skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, maybe not.

If you have an all new product you need to get into the market fast. Once you have the basic features working you need to see if customers really exist. Even if it means your customers have to try everything twice because you crash the first time, if they buy your product you fix the bugs they see so that it mostly works and move on.

However if you don't have a new product you cannot do that. If you want to release something where the market already exists you can just do one part better you need to be as good in everything else. Tesla didn't release their original roadster without a heater, in the 1950s heaters were optional.

You need to figure out which market you are in and release accordingly. Getting this wrong means the death of your company. If you are in the first investors are taking a risk that people will want your product - it would be stupid to invest in perfection when customers might decide your product doesn't fill a need, better to abandon your interesting but useless product early. However when you are in the second you need to meet your user's expectations - thus I don't need to check the feature list to tell you Tesla comes with a working heater standard. Expectations is also why the early reviews of Tesla showed a tow pulling it away with a dead battery - the equivalent stupidity in a gas car would be the tow truck charging $10/gallon for gas and you are on your way in a few minutes. (Tesla has been mostly successful in managing expectations in the years since - now everyone knows it isn't the best car for cross country trips but you can do it once in a while with a little planning - there is a lesson in this too when you are a little different in an existing market make sure the downsides of your different are understood)
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I shouldn't be surprised, but the reporting on this makes it sound way different than the actual research. Specifically,
none of the research appears to have been performed on, or tested against ACTUAL SMARTPHONE implementations - for example:

"Experiments on a capacitive fingerprint dataset, similar to the one used by Apple TouchID, showed that it is possible to break 6.88% of users’ account in 5 attempts if the FMR setting of the matching algorithm (Verifinger 6.1 SDK) was set to 0.01% and each subject was enrolled with one finger and 12 partial impressions per finger."

It seems that using commercial fingerprint software and captive systems 'similar to the one used by Apple TouchID' is very different from actually testing your theories against, you know, Apple TouchID.

The way you believe TouchID works may be significantly better or worse than it actually does, so don't you need to test iPhones if you're going to be giving scary quotes to reporters about them being insecure?
Thanks for the comment Roy. It isn´t spam and what I´m trying to do is MVP for this idea. I want to see if travelers would be interested. That´s all.
We are planning to add lazy loading in a future update to fix that. Right now the entire app loads so that you can see the landing page and then never even enter the app itself.
Woohoo! Great to get notifications and chat on my phone.

Nice to have a truly encrypted, secure chat application where I control the keys.
It uses emulation. While it is true the user needs to download a 'game image' rather than play the game directly from disc this is because that image is a virtual hard disk that contains the game and a customised Xbox 360 virtual machine that has tweaks for the game. It is similar to PC console emulators that have specific configs for certain games.
> I don't see which iPhone they were able to unlock with this method

They either didn't try, or were unable to and didn't document the results.
I like reading about how other people troubleshoot issues, even if there isn't a drastic problem ...
Tried and works fine in:
Windows/Chrome
Windows/Edge
I prefer once a week. Once a day is... somewhat noisy. (Of course, if you do so once a week, you still have noise in the datapoints, it's just less obvious.)
The trouble is, that different people have different ideas what 'make OS work' means. An essential feature of yours is other's bloat. Hence extensions.
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/msft-android-emulator/

If not using Visual Studio, search for 'Acquire on its own' on the page. There is a link in that section.
DocuShow has over 900,000 PDFs, e.g. Deep Learning
There are some fairly realistic flight simulator video game for drones. It wouldn't surprise me if someone's also done a GTA-V mod for something like this too.
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/msft-android-emulator/

It uses Hyper-V so you will need a Pro version of Windows.
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really like this, i have used trello loads but obviously not in gmail :)
I have the feeling that the researched tried to unlock real phones and failed.

It sounds weird when you say you have made a research about security of fingerprint scanners on phones without actually trying the attacks on those phones.
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> Also, I have a bizspark Azure subscription and it's not a perfect UX; but man does it beat AWS

How so?
The method used would also end up with many of these behaviors. If it didn't crash, that behavior is enforced. So flying through smoke would not be avoided if it didn't crash
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It seems like the key argument hinges on whether or not venture capital is significantly subsidizing these rides. If Uber ever turns a profit (not a financially engineered one), that might change the discussion a bit.
> I don't write my assembly using DIP switches, I write my assembly using mnemonics.

In other words: Not the x86 instruction set is bad, but the common assembly language(s) (there is Intel and AT&T syntax) that are used to describe it.
> I was impressed that the speed there was, in fact, near native enough that the transition was essentially completely seamless.

Not to diminish Apple's accomplishment, which was indeed impressive, but a lot of this was because by that point, PowerPC was so, so far behind Intel's chips that, even after the emulation performance penalty, the Core 2 chips were fast enough to make it no big deal.

There's not a similar Intel/ARM gap this time around so Microsoft will have to rely on their chops alone.
Their XC-series systems with Aries interconnect are very solid and dense systems. Even without their special interconnect and system management software, their software stack for developers and users is very mature and well supported by some of the best in the industry.
Nice! This feels like a huge leap forward for Keybase in terms of broad, daily usability. The onboarding onto the app felt pretty smooth overall, always nice when I can feel comfortable logging into a mobile app without pulling up my password manager.

This is one of those teams that I legitimately get excited when I see new announcements.
> Azure subscription and it's not a perfect UX; but man does it beat AWS

I actually disagree with this pretty strongly. The Azure UI seems flashy for the sake of being flashy. The AWS UI is much easier to navigate and use for me.

Azure's UI is more unified though. There are some random AWS services (e.g. sqs) that have a totally different UI theme going on.

Edit: the Azure UI is only more unified if you ignore the fact that there are two totally separate versions (classic + the new portal), and you end up having to hop between the two in some instances if you have some older infrastructure because feature parity is not perfect.
The primary reason I even looked at a Mac, way back in the MacOS 10.2 days, was because there is a Unix underneath the pretty interface. I bought my first Mac and never looked back.

Stuff like this is making me look at Windows machines again.
I don't think you are correct. For a proper release, yes, the C#/F#/VB is AOT compiled. For this "Live Player" app, the IL in the DLLs is interpreted. Basing this off of this:

"Microsoft believes its Live Player system is entirely compatible with Apple's rules and regulations for App Store apps. Behind the scenes, the Live Player includes an interpreter for .NET code. This means that running an app through Live Player is slower than it would be if natively built on a Mac, but that's not such a big deal for many aspects of user interface development."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/xamar...
I came here to ask about submitting to the App Store. Does this mean that a Mac is, technically, no longer required for the entire process of development -> release of iOS apps?
Ask HN: Sources for finding freelance work?
I have been working as a Full Stack Developer for about 2 years now. I don't have a CS degree, but I have lead at least 1 big project involving millions of users. I have in-depth knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript, ReactJS/Preact, and some experience working with Erlang, Clojure, and Python.
Never tried seriously to find freelance work before, but would love to have some extra cashflow and good utilization of my (recent) free time.
A CUDA core and a CPU core is not quite the same thing.

40000 CUDA cores are much slower and more constrained than 40000 CPU cores.
Tech stack is AngularJS for the frontend with Python (Jango & Tornado) for the backend.

If it was up to me I'll make it completely free but somebody has to pay the bills. Right now limit for the free team is 3 users. We might up that a bit in the future once we feel more financially confident.
"Don't think there's any reason to assume the worst"? We know there's no reason to assume the worst, or really even suspect it. RSA-4096? The 2048-bit moduli which are the industry standard today are hopelessly out of reach of conventional computers; your story implicitly makes a case that people might be at risk for using them. The difference between 2048 and 4096 is a lot of computing power for defenders.

There are other quotes in the article that are also presented without enough context to avoid misleading. For instance, you can see speculation in this thread about the utility of this system for breaking "signatures" on updates --- but again, that's only possible if the systems in question are already using weak cryptography.

I stand by my criticism of the article. The paragraph I quoted was poorly constructed, and I think the narrative subtext of the whole piece is "worry that the USG is going to subvert all mainstream cryptography". That narrative is extraordinarily harmful. As someone who has done some recent pro-bono training for at-risk people, it's hard enough to get people to adopt best practices without having to beat back concerns that all the effort is for naught.

I further agree with everyone else here who have pointed out that without the documents, or at least far more of them, or far more comments from experts than are present in the article, this story isn't providing much value. It's not exactly a secret that the USG IC invests heavily in compute for these purposes. What have we really learned here?
Sure, but, for example, Uber in London is not in the taxi business, but that of the minicabs. Minicabs don't need the taxi license. However, Uber does need to comply with TfL rules.

The really disrupting thing here is the ability in ordering the car from the mobile phone, and the frictionless experience. This is what is making the taxi obsolete. Now that black cab drivers have realised of the threat, they want to consider all others equals, when before they where happy living with Addison Lee, et al.

PS: travel agents do need licenses to sell airplane tickets, and have bank guarantees, etc., just to gain a fee. Pass through websites which earn a fee, like the travel agents, don't.
Unless your mobile OS is Windows Phone 8.1, or Windows Phone 7, or Windows Mobile 6, etc which got very little in the way of updates once a new major release was made; and many phones are not upgradable from one major release to the next (or the upgrade wasn't pushed to users without intervention, which is effectively the same thing).

I would say, Microsoft has a reputation for long term support and backwards compatibility, but it seems like it's something they're trying to get away from.
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It looks like SOjectizer has never received much attention. If you're in doubt, it might make sense to email the moderators and ask.
“What is Google Translate good for?” – Layperson explanation of its algorithm
By Native iOS you mean not written in Objective-C/Swift using Cocoa Touch
Some of the IBM documents are not classified, as even the article states.
If you drink soda or other sugary drinks, stop that first (or switch to diet).

Then, the only thing that has really worked for me: pick either lunch or dinner, and take 1/2 of the meal (before you start eating), and box it up for tomorrow. Don't get seconds.

I was eating out for lunch a lot, and when I started eating just 1/2 of the meal, I started to lose weight (surprise surprise).

It's not fun or easy to stop eating at 1/2 a meal, but it's a simple rule to remember. After you're used to eating less, you can start worrying about eating healthy foods, etc., but to start with that was too overwhelming. The simpler the rules you set for yourself - the easier it will be to stick to it.
This website should in the list too.

Reasons of failure:

- Couldn't scale its web servers
> lens of blind progression

The problem is that there is no such thing as 'blind progression'. It will always be defined by someone or something, boxing all future progress into that person's biases. This is the same well-intentioned by inherently flawed utopian thinking as everyone else.

I would totally sign my life away to an AI as long as no one was telling me that it was a sign of 'progress'. At the very least, no one should be profiting from it
That's not how it works. The process of reading your retina / fingerprint is error prone. You can't take hash out of error-prone data blob!

My understanding is that matching the pre-saved template against a fresh scan is a process similar to measuring Levenshtein distance. There is some threshold, and sample with smaller error are accepted. This does imply that the iphone has somewhere stored your _unencrypted_, _unhashed_ template of your fingerprint.

But this is not my area of expertise. Perhaps a subject matter expert can comment.
Classic Jam Handy: "Around the Corner", which explains how an automobile differential works.[1] (Skip the first three minutes.) If you watch this, you will understand how a differential works, and won't forget it.
An explanation of Microsoft's new UI with similar clarity would be helpful.

[1] https://archive.org/details/Aroundth1937
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I get this as:

[nginx_parser]	WARNING	Skip unparseable block: "http"

Which presumably means it's broken there too? :)
I don't think it's a uniquely American problem. Most government activities everywhere are designed to prevent or mitigate change - because the "changes" within the scope of a typical government agency's purview are usually bad, e.g. FAA "changes" = plane crashes. So a lot of habit against change is built into our society.

But I think before we decide to raise taxes and dole out lots of cash to basic research projects, we should at least examine HOW projects are funded, especially who decides and what criteria are used.

Based on my limited experience in this area -- i.e. looking at grant proposals on various physics professor's desks, and listening to their fund-raising "war stories", it's not the most meritocratic system - it's very connection-driven.
It's fear mongering that has normal citizens agreeing with overly aggressive "enforcement", and forgetting about what rights are.
Normal deployed apps are. Here though, the app that's actually running is the Xamarin Live Player which comes with an IL interpreter. In the normal cycle of Xamarin iOS development from Windows, the DLLs are compiled, and then there's another step where they are AOT compiled to ARM assembly on the Mac. In this case though it avoids the step of compiling on iOS, it just builds the DLLs and sends them to the device.

This is my best guess of what's happening based on this article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/xamar...
I think there are at least 3 different meanings of acceleration-ism, and you are conflating some of them.

But the article is too, and once I read the article I started to as well.

Is there hard evidence of an intellectual connection between Zelazny, Land, and Leftist Accelerationism? This kinda feels like left-anarchism vs right-anarchism all over again. Wildly different ideologies that share very little, except a name. I would think the leftist variant predates the 60s, ue_ in response to you found elements of it in Marx.

Maybe this is a bad article.
and I feel like worrying about the social consequences of the hard logic you uncover while studying social issues is a fundamentally flawed reasoning
I saw this at the end of the article, was hit by a huge wage of nostalgia, and had to comment:

> Update 9.10.2015: exec.library base address is stored in
> memory address $4. The library base address itself is not $4.

I learnt 68k assembler for the Amiga in high-school and made _exactly_ this mistake. After many "guru mediations" (the flashing red and black box) and much head-scratching I finally realized the problem.

It was a big breakthrough in my early days as a programmer and taught me a solid lesson about indirection and pointers.
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I unpinned everything, and just operate it entirely by keyboard: hit the windows key, type the first few characters of the program name, hit enter. I find I don't even need to look at it most of the time.
That was definitely one of the first things I noticed about the writing; the author is very skilled in this regard.

There are times when I can lapse into such prose, but I try to balance my writing with my perceived audience's expectations. One could compare my postings here with that of other forums I frequent, like /r/justrolledintotheshop, and they would definitely notice a difference.

I don't believe I could summon the level of prose this author has, though.
Demonstration of Memory with a Long Short-Term Memory Network in Python
Ask HN: How do you take notes on mobile?
I read a lot on my phone - news, blogs/articles, products/amazon, twitter, etc. Looking for an app that makes it easy to capture notes from all of these sites on my phone.

Lots of copy/paste into Google Keep is getting tough. Looking for a better app!
Thanks. Based on your feedback, I'll evaluate Codecanyon again when I revamp my plugin. Just so you know, I didn't mean to come across as flippantly judgemental about Codecanyon or WP plugin devs. All the best.
What do you mean, could you elaborate on that a bit? How is x86 "memory model stronger" and why would application code be affected?
Very cool. Would be great to eventually see support for the file picker UI similar to Resilio or Working Copy so files can be saved directly into KeyBase's encrypted areas.
For the record, since macOS 10.12.4, I get to enjoy tearing on a rMBP13, on both built-in and external display. So no, this stuff was not being figured out 10 years ago.

By the same token, the last time I compiled a Linux kernel, it was 2001 in calendar, or something like that. Since then, the distribution provided ones are fine. Even if it means running 3.10 in 2017. It works, it's fine.
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What is wrong with that? Besides the fact that the canonical way to zero a register on x86 if flags are of no concern is

xor reg,reg

(recommended way) or

sub reg,reg
There's got to be plenty of code to enjoy in Whiz Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdVbOcUlTo). (Why "whiz" and not "wiz?")
You can now automatically generate citations to millions of books on Wikipedia
basically, there's just a larger body of translated work to develop from for western european languages because the EU has to translate all official documents between the major languages

> One explanation could have to do with the text the algorithm uses to generate its translations. Google Translate works by drawing from vast banks of text, searching for patterns in language use to match future translation requests. Some of those texts include documents from the United Nations and the European Union that have to be translated into multiple languages.

(from first result i found for this bit of trivia but probably not the best: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/a-sec... )
+1 for adding in the cost to support the extra weight.

Many homes, even ones they're building now, are not designed to support anything more than a few layers of standard asphalt shingles.

BTW, it's ridiculous that we're talking "down" to asphalt shingles now because of this. Some of those come with 50+-year warranties now...
Keybase has succeeded in making crypto and user verification user-friendly enough for day to day use. (Even though it's probably not easy enough to use in day to day e-mail.)

This new mobile experience is very slick, with a very smooth login flow that just 'feels' secure as well.

The Keybase verification of different services feels very much like what ClaimID used to do, back when OpenID was showing promise as an open, secure, easy to use single sign on protocol. I'd still love for someone to solve this challenge once and for all. For some reason I'd love to see what the team behind Keybase might come up with in this space. (For now I'll have to do with using 1Password and 2FA wherever possible.)
Many leftists of various stripes are quite against accelerationism, including many communists.
Same reason why I am not making the switch. Whenever I have good integration of wsl python interpreter running in vscode, I will be a happy person
there's no excuse for not putting a CDN upfront, several have free tiers that would easily satisfy the needs of a site like this.
I would more characterize it as failures in their mobile space. Microsoft has rebooted it's mobile product line a bunch of times. But, as noted, my Lumia Icon was a Windows Phone 8.x device, and it runs yesterday's release of Windows 10 Mobile. A pretty large number of 8.x devices are capable of 10.

The manual intervention to upgrade to 10 is because, as noted, the big change is that Windows 10 Mobile upgrades are handled by Microsoft, so the update servers had to be changed. Prior versions to 10 had the same carrier-based update issues Android had.

I'd argue that change alone points to the fact that Microsoft is getting better at long term support, not worse.
That approach has been used for some exploits. You can create an LZ encoding which inefficiently encodes using a small set of characters, such as ASCII letters only. This will get through some mail filters that are trying to stop binary files by looking at byte value statistics.
Keep in mind, a battery array isn't something patented by Tesla, you could easily (safety in mind!) create a "powerwall" yourself; or use someone else's.
I'm glad they're starting to crack down in NIMBYs. we desperately need a vast increase in housing.

One of the long term side effects of this enormous housing shortage and the presence of prop 13, is that 50+ aged people are making up a larger and larger % of the population, as many of the younger people get pushed out (the next generation has nowhere to live). Already just in the last 10 years, % of 65 years olds and up has increased from from 13% to 18%. I'm guessing this trend will continue for the next 10-20 years, until the housing starts to correct.
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They actually did namedrop Dave Cutler in the main keynote earlier, although in the context of talking about the Linux Subsystem.
UCSF Study shows Apple Watch can detect an early sign of heart disease