to see that now the company(s?) producing them must now about this new interest in the details of their devices whether they have contacted all their clients today to warn them of potential issues.

I'm going to go with "no". Companies that admit their failings to their customers are probably pretty rare, particularly "companies that will fail to attempt to secure their computer systems but will actively engage their customers when an issue becomes the focus of unwanted attention" must be close to zero in number.
The article content does not match the title. Lots of talk about how the guy grew up, what shaped his outlook, etc. I saw nothing about how he is building a "small, waste- and carbon-negative reactor."

Is it even possible to build a reactor that meets those criteria, let alone be financially viable?
If it takes a long time, it probably means that there is a lot to calculate. If theres a lot to calculate, probably means the cpu is running full speed to get through it
Some markets this sucks like mattress. No two chains sell the same mattress. It may look the same and be made by the same manufacturer, but it will have different logos and model numbers between stores.
I think the article is a tutorial. It doesn't appear to present a new result.

It's moderately-well-known that .pyc files execute arbitrary code (not just arbitrary Python code) inside the Python process. (See e.g. https://docs.python.org/2/library/marshal.html#module-marsha..., "Warning: The marshal module [i.e. loading .pyc files] is not intended to be secure against erroneous or maliciously constructed data. Never unmarshal data received from an untrusted or unauthenticated source." It is nice to see that afl can re-discover this issue, but I'm pretty sure it's not new.
I'm a writer and editor, and I dislike the idea of this tool quite a bit.

1. Writing isn't coding. In coding, you can do various types of "cargo cult programming" and "copypasta" and what-have-you -- in other words, as long as the code runs you don't necessarily have to know why or how a programming idiom or convention works, or how/why expressing it one way in code is better than expressing it another way in code. This definitionally untrue with writing. If you don't know the why/how of something, then it's better for you to botch it and let the reader attempt to parse it so at least they know what they're dealing with and how to interpret it ("oh, this guy's a non-native speaker, so I'll adjust my reception accordingly" or "ah, this person is kind of clueless about the whole sexist language thing, which is good info for me.").

2. 90% of writing style advice falls into one of two categories: a) hotly debated, and b) totally wrong. Most of it is in the latter category, and this includes Strunk & White (just use google for numerous takedowns of that text). I looked through the PR queue and saw that it consists of eager coders finding style advice from various sources and trying to work that into the tool. That is terrible, terrible, terrible... This will guarantee that the tool will represent a collection of awful writing advice gleaned from dubious sources and wielded with unforgiving ignorance.

This tool may be a terrible idea, but the idea of automated prose linting is not terrible. Most beginner to intermediate writers have tics, and as an editor I often have a couple of writer-specific find/replace things I do when I get a new piece from a particular writer (e.g. "this person uses 'however' when she means 'but', and this person overuses these four business jargon terms, etc.). If editors were able to easily compose and execute writer-specific linters from within something like Wordpress, that would probably be pretty great.

But this particular command line tool is destined to be either totally unused or massively abused.

I'm sorry, I hate to be mean... or, actually, there is a small part of me that enjoys playing Mr. Party Pooper when I see a mob of enthusiastic programmers trying to tie down some great cultural Gulliver with a thousand tiny little automated, black-and-white rules.
twitter and whatsapp may have shortcomings but I wouldn't put them in the same category as Skype and LinkedIn which a madnessfest.
The second version of the Kinect uses time-of-flight sensing rather than the projected grid of points, and is considerably more accurate.

Whether or not this makes the scanning more plausible, I am not sure. However, some of the 3D models generated with the Kinect 2 [1] do seem to contain a decent amount of detail.

[1] http://zugara.com/wp-content/uploads/Kinect-1-vs-Kinect-2-Vi...
Still, does it seem likely that the artists would have been able to capture good enough data covertly at the museum?

They admitted that they "knew nothing about the device and that some hacker types had set up the hardware for them". Getting such a good scan with a Kinect + photogrammetry setup would definitely require a more experienced operator.
Whatsapp doesn't deserve to be in that group... yet. Whatsapp was actually very good three years ago (good as in, I could just text without the interface annoying the fuck out of me). The last few updates have made it noticeably worse though.
yep, I also found this bug. It will be fixed in the next release. ty for you feedback. :)
To be the most efficient way, it has to work.

As far as I know, this is the most efficient way to finance a website. What's your most efficient way?
You can also say, "I played around with it in the past but it's not my thing, and I don't keep it up to date" if you're worried that the recipient is going to think you're a weirdo for not participating in the latest social media fad. Works with "Are you on Facebook?" too.
This makes no sense. VMs are by far the most secure form of isolation. No one is going to get infected with malware that escapes VMs - it is far too valuable.
I have a Kinect 2 and the scans still don't come close to sub-millimeter accuracy.

There are some rumours that they scanned plaster cast instead: http://heise.de/-3117841
Oh my, I finished this quite late last night and forgot to add a conclusion. I thought the post was getting a bit lengthy, and the next step is to use gdb to dive into the crashes + make a patch, which I feel is too much for one post.

So tune in next week :)
Thanks. I bet ^parent downvoted because it sounds like slander but I did read this on a few articles.. linked from HN IIRC.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/confirmed-snapchats-evan-sp...

Let's not forget that human sexuality plays a core component in business motivations and the environment in which this XX billion $ company was formed.
;) well, yes. I was confused by this comment at first until I realized it looks like I thought she was a medical doctor and a Ph.D. but the "Doctor" part is verbatim from her profile.
fair point. but, I suspect that they are a high pressure environment.
How to Control User Identity Within Microservices
Changes at Microsoft Studios, UK and Denmark
Everyone loves the "responsive loading" feature, but that's not even the novel thing about the format (JPEG 2000 did it even better — 16 years ago)! The novel feature of this format is better entropy coding.

FLIF decoder adds interpolation to make incomplete scans look nicer than in PNG, but that's a feature of the decoder, not the file format, so there's nothing stopping existing PNG decoders from copying that feature.

Note that it's generally not desirable to have FLIF used on the Web. A decent-quality JPEG will load at full resolution quicker than it takes FLIF to show a half-resolution preview.

FLIF is a lossless format, and lossless is a very hard and costly constraint. Images that aren't technically lossless, but look lossless to the naked eye can be half the size.

e.g. Monkey image from https://uprootlabs.github.io/poly-flif/ is 700KB in FLIF, but 300KB in high-quality JPEG at q=90 without chroma subsampling (i.e. settings good even for text/line-art), and this photo looks fine even at 140KB JPEG (80% smaller than FLIF).

So you want FLIF for archival, editing and interchange of image originals, but even the best lossless format is a waste of bytes when used for distribution to end users.
In JPMorgan Fintech Bunker, Coders Are Too Focused for Foosball
> I don't know what LinkedIn you're using that provides you with job offers, but the one I'm on has only lead to recruiter contacts which may or may not lead to interviews, which (so far) have never lead to an actual job offer.

I think it is a language thing. I have noticed that non-native English speakers tend to refer to job ads, recruiter contacts, and such as "job offers". I think it comes down to what sense of "offer" you are using: "to give someone the opportunity to accept or take something" or "to make something available".
I've tried colorizing photos with this code (result here : https://twitter.com/matsiyatzy/status/706270684209680384) using EC2 instances. It's pretty fast, around 10-15 minutes, though you'll definitely want GPU-instances with CuDNN drivers installed (which can be a bit tedious to set up).
If someone's actually going to refuse to interact with me simply because I tell them that I don't use social media sites then well, I'm probably better off and not missing out on much.
The big problem with any trade deal that protects the american worker results in higher costs and some kind of trade war.
WW2 is exactly the example everybody uses as a war that was not waged for profit. At least from a US point of view. Germany definitely did look for profit, specifically more resources and more space for German people to live.

As a US war for profit, the Gulf War and the Iraq War are better examples. They were about oil, access to oil, control over oil, and, in the case of the Iraq War, lucrative deals for Cheney's business friends. (Obviously they didn't make any money for the US tax payer, nor for the people in Iraq.)
AI crossword-solving app could make machines better at understanding language
Sure, it's hard, but again - I don't care. I can use an ad blocker, why should I not do it?

(it is very interesting how almost everyone in this thread assumes I'm young - I wouldn't count almost 40 as very young :) )
Time to leave Django?
The Binary Search Tree Data Structure in JavaScript
Currently neurostimulation is like trying to fix software bugs by applying arbitrary current to places on your motherboard.
I think BBVA might be trying to aquire their way out of digital oblivion. What I've seen of their customer interfaces are some of the worst I've experienced.
Some philosophers, thinking especially of Graham Harman, have started reacting against the now sort of commonplace idea that "there are no things (or objects) in reality."

From a common sense perspective, it's obvious that there are things. Sure, you can point out the flux and decay of all entities, but still, this table here is a coherent thing even if it's made from parts in a temporary arrangement.

In some sense, philosophy itself is destroyed when you go down the path of denying objects, since philosophy crucially deals with concepts, and concepts are "thought objects."

Harman describes two modes of denying objects: undermining and overmining. Undermining is the tendency to say "really, this object is just a composition of these other particles," while overmining is the tendency to say "this object is just a modulation in a grand monistic entity."

Instead of that, he recommends an ontology of objects that's pretty interesting and fun to read about. He would, I think, agree that objects are unique in that they are (in programmer jargon) "pointer equal" to only themselves... and each real object, for that reason, has an infinity of potential that's never exhausted by any "arbitrary" perception of it... yet still, we perceive other objects not directly, but through aesthetic caricatures, and on that level you might have different degrees of uniqueness.
Not sure what experience is influencing your comment, but it's simply not true. I know many Bay Area based companies that are hiring more and more technical talent in Austin because they can not find it where they are.

Is there more overall technical talent in the Bay Area? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean the talent elsewhere is "very poor" and "3 years out of school".
Fintech has been heating up immensely in Europe. Innovation labs & internal startups within old school banks are scooping up tech talent around the continent, and trying to find innovation partners with any kind of fintech understanding: payments, distributed ledger, know-your-customer-tech, etc.

European ranking regulation is forcing banks to open up API's to 3rd parties during next couple of years. Not much is clear at this point as to what it will actually enable, but if there is ever going to be a opening for banking disruption in Europe it would be starting about now.
installing and configuring a ERP/Accounting system.
> We just have to stop them from voting themselves legislation to compensate.

Too late. In the UK at least, the state pension is being increased from ~£110pw to ~£150pw, despite the fact that pension payments are among the government's biggest liability and we're apparently in a time of austerity so severe that we're required to starve disabled people by removing their living allowance unless they submit to humiliating tests.

Meanwhile, the chancellor is planning some more pension "reforms" later this month, which is most likely going to involve removing the deferral of tax on pension contributions, i.e. moving all the tax payments that were due to happen in fifty years' time to today. That means the current pensioners will benefit from tax paid on current pension payments as well as tax paid on current pension contribuitions. By the time millennials retire, the deferred payments will have expired, and only the current contributions will remain.

Add on to that the massive blackhole that will be the forgiving of student loan debt (which even by the government's own optimisitic predictions, 40% of which will be unpaid over its lifetime - many experts predict this will be higher), and you begin to see exactly how fucked millennials will be come retirement.
IoT Design Manifesto 1.0
The company I worked at a few years ago cargo-culted this advice. They believed that the real problem to conversions was when the customer was told to register, and constantly A/B tested moving registration to different points in the process, to little effect.
rsi_oww is one of the few users posting facts and his comments are grey...
That $1-2 billion figure pharmaceutical companies like to throw out is the risk adjusted cost, which includes all of the failed drugs and clinical trials for each successful product. The acquisition price for Pharmasset included Sovaldi and several other drugs.
You may not always have the ability to properly make those measurements... it takes me a week before I can gather enough data to even weakly show the effects of a change, and I run a top 100,000 site.

Also it is much more difficult to measure long term impact. For example, I made a change a couple years ago that quadrupled conversion rates, but irreversibly dampened growth. By the time it was evident that it was -that- change, it was too late to recover.

This stuff is easy to talk about in theory, but real life ain't ceteris paribus.
What tipped you off, the label on the X-axis?

It's not great for wealthy people who were enjoying economic rents by excluding desperately poor people from the global economy. So what? Do people earning $2,000/year (1/10 of what a poor American consumes) not count?
The sad state of the backbone ecosystem
World Trade Center Elevator Video
Their (non-digital) services are awesome. Only digital oblivion being solved here... their institution itself seems superior to most I've experienced... except being digitally horrible
Xiaomi finally released Kernel Source code for Mi3/Mi4
Giving instant orgasms to disable an enemy? Well played.
The ruleset is certainly not unchangeable.

If enough miners and full nodes install a different bitcoin implementation, having combined more than 51% of the hash rate of the network, the ruleset of the new majority is valid.

That's how bitcoin reaches consensus and that's how Classic would activate (going for 75% and a grace period of a month, because otherwise you'd probably get chaos and the possibility of 2 distinct bitcoin networks).
That sounds like a marginally legitimate form of the old white van speaker scam.

A guy in a parking lot approaches you, offering some hi-fi equipment under a ruse like "the warehouse ordered too many" or "it was left over after an installation job". They show you brochures or fake invoices with high list prices. The equipment is of course cheap garbage, worth far less than the supposedly discounted price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.

If I was naive to that, why would I start the sentence with that caveat?
Quick introduction to Django Channels
It's not unheard of for employers to look you up on every social media site as a quick "background check." They don't have to ask you about it in an interview for it to be relevant.
Oh sure, I understand that, but many compression articles often focus just on compression ratios (such as this one seems to do), but have no mention of the tradeoffs to obtain these results, or compare themselves against existing and well establish algorithms.

That was the point of my post.
Awesome! So when can I have it in browsers?
Agree with the poster. We did some scanning experiments to do busts of ourselves with a 3d printer as a first test with various tools. It's pretty hard to scan a human and still get a lot of detail. Not sure how much time they had and if scanning a bust is easier (it's under glass though) but the quality seems too good at first glance.
On the subject of ancient art, CBC radio did a interesting series on who should get to say where and how ancient art gets kept and displayed. It's a two-part series and covers a lot of ground ...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/who-owns-ancient-art-part-1-1....
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/who-owns-ancient-art-part-2-1....
> I only expected this to work on Ubuntu

And yet here's the command:

cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | aplay -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 16000

There's nothing Ubuntu-specific there: it works fine on other Linuxes.

It's gotten more than a little annoying, this widespread equivalence between Ubuntu and Linux. Ubuntu is a Linux distro, albeit hardly the best, most idiomatic or most traditional. It's just a single distro, out of many.
Code Sharing agreement
Hello community,

I am making a collaborative code development with a company. We agreed that:

1- They send me the code, I get back whatever I make using their code.

2- Neither of us would be allowed to redistribute the other's code without the agreement of the other.

The issue is they are not comfortable with just a handshake agreement, neither are willing to open source.Also, getting lawyers involved would kill the project because of cost and bureaucracy involved.

Is there a license model that I could use on Github (or elsewhere) that contemplate this situation?

this is critical to build my MVP, so I SUPER appreciate if someone can help!

Thanks!
Alexandre Lordelo
" It's the least intrusive of all the networks"

Are you joking? I've never been on LinkedIn and still get spam from it constantly (though less nowadays than few years back).
Heads up, that is incredibly loud.
For me, the Blockbuster versus Netflix example seems to rewrite history. Blockbuster was focused on improving the video rental experience. Two night rentals and a liberal interpretation of "a day" were improvements over the local store. And compared to Netflix's subscription model and long lead time in the days when credit card transactions were messier and it was DVD's in the mail arriving in several days, the Netflix experience was less attractive than driving ten minutes up the road, picking a video, and watching it an hour later.
It was an excellent share you although I don't quite think "turning off CSS" would be my preferred defense.

You can paste to an intermediate area to be sure you didn't catch something hidden from whichever site you don't trust (which allows users to inline arbitrary HTML elements with arbitrary styles).

This is a habit one already might be in if they want to avoid being tracked from clicking on, say, Google search results. You'll avoid some of their tracking features if you copy the link you want and paste it to some text-holding zone first. (This also avoids the site you land on knowing your "referer".)
Your Three-Minute Down and Dirty on Two Addictive Painkillers
> If enough miners and full nodes install a different bitcoin implementation, having combined more than 51% of the hash rate of the network, the ruleset of the new majority is valid.

No, that is a misunderstanding of how bitcoin works. If the miners activate a new ruleset, and if that change is not so very carefully constructed as to make the old rules a special case of the new rules (a soft-fork), then those miners fork themselves off the network no one automatically follows. The amount of hashpower on the fork has zero relevance to the validity of the blocks they are mining, from the perspective of an un-upgraded node.
Apple Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in $450M E-Book Case
That's not as bad as Criteo... The other day I visited some website, looked at a product, decided I didn't like it, and left.

A half hour later I got an email from the same site offering me 15% off of that product.

I had never visited or heard of the site before. Talk about shady...

Apparently Criteo can accurately identify over half of the visitors to a site.
So far as I can tell as a complete outsider...

Bitcoin developers and the bitcoin community (i.e. people trying to make bitcoin much larger) are not finding shared solutions for the future of the network.

It's impossible to know (from the outside) who is right, but both sides are very very sure that they are in the right!

Time to fork it and move on I think.
Livestream of Florida Trial, Hulk Hogan V. Gawker
This topic was brought up by Apple's lawyer during the hearing in support to the theory the FBI's request was more about setting a legal precedent than getting help for this one phone.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-fbi-should-ask-the-ns...
Parse migration: time is running out
Next-gen bike technology still pedaling uphill
That graph from Google trends seems to contradict that point.
WeWork to bring shared office space business to Asia
Couldn't you have used the Wiki instead of issues? Great work though!!
Ebook buyers to see $400M of refunds from Apple
But lets admit that distros of Linux have become idiomatic. Its reasonable to give a caveat when describing any Linux procedure. This is not an Ubuntu issue at all.

In fact, what's the point of different distros if they aren't idiomatic?