skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptography sign the image sans the least significant bits, then add the signature in said position:

http://www.lia.deis.unibo.it/Courses/RetiDiCalcolatori/Proge...

Shouldn't be too noticeable.

A similar approach should work for audio too.
I think around the election it was pretty political, and some of the discussion was pretty, uh, heated. It's calmed down again.
You can get a water test kit from Home Depot for $10
I am sure more education can fix this problem as well. Just a few more degrees and we'll be able to afford interest on that debt, that the government will be paying because the students are broke.
The problem is that most people don't even realize that social media is an addictive substance.
Queue the political debate over whether this is a failure to provide secondary education to our citizens, or an artificial inflation in its cost by attempting to do so.
Looks like you're on the money, and it's already underway. I found an article going into a little depth as to how managing his business empire and managing the presidency is going to make him a lot of money, and confuse the issue for others

http://www.theage.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/how-p...
Good point. It would be good to see a tree (or graph, it's probably cyclic at some point) of exactly how it spreads.

The left and the right have those as well (although calling Hillary and Trump supporters "left" and "right" is inaccurate, but that's for another discussion).

The "right" had "the protests are started by Soros" and so they saw buses everywhere for a whole week or so. There was another such thing for a "get paid $3.5k to attend an anti-Trump protest" that ended up as a fake CL screen capture.

The left first started with "let's hack the electoral college". There was a lot of discussion about that - "what if we convince/force them to vote the other way. Maybe invoke some hidden article from the Constitution..." or some thing like that. That went on for a while. It died down.

Then "fake news" started, almost overnight. And it's been fake news since then.

Just yesterday here there was some discussion about an oil field in Texas, and it seems they overestimated the cost or used a different metric or some such thing. But people here were calling it "Fake News". I thought it was initially supposed to lizard people controlling the government?

Then this story as another example. A major fuck up, everyone got worked about stuff without verifying. The source doesn't seem to have done it on purpose and has since deleted it (but it was too late) of course. Everyone in the chain begin idiots and overreacting. But NYT, CNN, CBS, FOX, NBC have been doing this stuff for years! Especially regurgitating anything coming out of the State Department or other government institutions. They are billion dollar corporation, if anyone can verify stuff it should be them. Would they consider themselves "Fake News"...

The problem is they are realizing they are losing the ability to manufacture consent like they could before. That must be terrifying, so they have to respond or do something about it. "Fake News" is their response.

To be fair, is a useful PR technique - a label that can be quickly thrown on anything. This makes sense also in the context of how popular Identity Politics became, where flinging labels like "fascist", "racist", "sexist" is done all too easily. Also with Twitter becoming an acceptable political discourse medium, try to argue a complex point in 140 characters. You can't! Instead throw a short label in there and you're done. Wipe hands on pants and refresh to see the results.
Is this common in the software industry... ?

It is getting more tempting to join an industry where there are no customers (prop trading).
I've been personally involved in some news worthy events, and then watched the reporting of it. The professional media was invariably sloppy and flat out wrong with many of the facts of the case. And these were events where there was nothing political - the reporters simply couldn't be bothered with fact checking.

It's made me skeptical ever since.
As far as I know, your comment is wrong. Many Republicans have openly repudiated Trump and racial/ethnic/religious discrimination. If you mean that Trump won nearly half the vote, remember that Trump is extraordinarily unpopular - IIRC around two-thirds of Americans strongly dislike him - and not every one who likes him will support all his policies. Also, about 40% of Americans don't vote.

Finally, I strongly believe the great majority would do the right thing, believe in the golden rule, and object to hurting others. They need to be manipulated into supporting oppression through fear and propaganda and through dehumanizing the victims.
Links to the biased hit pieces please?
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

"As for the impact of losing a single worker - when we're talking about regular people doing regular jobs, losing an employee often doesn't have much of an impact on the company, but it has a lot of impact on the employee itself."

Completely agree. I meant from the perspective of the company. For the employee depending on an income is a different matter all together.
I get contract work from time to time about making a wordpress based site for customers. And they all have custom requirements on top. Granted I haven't done it for years - it's probably better now - but to me, it's just a shinier Joomla.

I couldn't help but facepalm at this article. I understand deadlines and all, but get a friend developer to overlook your code before releasing in the wild, because you know the caveat of "hey I haven't tested it properly" isn't going to make anyone itch.
My vision for the perfect social networking platform
Anyone have any idea what the 20 to 50 year implications are for this? I imagine this will crush the economy eventually if millennials cannot pay it off.
Nothing would ever get built if individual devs were held liable by the public.

The liability sits with your employer.
I've got a few Perlin Noise links on Github:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics#perlin-noise
Do you still trust Android Pay with the news on how Google arbitrarily close people's google account?
The Wall Street bailout was only...what, a trillion?

If we bailed out real estate speculators, I wouldn't be surprised if something happened with college grads.

Unfortunately. I hate assuming responsibly for monetary decisions other than mine, but judging the trend, that's where we're headed.
>App store friction is a major obstacle. It takes about 6 clicks to install a native app

If I'm at the app's entry in the Store (similar to the navigation I need to do to first visit a web app), I can install an iOS app in 1 click of the Get/Purchase button (plus the thumb touching for authorizing the sale). I'm pretty sure it's the same in Android.

Even better, with the native app I don't have to create an account, re-enter my details and suffer all the BS that I have with web based commercial services. Plus, Apple/Google already have my credit card details.

I also don't have to suffer a lowest common denominator platform, or wait for the the web standards AND the vendor to have new native feature access finally trickle to the phone's JS engine.

>Deciding to install an app is a lot harder than deciding to use a web app.

Committing to a web app (for a user), and monetizing it (for the software author), is much harder -- especially on mobile.
I'm also feeling at old (at 27), but I would guess that they use Twitter to follow their celebrities, while using Snapchat and Instagram to connect to each other.
Every time I read articles about student loans in the USA, the options are always presented as either the current state, or free tuition.

Why are interest free student loans never floated as an option? Here in New Zealand, our student loans are provided by the government and are interest free as long as we reside in New Zealand.

It means that people who don't do tertiary education, or who do a trade, don't subsidise those who go to university. It also means that there's a disincentive to go to university if you don't need to, which I think is a good thing, however everyone is able to go to university if they want to/need to, without worrying about how it's being paid for.

Our student loans are also paid off proportional to our income, I think at a rate of around 8% (and no repayments required if you earn less than $19k per year). This means that you only pay what you can, it's essentially another tax, rather than in the USA where you get people struggling to make payments on their student loan.

Obviously, we also have the advantage of cheaper tuition, although it is rising. It costs around NZ$7,000 (~US$5,000) per year to go to university, it's not cheap, but it's not cripplingly expensive.
Education can switch to a system that won't require any loans.
I don't have a clue! I just use the free version of their extension.

I utilize their 2-feed layout option with HN (set to "Trending" posts) on the left and "visual inspiration" sites on the right (default is Dribbble, but I have Lapa, ffffound, Design Inspiration, etc. in the list, too).
Source? By all accounts, at the time, he didn't have the data at that point.

I hope you can do better than "He is a liar!", because given what he did and why he did it - the benefit of the doubt is deserved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took...
Regardless of how much debt there is, this isn't a bubble. These loans are nearly impossible to discharge. Recent graduates will be on the hook for this debt whether they want to be or not.

The largest negative effect of all this debt will be the drag it puts on consumption. Young people are already delaying major purchases like cars and houses due to all their student debt.
Science fiction in general is a vehicle for exploring ethical dilemmas, and Star Trek just happens to be one of the most popular ones.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you are adding to what I said, I agree. If you mean that your comment contradicts what I said, that doesn't make sense to me.

Also: The war on drugs is to some extent oppression of minorities, who are disproportionately targeted both by law (their vices get serious jail time, others' get treatment; look at the former crack/coke disparity, prescription drug abuse, and the focus on treatment and compassion now that heroin is a rural problem) and by law enforcement and the judiciary, where racial bias is well-established in research.

I believe that there is evidence that Nixon explicitly said he was pursuing it for that reason (also to go after people on the left).
Non-GMO group makes a case for all mothers
Should, yes. My restore from SFTP over a LAN was going to be about 90 minutes.
Excellent customer confusion marketing mastery example.

Why not to increase bandwidth to 10TB to make the numbers even higher ?

Why not to include OVH or Scaleway ?

[1]https://www.ovh.com/us/
[2]https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

EDIT: To put to perspective Scaleway is on $3.2 USD/mo, while Linode $10 /mo

(not affiliated with Scaleway)
Hmm... This is certainly very interesting. Can anyone think of any neat kernel-only things that one might implement for kicks as a learning project? Particularly for someone who hasn't done kernel programming? It could definitely be a silly thing, but probably more useful than printing to the kernel log.
I realise it's not the most reliable resource but it shows something interesting regardless. It's a server grade apu, combining a cpu and GPU onto a single socket. With HBM for huge amounts of bandwidth.

They also have HIP for converting CUDA code into performance cross platform code.

http://wccftech.com/amd-exascale-heterogeneous-processor-ehp...
Other countries don't have this problem. There is no debate to be had - the US can't control costs
> Regardless of how much debt there is, this isn't a bubble.

Unless people start to die before paying off their loans.
I used Apex briefly a few months back and was impressed but I didn't fall in love with Lambda so I'm not using it anymore.
With automation how are they expected to even service that debt, much less pay it off? If you can't pay minimum interest on the debt and it keeps growing. What then? Will you have to service the debt out of your guaranteed income?
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/03/spotifys-event-delivery-...
It'll never happen. They couldn't even agree to refinance Federal loans during the great recession - students were/are paying 6.8% when interest rates are at historic lows.
I'm curious why we treat student loan debt as being special. We don't make a huge deal out of people taking on other debt and then being unable to pay for it. I think probably if anything, what we should have are better controls for what types of degrees you are allowed to take a loan out for. If your degree of choice is unlikely to yield the kind of return that will pay for it, then you should be required to save up for it, rather than getting a loan, just like there are qualifications for other loans, like auto or mortgages which look at both the value of the asset vs its sale price, and your ability to pay. If some kid takes out $100K in debt to pay for a degree in finger painting how is that anyone but the borrowers (and possibly the bank who approved it) fault?

TL;DR -
When handing out student loans, we should consider aptitude (how likely is the person to graduate) & the career potential of the degree as qualifiers.
>I don't know about most people, but this works terribly for me. Motivation is huge for my happiness, so I want to do something when I'm in the mood for it.

That's a sure-fire recipe for never doing most things one needs to do, because most of those things are not things that one looks forward to anyway.

Even for the core work someone does (e.g. writing for a writer), people mention time and again that setting up times in advance and committing to them works better than getting in the mood.
I am amused by how often people these days defend NYT by comparing to to Breitbart. How the mighty have fallen... Breidbard is a right-wing propaganda outlet. There are facts somewhere in there, but they spin those fact to the utmost degree. Sadly, NYT is going down the same route right now. They used to be much more objective just several years ago.
I've found most stories headlined "How something did something else" tell you nothing about how.

I guess "how" is American (or headline-ese) for why'
:D :D :D :D. That's about the only thing I can say about this.

I mean, seriously. It's been obvious for like 20 years now that stuff like this is going to be possible pretty soon. That someone finally packaged this capability in a nice form-factor doesn't change much. But then again, I guess people still didn't internalize the fact that photographs are like 15 years past being a reliable source, and videos probably 10 years past it too.

It's interesting how society will have to adapt to function with such technological capabilities, but - like others here pointed out - it's nothing really new, so I don't get the surprised concern.
There are/were microblogging platforms that let you write a line or post an image.
Personally, I like the Any.do approach of categorizing all ToDo items into Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, Someday.

It splits the difference between flexibility and awareness of time limitations.
Especially that any technology that's even remotely useful for something can be (and is) used for harmful things.
He has written a couple of lines above the code.
A few years back I was in the same boat, rocking a Sansa Clip and no smartphone. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but the way I consumed Audible content was:

- Burning to CD, which their software did
- Ripping the CD to wav using other software
- (optional) chopping up the .wav files into 5 minute chunks
- Compressing everything to MP3 (V8 VBR)

Not sure if they yanked this feature, but worked then!
This is about Ken Perlin/'Perlin Noise'. From the Wikipedia page on Perlin Noise:

> Perlin noise resulted from the work of Ken Perlin, who developed it at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. (MAGI) for Disney's computer animated sci-fi motion picture Tron (1982). In 1997, he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this contribution to CGI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise

Edit: also, if you'd like to see something more recent from him, I'd recommend this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YnVhTyrYbo [SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 - Featured Speaker, Ken Perlin] —interesting stuff, and he's an engaging speaker.
People can often just leave the country. US law makes it hard to discharge, non US law is another story.
I've never used SFTP with Arq. Did you investigate it any further? I'm sure the author would love a bug report.
The info should've been revealed not just to that one regulator, but to the whole world, i.e. on Facebook, Youtube, Wikileaks, and a hundred people by email, while taking care to remain anonymous.
> Officially, the nation owes $1.26 trillion in student loan debt.

The nation doesn't owe anything, I would rather said past students who still have loans owe this money.
Even just reducing the interest rate can have a significant impact. I cut my rate from just over 7% to 4.71% and slightly increased my payment, moving my final payment from July 2, 2038 to December 1, 2025 (ignoring any additional payments I make) [1]. Just doing that made attacking my massive loan balance much more manageable.

I don't expect (or want, actually) for my education to be free. I knew I was racking up debt and knew it would have to be paid. Being able to refinance, though, was a huge help.

[1] https://marklyon.org/2016/05/refinancing-student-loans/
This story was headlined with "Noise and Turbulence"
In this context, "fake news" means just that: verifiable falsehoods echoed misleadingly as fact.

This is hardly Orwellian, although I do enjoy an overwrought appeal to his name now and again.
All those Boomers expecting to offload their family house on someone to unlock their retirement equity when they downsize to head into retirement are screwed. Turnabout is fair play I suppose.
It's a synecdoche.
This happens to various degrees in the clinical research industry, depending upon the nature of the work (partly thanks to 21 CFR Part 11!). Several years ago I worked in data management on a maintenance team for clinical trial databases.

Company-wide, there was a rigid system in place that captured electronic signatures as change requests were documented, code was modified, and tests were completed.

Anything that was done flowed through at least those three distinct groups (data team lead, maintenance programmer, & QA). We could easily tell how a study's database had been modified in the past (including who had requested the change, who programmed the change, and who tested the change)...there was always an expectation that every i was dotted, t was crossed (or semicolon was in place) before anyone signed off on their work since it would permanently enter the record and couldn't be erased.
>Why are interest free student loans never floated as an option?

I suspect because then no one could make money. In the current system, they certainly make money. In a "free tuition" state, they'd still make money; it'd just come direct from the government rather than being filtered through the population and economy first.
In real world this debt cascades to rest of the world bloom.bg/1O04ymn
However, there is no independent data set used to validate the model(s). We have no idea how the models will generalize beyond this data set.
Depends on the company. If we're talking places like grocery stores or restaurant waiters, the new employee can be brought up to full potential within a week of on-the-job training. After that, they don't meaningfully improve, so it's no surprise places like these have high turnover - they can very much afford it. On the other hand, if you have people who gain experience with your very specific in-house tools and procedures, losing an employee can indeed be a high cost for a small company. If you can maneuver yourself into a position of being needed for the hard-gained experience, you have much greater bargaining power.
>I’ve never had a social media account.

So why should I listen to what this guy has to say about social media?
I think the solution is ending loans for college. I don't think an 18-year-old with no assets, or even a stable job or no job at all should be given that much money for college. No bank would give them a loan for a house. At least you can foreclose on a house and take it back. You can't take back someone's education.

Plus every time the department of education gives out more money, colleges raise prices.

Imagine how much a television would cost if the government said everyone must have a television. They're older people who tell me back in their day they could work at a restaurant and pay for college debt free. Get the government out of the student loan business and let the free market decide.

If no money is being printed for students to go to colleges, fewer people will go to college and therefore the schools will be forced to compete for student's business. Therefore college will be much more affordable for the people who wish to go.

I totally agree with our President-Elect about getting rid of the DoE, along with Common core. Let things be up to the states.
Wasn't most of that money repaid with interest?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Progra...
Ah, but what about in 20-25 years when all of those who couldn't pay off the debt will suddenly have all of it "forgiven", and suddenly find themselves with a huge tax bill seeing that forgiven balance as income?
I'm sorry, but what hit pieces? The NYT's coverage of Trump hasn't been favorable, but it would be difficult to characterize their exclusives on him as hits. Even their most negative coverage (the $916 million story comes to mind) was, at its core, factual.

You could argue that it's indicative of bias for the NYT to break such a story at all, but it's in the public interest to know the financial solvency of their leaders. At the risk of conflating news and opinion, there was no shortage of opinion pieces calling on HRC to release her speeches - also in the public interest.

It's difficult to ask the NYT to "establish a reputation of trust" when it already has one, deserved or not. Such a request, to the editors and ethicists of any media outlet, is just a nice way to ask for more favorable (or perhaps less damning) coverage of your candidate of choice.
My work (Industrial Plant) has a pretty good cross-section of engineering disciplines. I know Electrical guys use MatLab relatively frequently. I can't say for sure what the mechanical guys use I know 2 or 3 that write C code very proficiently. Chem eng. guys are pretty heavy on Fortran from what I have seen.

I'm a Materials engineer never used Matlab. For numerical stuff I have personally used C/C++ especially GSL library but I rarely do this type of work any more. There is quite a lot of legacy stuff written in Fortan mostly heat transfer and fluid dynamics related. I try to avoid touching it. Commercial Packages like ANSYS get used a lot.

I have seen python a little bit in last couple of years but not for numerical stuff more for interfacing with other libraries like OpenCV.
First I've heard of this. Can you elaborate please?

Those search terms just return a lot of MBa mumbo jumbo