skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony of this is that the only problem he really fixed was making his handwriting more regular. While it does help, the real problem is his malformed glyphs. His lowercase 'q' has such a large tail that it adds an extra space between the word, and his 'o' is written slightly different every time he writes it. The base of his problems seems to be that he writes with a mixture of different scripts, and if he taught himself to write with just one of them, he would be much better off.
Tachyon – AWS Lambda-powered image resizing
I wouldn't consider Boston a "college town", and I doubt it qualifies according to this article.* A "college town" usually means a town where the college dominates the local economy, and the students make up a large portion (or even a majority) of the total population during the school year.

I used to go to Virginia Tech; at the time, there were roughly 34k people in the town during the year, 26k of those students. The "townies" were only about 8k (and of course, this included the staff and faculty that lived within town limits, which was a significant portion of the townies). So when it was summertime, the town was seemingly deserted (and it was a wonderful time too!).

* As an example, Tempe, Arizona is home to ASU, one of the top 10 universities in the US by enrollment. Look at the map in the article: there's no dot for the Phoenix metro area. Hence, Tempe (and the rest of Phoenix) is not a "college town", because even with over 50k students, the school doesn't dominate the local economy.
There seems to be a lot of negativity about this. They Site-1 product they make looks beautiful and is made in the US. I really applaud them for doing this and I wish more companies would. Making beautiful long lasting products.

If you've got a beautiful casing to the speakers you can upgrade internal components and that looks like one of the things they offer.

If nothing else then hopefully this post will prevent other's with custom products that don't suit Amazon from going down that route.
Are you sending from AWS SES?

You should not be able to originate any mail from EC2.
Have we stopped evaluating companies based on vision and expectations? Because mapping all of reality is a pretty solid strategy that Google is striving for.
>I also like the cameras so I can check in while out of town.

Yeah, I have a couple cameras and a temperature sensor. Especially on a longer trip, it's nice to be able to just look in now and then and see that everything seems to be OK. (Of course, it doesn't help if there's an extended power outage but that's rare where I live.)
Ah yes, that's the one. I was hoping someone would remember, as I could not.
Atheist are, almost by definition, not a group. They reject (for the most part) organization around theological ideas. The first step is to recognize that the sense of community is in no way tied to a particular religious view; it is intrinsic on any social group, and that you can, as many people in fact do, have community without religion.
You have to have contributed as much to a traditional IRA, which still has contribution limits.
How Studying Abroad Changed the Lives of Five Students
I can't seem to find their product on Amazon. Curious to see who on Amazon today would buy a <$50 bluetooth speaker for $300+ !
I don't think imapfw is widely adopted yet, it seems to be work in progress so most people probably opt for the more stable predecessor OfflineIMAP.
Amazon is also a lot like aliexpress... you can order some stuff from china that takes one month to get to you.
I found out about Landauer principe last week and am fascinated about the mental shift.
Home breakins are crimes of convenience. You're either very rich or very powerful for someone to go to even those lengths to burgle you.
Another way to think about this is that, depending upon how long of a notice they give, that severance could be equivalent to double or triple pay to train a replacement.

If you're going to leave anyways, then what incentive is there to say no to getting that double or triple pay
When you grow up in an ivory tower so you never have to make hard choices, you have no frame of reference as to the chain of decisions that lets someone commit an "immoral" act.

I put it in quotes, because in the real world morality is subjective, despite what the privileged hackers in this thread will tell you with formulas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyXYPhnUIs ?
You're throwing polytheistic religions together with monotheistic ones. You should not do that. Polytheistic religions give hope for short term goals and explanations about each part of the world. Monotheistic religions give explanation for the world and give hope for the afterlife.
You left us hanging without linking to your paper. I would be really interested in it.
Is your name Javert?
> The problem stemmed from certain bundled messages that internet companies sometimes packaged together and transmitted as a unit.

Wat?
And some people don't have to cram for there intro to data structures CS class.

Other people do though.

Perhaps you are one of those people who could just walk in and Ace the final exam for an intermediate data structures and algorithms class taught at colleges.
So is Hacker News?

I mean, let's not delude ourselves here. Most corporate things are intended to feed into the bottom line in some fashion. That's business. It's not dishonest of the company to be working to improve their image and provide buzz.

"Start a beef" is an old saw...
Are people using these packages much in practice? Any pitfalls?
We'll probably have to wait for the next Bamford book to find out what happened.

Given past performance, I would put money on this being replaced by a functionally identical program with a legal hack, and of course a new name. (The new name is vital so that "we no longer collect that data under that program" remains a technically-true statement.)
Bingo.

"Well I'm not sure I can pick just one as the "hardest", but one very interesting problem that ended with an elegant solution was ..."

And you fill in the ... with a tale of you slaying a dragon^W prod issue with just your wits and a default .vimrc.
Oh stop it already. This gendermainstream bs is getting pushed out because there is a agenda behind it.

Genders are in fact different, its nature its good that way and it should stay that way. But there is a open agenda that is out to make everybody equal. And I am not speaking of equality in a rights sense like PAST feminism was about and reached its goal in the west. These people can not stop the see sexism everywhere but its in fact only nature everywhere.

Genders are different and I really hope they stay different and will not artificially turned onto a weirdo sauce of people who get a kick out of "I am not 'defined' by gender roles" but ultimately become unhappy. You can not have a formula of what 'should be' and expect it to work for 2 very very different kinds of people.
In addition, a lot of people don't want to workify their computer.
Cool! I had thought that Eisenstein came up with that, but it looks like Kuleshov taught Eisenstein.

I guess that's why there's an Oscar for editing! The temporal context of a shot matters as much as the shot itself.

But even if my reaction to the film is conditioned by editing, and not just Hoff's acting, I still find it weird that I'm feeling things that don't depend much on the content of the words he's speaking.
Sounds like you are describing containers; while not emulation neither is virtualization. There are many more opportunities for escape dealing with Linux containers than virtualization due to the increased complexity of the interface.

While I'm impressed by the work Microsoft have done to support the Linux kernel interfaces I would imagine the complexity of the effort to implement correct behavior from Windows kernel primitives would lead to more potential security vulnerabilities.

Another comparison might be Linux syscall support within illumos[1] which AFAIK relies on mature Solaris Zones for isolation.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
I don't believe we've arrived at some kind of maximum level of understanding that means that we're better suited for making decisions with impact decades into the future. Sure, we've learned something things, but there are plenty of things to be wrong about still. When everybody agrees, somebody's not paying attention, as they say.

I used the cable monopoly decisions as an analogy, not because it's important as the progenitor of a practice. Back then, I'm sure reasonable people were convinced that it was a good deal, but the deal didn't foresee the internet, yet we're still stuck with it.
Maybe most of the company had approved need to access?

I mean, I wouldn't put $1 on that being true, but hey, infinite universe and all.
Quadtrees are fine. Just don't approximate the polygon to the limit of resolution of the space. I wrote a paper many years ago on a related problem. The conclusion was that a very small number of quads would be optimal. Too many is obviously a problem; too few and you have to filter out a lot of false negatives.

The paper was in ACM SIGMOD 89, Redundancy in Spatial Databases.
Interesting. Sidenote: a 30+ year old film Death Wish (about a woman who's dying young and how her life becomes a reality tv show) predicted AI-written novels.
Yup. When you can measure how useful marketing spend is, it gets redirected in more optimal ways for the goals of those with the marketing budgets.

It's of course completely possible that I'm totally wrong in every way, but I'm under the impression that the primary goals of those with marketing budgets do not generally include supporting journalists holding those in power to account.
It's amazing how what can be "enjoyable and refreshing" to one can be the zenith of horror to another...
Backslash is the single most problematic visible character to represent in lower ASCII. It's the go-to solution for representing the non-visible characters when you need them in a string representation in most languages I can think of. Many errors have been found in string handling routines because of incorrect escape handling. I wouldn't willingly use it as a special character in any language I had input in designing.

Even for windows paths, backslash has caused a lot of problems in various tools[1][2][3]. Just google "backslash path error" for many pages of problems. Even early DOS developers weren't happy with the need for backslash, and made regular slashes work in paths. That doesn't work everywhere in Windows, but it works in a lot of places. Following Microsoft's mistake because of an accident of history (they has already used forward slash for command flags before implementing path hierarchies so needed a different character) and dealing with the same problems they have is not a point in backslash's favor.

> :: is two characters and is only familiar for C++ programmers

It's familiar for whoever learns it for the language they are learning. That it does not necessarily have an association with concepts from other languages or systems that don't apply cleanly (such as the namespace corresponding to the path, which may not be true) is a positive.

1: https://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/g...

2: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/issues/1009

3: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21635233
I don't know why this has to be framed as a manipulative 'politicians' move, this is just being honest and helpful like you ought to be.
so, the infrastructure equipment used to do this is up for sale right? anyone know where?
I'm in the market for cheap network/server/security gear.
Also, how bad they need to fill that position. You will get waaay less bullshit if they are in hurry.
Thats not trolling, thats a humorous jab at the fact they were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender, but since you were so quick to shout out troll, there, i spellt it out for you.

Im glad atleast some folks find the post funny.
Usually when you miss your flight you get credit. So non-refundable just means you can't get cash. Most times you still can use the price of the ticket on another flight in my experience.
> we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian.

The purpose of automation is humanitarian in the same way that politicians serve the needs of their constituents, and police protect their communities.

While I reap the positive benefits of all of the above, there are plenty of marginalized people who are harmed by exactly the same forces.

In the gap between theory and reality, there's a lot of misery.
I agree a number of things wrong were listed. The one concrete attack demonstrated in the post (the one author put the effort into demonstrating), and thus directly addressed in the response (the takeway chosen by the vendor), was an example XSS [edit:CSRF] attack.

Scott Helme has released a pair of tools focused on making sure websites anti-XSS/security headers are correct. (https://securityheaders.io/ https://report-uri.io/ ) The bulk of his public messaging prior to this gigantic luck surface area boost could be categorised as XSS-related (website security headers). I was suprised that he needed help but good on him for being honest.

I am sure this entire process has been a learning experience for Scott and will be a tremendous positive for him in his future endeavors. I remain curious how the BBC chose him; I'd guess he is one of the most polished/presentable security guys in the UK when it comes to network protocols.

Edit: I need to clarify my terminology; when I say XSS above I basically mean everything under the "Web app testing" portion of the original article. (So basically s/XSS/web app testing/ please. In fact it is CSRF that is demonstrated, in my mind they've wound up classified as similar enough to get the idea across.) The security researcher chose to dive deepest into the vulnerabilities that most benefitted his side projects - which makes perfect sense! Is remote root possible with all that old software on an RPi? Feels possible to me.
Not a web expert here, but don't CSS media queries and "background-image: url(blah/blah/blah.jpg)" already achieve pretty much all of this?

With the advantage that you have attributes (background-size, etc) to handle image resizing and alignment without having to faff around with imgs, divs to contain said imgs and a bunch of CSS rules for each for hours?

AND the advantage that you can have one single file for "media" definitions that allows you to swap images around when needed (just change the url()) without having touch 347 HTML files just to set the image src?

Or maybe I am missing the point.
See also the older but somewhat more reliably and faster isync AKA mbsync.

http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
Here's a bit of statistics for you [1]: for every time someone in the US shoots a burglar in self-defence, there are 900 burglars that successfully stole the firearms in the house and got away with it. So by relying on firearms for home self defence, you're 3 orders of magnitude more likely to be arming violent criminals (that are likely to come back and rob you or a neighbor again) than protecting yourself.

[1] http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf
I was curious enough to google it, and my unsolicited feedback: After skimming your site for 2 minutes I have no idea what you're trying to sell. I assume I'm not the audience you're targeting.
Tryna reverse-engineer the bit-banging protocol for a network card using the specs and a Linux driver.

Eventually I just gave up.
They (and a few here) are missing the key point. I'll refer everyone to the passage "One Good Thing" in Helme's article, just above the disclosure timeline. The product does not create an MX record for the email server, hence it is a write-only system. You can't receive email without an MX record because no sender can locate your MTA. I don't care how secure it may or may not be, it's still useless to me.
As a junior developer, is it even worth pursuing an "standard" career in technology if line engineers will be replaced by some kind of deep learning algo in 10-15 years? What career is even safe if we get to that level? When I see events and the pace of progress, it's hard to even justify any long term planning and I feel that (American) society is completely unprepared for the impact automation will bring.

Might as well go for my masters now, given that no one with a BS degree will be needed long term? Given a long enough timescale, even that won't matter I guess...
Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark
Correct, giving preference to your own community compared to others is commonly associated with terms such as nationalism, protectionism or cronyism. Racism can and often does happen among members of the same (local) community.
Don't ever rely on email to be secure. It is an insecure medium despite all the bandaids on it. It's useful for sure, but assume it's being read by the government before you send a message.
It's not incredibly surprising to me (though I am surprised there was no forward announcement before the preview release). It became clear a while back that Microsoft was looking to expand it's developer environment to other platforms when they announced ports for .NET and SQL Server. Don't forget that Visual Studio Code has been cross-platform since inception.
The Boring Company – Elon Musk's Next Project's Vision for Future Cities
Nice, I missed that in the big list at the end! That should have allowed the security researcher to make significant progress in the bogus security test with ease.

[Edit: Didn't see this before; thanks!]
Honestly it's a vague question. I don't really know what I would consider "hardest"...but one comes to mind as being really difficult:

Debugging memory leaks in a Python 2.7 asynchronous (gevent) daemon.

Aside from memory leaks supposedly being improbable at worst in Python's reference counting managed runtime...the GC interface and STDLIB tools for such debugging are anemic in Python2 (improvements have been made in 3 although I can't comment on them since I haven't used them yet). Not to mention that C extensions (gevent is just one) add complexity to debugging.
I don't know why we don't hear "sleazy programmer" more often. It's pretty apt. If you're going to write stuff to track people online, that's pretty sleazy. If you're writing stuff for governments to surveil mass populations, that's pretty sleazy. If you're writing a lot of those mobile "freemium" games who's goal is to hook whales, that's pretty sleazy.
Myspace was never public. Go back into your bunker with gold bars.
Wow, I have never seen Knight Rider in English. The narrator's voice sounds a lot more dramatic than the German sync-version.
That demonstrates that strong worker protections doesn't necessarily decrease the number of businesses created. It does not demonstrate the original claim that they promote innovation.

If you look at how the data has changed over time as a proxy (in some cases) for uncertainty on the data, you can see that Sweden's current rates are new. In the 2000s, the US was well ahead of it. However, in the 2000s, the US had a Bush administration; Sweden's social welfare net hasn't significantly changed in relative scope during the last decades. If it is true that social welfare nets promote innovation and companies per capita are a good proxy for innovation, why has that changed?

Number of entities for innovation is a questionable proxy for reasons already mentioned in my grandparent comment. As another example, taking your example of France: regulation changes pretty drastically as company size increases, which promotes creating new companies instead of growing existing ones, artificially driving up the number of entities while not really having a meaningful effect on innovation and only having a small effect on de-facto corporate structure.

If there was a predictive effect, shouldn't we be seeing other evidence of entrepreneurship where at least some of these countries also do well?
>I'll repeat that: Amazon.com, a reseller, told us that we were not allowed to raise the price of our own product for any reason.

Yeah, I gave up when I read that.

The seller is not selling via FBA.

In fact, the seller is not selling his items on Amazon! Amazon is selling his items on Amazon.

Amazon's behavior is not any different from any other large retailer. Amazon should control what price they charge the customers, just as you would have control if you set up your own store.
Sure, if 95% (or any percentage you wish to set) agree on something, then it's probably not a moral gray area. It can't be 100% because you will always find one person to disagree, but it can be close.

For example, I would say that crossing the street on a red light when you can see that there are no cars for miles is going to be considered moral by a huge percentage of people. It will also be considered illegal in most places.
And they already have all the infrastructure in place.
Dear Tim
If I use this, is the result different than from using Thunderbird?
Well those layers are really protecting the domain.
Enough has been said about the fact that an online retailer is not a good fit for a custom made-to-order shop, these are the opposite in so many ways.

I wanted to share my opinion that Studio monitors like Yamaha HS80 is practically the best sound quality I've been able to attain, with the price much less than custom 'tonewood' and 'hand crafted' speakers. By having the best possible range and accuracy on the output, after sound proofing the environment as wanted, I can apply any EQ and filtering I want for pleasure or mixing, and if desired I could also record/recreate impulse response of other speakers. Good monitors are less than 1k, and I'm seeing people spend thousands on cargo cult nonsense. Anyway, I'm glad I didn't become one of those people, give monitors a try if you want good sound.

I even got some ~$300 monitors for my parents TV, and they say that it sounds better any other setups they've tried. In fact, they have now started listening to music through TV a lot.
With the SLAM algorithms I am familiar, they are mostly statistics and abstracted above the camera component. They are mainly concerned with where am I most likely to be given I am witnessing these previously seen landmarks and have this noise model. Moreover, the chosen statistical model has to be such that it can be updated rapidly as new landmarks and state estimates are added (which typically presents as an increase in dimension until you hit some limit you impose).
>I didn't see any item that said 6 weeks of delivery like Etsy has.

I'm no Amazon Homemade expert, but there are plenty of items that say they take time to make:

* Usually takes between 21 and 30 days to create

https://www.amazon.com/Live-Edge-Dining-Conference-Table/dp/...

* Usually takes between 21 and 30 days to create

https://www.amazon.com/Omondi-Odhuno-Originals-Traditional-M...

* Usually takes between 21 and 30 days to create

https://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Bronze-Sculpture-Statue-Fraser...

* Usually takes between 21 and 30 days to create

https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Metal-Sculpture-Aircraft-Alu...

* Usually takes between 21 and 30 days to create

https://www.amazon.com/Stained-Glass-Window-Herons-sunset/dp...

...although I didn't find anything over 30 days, FWIW.
You can connect via WiFi too [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/zR-LJpLn3SU?t=40s
The basic idea of having an RF emitter at one end of the house and a receiver of the other as a whole-house motion detector is interesting. But the sales pitch just screams "fake".
"Invisible ripples in wireless spectrum"? As opposed to visible ripples? Please.
I once slept in a lab in order to monitor a BitBake project for a few weeks. I would wake up, check BB's progress, tweak it and start it going again, walk across the street and get a snack, then come back to the lab and go back to sleep.