skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People were annoyed enough by 4 digits that Touch ID was a major selling point. 6 words isn't gonna happen. But you already can use such a password with an iPhone, and if you do, the attack the FBI is attempting won't work. Software freedom doesn't enter into it.

What should (and might) happen is Apple's model being amended to also require a code-signing key held by the user, encrypted with the rest of the phone. Apple could do this in its closed-source model, and Free Software wouldn't necessarily do that. Proper security design here really has nothing to do with whether the software is free.
I think the current size is about 8 GB, not 40 GB, according to some recent posts (not running a node myself though).
Maybe Samsung gets something out of it? Cross-patent licensing deal?

It's also worth noting that MicroSoft started looking for license payments while Samsung was still in court with Apple of patent issues. It's very possible they didn't want another large lawsuit.
It's so hard it will probably be replaced by an AI in 50 years.

Welcome, overlords, etc.
That makes sense! I completely overlooked that.
I think the "always" is from Apache, and if I'm reading the site correctly it is an example of a header value being returned. An example Apache directive from https://cipherli.st/ would be:

Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload"

That said, when I test an Apache site I've set up using that same directive I don't get the "always" so I'm not sure where it's coming from (in the example).
The best reason for Microsoft to stop leaching off vaguely applicable patents on smartphones is that their best chance at reviving their own smartphone business is with something along the lines of the Nokia X handsets, running Android, but with an emphasis on Microsoft's apps and ecosystem.

That won't fly without access to Google's proprietary apps and app store. Microsoft will need to bury this hatchet before they could get that licensing deal.

They have an SDK for this approach now, with Xamarin. Don't be surprised if they trade the patent revenue for another shot at phones.
That sounds amazing.

Sadly I didn't find that D3 lived up to D2 and D1 atmosphere-wise. The ending of the first chapter put me off the game entirely -- I guess they were trying to shift the focus of the story to other characters for a new audience.

I can't put my finger on it, but somehow D3 felt less connected to D1 and D2 than D2 did to D1.
Some of the arguments. If this is experimental journalism where they say "hey we recorded this conversation over coffee, wouldn't it be fun to share it on the site and see what happens?" then that's kind of cool, but if they consider it a full debate of the issues or even only the issues before the court, it's pretty weak.
What are you talking about? Google among others has been pretty active in lobbying for changes to the broken patent system
While this is the pitch they made while David was at Condor it was not the origin of the idea for the game. As David mentioned on Friday at the GDC Post-mortem, he had the original idea in Highschool for a more traditional turn-based, tile-based RPG. The music, art direction and many other elements that made Diablo an innovative game actually came organically and much later.
Looks like there's a lot of manual setup to get this going. That seems to be the case for a lot of CL stuff I've seen. Clojure actually has a few Linengen packages for this stuff, Overtone is one I recall for music/sound and Quil for visual design/art. Luminus is great for webapps as well.

Overall I think Clojure has taken most of what was good about lisp and turned it into a much more usable and friendly environment.
It will replace strings in folder names, file names and in any text file (as identified as text by GitHub).

You can see an example here: https://github.com/Zoltu/Templates.GradlePlugin.Groovy/tree/...

In that case, both the folder name and the file name have magic strings in them, so both will have a replacement prompt.
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RNNs are optimizing a probability, at least with standard training to maximize likelihood. As you say, with a different training criterion sure it could do something different - but so could a Markov chain if it was built to optimize a different objective (though it wouldn't be a Markov chain anymore I don't think).

Look at reinforcement learning - loads of stuff making the Markov assumption and doing quite well on complex tasks, though once again this is quite different than a Markov chain.

In theory (at least my opinion on theory) if we had an infinite size "state" it would be possible to just encode all past information in every state, and use Markov rules. It is just not practical, and much easier to extend lookup to multiple timesteps in the past especially with better understanding of optimizing things like RNNs.

Choosing the maximum p(X_t+1 | X_t) does not infer causality in any way in my mind - only saying that given the data when X_t happens, some event at X_t+1 is likely to happen. Classic correlation. I don't see where you are seeing causality in that part. I also don't see a distinction in simulating a system and data from a system - to me it is just that NNs can model much more complex systems than typical Markov chains.

In general I agree with you, but I find these two concepts are much, much more similar than they are different.
The point is, that you cannot use other filesystem, perhaps more suitable to underlying storage technology, like F2FS, because it does not work with Windows.

FAT is actually terrible filesystem. It's only advantage is "works with Windows".

For SD-cards, it is actually mandatory to use FAT (exFAT for SDXC). It's part of the spec.

MTP/PTP is a non-functioning mess.
the 'post-work' meme is in part doing double duty with an ulterior motive.

the western nations of europe and the united states are highly over-indebted, with particular respect to public pensions and social security.

there is no way this money can be paid back without hyperinflation of sorts. and of course, the modern central banking system understands how to string along stagflation as long as possible using the emerging markets model for finding a debt sink to mop up western national debt.

( creating debt in the third world and letting it trade 'up' for u.s. debt and euro debt every time there is an emerging markets credit crisis where people sell emerging market debt to trade for u.s. debt, or sell u.s. debt to obtain u.s. dollars which is 0% yielding u.s. debt )

the thing is , 'post-work' and these other memes like 'universal basic income' are just methods of promoting the idea of a generalized welfare system that will replace existing larger PUBLIC obligations to provide social security and public pensions to the public.

just look at greece. they call it 'haircuts'. the problem is that you cannot take away pensions and social security , or even MENTION THE IDEA of reducing these legally obligated payments because it is politically untoucheable. HOWEVER, you can introduce a positive meme of money for everyone, and then get the general publics support for the idea. THEN , AFTER you gave this general support , you use the support to help CUT REDUCE and ELIMINATE much of the public pensions and social security obligations.

for example, the idea of 'means testing' social security sounds horrible to most fixed income recipients of s.s. ALL 60 MILLION OF THEM. however, once you get a whole new generation of people on board with the idea of EVERYONE GETTING PAYMENTS, it becomes politically easier to force very large cuts on the social security recipients even while you CONTINUE TO CHARGE S.S. TAXES at an increasing rate relative to stagnating incomes ( taxes effectively increase if they stay the same while incomes stagnate over a long period of time while inflation of cogs goes up )

this meme of universal basic income was not necessarily crafted by the neoliberal market fundamentalists that are seeking to feudalize the fixed income recipient class, but it is, ironically, being co-opted by them as a welfare smokescreen to GUT legally mandated public payments to the classes of people that actually paid and continue to pay into them.
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This is a question I've asked myself before too. Here's a back-of-envelope calculation which seems to suggest that diffusion alone will never be enough to keep someone alive inside a box. I'd be really interested to hear if someone can confirm or refute this.

Let's assume CO2 transfer is entirely diffusion-limited, i.e. the worst-case of completely still air. The diffusive flux of some gas-component (per unit area per unit time) J is governed by concentration-gradient (dn/dx) multiplied by a magic diffusion coefficient D, which depends on the molecular properties of the gas. For CO2 in air D = 1.6e-5 m^2/s. Let's assume the gradient is linear so dn/dx = (n_{inside} - n_{outside}) / length. Now n_{outside) = 0.04% * 1 kg/m^3 = 4e-4 kg/m^3. We should decide what level of CO2 we can tolerate, 0.5% should be on the safe side, so n_{inside} = 5e-3 kg/m^3.

Length is a bit trickier. If (a) we assume completely stagnant air inside and outside, length should be chosen as the size of the box ~1 m say. However if (b) we assume that inside and outside are pretty well-mixed individually, due by breathing, wind etc., then length should be about the depth of the hole, or thickness of the box-material, say 1 cm = 0.01 m. For case (a) CO2 leaves our box at a rate of about 7e-8 kg/s/m^2, for (b) 7e-6 kg/s/m^2.

From the original article, a human breaths .84 kg of O2/day, let's estimate a production of 1kg CO2/day (the extra carbon atom can't be all that significant), or 1e-5 kg/s.

To compute the area of hole needed to maintain 0.5% CO2, we just divide 1e-5 by J, to get the area. In case (a) we need an enormous area of 135 m^2, in (b) "only" 1.35 m^2.

This seems to suggest that "air-holes" must work (if indeed they work at all) with air-flow. This doesn't necessary require an over- or under-pressure in the box - a suction can be generated by wind passing over a box with holes on both sides - this process would be far more efficient at restoring atmosphere than diffusion. But would be less reliable.
> The Neonode is not prior art for those claims.

Well, CAFC thinks that Neonode makes the claims of the Slide to unlock patent obvious:

> We reverse the judgment of infringement and no invalidity because the asserted claim of the ’721 patent would have
been obvious in light of Neonode and Plaisant.

From http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...

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It's apparently OK to rip off the best ideas while learning from the mistakes of more then 15 years of work done pioneering by Palm, Microsoft and Apple and slapping them on top of a free OS and just paying nothing.

It's hard to see the difference between the first iPhones and Galaxy phones, in terms of home screen and hardware. You can't tell them apart at first glance. A clear rip-off. The patents Apple used to sue them were often trivial but the fact it was nothing but an iClone was obvious.

Apparently that's the only thing you can do to a competitor that copies without innovating. I can imagine that now Google had a few firsts in Android (interactive notifications for example) these patents will be swapped more and more and Microsoft gets less leverage. That's why Motorola didn't have to pay, they were extremely important advancing mobile technology and have their own chest of patents as a result.
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Animation isn't subject to camera blurs, but since mechanically precise movement is so boring to watch animators have always utilized motion and frame blurs as stylistic expressiveness.

http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/archive

Given how cumbersome and glitchy Adobe's 'content awareness' algorhythm is, there's not much help for animators via software tools for that type of motion (in 2D, for 3D the general trend seems to be realism but 3D animation software has more than enough options for stylistic choices of surreal motion).
Yeah, there's a container. I've not had great luck with it, though -- every time I'd get a kernel panic after a few minutes.

What I'm doing now, and what I recommend to others, is just running the hack/local-up-cluster.sh script, which gets you a local kubernetes cluster in a single command. It's intended for local development and will build & run a cluster.

Furthermore, you can run hack/build-go.sh and get the kubectl binary in _output/local/... pretty easily. Just symlink (or copy) it into your path, and it becomes pretty easy to grab the latest tag or even just HEAD, which is what I tend to play with.
Sony is still showing middle finger to Microsoft and doesn't pay a dime.
What the government really needs to do is adopt newer software that will allow for better tracking of what needs repairs, what has been repaired, when something was last inspected, what needs inspection, and repair reporting tools. They should also adopt software that would allow them to better schedule all these repairs efficiently and in a timely matter. All this software should have contractor bidding platform integrated into it and also be integrated with scheduled utility repairs.

This software can be used to anticipate budgets since you would know what upcoming repairs and inspections are needed. It would also prevent the situation where a city finally paves a nice new road after 15 years of potholes and then 2 weeks after completion the gas companies come in and tear up the road to do their work and do a shitty job patching the road back up so you're left with potholes again within a year, all thanks to poor communication.

I know a few cities have adopted apps that allow residents to report needed repairs and they've been working great, both with upkeep and cost savings. That should really be proof of concept enough to make the needed changes, but I suspect there will be a long pause to the politicians can give their friends enough time to make a similar knockoff product and grant them an over-priced contact.
The difference in the size of the userbase is a confounding factor, though, no?
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One reason might be Samsung's Windows laptop business.
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This has existed for TV news cameras for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter#/media/File:Telep...

The trick is to put the camera behind a one-way mirror and project onto the other side.
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At least Hey Siri is an offline feature, it won't send anything over the network unless it actually detects that phrase. This can be easily verified by turning on Airplane Mode and trying it, it still works.
This "cost of litigation" argument is probably bogus. Even some of the epic patent battles like Apple v. Samsung or other decade long arbitrations like Yukos vs. Russia were like 50-60 Million USD in legal fees.
All too often, people use excuses for their own failure s.

Getting funding is damn hard. African americans make up only 14% of the population. Only a small percentage of this will pitch VC and an even smaller percentage will get accepted.
I have no inside information but I can imagine a conglomerate like Samsung which has a lot of business to do with Microsoft (including notebook computers and so on) would only pay Microsoft if they received some sort of assurance that they would not be unfairly targeted. Samsung sells everything from notebook computers to solid state drives and everything in between.

To repeat Don Draper in the Mad Men pilot (s01e01)

> The Federal Trade Commission and "Reader's Digest" have done you a favor. They've let you know that any ad that brings up the concept of health and cigarettes together, well, it just makes people think of cancer.

http://goodinaroom.com/wp-content/uploads/Mad-Men-pilot-scri...

My thinking here is if I were in charge of all of Samsung, I wouldn't mind a $15 per device cost of doing business as long as I was reasonably sure that my competitors had to pay the same sum as well. If I were in charge of Samsung, my concern would be that Microsoft would play favorites with competitors like htc.

Please keep in mind that there are no facts here. just my guesses.
Very interesting. I can add Inform 7 and rule-based programming of text-based fiction:

http://eblong.com/zarf/essays/rule-based-if/

http://inform7.com/
Agreed, but given the fact that this feeds into the legal system in a fairly direct way and that I'm only a 'one man shop' by their definition it makes good sense to insist on doing business with a larger party.

Where it goes haywire is that they then have to trust all the employees of that larger party as well but that's logic rather than CYA.
Note about Quil it is based around Processing[0] which reminds me a lot of how Dr Racket is designed (UI wise) which is really nice. I agree though, my probability in testing or using software rests upon setup, if it cannot be in a straight forward approach I'll likely not bother.

[0] http://processing.org/
Not just in Asia. I threw a couple of old (60s~70s) appliances with magnet power cables a few years ago. The cables were very north american.
>No. It's my information to be stolen, not yours.

And when the site gets broken into years later, irresponsible users (or "morons" as you put it) will pillory them publicly even though it's their own damn fault for using a crappy password or using the same password for their email.

The number of people who will stop using a site because they can't meet basic password strength requirements is minimal and not worth caring about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322644
Yes, that is the core here.

He asked: Mark my daughter's answer as correct.

They said: We can either: Mark her wrong, everyone else right; or mark her right and everyone else wrong.

He said: Well if you don't want to just mark her right and everyone else too, if you can't accept that the question may have multiple answers, then do what you must.
High entropy ASLR, for one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020362

(A few months older than one year, but close enough. Also, of course I'm not going to claim that sandboxing is unimportant.)
Nothing really, as for the ESP, I'm using a NodeMCU 1.0 dev kit, but that's just for convenience of uploading the sketch. All you really need is the display, ESP-12E and power.

And of course, you need something to host the VNC server at the correct screen size, in this case it's a Raspberry Pi.
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The Citroen DS had both the parking brake and the gear shift in that exact configuration and this was a very common configuration in the past.

Here is a picture of the gear shift lever:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c3/56/58/c356581ab...

That's a half-automatic gear box, so gears but no clutch! (Not bad for the early 60's, as well as hydraulic suspension, power steering and headlights that point where you're driving).

I've even seen it on some American cars. Eventually the shifter for automatics moved to the transmission tunnel (if you had one) as well but it wasn't always so.

I suspect the re-occurrence of this has to do with the mid console in high end cars now more and more occupied with electronics and infotainment rather than the drive train and associated levers.
PageRank assumes your browsing activity is a Markov chain in the graph defined by hyperlinks in the web (assuming 1/n probability for each outgoing link in a page). The rank of a page is the limit #visits to the page/#total visits (which is the eigenvector of the transition matrix for eigenvalue 1)
It would be nice for this to become a github repo with all the bash scripts in the page.
I had a lecturer who had seen IBM experiment using projections onto manikins placed around a board table shared with 'real' humans, and a mirrored arrangement on the other side of the 'electric' connection, old enough to be an entirely analogue affair, if anyone has an idea what he might have been referring to I would love to know!
I think that's the exact idea Markus started this project with .

> The starting point to the project where to stream my Door cam to a Display in my living room. - See more at: http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=152&t=8731#sthash.v8H...
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That article, I believe, was a reaction to http://modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/san-franciscos-i...

While an interesting "matter of fact" summary it doesn't really answer the question posed - Why, in a decade of 21% inflation and 10% population growth, has SF's budget doubled? And why hasn't that spending translated into meaningful solutions to pressing city issues like decaying infrastructure (roads, sewers, pub trans) or homelessness.

The likely real answers, hidden in those departmental budgets, are administrative waste and generous, massively underfunded city employee benefits packages - particularly from the 1990 to 2010 era.
Tupí is an open source alternative: http://www.maefloresta.com/portal/

It is now under the KDE umbrella.
open source collaborative animu on github when?
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> It's my information to be stolen, not yours.

Many computer logins protect information other than the password-bearer's- for example, any business or government. As a result it's best to consider it, then discard as your use case may require.

I absolutely agree on the account recovery point - it WILL happen, your choice as designer is just whether it happens within a designed process or without.
This is awesome, as someone who is currently playing with ML this is a great resource for playing with Datasets. Thanks to everyone involved in this project. Keep it up.
Yeah, I've had the exact same problem while exploring coroutines. Stackless Python is the only implementation I'm aware of which allows you to trivially serialize its microthreads.

In the end, I prefer to just use mostly "stateless" Lua scripts, with all the saveable data managed in C++.
At the moment, I'm reading Euell Gibbons (Stalking the Faraway Places). I love his work, and he gathers mushrooms, but that's where I draw the line. Too much downside risk.
It is not incorrect, since her answer entirely fulfills the text of the question. He is not quibbling. Textual questions by their very nature can have multiple answers, depending on the context the question is read in. Any system that can not accept that is broken and does nothing to educate students and merely creates unthinking rote repetition automatons. He is perfectly right in attacking that and in fact it must be attacked.
The group of people that still hates Microsoft by and large will always hate them until they die. Even if they opened up the patents they'd still be hated for "being evil". There's next to nothing to gain from doing and there's billions to lose.
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