skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Style transfer lies outside my specialization, so take my comment as speculation informed by intuition from variously related works that may not correctly carry over to this one.

If you look at the nature of the transformations achieved in this paper, you might note that they are changes in, well, style. That is, the presentations of the objects in an image are represented using a different _style_, but they remain the same object.

As an example, take a look at the horse/zebra transformation; the horse obtains a zebra's stripes, but it _structurally_ still looks like a horse. That is to say, a zebra and a horse have identifiably different bodily proportions, and the horse's bodily proportions are not changed by the style transfer. Similarly, the trees in the summer -> winter transformation do not have the slightly saggy branches that they would due to the weight of snow on them.

With that in mind, I would be surprised if the approach taken in this work, taken as-is, would be able to change the gender or ethnicity of a person in a photo. There are structural differences between men's and women's faces, and similarly between races. I would imagine that an attempt of a race transfer, as I suppose you would call it, would largely amount to changing skin tone.

The age progression application, though, might work under the limitations I have speculated, at least for aging photos of a person that is already more or less mature. A person's facial structure does not significantly change once adulthood is reached, so simply transferring stylistic features might add wrinkles and other age-related changes in a realistic way.

Again, speculation. And even if the speculation is correct, that is not to say that some modifications to the approach would not be able to lift the constraints I made up.

Edit: reading through the rest of the paper[0] behind this work, looks like I might not be far off:

>Although our method can achieve compelling results in
many cases, the results are far from uniformly positive. Several
typical failure cases are shown in Figure 17. On translation
tasks that involve color and texture changes, like many
of those reported above, the method often succeeds. We
have also explored tasks that require geometric changes,
with little success.

The quote is from Section 6 ("Limitations and Discussion"), and example "limitations" are given in Figure 17.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf
> And if you know 5, or 10, or 15 people with this lock, what then?

You tell them.

>>Do you spend time helping them all?

No

>>Is it more ethical to help your friends over the public at large?

It is more ethical to help the major players. We're talking about a company that holds a significant portion of users data. If we found Master Lock had a vulnerability, we'd expect them to fix it (we wouldn't expect them to replace every users' lock for a number of reasons that are different from a software vulnerability, but it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to notify users and/or provide a coupon). It also wouldn't be unreasonable to wait for Master Lock (who controls a significant portion of the market) to fix it before making it public. Making it public means everyone can fix it. But let the majority have an attempt to fix it before letting the public, and malicious factions, know.
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So the "m" glyph is half as wide as itself?
The countervailing data sources are the very sources cited by the articles.

For example, the actual study cited by the first article says 39% of colleges expect a decrease in international enrollments, 35% expect an increase, and the remainder expect it to be about the same. Weirdly the 35% doesn't appear in the article.
Some of these feature remind me of a "tool" back in the mid/late 90's.
I have a feeling this is one of those places where ML will not be useful until we have strong AI.

Certain grammatical errors are impossible to fix unless you understand the overall meaning of the text. Sometimes this meaning is embedded over many paragraphs. Errors involving incorrect word usage are unsolvable when words have more than one meaning and you don't comprehend the subject at hand.
No, specifically multi-tenant, cgroups workloads. It works great for single-tenant workloads, esp. when you can tune the ARC to your workload. I know some folks who run it for large data workloads, and it works awesome for them. Unfortunately, our large container workload hasn't had the same luck.

The issues I've hit are the following:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5814

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535

Unfortunately, these problems stem from page faults occurring inside of VM that propagate to ZFS. If the fault occurs during cgroup memory pressure, ZFS / SPL may fail to allocate memory. ZFS will never get out of this case unless memory is freed up elsewhere in the hierarchy.

The other issue we had was with ZFS integration. There are a few symbols around mounts that are exported GPL only, and they interfere with volume GC, and mounting, causing some issues with standard tools like Systemd, and others.

For the most part, our container applications are stateless, or soft state, in this, we don't rely on RAID1, 5, 6, etc... but instead RAID0, or no RAID at all. If we detect a bad disk, we'd rather just evacuate the containers, and restore state later.

I'd love to hear about your experience with BtrFS. What issues have you seen with it (single disk, or RAID0 -- I know RAID1, 5, and 6 are hokey at best)? How did the project handle your issues?
> I found Authorize.net to be a good way to go

Authorize.net is just a payment gateway, an API between you and a merchant account provider. Since just about every API has existing client libraries you can use, they're no better or worse than each other.

What makes Authorize.net a bad choice is that you don't own any of the data you store with them. If you keep your customers' billing info in their CIM vault, it's never coming out. They won't give it to you, and they won't transfer it to another account.

That means if you ever want to change merchant account providers, or your account gets frozen, you're stuck. You need to re-collect every customer's billing info to continue their subscriptions on another platform, and that usually means a big chunk of your customer base will churn out all at once.

This is what using an independent payment vault solves.
Exactly. As opposed so say, an nurse, lawyer, or electrician.

If you don't have the right piece of paper, you can't be one of those.
I think this answers your earlier question. We don't have tools that implement "C". We only have tools that implement supersets of C. In particular, these tools take code like the above and do "something" with them; the exact thing they do varies with optimization level and phase of the moon. What you want is a tool that takes such code and says "Oops, undefined behavior on line 9, here's a stack trace."
I agree. I started on an affiliate site and while i consider it passive income, there is some level of involvement on a regular basic. I realised that frequent updates keep Google's indexing bots happy. Stagnating content tends to drop in rank after a while.
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> banking accounts

How would they do this? Access to my bank account requires a password I never use for any other service, and a physical non-internet-connected 2FA token I keep on my person.
Can you tell me anything in particular lacking in our tooling? I know we have a lot of issues open, and a long way to go, of course, but if there's something specific it'd be helpful.
> the lack of critical thinking taught in schools, the lack of engaged debate and encouraging people to think for themselves and gather their own information

I just said it was a symptom since the article was about libraries, not THE symptom or the only symptom :) Remember, this is a new problem. Growing up, I had channels 2, 4, 7, 50, and 62. If you didn't mind the static and repositioning the antenna, there were a few more channels :). National news was on for one hour a night, maybe more on Sundays and was presented by erudite news anchors in a time where good looks were not a factor in getting the job. If you wanted to comment on an issue, you had to write a letter by hand, giving you time to cool yourself down and not respond in a knee-jerk way.

I somewhat agree, but information used to be curated by gatekeepers well versed in the subject matter, not released in a torrential digital firehose with little or no curation. Has the level of critical thinking really declined or was it always this way? People from my father's generation may have had less critical thinking skills as they were much more trusting of authority. Those educated under No Child Left Behind aren't really old enough to be in charge yet.

Somewhat relevant story: I appreciated the education I received, but I remember when I questioned why fuck am I reciting the Pledge of Allegiance when the entirety of it is horseshit...especially the liberty and justice for all portion. So, instead of performing the pledge, I finished up some homework that was due in AP Calc. My math teacher was so incensed he threw me out of class and told me to report to the principal's office where I proceeded to say I didn't stand because I injured my foot so that I wasn't suspended.
Leading and width is configurable, actually :)
Great, thank you. Apologies for not going fishing for it myself. :+1:
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As a side note, the same issue persist on Windows with HP current gen EliteBook and Office. Everytime I undock the notebook, MS Outlook gets disconnected and it simply refuses to reconnect. The only option is to close Outlook and open it again - but waiting 30s between closing and starting again otherwise some locks on the PST file are still in place and Outlook would hang on start forever. The only way to fix it then, is by a Windows reboot. That they killed the QA department was the dumbest idea ever, now things are so buggy.
They just need to wait until people have forgotten about the law, then change their policy.
Yes. But you can't run more than one query per connection.
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Yes. I can always change to sysadmin later on or just do both at once in a way.
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I fully disagree.

Your statement would be true IF it were possible for software to be invulnerable. Since ALL software (and hardware) is vulnerable it is perfectly reasonable to give the owner of said software/hardware a reasonable time to fix the issue before releasing to the public. I fully believe you should always release to the public, but obscurity is a good temporary measure.
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More likely the author knows that sleep is a common thing for malware scanners to look for, and choose a sneakier method to achieve the same goal.
Here are some NLP classes:

* Oxford Deep NLP Lectures https://github.com/oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures

* Stanford Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/syllabus.html

* Georgia Tech Natural Language Understanding https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class

* Georgia Tech Deep Learning For NLP in PyTorch https://github.com/rguthrie3/DeepLearningForNLPInPytorch

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I think you're confusing syntax and semantics. The claim is that C is not really semantically well defined, but your toplevel posts talk about the fact that C has well defined syntax, which is true. However, that's besides the point. Syntax is roughly the surface form, whereas semantics refers to meaning. The problem is that a well formed program (ie a syntactically correct program; this is actually the precise definition of well-formed) in C yields undefined behavior on a semantic level, exactly what we don't want to happen. You need to maintain a clear separation between the syntax and meaning. When parent said that its legal C, he meant syntactically. The point is by definition you cannot tell from the surface/lexical form of C what is semantically valid and what is not semantically valid, ie what is well defined and what is not. So by saying its undefined behavior you are proving parent's point, that a syntactically valid piece of C yields a semantically not well defined chunk of code.
That's a good point. I've changed the URL back from http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/03/unit42-di....
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Also by default the security level doesn't allow for its execution, but I imagine most change it to run everything instead of only signed scripts.
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Replace the word developer with plumber, electrician, financial adviser, mover, etc. and you pretty much sum of the difficulties of relying on outside help.
> That is, if you have a reference to an object or value, you have the authority to invoke any of the methods on that object or call any functions that accept such a value.

Except private methods, right? That's where I feel that this analogy breaks down
Developers who insist that their favorite technology is the best vs. what's the best for the task at hand, what technology will the team as a whole be successful with.

Developers who don't have empathy for less experienced team members; who can't/won't mentor well.
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The only thing that has changed is the ability to demand opinion segragation and discussion protection, without beeing called out as undemocratic hyper-critter.
True, some corporations might be altruistic, but probably not all. Murderers still exist in society, and for those we need laws to guide everyone.
If all laws and police disappeared suddenly, I think it would take less than 5 years for societies to descend into complete chaos. Laws still seem necessary?
With the now current curl | sh pattern, one just needs some MTM attack, or even just trick someone to do it, as the majority never look to the contents of the shell script.
Interesting. Though I'm sure it's still tied to the same customer account, no?
> I participate in two large professional forums (one for poker, one for development)

"Large" is subjective, and I'm inclined to argue that anywhere "non-trolls are winning" simply doesn't have the size that forums which fight against 'actual' trolling at its scale do.

A simple BBS system or IRC channel can "let the professionals win" simply by being so niche that the professional : troll ratio is well within the manageable bounds for a handful of mods to be able to casually moderate every so often. Hell, this pattern is visibly demonstrable with smaller 'niche' subreddits and subcommunities. It's the whole "there goes the neighborhood" pattern in its digital form.

"By obscurity" doesn't isn't really an anti-troll 'win', it's just escaping trolls' attention. It only works so long as trolls don't hear about or aren't interested in the forum.
Agreed. I've been a sysadmin, tech support nerd, developer, architect and now product manager. With each switch the value you bring jumps.

Next switch is likely starting a business.

37 y.o., still not tired of this!

I can see how someone could get bitter if they stayed in the same role/position most of their career, but in my experience this has tended to be people with a negative outlook/attitude/chip on shoulder in general... It really is what you make of it, people are people wherever you go, some are dicks, some are not.

Just accept the reality of the game and deal with it.

You don't need to spread your aura of doom everywhere you go.
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Actually you and skrebbel make a good point about the other article being more approachable. That has value too, so I've reversed the URL change.
The point of "the cloud" isn't just global accessibility, but also massive redundancy - Azure Storage and S3 both replicate data globally in case of data-center meteor impacts and well-designed web-services are stateless and run in a a load-balanced, fault-tolerant manner.

Arguably a much better proposition than a dusty old Dell server locked in a closer.
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For one thing: Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu have the same problem, just replace "24 months" with "6 months".

For another thing: LTS Ubuntu is the recommended version of Ubuntu: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

New users going into Ubuntu have no clue that going to ubuntu.com and clicking "Download" will give them an incredibly out-of-date OS.

> The entire point of LTS is that things _don't_ change.

That's not the root problem.

The root problem is that people want non-broken software, and updates sometimes break things.

LTS is one workaround, by committing to make as few updates as possible (mostly only high-impact security patches), you limit the likelihood that updates will break things.

But the problem is, not having updates also breaks things. `youtube-dl` is my usual example. Others include that having an old version of Node will break software that expects newer versions of Node.

The solution I'm proposing is to let the user choose whether or not they want up-to-date software on a case-by-case basis. I did not expect this to be so controversial.

> 1. Install stuff yourself

This is not a suggested solution, this is the problem we are trying to find solutions for.

> 2. Use a backports PPA or vendor packages

> 3. Use a more specific package manager (e.g. pip for python, cpan for perl, npm for node, etc)

These are workarounds that are MUCH less usable than just using the distro's built-in package manager. It is true that I can do this (mostly, I just build from source), but what I am asking is a way to make this easier, because it is a common problem that everyone has, and because it's the entire problem that a package manager is supposed to solve in the first place.

> 4. Update your servers more than once every four years

> If you want the latest version of software, you need to not use the LTS version, and you need to update to the newer releases as they're released, because the entire point of LTS is not to do the thing you're asking to do.

Sometimes, you want some of your software to change and other software not to change. The job of a computer is to do what the user wants it to do, is it not?

Like, if I'm using LTS, it's presumably because of something like "wifi works on this exact combination of system software and I don't want to risk it breaking with a random update". So the default would be to install software from a known working system. But I should be able to explicitly opt into installing other up-to-date software; keep my browser up-to-date and all that.

That's why I'm proposing a new command, so you can type in something like `apt-get install-latest youtube-dl` and get the latest version. `apt-get install` would still work the same as before.
the "community" solution only works at small scale/for niches. Given any degree of mainstream attention, 'just gunning them down' is like fighting the hydra.

Niche sites thus chug along fine, but any generalized effort to form communities falls victim to this. For niche communities on reddit, this has basically become a repeatable lifecycle (not including the countable-on-one-hand subreddits with leadership large and dedicated enough to wrangle their topics into submission.)
It's been demonstrated in the past that server can detect the pipe to shell and modify content - timing attack, if I recall correctly