skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Humans can recognize parts of a face pretty well, classifying smaller parts of an image separately may help defend against this

Even humans can be "attacked": this infamous image (http://i.imgur.com/fkYaYEr.jpg) gives me a headache if I look at it for too long[1]. I wonder how machines will fare when faced with the same concept via convincing makeup...

1. I suspect my brain is telling my eyes that they are out of focus and continually engages the eye muscles to try and bring the image "into focus"
I have the feeling doing Dropbox right is a lot more difficult than doing Slack right. I still use Dropbox because somehow Drive and iCloud still don't work quite as nicely as Dropbox does. But I might be wrong; I've never built chat or file-sync apps.
Agree. With a 72% voter turnout, it's better described as a 38-34 result. (based on 52.7 and 47.3 from bloomberg)
Microsoft has a well regarded developer network and Q&A system regarding Microsoft technologies, at least in my (limited to primarily Azure) experience.

Similarly, Microsoft has already operated a widely used integrated chat, profile, and community system at scale. Given their recent pushes, it wouldn't be entirely surprising for them to bring back similar platforms for business users integrated with LinkedIn.

That would eat a lot of Slack's potential big clients, because MS has a history of enterprise grade support on products like that, and Slack has scale issues for large orgs.
The Bloomberg Terminal lock-in strikes me as a similar walled garden of sorts and ripe for upstarts to break the grasp in time. Not overnight, of course, but in time.
You know how you can't just compile normal C to a GPU and expect a speed up because the underlying computational models are so different? It's like that, just a few orders of magnitude worse.
i can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me.

i think most people would prefer to drink one strong IPA than 3 or 4 michelob ultras for a variety of reasons.
I've adopted nicotine gum. I've never smoked. It helps me focus. (Or, at least, I have the impression it helps me focus. I havn't actually measured anything.)
> You're talking about RTL, which is exactly what these languages output.

If VHDL/Verilog would output RTL, you could easily analyze it just as you analyze assembly output of your favorite compiler. Unluckily the output is some proprietary bitstream for the FPGA.
I spend a lot of time writing ad hoc queries for analysis. That means I don't know what columns I want, I might be switching things up from aggregates to subsets and back. That's why you'll find things like:

WHERE 1=1
AND a.id = 12
--AND a.Col1 > 23
AND a.Col1 = 23

Similarly the leading comma makes it faster to cut out things I'm not using anymore. Now obviously for production code you could argue my reasons are no longer valid - but probably they'll leak through because that's what all my shk hotkeys generate and I'm used to writing
Really... The fact that many of those apps run on Amazon's FireOS version of Android completely disproves your point.
the WINE team is comprised of 100% sorcerers.
In addition to everything that's been recommended in this thread, Functional Programming in Scala is very nice. I read it after taking the Coursera course and working a bit on a Play project. Familiarity with Haskell and Ocaml will certainly help.
Aw, diddums!
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How to get the wine you really want
As a fellow former smoker, I don't agree that you have the standing to decide the best way for anyone but you.
I'm plenty familiar with Boston commutes and that they can be pretty crappy, my point is mostly that things seem an order of magnitude better than in the Bay. Commutes are still bad and rents are still expensive, but my point was that examining the problems around SF makes me grateful that things aren't as bad here.

On the note of a "nice/managed building", you're right that I live in a smaller setup. Having previously lived in one of the luxury high-rises, I find my current apartment and management preferable even before considering the differences in rent.
It builds the empennages in India, for integration with the full assembly in the US.

And in any case both of those are less sensitive technologies - a transport plane that other countries sell equivalents to, and a previous-generation fighter plane for which India is in any case the largest expected purchaser (the production lines in the US are being wound down, and the move to India would be part of a purchase by the IAF), and to etch the US has already approved sales.

We wouldn't sell India a Minuteman, so we're sure as hell not going to find their development of an equivalent.
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ElectricAccelerator 9.0 Goes Ninja with Android N
Luck = more successful than me

Lazy = less successful than me

Not useful words, regardless of if it is true or not. There is no formula despite our brain desparately seeking one. My experiences with surfing the internet, sugar and other things suggest that seeking != the right metric for utility to you now or in the future.
Fancy seeing this here - cool for sure. One of the music journalists I follow, Peter Kirn, has a piece regarding this release:

http://cdm.link/2016/11/gallery-korgs-synth-line-gets-refres...
At least no-one suggested that godawful Gimp as a Photoshop alternative
You seem like a real joy to work with.
> The bigger problem is you'd need at least 70 of them to cross the atlantic.

That actually doesn't sound too bad. I would've expected that number to be much higher.

I wonder how that cost would compare to the thousands of miles of cabling we currently use.
How Docker Containers and Business Service Automation Will Monetize the Cloud
First of all, I disagree with your assessment of these cases, especially Clearplay in Huntsman. The reason why they were excluded was not because they were purchasing copies of DVDs 1:1, Clear View required this as well. The difference between Clear View and Clearplay was that Clear View created new DVD-Rs as an output product and thus was creating derivative works without permission, as did nearly all other named defendants. Clearplay did not produce any derivative works by it's operation, which was entirely in memory in the player as an edit list. This is why it was specifically dismissed as a defendant.

The Clearplay technology was almost identical in function, implementation, and spirit to an ad-blocker. The same could be said in less specificity to the Game Genie in Lewis Galoob.

Now I understand the underlying frustration expressed in what you are saying, but you are assuming that there is some sort of contract (explicit via TOS or implicit) between the content consumer and the content provider that stipulates that you are receiving the content for free in exchange for also viewing it with advertisements inline.

I have not seen such TOS before and I don't think they are enforceable. At least it hasn't been tested in court in the states.

This is complicated by the fact that most websites do not host ads but merely provide a mechanism by which 3rd party networks' content alongside, and the only concrete business relationship exists between the website and the ad network, where the profitability of it is reflected in the ad network's perception of performance.

It is the responsibility of the ad networks and the content providers to use psychology, technology, tricks, etc. to increase the performance of the placed ads; the consumer has no obligation here. The ability for a consumer to ignore or block an ad must be factored into the numbers or the strategy.

One method that can bypass all of this is to use ad-block detectors that annoy or block viewers not seeing ads, or to self-host adnetwork content and adjust TOS accordingly. This is not popular, more complicated, and reduces overall impressions, but I think it's the right way to go if you want to lean on an interpretation of copyright law.

I still don't think people are violating copyright law if they choose to use technological mechanisms to try to suppress what they don't want to see, but it's a lot harder to implement in that case since you can quite easily change it in ways to increase impression rates.
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Marketing yeah. They weren't the first to do the obvious "make IRC in the cloud with persistent storage and notifications/app/etc." I had been waiting for, just the first I heard of.

Do you have any other issues, just curious or is their search algorithm enough to make the Slack platform a net bad UX?
Any set up where someone is in meetings 5 hours a day every day is a set up where there are huge functional problems where a complete up-down blowup and reorg is needed.
I haven't met a single person (unless they were ~really~ non technical) that enjoyed using slack.

It never works the way I expect it to work, and very simple things that you can do within IRC takes multiple steps in Slack.
> and at the time we did it, it was 9 months

Yeah, I know people who have literally planned their pregnancies around expected childcare availability. As in, they make sure they can have a spot lined up quickly before they even start trying to get pregnant.
"nothing going on" is a highly personal conclusion.
No sir, you must give back today, every day, whenever you get a chance. A tree does not dream about a time when it is a certain size, at which point it will bear fruit. It simply bears whatever fruit it has, when it has it.
Have you heard any of his presentations on the new compiler architecture?

I'm incredibly impressed with the stewardship of Scala: they did a thorough assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of language and compiler and are working on a complete refoundation of the language semantics and a rewrite of the compiler while also steadily progressing along a multi year roadmap for the current compiler.
The problem is that no one is reading Steve Jobs' memoirs to find out that the secret to winning, is that you have to play... they want some secret to win the game.
Haven't seen that but wish I had, that's an awesome exercise.
There's a snopes piece that debunks the popcorn lung worth knowing about if anyone mentions it.

http://www.snopes.com/vaping-causes-popcorn-lung/
As far as I can tell, the middle here tends to correspond more to the high end there. The only friends I know paying substantially more are living in luxury highrises, whereas on the low end I have friends paying more like $600 a month to do something like a 4 way split of a 4 bedroom apartment a couple of stops out on the T.
It absolutely provides value! But I don't think the commenter above is claiming that it doesn't provide value. They're claiming it's not innovative.

Some of the most important work in the tech industry is highly valuable and not one bit innovative. CRUD apps that bridge data from two different parts of an organization are amazingly valuable and amazingly important, but have no innovation. There's nothing wrong with that CRUD app—but there's nothing making that app better from another CRUD app that also bridges those two departments.

None of this thread is saying that Slack is bad. It's not criticizing Slack. It's not saying people are wrong to use it. It's just saying that people can jump ship very easily because there's nothing innovative.

Slack is great. I use it daily and love it. But the things I like about it aren't tied to Slack the company in any way, and it would be easy for me to love Microsoft Teams (or some hypothetical open-source, competent-at-UX, mobile-enabled version of IRC) every bit as much. Slack doesn't seem to realize that.
I think the key point is that by design, OpenID Connect doesn't necessitate that the identity provider reveals the users email address to the service provider. The identity provider can choose to include that in the token (or the UserInfo endpoint) or they can hide it behind another OAuth scope and explicit permission.

Whereas by design, Persona does mean the service provider has access to your email address. For consumer applications, this is probably fine, but it's a very different assumption than most access and authorization use.
Discord is a bad alternative to Slack for anything you care about. It often fails to deliver messages for multiple minutes at a time and will deliver messages out of order or only sparsely deliver some of your messages.

It's a nice option for small communities and people who need voice chat, though.
It's not about what can be done, it's about prior art.

I've used xmpp chats with a couple of clients since well before slack and I'd struggle to think of a feature in slack that I hadn't used before.
Shh, Israel's are a secret.
I agree that people really enjoy IPAs. I disagree that you get the same buzz for less calories. It's a wash.

Drink 2 Coors Lights, or one Sculpin IPA. Buzz and calories consumed will be about the same.
Did the meeting have any positive outcomes?
Isn't it more appropriate to say that Verilog is weird because of hardware? Once you go down to the lower levels you enter another realm that requires a completely different way of thinking. HW dev is not comparable to software in any way just because Verilog is a language.
Reasons for SSL:

• Security

• The server you speak with requires SSL

Reasons for no general purpose OS:

• Limited power (battery, solar)

• Extreme cost pressures (linux needs about $5 of hardware)

• Security (smaller code to audit)

• Extreme reliability requirements

So anything that ticks a bullet in each category is a candidate.

• Remote sensors

• Radio gateway, say LoRa to an internet server

• A device which keeps a secret for you and provides it to a server on command, perhaps something in a 2FA vein.

• Remotely triggerable actuators (door locks, parking lot lights)
I'm sure OP was using bots as an example - IRC bouncers exist ,and if that's too technical for you then there are multiple other solutions.
I agree with you in many ways. I want to add this: Apple has certain features locally bound that I'd like to see more often. I.e. I'd like my desktop to be capable of taking over tasks that I don't want to hand off to a cloud. Local backups are obvious. Also I'd like to see more tasks (potentially privacy related) kept local ala face recognition. They could do more of that without cutting into iCloud.
These aren't theories... they aren't even hypotheses. I would even argue that they fail the low standards of the "WAG".
>> This time we are saying this after Slack has already established itself. :-]

> seems to suggest "we" are somehow wrong.. but i'm not sure where.

Thanks, it was just an attempt to not talk down to anyone even if I disagree.
This. Internet of Things especially can benefit from adding TLS.
Who is the target audience for this? Why did they spend quarter of the video on colors? Why does it even matter? It made me feel like the device is probably not that spectacular if color is one of its main features.
There were some attempts years ago, the author implemented the same stuff as MicroG does now, I wonder if MicroG is forked...

However 3 years ago I was super excited and got the Alternative Google Store (I think it was BlankStore) installed. It crashed randomly and I was not able to download any App. However I thought that the author would work on it and in some time it would be useable.

Still waiting for that day.

That's why I'm a bit pessimistic about this project...

A better way would be to implement a true container/vm system so google only knows what is in this container, no contacts, no calendar, no mails.
Heck, maybe it's even possible to link into that container for the host system apps.
Wikileaks is obstructing airplanes and automobiles? I don't think so.
You seem to live under the assumption that everything would have been better with the US there. That is a fantasy world that some right wing people live in.

First of all, the US had a signed a agreement, breaking that would have been terrible (maybe read something about the history of foreign military bases that were not wanted in Iraq). Second, the US could not have sustained the force for financial reasons. Third, the US had done a horrible job of setting up the state and fixing that would have been almost impossible.

"stable enough" could easily mean multiple decades or never. Britain has tried that as well.

These problems were predicted by anybody who had a head on its shoulder in 2003. Invading Iraq was called the worst foreign policy failure since Vietnam by many important people form within the US government.

Staying there even longer and spending even more money (long term strategic resources) on a essentially doomed nation building process. The US has already shown that they are absolutely terrible at nation building.
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This was my feeling as well.
That is one of the reason we should encourage people to use a "generic" bot, not one shot integrations.

Disclaimer: I am one of the creator of Errbot that was designed for this specific purpose (be chat system independent)
Yeah tend to agree - but I do they innovated in terms of the user on-boarding process. Very delightful.
> The state itself does not directly fund ISIS.

The State does, through 'donations' and by laundering money through private entities.

Just as it has supported the Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations that have benefitted it - it has done this 'off the record'.

Don't take the lack of an announcement seriously.
Since a few of these firms already over-hire for positions (where talent is underutilized), can we expect eventually it will morph into hiring people to simply keep them from being available to competitors and thus pay some people to simply stay home?

So cut-throat.
Downvoted clearly because somebody thinks I misused btq. Read again parent poster clearly assumes the premise.
I've been chewing nicotine gum semi-regularly for a couple of months. I use 2mg pieces, and I found a single piece to be pretty intense at first; I'm a bit more tolerant now.

Did you read the instructions? You're supposed to chew on it for a bit, than 'park' the gum between your gum and teeth, let it sit for a minute or two, rinse, repeat. If you chew continuously you get the whole dose quickly, which can be a bit unpleasant if you don't like the nicotine buzz.
i agree, the search and history are its achilles' heel right now. i still cut and paste important stuff out of slack into a big notes text file because i know it will be a shitty experience finding it later.
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I'm with GFX's interpretation. I read another article by hardware engineer talking about how many people in his company were 40-60. They kept paying experienced people not to retire because the wisdom they accumulated over the years simply didn't exist in the younger crowd. All these companies could start packaging that up and training all the young crowd. That's already a cost issue but he said bigger one was inexperienced people screwing up one design decision might cost a fortune. They just hired older ones for key positions instead to knock out the risk.

That's what I've learned reading a lot of articles on age and HW. They've been consistent. The young people are often in verification as it's mostly manual work feeding tools or doing math that doesn't require tons of experience. That's at least the impression I'm getting of people's descriptions of verification vs designing hardware.
Is there an efficient diff algorithm for bloom filters?
YouTube reveals beta tool that auto-detects ‘inappropriate comments’
Signed. There are some other feature requests in this thread so I chime in:

- As someone else commented, the helicopter-like tremolo on some tracks can be quite irritating. When I find it, I skip. Unfortunately sometimes it starts later in the track and breaks focus. It would be nice to customize track preferences.

- A minimal web mode, no animations, no inspiring quotes.

- Android app but I hear you are working on this...

- Downloadable/offline tracks (if that's not part of the mobile app already; haven't tried iPhone).

Thanks!
It's been a while since I poked around in RTL but last time I was working with FPGAs it was possible to inspect RTL and view the synthesis results.
It would be nice to see some more numbers, e.g. page size, load time, etc. (and perhaps some critical analysis of the cost you have to pay in the transition period, where your clients for example need to load both frameworks).
I wish they could but there aren't incentives for that. It's completely alien to the national, regional, state, locality based government we've got.
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I thought the same thing with VNC. GotoMyPC took something that was free, improved it, then made a fortune on it. While the technology improvements were notable, I think their success was derived from marketing.
These slides are from a talk given today at pgconfeu, unfortunately no videos were taken.
How do you schedule that task?
> If the founder was persistent, and the product did not achieve product-market fit, it was a delusion and toxic work environment.

survivor bias.

One thing I've noticed in my life is that people first look at the conclusion and then come up with an explanation.

The explanation is just a story, not an actual prediction.
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Personally, I think this was an insightful comment

> – Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven’t quite figured it out yet

Basically, he accepts that Apple lags behind in technology but Apple can "make things work". Technology alone is not enough - you need a healthy marriage of technology and humanities.
The bear is more a favourite animal of the author
Yes of course. But the idea that it's the direction they're headed in was lifted straight from Steve's own words in the original post: "PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch"
You've just described iMessage.
Facebook wasnt making money then yet & people were still skeptical.
Yep, though hopefully we'll be able to avoid reinventing wheels and instead re-use something like WebFinger / WebFist and... something... from OpenID Connect. My immediate concern between now and the end of the Persona shutdown is getting the Gmail + fallback loop stable, audited, and easy to deploy. After that it should be trivial to integrate a federated, email-driven discovery protocol. Just haven't had time to give that proper consideration, yet.
That's definitely a viable option for biking around a city that doesn't have favorable spring or summer weather. Can you store your bike inside instead of locking it up on the street? I imagine an e-bike would be at greater risk of theft than a regular bike. That might be an issue for folks who commute by bike but have to lock it up outside.
I disagree, 64bit mode did not have to have any kind of instruction compatibility. It could have been a completely new instruction encoding scheme. A 64bit process must run all 64bit code, there is no invoking 32bit code from a 64bit process on any modern OS for AMD64.
Child obesity rates 'on the rise'
I am sure that assuming their behavior does not follow the obvious explanation because you simply dislike the obvious explanation is silly.
But MS already operated a widely used webchat, profile, and community network, before social networks were a thing. As usual, MS did a meh implementation ahead of the market, got scooped by a bunch of slick implementations, and will come back a few years later with a relatively solid enterprise offering.

MS is going to bundle LinkedIn with a Slack-clone tied to their CMS and AI chat systems, and provide an easy-to-scale-in-private-cloud platform to enterprise. Part of their Azure smart services.

That's all people mean: Slack did a pretty good job, but it's very similar to stuff MS has done before, and there's not really a secret sauce trench. So MS will probably be able to win a lot of the enterprise market.