skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a fully working demo of this at IBM in 2010. It was fully RFID, plus E-Ink pricing labels on shelves so that prices/offers could be updated remotely.
I believe the studied answers are yes, yes, and yes. Ars Technica has some good articles on this.

Generally, individual accounts don't get compromised at all unless they're a high-profile target, at which point guessable passwords become an issue. If you're a diplomat, CEO, or celebrity, you might get hit if you use "Password" or "123456". Otherwise, lockout rules and a general lack of interest will probably save you.

The real risk comes when hashed password sets get dumped. At that point, people start attacking the entire set to see how much they can crack (this is what the Ars articles were about), and this is where password security becomes a big deal. As I remember, the common attack workflow is something like:

1. Throw a top-200 password list at the dataset. (Lulzsec did this then named-and-shamed exclusively people with bad passwords.)

2. Dictionary attack on one-word passwords.

3. Dictionary attack on two-word passwords and one-word passwords with common tweaks (i.e. first-letter capital, trailing numbers). (I consider the XKCD somewhat misleading, since an alteration to bar pure-dictionary attacks remains a useful addition.)

4. Expansive dictionary work: common but nontrivial adjustments like o/0, l/1, or scattered capitals.

5. Brute force all short passwords. <6 character is easy to break outright, and "smart" force (e.g. all 2 character combinations after common words) will get you many longer passwords. For unpredictable passwords, 8-10 characters is the inflection point on attack length.

All of this goes basically unchanged with salting, it's just harder (and often, gets easier as you compromise a few salted passwords).

So yes, this stuff matters in predictable ways. Pretty much all of it is defense against password dumps, in which context it definitely matters. And in that context, password managers remain king - they'll block even dedicated attacks on a single user.
I've read the 2nd and 3rd and I can't find anything about Walmart rising prices once monopoly is established. Can you point me more specifically, please?

EDIT: I read the 1st, after registering, but the only reference is to another article by the same author[1]. In that, there's seems to be a single statement: "In Dawson Creek, BC the reports have come in that after winning over local shoppers and forcing small business nearly into extinction, Wal-Mart raised prices to extra-ordinary levels". There doesn't seem to be any sources for that claim and I can't find anything in Google.
I don't think it matters where the device was built, as long as the US distributor can be sued for damages.
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Couldn't we just have more "greeters" and fewer cashiers?
Sure it can. They can just say something like "IE9+ is supported, but features x and y won't work".

There are plenty of libraries that officially support IE, even when there are problems in a few small cases. They usually just make sure these issues are publicized so people won't be surprised them.
Or not even just that one is particularly "wrong", but that it's a matter of opinion that is differently valid to different people. That's as much reasoning as you can do on the scale of an entire language, without getting more concrete about your arguments.

edit: also, "ideological" is unfair. We know JS isn't godlike. We use it regardless.
Honestly I feel that most FOSS projects would lose very very little if the most vocal complainers somehow vanished overnight. The angriest users are the ones that understand the least and contribute the least. Of course there are legitimate issues with nearly every FOSS project, and civil people complaining about them legitimately, and we should work to address them. But we should not be pandering to the most petulant and angry users in our communities - as the article says, this simply rewards bad behavior. I would be happy to see those members largely ignored in favor of better communication with the more levelheaded and rational users in the community.
Because thats how people are. Especially the general public. I absolutely think people should be nicer, but how do you encourage/enforce that? We've been trying for a long time without good results. I'm not saying that we can't fix it, but I haven't seen many attempts succeed.
Ummm... You do know that you don't have to use Babel to use JS, right? ES5 is here, it was here then, and it works very well. It might have some pointy ends, but they are very well documented at this point.
Every county in the US that publishes historical valuations seem to get by without overwriting history.
Yes, but i always think that will take ages ;-)
I once thought of porting it over to run on Ubuntu, but I read over the source, realized that Notepad++ uses the Win32 API quite extensively and quickly abandoned my plans. Ultimately, I would have ended up writing/supporting a totally new editor...then dealing with legions of people who are angry that my first 0.1 didn't provide an exact 1:1 feature match of Notepad++.
Near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seeking funding here is a bit ironic: I've been told I should move to a "tech capital" like Silicon Valley. We have plenty of high tech here, but it's funny how if you want to start a high tech company located here, step one seems to be 'start in California'.

Btw, I've seen your posts on here before. I happen to know another Paul Houle who is also a physicist, but who works with radon in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure if he's a relative of yours, but based upon my current sample set, being named "Paul Houle" gives you a 100% chance of being a physicist. :)
The users of these libraries benefit from this herculean effort of very real programming, but are mostly not the herculean programmers.

The users are the community, not the library creators. And the users are mostly, from what I see, the arty designy web dev types.

That doesn't take away from the real problems, or the tricky design or difficulty in building a compiler for the community.
Are you saying that someone's homework was incorrect? perhaps you should break out your red pen and correct the mistakes you've found.

There are few things more amusing than when people ask for evidence for the sole purpose of discounting it at any cost. Thanks for being that person.

Do you think Wal-Mart will pay you for your downvotes? I know CTR paid $0.10 per comment, but that was for an election. What is the going rate for defending megacorporations on social media?
>It includes in it the ME blob

No, it does not. FSP only includes x86 code to be executed on the main CPU. It may include stuff which talks to the ME but no ME firmware itself. You can use any UEFI extractor like UEFITool to check that.
>> we have some strong theoretical results suggesting that none of the techniques we have developed so far can ever lead to AGI

I've been looking for work in this area without much success since publication is dominated by the opposite movement. I'd be grateful for any references you can dig up.
The point isn't that we save 2 minutes, it's that there's now 10 less job we need. And that may seem as a negative at first, but the idea is that as more and more job get automated, prices should go down until the point where people will not have to work full weeks anymore, or rather, focus on learning and reaching higher education, rather than doing dummy work all day (aka just scanning items non stop for 8 hours).
It's actually an incentive to not take the product of the shelf (i.e. not buying it).
[msft] Feel free to use it for your class askvictor & let us know ushow it does and how we can improve the service!

For a sample course that was taught for ~400 students this fall, see:

https://notebooks.azure.com/library/CUED-IA-Computing-Michae...
There must be something wrong with the duplication detection, this same thing has been posted several times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090919

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076597

The URL link to medium.com appears differently ending in each of the above...
Go regexps are slow (https://goo.gl/r0K2xw ), the problem is not regexps but Go's implementation of regexps. So let's not blame regexps when regexps aren't the problem. Because by that logic, people shouldn't use the sort package as well ...
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In a way, that's true and false. A house may be worth $500k, and you might get a dozen people to offer $500k, but if someone comes along and wants to buy back her childhood home for $1 million for the sentimental value, isn't the house still only worth $500k? The next buyer will still think the house is only worth $500k.
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I can't agree with this. Give people basic income and let technology do what it does.
I use Office365 "Business essentials" for wormhole.network

It was surprisingly cheap and it includes other stuff like 1TB OneDrive and OWA is quite cool (even though I use Outlook or Mail, depending if I'm on my main computer or not).

I have only one inbox, but a few aliases, including some for a second custom domain. As far as I can tell I haven't been charged extra apart from what they advertise here: https://products.office.com/en-gb/business/office-365-busine...
Wouldn't it be better if the cashier were a robot who sang the song you wanted to hear?
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There are tests to validate IE support. The intent is clearly there. Circumstantially this design decision is not met, but it is clearly a bug not some fundamental lack of support.

Please consider how your feedback might affect the people giving their effort to offer an option to the community.
This makes sense from a suburban, car-based perspective. From a walking, city-based lens, neighborhoods and social interactions make a lot of sense. It's why coffee shops haven't been made obsolete by vending machines - at least here in New York. Point is, it depends on your perspective.
Your situation in Barcelona sounds nice and all, but it is does not describe the typical American's grocery experience at all, and therefore does not really apply to what Amazon is doing in downtown Seattle.

The typical grocery store here (i.e. what Go is actually going after) is basically a warehouse, with checkout lanes staffed by apathetic teenagers. The process is already almost entirely devoid of meaningful human contact. It might as well be more convenient.

Hopefully, whatever has protected your local stores from the economic forces that have produced the experience I describe will also protect your local stores from this incremental improvement on automated checkout.
I think what's probably going to happen is those sorts of shops will continue to exist as is. They provide an experience (a bit like local cafes etc...) They may even be able to charge a premium for this. The big bucks stores will end up converting to more automated systems. Stocking shelves probably one of the next things to go. So you get to choose, local more human experience or efficient highly automated experience.

Similar reason why Amazon hasn't caused small bookstores to close down.
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> They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction

Not true for my grandmother and many other elderly people. Maybe it's loneliness. But maybe it's a generation thing, not sure. We need to question if it's best to not interact with people who sell us stuff.
The places I feel where I know the cashiers and employees are not large supermarkets though, but small time specialty shops (the Polish butcher shop near my house, the florist, etc). To me large scale supermarkets (wal mart, target, whole foods, etc) tend to have young or post retirement, disinterested staff that are simply there to make a little extra cash and go home. Besides, there are often 10-15 cashiers on a schedule with ridiculous turnover. I don't see this competing with the specialty shops and thus not erasing that social connection involved in some shopping. Rather, it will reduce the drudgery and annoyance of going to huge grocery stores with no personal connection and a disinterested staff.

IMO non-specialty grocery stores with a few staff closely knit in the community have already been mostly eliminated by the larger corporations.
That is not when the machine messes up for me. If I just got done scanning the 5th case of some beverage and it needs to be weighed what should I do. The screen provides little hint. Sometimes there is a "remove my bags" button but often its not there. If I try to move goods to my cart it complains and stops the process, I put the stuff I Just scanned directly in my cart I get an error.

If you say that the scale does find honest mistakes (which I doubt, I think you just have dumb shoplifters) and I say the scales are strictly harmful to user experience then it seems these things must have a bad UI until some advance comes along.
> However, "liking" their pages is out of question. I will not support them, I will not help them further their propaganda, their hateful rhetoric. I would like to understand them, but in no way do I want to support them.

Consider the possibility that if you and your friends "liked" pages of "extremist" groups that you disagree with, then when they pay to boost a post, part of that money will be wasted on showing it to you. So while you are supporting them (by making it seem like more people like their page), you are also weighing on them financially. Not a huge impact in either case, but worth considering both sides of the coin.

I agree that there should be a way to follow-without-liking. That would make it possible for advertisers to use clickfarms to impair their competitors, by flooding them with fake followers who then suck up the competitors' advertising dollars. There's always an unintended consequence!
http://www.englandlab.com/research.html
The point is that they are useful at multiple employers. An employer, when training an apprentice, incurs a cost in doing so, but cannot be sure that they'll be able to recoup the cost if the apprentice leaves soon after finishing training.
Based on the video, it looks like you use the Amazon app to identify yourself at the turnstile when you enter (via NFC?). The 'supported phones' bit seems to refer to phones that can run the Amazon app. Once you're identified, the cameras in the store can associate your image with the Amazon account that was presented and track you around the store. Each item that you grab is added to your virtual cart (unclear if this step is pure computer vision). The act of walking out causes you to be billed for items placed in your cart -- the cameras know you walked up to a turnstile, which activated. I don't believe the phone itself is used after you first enter the store, which eliminates a whole host of potential problems: app crashes, battery dying, losing service, etc. That's my take, anyway.
Given that the company's own CEO didn't use his own company's "Zestimate" when it was time to zell his house, I think the accuracy of the number is fairly perceived to be zub-optimal.

"You gotta eat your own dog food," goes the old zaying.

http://www.inman.com/2016/05/18/zillow-ceo-spencer-rascoff-s...
[msft] Wakari is a more complete product from our partners at Continuum.io (we use their Anaconda distro for Azure Notebooks). We have various improvements planned & hope to reach parity soon!
I agree with you that income inequality is a big problem, and it is a major cause of social discord, but to be fair, quality of life increased significantly across all percentiles since then.

e.g. which society is better to live in:

(low inequality, less wealth)
10th percentile average wealth: 100
99th percentile average wealth: 1000

(high inequality, more wealth)
10th percentile average wealth: 1000
99th percentile average wealth: 1000000

Of course this is an oversimplification, but you get the idea: income inequality is not the only important factor.
A lot of security concerns are resolved by just hiring a person or two to monitor the entry. Still far cheaper than cashiers and so on
The paper is nice, however it covers an ancient AMT version. AFAIK this won't work on recent versions (it has saner defaults).
yep. full on dystopian tracking was my first thought.
<They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction

Not true. The giant store I work at has so many regulars that it's family. Often the store is one of only a few places customer's pasts are unknown or forgiven.

It's not all about increased producivity.
Instead of cashiers, they can have people in the store helping folks with "gobacks", etc.
Yes, of course, unless you had invested a lot into React/JSX, and Babel is the only "official" way (documented and blessed by Facebook) to run React and JSX in production.
Social experience at a grocery store feels contrived and not everyone may want it. Maybe you enjoy talking to your cashier but not everyone does, so why should everyone be forced to just because some do? It makes much more sense to keep groceries for grocery shopping, and social places such as bars for socializing.
This resembles more of farmer markets here. You build up more of a one on one relationship/bond. My sister even has a cheese and oils guy in one of San Diego's farmer markets. She got an ingredient taken out of her product cause of allergies, they call her when it's ready. This doesn't happen at big box stores unless there's an issue with a product in general.
mux comes from muxer which comes from multiplexer. Gorilla doesn't own that label, no matter how popular the package is.
One is nuclear-armed, the other wields pictures of cute kittens!
I wasn't saying that people don't have a right to be frustrated or angry. I wasn't saying we shouldn't voice our criticisms as developers or that we shouldn't disagree with one another.

The only argument I'm really trying to make in this article is that when someone has stepped over a line into outraged attacks on tools and authors that the community shouldn't reward them for that.

Apparently this is too much to ask because so far today I've been called:

- a special snowflake

- autistic

- whiney

- thin-skinned

- pathetic

- weak

And I only published this like 2 hours ago and I have hundreds of notifications to go through still. The next few days I'm probably going to get a hell of a lot worse. Still waiting for my first "faggot" which always inevitably happens.

I have some pretty thick skin. I was raised in an abusive environment and I made my own way in the world at 16.

I'm not bothered by one person saying I'm an idiot.

What gets to you is a few thousands people agreeing.
I can't tell from the manifesto what this supposed to do, but the goal of making programming more accessible seems worthwhile.

An Internet-enabled open source Excel would be, well, at least better than Excel, which runs more of the world than we'd probably like to admit. Of course, the chances of that happening are effectively zero.

It looks more like Smalltalk, which actually isn't known for being easy to read. So I'll reserve judgment for now, but I support the ambitious effort.
Full disclosure: IBM Cloud Identity Services is my current employer / project.

There is a concept of IDaaS - Identity as a Service that covers the first part of your request (sign up / identity lifecycle, authentication / single sign on, user self-service for password resets, etc...).

This is one such offering, there's a good overview of the features here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/security/cloud/cloud-identity-service/

Also, I recommend looking into the IBM BlueMix cloud platform:
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/

I think things are heading towards what you're describing, but picture it more as a catalog of skeleton backend apps built on top of pieces like you called out, as a starting point for different types of projects.
While I don't think most people (or even many) would agree with you. As someone who uses Vim pretty much exclusively (and has a Mac), I kind of had to smile at this.

For most people though, Notepad++ and Vim are not the same type of animal.
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Evolution is a mathematical model - any time you have a replicating configuration of something and a selection pressure, you have evolution.
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At M&S, you must wait to get approval after indicating that you're using your own bags. Awful system.

I've had nothing but trouble with the self-checkouts I've used in the UK. I'm quite slow and methodical about it, but the machines always manage to inexplicably fuck up halfway through.
Interestingly enough, I used a trie (without knowing that's what it was called) when building the router for my Frontend framework.

https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/Templar/blob/master/core/R...
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[msft] Yes, we should improve the FP, especially for those who aren't familiar with Jupyter. Meanwhile, I hope this answers a few q's:

https://notebooks.azure.com/faq
Because he got handcuffed. Not because the project itself was worthy of attention from the President.

He got invited to the White House to provide counterbalance to the social idea that brown-skinned kids with beeping electronics are criminals that should have the cops called on them.

The simplicity of the project makes the reaction of the school worse not better.
In Apple stores, you can buy anything off a shelf using an app on your smartphone and walk out with it without even needing to talk to an employee.

Of course, all the really pricey stuff like watches, phones, and computers is kept in a back room.
Paying that little is generally illegal in the USA. At minimum wage, a worker working 37.5 hours a week will earn $1087 a month. If they're underperforming that price, it doesn't make sense to hire them.
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This is amazing, I admire Amazon for their boldness. It seems very practical for users. I assume that you can dispute charges with the app and that they store the footage of you to resolve disputes. I'm sure they'll need some times to tune the algorithms. But disputing a charge via an app is better than to wait in line. Kudos to Amazon for innovating.
This announces a new dataset where recorded performances are precisely synchronized to MIDI transcriptions. Obviously the article doesn't seem to get the implications quite right (it's very useful for performance-related research, not so much for AI composition).

As a composer, the coolest potential I see here is training a model to create realistic mockups from MIDI compositions. For that purpose, though, it would be better to start with a fully monophonic/solo-instrument dataset, which would simplify the learning. Also, MIDI data is not entirely sufficient: annotations on dynamics and playing technique would be necessary to make a good mockup tool, since this is the kind of information one might even give to human performers.

Anyways, it would be tough for such a tool to catch up with current state-of-the-art, sample-based mockup tools, which are already baffling in their realism, although they usually require a lot of work to get good results. But one can always dream of a "Stokowski" or "Karajan" neural network that interprets your MIDI composition with emotion and sensibility!