skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little late to this discussion but I wear headphones/earbuds the entire time I'm in my office and if people are being loud I just turn up my music. I am no fan of open floor plans but at the same time they don't bother me as long as I can wear my headphones and people aren't constantly trying to get my attention vis non-chat methods (chat me and say you need to talk, saying my name or waving at me it not going to grab my attention).
There has been other recent work (Preserving Color in Neural Artistic Style Transfer) that allowed control, separate from the "style", over how much of the original painting's color palette to use:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05897v1.pdf

It isn't too hard to extrapolate from this to using separate images as sources for the style and palette, and from there to transforming the "content" image's color palette to resemble the palette of the "style" image in terms of saturation, value, contrast, etc. (but not hue) by manipulating histograms, and then using that result instead of either the "content" image's or the "style" image's palettes.

Because if you have a photo of a bright red cardinal and a desaturated pastel drawing of a pale blue boat, the result you are likely to be most pleased with would be a pastel cardinal that is, well, pink, and not a pale blue cardinal.

Of course, the harder version of this would need to recognize the semantics of both the "content" and the "style" image in order to construct a more meaningful palette to be applied (which is what you're getting at), and that same semantic information will also help with transferring the style more meaningfully (eg. crude palette-knife houses in the background but small brushed strokes depicting the people in the foreground).
A large number of the devices were manufactured by XiongMai Technologies. Judge for yourself whether the backdoor was put in place intentionally.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/iot-device-maker-vows-pr...
Is Palantir a "Data-Mining Company" or is a military, law enforcement and surveillance company?
i have been using fujifilm xe1 mirrorless camera for 2 yrs now.
ABBA to reunite for 'digital experience' – Mpelembe Media
I think there's no tool can "kill" procrastination once and for all. It is a human nature that reside in our body and mind. Unless you change your mindset, there is no such tool to kill procrastination. So, the tagline is over promised.
There are two different things. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this:

1. Device backdoor open Port 23 (telnet), used to take over loT devices.

2. The loT devices attacked through Port 53 (DNS).
Serverless Technologies Guide
> Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead.

Thats incorrect both jails and "containers" are examples of OS level virtualization[1]. Instead of virtualizing the hardware you virtualize the operating system, ie system call table.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...
Wow the second video is really great, can't recommend it enough.

Do you know what tool did he used for the text? (I know this sounds weird, I'm trying not to spoil here ;)
Show HN: Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit
It's a small book for a select audience :)
"Their Spectacles release has the potential to build the largest real world image dataset on the planet"
With Google (and now Uber) cars driving around numerous places to capture data specifically for map imagery, satellite imagery and Android/iOS phones taking tons of photos + videos I highly doubt Snap will be the one to build the world's largest image dataset. The rest of your argument makes sense though.
I put 'root' in quotes, because technically, it isn't rooting. However, it creates a binary called 'run-as' that can execute packages as root. Not sure what the right term would be in this case.
Yeah, but they are not so great to use compared to the competition.
They also have monitoring through CloudWatch, but again it aint great.

My question is, how did Rancher Labs get on the list, but Hashicorp didn't?

Also, Google deserves a link to specifications with gRPC, IMHO.
Meh, this is just union posturing to try to save obsolete jobs.

"The wireless home phone service, VoiceLink, is not a proper replacement for copper phone lines because it doesn’t work with security alarms, fax machines, medical devices such as pacemakers that require telephone monitoring, and other services, the union said."

Really? Verizon should be maintaining and repairing obsolete infrastructure so people can keep using fax machines? GMAFB.
Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness

Try driving through Wyoming some time (on a highway!). You can easy drive for an hour or two and there is nothing but BLM (gov't) land all around you. No one lives there.
nice try, but no.

Top row, center (guy with the scowl). That man invented the blog. He's a friend and ex-coworker of mine. I doubt you could get lunch with him for less than $50K.
Umm, you didn't even opine on anything. Why would it matter where you work to anyone? All this "disclosing" is annoying.

Disclosures: I don't disclose things when it makes no sense to.
I know lots of women who host AirBnB so they definitely don't share your fear. Not quite sure where you're getting that from.
I have a video series with source code, you can follow along if you want.

Videos:
https://www.codemy.net/channels/react-foundation

Source Code:
https://github.com/codemy/invoiced-ui
And nobody would carry Palm Pilot PDAs. Well they didn't wind up carrying them from Palm, but Apple and Samsung sure have something awfully close. Snap may or may not be the AR disruptor, but AR will be the new smartphone. Whoever owns it will be the new Apple.
Can you really compare a 20 year old honda del sol to a new model 3 (when it comes out obvioulsly) though? I don't have anything against used cars, but its apples and oranges. You can totally claim those numbers as savings, in an apples to apples comparison to a similar class car from a close year.
Except if there was a method that actually provably worked in producing lower cost, more reliable software on schedule without requiring your entire staff to be composed of demigods, then it would have already been adopted by EVERYONE.

There is no such thing as practical state of the art in our field for the problem being discussed (which is the software requirements capture/design/engineering side of things, not the software construction side of things), most of the so called "state of the art" focuses on a problem of very limited utility:

problem a) if I have a complete, consistent and fixed requirements, can you write code that provably implements it it? Sure. But very little software is developed under those conditions (avionics, safety critical stuff, some crypto stuff, etc)

problem b) code/methodologies to make writing easier/more concise/more predictably once as the specification is discovered. Nice, but it is optimizing the 10% of the task, whereas the 90%, the requirements discovery and requirements consistency management between requirements discovered amongst different branches of the problem is where the bulk of the time is spent.

Those are the "assume spherical cow" of our space. Interesting, but limited.

Or going with the bridge analogy that seems to be popular here, you're asked to build a bridge. Nobody tells you over what, what load it has to carry, under what weather conditions. So you don't know whether they want a rope bridge over a tiny stream or a multilane car/train combined suspension bridge. And as you ask for the requirements it is now a bridge over the Atlantic with a stop in Australia. And when you query the Australia part they confirm and casually mention that they might be planning on a stop in Pluto too and can you fit that in the schedule.
We don't want strangers on our apartment buildings which have doorman or intercom systems to offer some protection. There is violent crime. This is a large city with violent crime. We want our apartment buildings to be safe without strangers. There is the alternative of using hotels in nearby Union City NJ. Please respect my desire and that of other New Yorkers for safety in our apartment buildings.
How to Recover WhatsApp Photos and Videos from Android Devices
> In some settings, AR could include a density of advertising -- passive or interactive -- similar to the real world without much trouble. In fact, an AR setting devoid of any commercial presence may be unsettling on its own.

I'm going to use it to block IRL advertising, not replace it.
A website and user system starter. Server side is built with hapi.js. The front-end is built with React. Redux as the state container. Client side routing with React Router.

https://jedireza.github.io/aqua/

https://github.com/jedireza/aqua
well if its truly passive, the question would not be relevant. since the owner shouldn't have to do anything, no?
I run a Windows 10 PC at work with the Linux Subsystem enabled. It has been a godsend. We are historically a C# shop, but have a new front-end web server in NodeJS. I continue to work on a PC because the NodeJS site consumes C# web services. I will sometimes work on the C# service and the node site at the same time and have the Node site point to my local builds of the C# services. Before, I used to use Vagrant, but it was extremely finicky and would break or corrupt randomly. While I know NodeJS runs on native windows, certain dependencies such as Couchbase have given me pain trying to get working. Now I do my NodeJS work running inside the Linux Subsystem. It's been extremely performant, and I always catch case sensitive bugs and other Linux issues that the Mac developers miss due to have a case insensitive file system.
Bots everywhere now...
World Bank to help 1.1M rural people in Bangladesh to access clean energy
Wow so much hate. The tilting screen, a phenomenal display that looks sexy, specs to match the intended graphic workload and all you could see were "specs".
all people's faces are legal images from http://uifaces.com
From the article:

"Renting out an entire apartment for less than 30 days has been illegal under New York law for the last six years, but the rules were not enforced until very recently (Renting out a single room is legal)."

So what if you rented out one bedroom of an apartment on Airbnb and the living room and kitchen were public areas? Public because your spouse rented out the bathroom for the first 15 days of each moth for a dollar and let's say one of your parents rented it our for the remaining days of that month.

You divulge this to each Airbnb guest but tell them, "don't worry, the other occupant doesn't have plans to stop by during your stay and if they are not on premise in the room they reserved, you are free to make short term usage of it." The wink and nod will be implied.
Performance aside, we've found BigQuery to be far cheaper than Redshift.

With BQ you pay for the amount of data that flows through the system, as opposed to how many instances are running with Redshift.

We also don't really need Redshift running all the time so something like BQ or Azure SQL Datawarehouse where you can pause and scale up/down fits our usage patterns and budget much better.
A nitpick, but that would assume you eat in the car and pee in a jug.
Not at the rate Twitter is headed downwards. :-) Also, it could be a combo of cash and equity.
Have you checked the metro collusion agreement? Here in Austin we have TWC (now spectrum) and Grande. There are places where grande and TWC are literally right across the street, next door, etc and you can't get service from one of them because the other has the franchise agreement.
One reason people buy paintings is because they're hand-made - and obviously so.

A print is machine-made - and obviously so. It's reproducible, so it has no obvious uniqueness.

Some people have tried making one-off prints. That never really works out, because one of the important elements in art objects is visible proof of unique human labour. A print can't supply that, even if it's a digital one-off. The labour may still be there, but it isn't visible in the way that the effort needed to cover a canvas is.

Art is a social signal of disposable capital, aspiration to social status, and ability to command effort. Having an art object legitimises an image and a buyer in a way that a print can't. It also adds a sense of permanence, which some people like when they want to make memories more tangible.

Instapainting capitalises on that by selling to people who want a painting but don't know much about art. I'd guess some of them like the idea of having a painting of a memory, while others like the idea of telling visitors that they had something painted specially.

The bell curve wins again. This turns out to be a much bigger market than the one for people who want a painting and know something about art, and very much bigger [1] than the market for people who buy expensive paintings and know a lot about art.

The idea isn't actually new, but it's possibly the first time it's been done on an industrial scale. Back in the 00s there were services in the UK selling stylised portraits for similar money. They were fairly successful, but limited by having a small pool of artists to draw from. Chinese labour has changed that and made a mass market possible.

[1] But not necessarily more profitable.
Merging is always hard in any machine generated file. I'd prefer to drive it with a proper script rather than the current ui generated xml file.
Musk isn't perfect, but he is a great engineer. You should only need to listen to him talk for a few minutes to know he's on a different level.
Well no one would buy in at IPO time if they thought it was some kind of pump and dump scheme (of course this does happen, but is hopefully rare). An IPO is generally designed to raise cash that will be invested back into the business, and as a side effect give the investors a return.
Do you think this comment would be better received without the "Nonsense" intro? It's tough to bring someone around to your way of thinking when you dismiss theirs out of hand.
It would be a surprise for Apple after Samsung's Note 7 explosion events. Looks like iPhone 7 is not meeting people's expectation and many are looking for the next year huge remodel iPhone which has been rumored for a long time.
Baltimore Aerial Surveillance Program Retained Data Despite 45-Day Privacy Limit
> run containers on ECS

Presumably ECS has its own alerting mechanisms similar to CloudFormation and ElasticBeanstalk (I've only used the latter two, not the former).
Incorrect. You do not at all need the latest and greatest gaming GPUs to run the latest and greatest graphic software package at top-notch performance.
Very few people have no complaints when it comes to Comcast

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones? I've had them for years now and no real complaints. I'm certainly not blow away by their customer service, but they came and setup the internet when they said they would and I've had maybe one outage that lasted less than an hour (in 5 years).
I never contended that the consulting part is passive. It absolutely takes consistent time every month. It's the dividend revenue which is passive.
> I keep hearing about this fabled Google Ad business

The one that makes 19 billion dollars per quarter?
Yup. My thoughts exactly. Typical Apple fanboy camp. This truly reminds me of how Android camp always pointed to the specs and completely overlooked the design, form and function of iPhones. Irony that the Apple camp is now doing that to the competition :)
Absolutely. Who knows what else they'll lie on later. Status? Their ability to hit a deadline? What a customer said? I wouldn't be able to trust them again.

By your logic, if someone is doing their job satisfactorily, but they hid several major felonies (say armed robbery, and robbing from their prior employer) from you during the interview process, you wouldn't fire them?

I'd rather have someone have the courage to own up to their issues. If they don't in the interview process, they won't later. And I like to hire folks who have something to prove. But not folks who overtly lie.
In your part of the world, maybe. The Valley does not reflect average DBA salaries around the world.
I've tried, they've told me an "account specialist" will get back to me via email, but I don't think I can talk directly to them over the phone.
Chef Automate and GitHub Integration
If a company trying to go public is being sued by one of its largest customers (i.e. the US federal government), that's pretty material. The USDOJ is (IIRC) trying to ban contracts while the matter is under investigation.
I sell books at https://www.thesuccessmanual.in
A widely cited figure states that the average broadband customer costs Comcast less than $2/month for broadband internet.

Sure it's $2/month if you ignore any fixed costs. Net margin after interest and taxes is high single digits.[1]

[1]http://financials.morningstar.com/ratios/r.html?t=CMCSA
> Plus you can now call linux apps from windows with bash -c and call exes from bash which makes cross platform development amazing.

Unless you need to pass a directory path.
> I've used PHP, Node.js, Mongo, and React.js. The stack consists largely of micro-services, which is crucial in allowing me (the only developer) to migrate the site to new technologies.

Can you pls elaborate on this?
you can in fact pay agencies to deal with ALL of that, they just take it out of your cut. have you owned real estate or a business? I have both and i can attest they can be fully managed by others, without headache to the owner, its very simple. industrial RE investors do this all the time.
It bought NeXT.
ah I see -- it was meant to be stock photography.
+10! That would have been much classier. Also the language dripped of contempt for Google. It really comes off as ugly.
Surprised you're getting downvoted.

It's true, if the gov't performs a service, it's included in GDP. And no, taxes don't increase GDP.
Ask HN: Name few websites to learn new technologies by building small projects
One website I can this of is CodeProject but it is very specific to C#
Compared to any other market for Internet startups in the world, India is the least homogenous (type of consumer) and shallow of them all (when you measure it against the size of the population).

Good-quality Internet/smartphone penetration is not as deep as you think. If you think it's a market of 1B people, you're sorely off the mark.

Then there's the issue of language. 10% or less of the population speaks and understands English.

Past that, there's the issue of credit cards/digital wallets and willingness to pay for online services (not just goods).

Finally, while there's a massive middle class that does access the web on their phones, most of their usage is limited to facebook, whatsapp, and the like.

There are likely less than 50-75M english-speaking, smartphone-enabled, credit-card/wallet-enabled consumers.

With time this will get better, but for now I feel like irrational exuberance has gone a little too far in funding 4-5 similar startups in a single category.
That's actually something I'm actively looking at (along with the Bullet Journal methodology). There are gaps in the use cases...but very promising!
FCA had to be strong armed into building the 500e. Ford hasn't previously taken the electric Focus seriously, but word is that the 2017 model will be range competitive with the current Leaf.

I believe I have read elsewhere that although GM will sell the Bolt in all 50 states, early inventory will be going to states with ZEV mandates.

With all that, I could see a future in which those ZEV credits aren't nearly so valuable.
yeah. so the idea is like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker but for teams of engineers than can build any web app, mobile app, VR app, you name it. The best of the best. You want to hire them, go ahead, they are worth it. And once a year they compete in a tournament and crown the winning team for 2017, 2018, etc.
This is actually quite true. Read about the 1964 Presidential election and you'll see not much has changed.
Why did you say TPC-H sucks and TPS-DS is the thing to use? My impression is that while newer, TPC-DS is actually easier to optimize for.
I can't believe people are complaining about this thing! This is what the Studio is up against: https://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cintiq-27QHD-Creative-Display/d...

Look at the damn thing, shitty (i presume) TFT display, no capacitive touch (i think), and no computer attached.

This is a great value proposition to those kind of people. Though if this had a gaming tier GPU and a bit better specs this would be literally _the_ machine.
Google's calculation doesn't include stops for gas, food, and bathroom breaks. Not to mention that with that much driving you're bound to run into a few delays due to construction or accidents, or just bad timing hitting a metro area during rush hour.
No, it's things like what happened with the Big Dig in Boston...

"However, the project was completed only in December 2007 (instead of 1998), at a cost of over $14.6 billion ($8.08 billion in 1982 dollars, meaning a cost overrun of about 190%)[6] as of 2006"
Maybe it doesn't teach anything new, but it does act as a refresher and makes you go back to Deep Work. I had almost completely forgotten about it and my work schedule was full of tab switching and short breaks. After going through the book, I started using Toggl and minding my time.
It doesn't have to shrink for Palantir to lose share to newcomers in a growing industry.
Microsoft tried and no one liked Metro.
if only this can be translated into online experience T_T