skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First look at Attendize an OSS app for ticket sales
Relevant grant from the Department of Homeland Security from 2011: https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/361729

I'm surprised someone at Uni hasn't made demonstrating this exact attack a class project.
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So it's basically a running your applications on a VM? I'm still not following the advantage.

If you are looking for portability, you could use docker. If you are looking for abstraction, you could use almost any high level language.

What is the benefit of doing it this way?
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That's sort of the problem with voice interfaces. Unless it's smart enough to actually have a degree of "understanding" about what you're trying to do--as opposed to largely responding to a scripted command--there's a real issue around discoverability and feedback that makes it less useful than one might hope.

As was being discussed last week or so in some thread, it's a lot more like a CLI (without any man pages or help available) than a GUI.
The significance of 2σ really depends on the context. If we are looking for something at a particular place in the energy spectrum and we see a 2σ detection in the right place . . . well, that is tantalizing but not convincing. However, in this case, we are looking for unexpected signals across a whole range of energies. By sheer random chance, there will be a number of 2σ peaks that are meaningless noise. It gets a little more interesting if we see weak detections in two different experiments because the combined likelihood of two experiments having random peaks at the same place is considerably smaller. However, 1.2σ is nothing but noise, so I would say nothing to see here . . . at least, not yet.
While it won't change anything to me since I have an old perpetual license (that I will upgrade to subscription), but it does indeed make more sense with the subscription model, the updates look more like rolling updates than versions.
dammit man we're at WAR! Think about the TERRORISTS!
Does the app exist? Did you show it to fitness professionals and gym junkies?
> And there's no point now. Just get them to switch to Visual Studio 2015 and you'll gain most of the key features, and less of the lag/bugs/memory usage.

There's always a point. I don't suppose that VS integrates well with JBoss or other J2EE appservers, for example, or does run on OSX or Linux machines.
Indeed, I remember perfectly well how "die of success" was a thing when sites that became popular could not keep up with the hosting costs.
Related overview of relevant background and the lower court's ruling available through this AutoBlog write-up:

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/08/supreme-court-batmobile-d...
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When I think "serverless" I think this: http://unhosted.org/

That describes a model where a web paged is permanently cached in a browser's data. Effectively reducing the server to a binary distribution system.
Not fault detection and probability of failure?
Step 6 - go to jail.

Step 7 - get out of jail and decide doing far less risky illegal stuff has a better expected payout.
You are begging for people to lie to you.
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Well, you need a basic understanding of equity markets too, and it seems that most who know one do not know the other. At least, they aren't writing about it.

Divestment of evil companies drives down their valuations; consequently, those who invest in evil can actually earn greater returns. If those evil companies are not raising capital, their operations are unaffected. It's simple but widely misunderstood.
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Ask HN: Which areas in computer science are useful for space research?
I am looking for a thesis topic and my goal is to work in space exploration and research eventually. What areas of CS is valuable to space researchers?

I know they'd prefer physicists with programming skills instead of computer scientists with basic knowledge of physics, but still I want to maximize my chances.
I want to vomit a little bit with sheer rage some times. America is literally rotting away since 2001. Before then, it had a few bruises and blemishes like any country does. A sad chapter here, some scandal there. But now it rots on full display for the world and I can't understand how it's citizens live with it... Then I remember they don't care. And I do my best not to care because if I kept on caring it would probably drive me to suicidal depression. And I circle back to my thoughts and realise that they don't care because they too are probably just afraid of being dead inside, it's nicer to be ignorant and happy than informed and depressed. It's just the vicious cycle of the world.
What will happen when the national security apparatus falls into the hands of someone like Donald Trump?
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You need a 70 to pass with a C, so if homework is 30% of your grade then you have to do absolutely perfect everywhere else to just barely pass the class.

Scoring levels:
100-94: A
93-85: B
84-70: C
65-69: D
64-0: E

D is generally considered unsatisfactory, although you might be able to get away with 1 or 2 here or there.
I look forward to a future when the only remaining occupation is hotel maid.
Sure but it's still going to be slower than a native GUI library designed for GPU acceleration because you still need to implement CSS layout and DOM which are suboptimal by design. Maybe by the time Servo lands to mainstream it will be fast enough that it won't matter - but right now that's just not true - DOM is still an inferior platform for GUI because the performance sucks and that's not going to change any time soon - Servo isn't even close to complete yet.
Echo is a great utility. I had mine for just a week, and I already feel attached. However, I feel it needs more AI. For example, I can ask it "What is the temperature today?", and I get a straight forward answer. But I cannot ask "How is the temperature today compared to yesterday?".
She can initiate the call from anywhere, and based on the description given she still needs to go over to and pick up her phone to complete the interaction.

I agree the ability to add arbitrary commands into Echo is a great feature, reminds me of ifttt quite a bit, which is usually a bit clunky yet very powerful.
I haven't used an iPhone in a while, does Siri have a wake word? Does it work when the phone is in standby? Android has "Ok Google" but it doesn't work when in standby and doesn't work from the distance that Echo does.

I think that's really its killer feature. You are in the pantry and notice you're out of basil, you say "Alexa, add basil to my shopping list" and it's done. No pulling out your phone, no unlock screens, you just say what you want to happen and it works.
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People have been advocating, skipping breakfast since long, like more than a century.

There is this book, published in 1900 by a doctor named, Mr.Edward Dewey, the title of which is - The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure.

I have read this book, and it amazes me how logical, everything that doctor has explained.

I don't have breakfast.

Here is the link to the book on Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27128
The recent video of Boston Dynamics Atlas robot looked like it could walk about as well as a human, maybe even better at recovering its balance (see it heroically walking through snow).
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It applies at the socket level as well: modern systems with many sockets (physical processor chips) are like to be NUMA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access), or non-uniform memory access systems. That means that there is a performance benefit if you access memory on your local NUMA node.

And irrespective of NUMA, it also applies to data sharing between threads: if you have a system with 100s of threads, but you have a multithreaded application written like this:

while (globalFlag) {
doSomeLightWork();
}

Your application will not scale well. The cost of 100s of threads all accessing globalFlag will dominate performance, as the cache line for that variable bounces around the entire system.

All systems are becoming "distributed systems". Even though a single machine will get more and more beefy, we will still have to apply distributed systems thinking in order to take full advantage of that system.
thanks for making me think about that show. "According to Ancient Programmer theory..."
So where do you put it... in your bedroom? Or kitchen? One per room?

It seems like a smartphone app with a host of "skills" plugins would render this obsolete.
other evidences of economic activity collapse from China

- China Layoffs: 5-6 Million State Jobs, 1.8 Million in Coal, Steel http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/china-layoffs-5-6-million-job...

- Foreign Funds Exit China Bond Market as Risks Escalate
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-01/global-fun...

- Hong Kong residential home sales plunged 70 per cent in February from a year earlier to a 25-year low http://www.afr.com/real-estate/residential/hong-kong-residen...

- Zoomlion, the country’s leading construction machinery and sanitation equipment maker, announced a 90% net profit drop in 2015 http://fortune.com/2016/02/10/china-housing-market-mortgage-...

- Twice As Many Expatriates Leaving China Than Arriving http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/02/09/twice-as-many-...

- Manufacturers (Panasonic, Samsung, Foxconn) step up search for low cost alternative to China http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1863709/manuf...

- Phantom Goods Disguise Billions in China Illicit Money Outflows http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-china-capital-...
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I believe many workers will travel home to celebrate the holiday which must be hell compared to Thanksgiving air travel.
I don't think I understand. I use and develop for the modern web all day every day, and I use the back button all the time. I was thinking maybe you're referring to highly interactive interfaces that use e.g. Angular, React, et. al., but even those generally use push-state to maintain back-button functionality by synchronizing the state of the app with the browser.
Oh man you should see how people flip out over Common Core teaching number sense to high school kids. Even something as simple as split-difference subtraction brings out the loons saying that the schools are teaching the kids devil math and that God's subtraction carries the one.
This seems to basically showcase the ctypes.sh Bash plug-in, which is what is doing the magic calling into a native library. See https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki, that was very interesting.
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And thus why we're not destined to compete with AI, that 110MWh worth of training time can be instantly available to all other Go bots. If only I could have access to a Grandmaster's brain when I needed it!
"Under tournament conditions" is the condition everyone forgets. Go AIs were competing with ranked players given handicaps of varying degrees of absurdity.
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It's just that with the programming tasks that you bring home, the hiring manager isn't wasting the that time with you. With programming tasks that you do during the interview, they are at least wasting the time with you.
Yeah, fine, but that's no reason to not act irrational and panicky!
The key difference I see is not just likelihood of failure (an L3 cache is pretty much always going to be available), but characteristics of failure. A distributed system experiences partitions which it might recover from. That uncertainty around recovery actually makes it a whole lot more difficult to reason about.
They need to provide avatar, given hash, i.e. implement a public getavatar(emailhash) function.

They don't need to provide hash given account, i.e. getemailhash(comment).

If someone uses a unique avatar they can be identified by bruteforcing emails, generating md5s, then querying gravatar, but I assume most users don't change from the default. You also couldn't prove it, because you may have missed a different email which has the same avatar.
I presume this topic is less about dying for your work, rather about screwing up your relationships, marriage, ending childhood of your kids with divorce and similar.

Reality of an engineering employee even for such a company is, success means bringing tiny increase ineffectiveness, weight reduction etc. into super complex system. No truly world changing discoveries. If you are alone, do whatever you want with your life. But once you go for family, working 70-hour weeks is plain stupid, selfish or just extremely bad deal. No work is worth making decisions that you will regret for the rest of your life.
Uhh... that's a fork. This is the original repo: https://github.com/rhsimplex/image-match
Here's some possibilities:

Stacked 3D chips (HBM, etc), Heterogenous computing (OpenCL, Vulkan), Optical computing, Memristors, Graphene-based microchips, Superconductors, Spintronics, Quantum computers, Genetic computers (self-reconfigurable)
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251463
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If it's plugged in, you can enable an iPhone to respond to "Hey Siri" as a wake phrase.

[EDIT: I have an iPhone 6. Apparently the latest models don't need to be plugged in.]
Alright I understand and I agree.

In this case though it was mostly normal citizens who weren't politicians and they used illegal methods in order to gain personal information about them.
I've never heard of ctypes.sh, but it sounds pretty interesting: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki
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I see what you are saying but I think you are falling for the grass is greener fallacy. I'll explain because I have visibility into those other industries personally.

I happen to have to have a close friend who was an investment banker and have met many through him. Their shelf life is 3 to 4 years max unless they perform well enough to make to make it to the next rung in the chain which their are few spots for. Most try as hard as they can to impress to make it into private equity, a hedge fund, or a VC. And if you dont make it you have to go into something else.

I have another close friend who is a lawyer. You are correct about that profession.... But only if you make it into a top 10 law school and a top tier law firm. If not you're lucky if you can find a job period.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/too-many-law-st...

Doctors are a similar position to lawyers. More secure but you have to go to school much longer which I hope you can extrapolate means a lot more debt to pay off before you get a shot at making retirement money.

You are also drastically underestimating the amount of continuous education in other fields as well. Not quite as fast as in tech but not non existant either.

So I'm telling you we have it the best out of all the other professions you mentioned.

No school is required, a CS degreee helps immensely but it can be done without it. If you play your cards right you can make enough money to live in the top rung of people in every city except SF (you can even live really good in NYC if you land a good gig). I can think of few other professions like it.

P.S if it helps you feel any better Id be happy to ask my network to get more info.

Here's the fields I have friends or family in to go find more info to help dispell myths about.

Finance, Law, Healthcare, Oil and Gas, Dentistry, and probably others im not thinking of.
Prior to the 6S the phone had to be plugged in for the wake word ("Hey Siri") to work, but as of the iPhone 6S you can do it when running from battery. As you say, the microphone is not particular good at distance.
Dropout and deep belief networks are significant recent algorithmic advances that are already widely used.
Amazing work man!
"It's unclear why the ancient people at Wadi Sūra II used reptile hands as stencils, but Honoré said she's working on a tumblr post that analyzes possible reasons."

...Tumblr is now where scientific articles get published?
> But the thing is that in 20-30 years we won't be able to invent any new writing systems that UTF-8 won't cover.

I think you underestimate humanity's aptitude at creating things that don't fit into well defined standards.

My (admittedly poorly stated) point wasn't that we shouldn't be moving everything over to UTF-8. I personally use it wherever possible just because it makes life easier. My point was that there are decades of things that use ASCII-US or another one of the overlapping but incompatible encodings because they were the RightThing™ to use at the time and there's no way we're going to get rid of everything non-UTF-8 any time soon.

In 20-30 years we'll be saying "Why isn't everything in FutureText-64, it should be the only encoding. Why does anything else even exist?", and it'll be because we're saying the same about UTF-8 now.
Well, I'm sure future people will figure out if it's obvious to madaxe_again and skip the tedious process of hypothesis and argument.
> The bad: socially awkward. Most social gatherings involve eating. All celebrations are eat-feasts.

I found the opposite: since I can skip breakfast and lunch, going out at night and having beers and snacks without reaching my daily limits is possible.
"Hey Siri" on iPhone 6s according to http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/206240/why-is-alway...

Haven't tried it myself, so can't comment on the range.
Why would you need KVM access, you can activate their rescue image to boot from, which allows you to mount your hard drive and inspect the system?
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I grew up in reclaimed swamp land (Houston), used to live in NYC, and find Seattle weather delightful by comparison. It's never unbearably hot or cold, and I have lush flowers outside my door thanks to all the rain.

I live in a bungalow with a ton of natural light; I imagine I would feel differently about the weather if I had fewer windows and/or no garden.
Flink has a Storm compatibility layer, which may aid the transition, should your management change its mind.
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Totally agree. I just think a possible way around this would be to have multiple phrases for an action.

"Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride." is the current phrase for Uber. But if you haven't ordered an Uber via Alexa in a while, the ability to guess an alternative command would be handy.

"Alexa, order an Uber."
"Alexa, request an Uber."
"Alexa, UBER!"
The snow is less of an issue lately (we only got ~6ft of snow this year in Syracuse, thanks to a warm Pacific (yay climate change...)).

Con #2 is largely offset by Pro #1.
As another former MTG player, I think the scarcity is part of the experience, but I think they went way too far, because they are hunting "whales", which I was close to becoming but didn't because of a lack of money. The scarcity can be simulated without resorting to the money grabs they went for :( .

And it "works" for them, I think it's a huge part of the Hasbro money machine. As a game it was (is?) great, but the cost to buy in is way too great.

I guess I agree that your disappointment mirrors the one from the people at this "secret society" when they started charging a very costly membership.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/14/whales-and-why-social-game...
As of the latest iPhone 6, you don't even need to have the iPhone plugged. You trained Siri a few times by saying a few sentences and later you can say "hey Siri" and it will start listening.
Apple added some new chip which will be listening for that key sentence and will only react to your voice, not someone else.
So no more funny joke from co-worker nor Podcast and in addition low battery impact.
It seems like a fad now, but it has been trendy and in use for a very long time. Read anything by David Ogilvy to understand the origins of the current environment we're in.
http://blog.bradleygauthier.com/david-ogilvy-headline-copywr...
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I have a theory: I think the coding skills of a programmer are function of the number of programs he's written - from scratch.
Can't you just look at the creators of the program? Demis says he certainly does not worry about a "terminator" or "ex machina" style scenario and also predicted they would win: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34266425

Beyond that, it seems reasonable to call for discussion about how AI is used [as he also does in that article].
As someone mentioned above, in the US you generally need 70% or better to pass a class. You can skip out on homework but your tests had better be perfect. More typically, students will turn in some homework.
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Yes megawatt day.

Yes, go fast or go home on this. The IFR program showed that is way.
Branch and bound my friend, branch and bound. If you can build an awesome bounding function, even exponentially large spaces can be manageable.
Can some one explain to me what immutable means in terms of "infrastructure" ?
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To delimit URL's, use square brackets: [https://gist.github.com/dchest/109180].

There is an RFC standard way of quoting URLs and addresses, namely angle brackets. HN doesn't implement it, though:

<https://gist.github.com/dchest/109180>.

See? The closing > is included in the URL, stupidly.

The convention first appeared in [https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt] in 1995, with Tim Berners Lee the top author.
Yeah, that's one quirk I wish didn't exist. If I could make the Echo work as a speakerphone of sorts, that'd be amazing. That's one of my two asks (ability to get access to the microphone), the other being server-side interaction initiation but I recognize the massive potential for abuse of both so I'm not holding my breath.
This is exactly why we started our son in Montessori. The difference in the way he handles himself (as a 4 year old) vs. kids who have not been in Montessori is usually a drastic difference.

> It's incredibly expensive

I suppose this depends on where you live. We're perfectly happy with what we spend in the Dallas area and would gladly spend more. However, the 18 months we lived in the Seattle area, Montessori was unfortunately not an option. On the low-end, it was 2.5x as much. To have similar quality facilities, it was easily 5x as much.
We're hungry for better design, and unfortunately technologically complex products are where the progress is being made. Case in point, Nest. So we take the bad with the good.

But yeah, in this case, there are big-button landline phones with speed dial.
Perforce have done this for a long time.
I wish I could do the first! :)
It does ("Hey Siri"), but it doesn't work from far away or when it's in your pocket. Echo definitely has the edge in that respect.
Here are the reactions from the parent project's readme: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh#here-is-what-people-have...
Of course there are physical constraints on computing, but measuring by weight is rather stupid. Measuring the energy consumption seems to be a way better metric (even though "computation per energy" is clearly a human win).

Not to mention that we suddenly forgot that computers have their own units of measurement, such as clock speed (hertz) and memory size (bytes).
http://t3x.org/subc/ is tiny and simple. But I'm supposed to say that!
You can play with dynamic libraries without a compiler.