skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they're inferring the right 6-digit password about 20% of the time on their first try, presumably using the Xiaomi phone. But if they can try 20 candidates before getting locked out, they can guess the 6-digit password about 50% of the time.

With the Samsung phone, which has a much lower 1-digit recovery rate, it seems that it would be closer to 6% on the first try, and 20% by the twentieth try.
"Nitpick: I'd like to point out that there's significant overlap between the two groups."

Maybe.
Maybe not. But in any case, none of the 8 digit purchasers i know care about when the review shows up on anandtech :)
SO there is a minimum age - how about a maximum one ?
It only has one parent, but this would be the commit that I'm least proud of (not in Linux, obviously):

https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/commit/fdc0eb3d09bc...

Showing 126 changed files with 14,128 additions and 20,617 deletions.

(ok, I'm pretty proud of reducing code size by 6k+ lines while improving lots of stuff, but the commit is a shitshow)
And that is the fucking problem. It's a principled issue and you admit that it is. What your arguing about is how much is enough to violate the principle. Since people can only agree on principles, you shouldn't kill, then the law needs to fucking operate on principle alone.
the supply is short is the reason the price is high. that's not really exploitation of the people buying. they get what they paid for at the price that they were willing to pay.

there's a structural issue here, which is that the world isn't a very fair place and it sucks to be poor. this ticket market situation is not really an example of exploitation though. nobody is being coerced into buying something they don't want, or not getting what they pay for.
How would deleting an article he had created "reduce the surface area he could troll around?"
Art and Animation Studio
Cash and Gift Cards
The work culture in Japan is awful. A salaryman is expected to spend so much time at the office keeping a relationship healthy is a hurculean task. It doesn't seem very surprising to find couples aren't having sex by their 40s and 50s - they're strangers, emotionally.
I booked a one way flight to Thailand.

The weather was pretty good for my mental health, as was the change of scenery. Also the cost of living there is very low.
Not everything that was done thousands of years ago is bad, like for example eating and sleeping and exercise.

But of course we should judge practices by today's knowledge and evidence (though informed by a historical perspective).

Ancient techniques like crucification and pederasty and slavery and infanticide are, quite rightly, considered passé.

My main point was that we should

a) not look to ancient texts for profound insights. (Note that it's perfectly fine to read ancient texts for entertainment or research or the historical perspective.) Even philosophy has advanced over time.

b) not fall into the trap of ascribing some profound wisdom to ancient thinkers that (on no basis) happened to get something right, like Democritus and his atomic theory. Would you go to Democritus writings for advice on string theory or energy policy or climate change? If tomorrow it is found that the shrimps near Canton province are polluted with heavy metals, should we triumphantly open the bible and point to Leviticus, who admonished us that "And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you."
> I don't know how anyone could call matrix factorization "groundbreaking." I stopped reading at that point.

The article probably means the study was groundbreaking, not the mathematics. This is fairly common in science. The novel nature of the study may come from unique applications of existing technique, or applications of existing techniques to previously unavailable datasets. Focusing on the mathematical techniques used as an assessment of what is "groundbreaking" is a short-sighted way to approach it.

For example, many (probably most) studies in astronomy/astrophysics aren't developing and applying new mathematical techniques as part of the studies. I think folks would agree that detection of exoplanets via radial velocity wobbles is groundbreaking. But that's "just" application of classical mechanics. The groundbreaking nature was the instruments with high enough precision to make those measurements and the teams who thought up the idea and made the observations happen.

That being said, I'm not really qualified to assess the novelty of the study which is the subject of the article. But one should certainly look at more than just the tools used.
As I understand, once a page is deleted, you're supposed contact the proper channels prior to recreating the page, including talk; a procedural thing.
The core complaint is still valid against major changes without due diligence - heck, i don't even make minor changes without hitting preview and diff a half dozen times to make sure i didn't bork something.
You mean you'd rather see people go hungry
Every messenger apps (fb messenger, slack, telegram, skype) has its own chatbot directory list. Also, for example in fb messenger, you can run fb ads campaign to promote your bots, but the convertion rates are not very well.

In my case, I use the bots who helps me in two ways:
- News. I use it like a service to receive the latest news once per day.
- Productivity. I use some slack bots that it helps me for productivity and also my team.

Like the apps, if the bot is useful for the users, they will use it.
What’s New in Python: Asynchronous Comprehensions / Generators
Well, to be fair, a teaspoon or less of sugar in coffee is a good bit different than the 9 or so teaspoons that are in a can of soda. "Sugary drinks" can mean a wide range of things.
> They exist to solve real world problems for people, using software as a tool.

It's really, really frustrating when developers don't realize that. The most valuable thing I ever did at any company, saving just under a million dollars a year, was literally just me talking to three people, realizing that none of them were on the same page, and just talking to them to solve the problem.

More valuable than any code I've ever written. We're problem solvers, not just programmers.
Always the option to use <>. Though I'm not sure how common it is.
I'm a huge supporter of the safe harbor and I hope different kinds of communications intermediaries will continue to be free of legal responsibility to know or control what people communicate through their services and platforms... I was just questioning the conceptual part in your observation that the common carrier regime was the inspiration for §230, which I don't see as straightforward because of this difference about content discrimination.
For Swift Demand to work your account will need to be completely tied to your true identity. Initially the methods of verification aren't very strong to prevent any unneeded friction for early adopters of the service. Once Swift Coins start having real value I will be placing much stricter rules and requirements for identity verification. Starting with extremely strict regulations is both hard to enforce at the start and will harm the ability for Swift Demand to succeed.

Adding more money into the economy will constantly devalue it, you are correct. As I mentioned in another comment in order for this to work there needs to be speculation that the currency eventually will become more valuable and people start to buy it as a form in investment in a similar style to how bitcoin started. Once value has been established and new coins are created at a constant pace the hope is that it will be usable in the same fashion as any other form of currency.

Government due indeed print new cash, it is what causes the constant inflation that is present for all major currencies. All of your arguments appear like they would be the same for other real world currencies that do indeed function normally. There's a decent chance that it will fail, but I believe it's worth it to try.
+1 for redux-observables, I've found RxJS to be an excellent tool for managing async without going insane.

I'd also second the notion to be rigorously consistent in following the semantics. I always end up regretting shortcuts.
> that's your own partisan anti-intellectualism

I'm happy to discuss issues, whether or not we agree, but personal attacks aren't welcome here on HN. They create a few problems: 1) They are unpleasant for the recipient; 2) they don't inform other users or otherwise add value to the discussion; and 3) they derail discussion and spread like cancer - one personal attack breeds several more.

No real harm done, but let's stick to comments that are worth everyone's time to read. That's why I asked about different cites; I wanted to learn something.
remarkably good advice that i could have used last time I got laid off. the burn rate thing was critical - i am still amazed at what we were able to survive on while spending 6 months job hunting. the only thing i might add is an extension to number 3 - the psychological component to job hunting can easily overwhelm your technical skills. find an emotional support buddy, they will help you remember that most job offers come with a healthy dose of luck that you can't control
Analysis of 88M US patients healthcare costs
Very nice analogy. What's the equivalent of the S&P 500 then? :-)
Here is the Hans Rosling video explaining why that's not a problem: https://www.gapminder.org/videos/will-saving-poor-children-l...
There is no maximum age requirement. The requirements are well-articulated: http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/f/president...
> Aspiring hackers couldn't tinker with MS Word 2000 code either.

They could tinker with the binaries, something many did with game binaries. But your point is well taken; open source is also very valuable to innovation.
There were a few :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_sy...

I recall Amstrad in UK had its own DOS in the early 1990s. They had to declare MS compatibility, which supports your view of MS already being dominant.

I also don't remember much before 1989, but I believe the languages business was earlier and more niche. Ever read Gates' 1976 rant about hobbyists ripping him off?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Just spitballing, but if you want to do VR a small field of view is unacceptable, you need the full field of view for it to make sense.

To the extent that I'm guessing full field of view is a computing limitation and not a hardware limitation, the cord-free tech may not be ready for VR.

Also, screens probably require more power than their light field display, which makes a large field of view doubly hard.
COBRA will also end with the company's health plan, so it won't be available once the company fully closes down.
Thanks to amazon lightsail we now have $5 linodes :-)
This is what happens to a market when the person paying for it and person receiving the service are seperated.

It can be generational (parents pay for kids education) or time (a person buys something at 20 that they will pay off at 45).

I also think that the prestige of a degree combined with less and less real world application of that degree has something to do it with.

I think that the market value for certain degrees is falling below the market price for said degrees and what you are hearing is people complaining loudly.

I think if there really was a serious market for pure academics and high value, quality degrees someone would be tapping that market already. There is plenty of expertise, plenty of study in the subject and plenty of players would would be ready to provide that service.

I think far, far too many people look at college as a four year luxury party with a side of academics rather than the other way around. People going to college today seem like the most privileged demanding consumers.

The new source of costs in colleges which eclipses academics today is services that didn't exist 20 years ago. It's gone way beyond merely housing and a few health services.

Colleges are giving students what they want and what they want is scoreboards not lower student-to-professor ratios or cutting edge research. People have always wanted more cake and circus. College is just as consumer driven in this culture as anything else.
If it's bad enough in the right ways to breach title 7 (or any other employment laws) then yeah. The actual suit being brought is a pretty normal Title 7 sexual discrimination suit from the looks of it.
Hinting and subpixel AA (ClearType) are separate features. Could you elaborate?
ML does not include integer linear programming (nothing learnable there) and similar mathematical optimizations. ML can be a part of it but is not integral to it. Just like finding the shortest paths between two points does not include ML. ML can be used to learn the weights through time (traffic sensitive routing) but the search part is separated from it.

IMO, ML is nowhere close to useful in these problems when most of the clients just use pen and paper. It should be fairly easy to beat that with some simple search heuristics.
Some banks (e.g. Barclays) use a card reader that generates a unique key each time. Since this also requires that you have your card to log in, it's my understanding that this offers massively improved security.
Me? I work on embedded android installations that have over a thousand years combined of running with 0 software crashes. Once I get to a certain point in developing an app for our installations I start profiling for the slightest memory leaks by watching changes in memory usage profiles for different user flows.

And I can only do that with release builds if I want useful numbers. I've had us split up apps over build times because of Multidex (for example, most of our AWS centric code lives in a separate app that exposes specific functions via an AIDL interface because the SDK was bringing in too many methods)
Not sure about medical practitioners, but "saucam" (cleanliness) is a value which is elevated in many Sanskrit texts.
Android is your first problem there.

I'm inclined to say there's no reliably secure mobile platform, though idlewords (Maciej Ceglowski) and tptacek (Thomas Ptacek) are presently recommending iPhone or iPad.

(I'm writing this on an Android device I fear, dread, and detest.)
'Rifle football, however, correlated strongly with severe injury rates' the researchers observed.
I find Gates' lack of focus on environmental issues disheartening. I know he does invest in clean energy and feels strongly about climate change, but this doesn't really do anything to prevent deforestation NOW. I know that bringing people out of poverty may have a side-effect of improving some environmental parameters, but it also makes whole swathes of people start demanding more meat, more palm oil, more cars, more disposable goods. The big international benefactors don't seem that interested in rainforest biodiversity.
there were a ton of brexit bots on twitter and in comment sections, they later started working for trump, and are now working for le pen. some stuff about it here - http://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls-...
The ESRB was one of many possible responses, it could have been a different response. Like suing Joe or bribing him or his opponent.
They are --
"Saving children’s lives is the goal that launched our global work. It’s an end in itself. But then we learned it has all these other benefits as well. If parents believe their children will survive—and if they have the power to time and space their pregnancies—they choose to have fewer children."
Your original comment makes more sense now. I thought you were doubting the SSRI link to weight gain.
Sure. But you can usually find a Dev who used to do ops that can fill that role.
The gap is for easier mopping.

It also lets people check for feet before prying open the door.

It's also for if you have, er, a "wide stance" like former senator Larry Craig.

It also saves 12 inches of material.
I think editing comments is disabled once someone posts reply...
> Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations

That's not how morals work.
Governors of large states are about as close as you can get, i think. They lack the military, intelligence and a lot of foreign policy experience though.

I pretty much agree - OJT is intrinsically part of the deal.
You need not only geometry/tess shaders but also compute shader and signed framebuffers. In theory it would be possible to work around the lack of compute shader (making the minimum requirement GLES 3.0), but it would involve multiple passes and I'm not optimistic about the performance in that case.
> Metallica

That didn't work. Tickets for the Chicago show this morning under fanclub presale sold out within seconds. I tried to get them. (Even with a unique code) There are bundles of tickets being resold for nearly 4x their original cost. (Fan presale codes limit to 2 per person)

Original prices: 85/155:

https://www.stubhub.com/metallica-tickets-metallica-with-ave...
Web apps were also very useful for learning JS and browser APIs, before everybody started minimizing and obfuscating it. I learned how to write a rich-text editor just by looking at the code of Hotmail's email editor.
It's hard not to be impressed by what the Gates Foundation is doing. I don't think they get the full recognition they deserve sometimes, maybe because much of their work is abroad in the poorest countries in the world.

Hard to fathom the number of people out there in the world thankful and who owe their lives to the foundation choosing to help their community or their cause.

With that said and not to diminish the good work. It is sad and eye-opening more progress has not been made on these issues.

I think when you really look at the numbers, besides seeing the positive trends one can also see how truly difficult, large and complex these problems are. The foundation has $50 Billion dollars! And Bill can get pretty much any world leader or other billionaire CEO to take his phone calls. Yet, sorry that is not enough not even close. The foundation has to focus on very specific issues and even then it hasn't "gotten to zero" where it wants to (though Polio is close, down to 37 cases). Private foundations can only do so much, the scale of these problems really requires the cooperation of governments. I'm not sure what can be done on that or what that means, just a bit breathtaking how governments can help people or really screw things up on a scale nothing else even comes close to.
It did in the sense that you could undertake projects that would be impossible had the lake been full. In other words, you had certainty of not needing the spillway for months/years.
Does this justify a Russian invasion?
I've read about it a few months ago in some "serious" newspaper but I can't remember - maybe search would help if you try to filter out garbage pseudo-scientific sites? They stated something like body binding certain metabolic byproducts with fat when it can't cope with the load to process them later (like eating sugary food right before sleep), and they get stored around belly. So most obese people likely carry decades of unfinished exhaust byproducts alongside having clogged internal lymphatic system, which can lead to "loads of fun" when they finally try to get rid of their fat.
- There is a bias among employers favoring workers who are already employed. If you can strike any kind of deal with your current firm to stay on part-time or at a reduced rate while you look, that might be worth doing.

- If you can't strike that deal, then treat getting a job as a job. It's very tempting to sleep in until 10 AM every morning when you no longer have an office you have to be at. Resist that temptation. Get out of bed, put on some decent professional-looking clothes, and get to work. This can't be emphasized enough. Finding a job is a job.

- And because it's a job, give yourself an outlet for getting away from it. Leave time for recreation. Take care of yourself. Put in your work and then have some fun.

- Along the it's-a-job lines, learn everything you can about doing this job well. Selling yourself is a skill. Learn as much as you can about resume-writing, interviewing, etc.

- Slash that burn rate. Having two months' normal expenses in the bank means nothing if your next paycheck is five months away.

- Recruiters get a bad rap sometimes, but the big-name national recruiters (TekSystems, Robert Half, a few others) can be very helpful.

- Do what you can to enhance that CV. If you're a programmer, look for open-source programs you can contribute to. If you're a netadmin or systems guy, get certified. Find a non-profit that will let you do XYZ, even if for little or no money. Surely there's a church or community group that could use a sprucing up of its website, or have its Windows workstations updated, or who have piles of Excel spreadsheets just crying out to be properly databaseized. Every little resume bit helps.

- Network, network, network.

- Let everyone in that network know you're looking. Some people get bashful or feel embarrassed that they lost their job. Don't fall into that. Remember that you have nothing to be ashamed of. And obviously someone was willing to hire your before. Someone else will again.

- I'm assuming you're young and still establishing yourself. If not then freely ignore, but:

- In terms of career planning it can be better to target the biggest companies you can. Rise through the ranks in a 5,000-employee enterprise and you'll find that when the time comes startups and small firms will fall all over themselves trying to get you as a VP or even director. Conversely, you might wind up limiting yourself long term if you work exclusively for small firms, since large enterprises tend to want people with large-enterprise experience. YMMV, depends on your personality & career goals.

- Resist the temptation to use this as a vacation. If you can establish yourself as a top person in your field, someone who will always be in demand, there will be plenty of time to take mid-career sabbaticals, even lengthy ones. Until you've found a way to differentiate yourself from the crowd, though, probably best to keep your nose to the grindstone.

- Good luck!
So some trees are more important than saving 122 million children? I know I'm going to get all the nasty replies that it's a larger issue than just a few trees, that without trees there won't be people, etc. But comments like these are the reason that people dismiss environmentalists as nutjobs that care more about trees than people.
Paraphrasing Oliver Wendell Holmes, one generation of sociopaths is enough. Zuck should stick with "curing all diseases".
What tools are you using?
I find it ironic that this article includes the following trackers:

- segmentio

- intercomio

- google analytics

- doubleclick.net

- facebook

- mixpanel