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They're one of the most visited websites on the planet and unlike Facebook terribly mismanaged so that the amount of advertising revenue they bring in per visitor is a pittance.

If someone were to straighten out Reddit not only would they be profitable but they'd be Facebook level profitable.

And if you're having a hard time understanding why that is, look at it this way: imagine a newspaper that was read by 10% of the US population as well as a huge amount of people overseas. They'd be the most valuable property in news by far. Especially because they demographics skew heavily towards 18-35-year-old men.
Ask HN: How can we use tech to prevent another Grenfell tower fire?
Just a few days ago in the heart of London, a 24-storey tower block burnt down killing at least 30 people. It has since emerged that residents were aware of many fire-risk issues but did not have an effective way to publicise them.
I am wondering what tools the residents could have used to prove that the building really was at risk. If I lived in a tower block right now I'd be desperately seeking information on how to evaluate the fire risk and fix any issues.
If there aren't any solutions out there, this could be a worthwhile project for someone to work on.
I'm not a full time Java developer, but unless you have a really hard time adjusting to the syntactic differences or will grumble when you do something you know would be "so much easier in X", you should be fine. You'll learn the JVM, APIs, and libraries you'll need to be a Java programmer. That seems like a win to me.
Well tra la la.

Excuse me, Facebook revenues were not that high at a 1m valuation. Nobody would sell something that earns $32B/yr for 1m, I'm dubious that it earns that much money and I'm curious about why, if so, that is.
Sounds like the reverse of Anti-Life Equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Life_Equation "", the Anti-Life Equation is a formula for total control over the minds of sentient beings, that is sought by Darkseid, who, for this reason, sends his forces to Earth, as he believes part of the equation exists in the subconscious. Various comics have defined the equation in different ways, but a common interpretation is that the equation is a mathematical proof of the futility of living.""
>He claims the photo is a "fiction". All photos are.

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
The Nintendo Switch campaign was unbearable.
Progress will of course be incremental. But I think about the delta between summer in California and Canadian winter driving conditions and I think there's still such a long long way to go to full full autonomy.
Copyright is a very stupid concept. Just because we benefit from it doesn't mean that we should support it until the end of time. Perhaps we should start taking about getting rid of copyright.

Now, I'm not saying we get rid of all laws. End of copyright will not allow me to put a maliciously crafted copy of Microsoft Windows or Google chrome online in order to deceive users into thinking they are genuine. I still may not misrepresent when I copy things. In fact, I think these laws need strengthening which we can if we ditch copyright.
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It looks like you use LLVM as a backend - it seems to be the norm these days. What drove you to use it, and what has been your experience with it?
There's de-facto and de-jure.

Any tampering is forbidden right? Even the transposition of a pixel is forbidden - it's technically illegal, but as long as it doesn't make a difference then I don't think anybody is going to care - so what if this pixel is cyan in this picture and turquoise in the other.

When things are really going to hit the fan is if you are able to have a digitally altered picture that passes the eye test for visual verification but is useless somehow for facial recognition algorithms (altered facial proportions, etc etc). That's a big if, because I don't know much about facial recognition technologies, I'd suspect they're born from machine learning technologies based for human curated results.
The problem with lowering the population is that it would lead to slowing technical progress as well. The fewer humans we have the fewer high-IQ humans are born, the less is advance in science and technology.

One of the major benefits of space colonization is to increase human population so that it produces more high-IQ people that can keep advancing humanity. All that progress in the last 200 years can be attributed to larger amount of high-IQ people born which is a direct consequence of total population growth. Stopping growing population would lead to stagnation in technical progress.
Nobody uses pictures for identification. Not alone. In combination with everything else, maybe, but being French, I can even assure you that in most of the cases, people don't even look at your photo when checking your ID. They're always outdated, took in a weird lightning, and with a terrible quality.

From an administration point of view, whether you took a picture of your face and mapped it onto a 3D model, or just gave them the original picture makes zero difference. Last time I renewed my card, I gave them four years old pictures, I looked totally different, and they do not give a damn.

Identification through only a picture was dumb in 1985, and still is.
These website properties have (hundreds of) millions of engaged users. Investors are betting on the ability of Facebook, Reddit, et al to monetize those users. Facebook has demonstrated a great proficiency at doing this, mostly through targeted advertising. Reddit, so far at least, has struggled but still has potential to turn their audience into a profit center.
I've used PGP Words - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list - "which are carefully chosen for their phonetic distinctiveness". There is also a "parity" feature to catch simple errors.

My application was pass phrases to be read over the phone, but it seems generally useful whenever you want to avoid confusing two words in the set.
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> strongest pieces of evidence in favor of the legitimacy of the emails

Well the DNC is pretty open about the fact that they were hacked, and there's implants on their servers, so clearly someone took control on the email server. The presence and accuracy of DKIM headers is solid evidence the emails are from the hackers, but not necessarily of their legitimacy. If they had complete control of the email server, then they would have access to the DKIM's private key, making it trivial to spoof emails.

So yeah, definitely from the email server, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's authentic. Though IMO it's likely authentic, the DNS as far as I know hasn't challenged the authenticity of any emails, and I were forging emails I'd make them a lot more damaging than what we've been given.
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The value of Facebook and Youtube is their amazing ability to reach huge potential audiences for advertisers as well as their ability (esp Facebook) to collect large sums of valuable personal information.

Reddit being the fourth most visited website in the US has the potential for people and companies to reach huge audiences. I can see where people are stuck in the mentality that places like this are just "another website". But the point is now these places are reaching unprecedented scales on an order of magnitude higher than the traditional webpages of the late 90's early 2000's that they can be huge businesses themselves.
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> You can trick isatty, but only if you're very, very set on doing so. It requires allocating a psuedo-TTY, and attaching it.

You can also LD_PRELOAD an isatty shim that returns true. This is occasionally useful when piping the output of tools which disable ANSI colorization with no switch to re-enable that.
Yes, this is correct. And that's exactly what this opens the door to. I suspect this will lead to some changes in the law regarding what route an image should take to be acceptable. It's been converging on this for a long time with ever more strict rules about what can and can not be in the picture. The list of requirements is quite long. It's a small step from there to having the passport office make the photograph.
Based on the (2013) article, Heat kills it, but not just boiling water heat - you need the 250 degree pressure cooking heat.

Not really mentioned is that it's lack of oxygen that really enables things to go downhill, which is why you should never make your own infused oils - "homemade garlic infused olive oil, what could go wrong?" DEATH

Also, I can't think of the last thing I ate that was kept at a rolling boil for 10 minutes, and I probably don't want to. Botox is not the only thing that would eliminate.
I was able to get away with carrying a knife through the Shanghai metro, and onto the maglev to the airport. At entries to both, they x-rayed my bag and were not enthused by the knife's presence (one guard made vigorous stabbing gestures to communicate his concern). But it did not take much to assure them it was a souvenir not to be used as a weapon.

My point is perhaps you were profiled to your benefit as well.

Edit: I'm from the US.
Facebook wasn't first and had all the momentum. MySpace sold for $580M in 2005 and I'm sure Zuckerberg would have seen that as relevant to Facebook's potential value.

To answer your question as to why, Facebook is an advertising company. People pay to publish ads, they pay more for highly targeted ads which is what Facebook offers.
Seems like at best 1 out of 10 in that category qualifies.. but yes, this is just 2006, so hard to tell.
No one seems to be commenting on the fact that they are doing this all with camera's and ultrasonic sensors. No LIDAR at all, which in the short term certainly provides for a better looking car. And considering the fact that it lowers the car price by a significant factor, seems like a pretty amazing thing!
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Some fields cite more and publish more than other fields. It doesn't really make any sense to compare citation counts between fields. Moreover, Google's ranking removes review articles and many other things - it purely looks for 'new research' articles. Those get cited much less frequently than reviews or methods papers.
We have plenty of homeless here in Toronto, and having spent many days of my youth at the public libraries (at least five whole days, from open to close, in at least six locations) I can say I have never even once seen a homeless person inside for any other purpose than to use the washroom. Is your experience universal in the U.S?
Whether it is dumb or not does not matter. The facts are that biometric passports with pictures and fingerprints are the law of the land in a lot of places.

That you got away with giving them four year old pictures is good for you, I tried and was refused (and had to go make new pictures). And I haven't changed all that much (the giveaway I guess was that the picture was the same as the one I gave them last time when I applied for a passport).
I don't get that. The traffic is BLOCKED at first PoP by WAF / Firewall. Therefore NONE is hitting the backend usign Argo.
*According to Cloudflare docs / website

Why you are getting billed for something you are not using (attack is mitigated by Firewall which is paid separately - page rules) ?

Can you please elaborate more. We been thinking to enable Argo too, but this is just strange experience you are describing.

Thank you
Well, I don't want to defend or speak for North Korea. But there was a lot of anger regarding what happened to Warmbier.

Obviously NK overreacted for talking a "propaganda poster". He got XX years hard labor. But a westerner is normally kept in a hotel room in NK until an agreement has been reached and then he is released.

Warmbier had his medical "incident", as far as I know, over a year ago. So they must have fed him artificially and cared for him since. Also, AFAIK, they send an NMR image of his brain to the US doctors before he was released. I doubt that many North Koreans have access to this level of treatment.

So unfortunate this story is, I advise to use caution before reaching quick judgments.
How is this project progressing? Are the banks interested and getting on board? Are there any examples of the applications using this?
IIRC, another angle that has been proposed is to switch between the primary and secondary terminal buffers. This way, one could create a file that looks harmless when piped to the terminal but contains a hidden, malicious payload. The victim would, after manual inspection, finally pipe the file to a shell, where the payload would do something evil.
Shadows near the neck area, very similar to what most ambient occlusion algorithms would give.

Hair has a shine that would almost never happen unless you dumped an entire bottle of shampoo on your head for a week straight. It also just sinks right in, no pores, nothing.

Texture quality is still a bit low,especially on the forehead. Normal maps are off (or not there at all), so there's no bumps and crevices there. Skin is blurred (but that may be a compression artifact)

And of course, the blur feels extremely unnatural. Especially knowing the shitty photomatons 99% of people use to get their pictures taken for official purposes, they'll never have such a focus on the face and blur everything out.
The name is also a rather clever pun on an existing item of Chinese food, likely chosen precisely to avoid censorship: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22954
Along the same lines, "Four Violins": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9RTSXki8E

IIRC, this stuff influenced the Velvet Underground.
Perhaps software engineering needs more engineering and less "stack-overflow technicians".

Yet, the need to gain extensive knowledge does not require the traditional university-then-work model.
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I've still never figured out why Hacker News gradually turns down the contrast when something gets downvoted. It's the worst possible way to represent it. Absolutely frustrating.

Even though downvoted comments usually are inflammatory, sometimes I want to read the damn thing so that the rebuttals make sense.

And then every Ask HN is low-contrast. Why?
Sure, the index pages pull from the "long description" in the source's metadata file. In this ebook's case, the metadata file is here: https://github.com/standardebooks/george-meredith_the-shavin...

I've gone ahead and corrected the typo, thanks! :)
Another couple of things that I do: I disable javascript, and I use ublock-origin's element picker to hide what I don't want to see.

A normal webpage: https://blog.thekyel.com/entries/before_bullshit.png

The same page when I'm done with it: https://blog.thekyel.com/entries/after_bullshit.png

I sync those templates across my computers for sites I visit often. Makes them much more readable/useable.
I have been thinking of enabling this feature. Aside from this issue, does it make visible difference in terms of performance?
All of this speculation neglects that
1.Chemical rockets are still absurdly expensive, slow and unreliable.
2a.Terraforming Mars requires megatons of new materials/tools/robots, international/business cooperation(who owns mars?) within the context of "wild west" on Mars.
2b.Creating populated domed stations on Mars is a gimmick and lacks any cost/benefit analysis(a job better dealt with robots). Its equivalent to Antarctic stations without air.
3.People wouldn't move to Mars just because of novelty(which would wear off in a few year), there wouldn't be any tangible advantages(lower gravity=weaker bones,muscles,weak magnetic field=more radiation, less stable/diluted atmosphere) and the cost of moving or traveling to/from mars is high due #1.

In summary money is better spent on developing non-chemical spaceflight first.
Charles strauss wrote about other cool applications of the Mars rocket booster here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/09/what-els...

And If your reaction to that is "cool, but let's just build it for those reasons", you're missing the point. Mars is basically a platform for tech development and civilization building. In order to survive and thrive out there they are going to have to develop tech that will undoubtedly benefit us at home. Not just in spacecraft but in materials science, biology, computers, you name it.

We wouldnt have GPS, communications, or satellite imagery without the space programs by the time it becomes obvious what benefit it has for us, it will already have been done. Think of what terraforming will teach us about climate change and how to mitigate it's effects on Earth.

This is on top of the reason in which you have a small number of highly educated, highly skilled people allowed to make a new society on a different planet. How much faster do you think they will be able to operate without the ineffiencies of the world today? If a facist religious dictatorship ends up forbidding all technology and destroys the planet and us with it, I'd be glad that we at least have something else continuing the species. In a sense it would actually prevent that scenario from happening because of geopolitics. If your adversary is on a different planet, you better keep up with their tech or they will end up owning you.
The no contrast movement has hit restaurant menus. Between the lighting and the menu, there is just no hope in reading them if I forget reading glasses.
What's the point of the new "profile post"? What kind of content you are willing to post on your profile?
They took care of him after the incident that caused brain damage, but is there any proof the incident itself was botulism?
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In Chile, where I'm from, the institution in charge of identity cards and passports effectively does this, and as far as I'm aware, always has. It doesn't sound weird to me.
When it comes to scalability, Apache MXNet (http://mxnet.io/) is actually the best choice. Multi-GPU support and distributed training on multiple hosts are extremely easy to set up. It's also supported by Keras (still in beta, though).
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i just started doing toner transfer, and while the quality is poor i really missed being able to play around with things before buying 20 boards and waiting a week. once a software guy..

anything that would improve that process with a modest outlay would be fantastic

(it does seem like for 2k they should be integrating with a more general tabletop light duty cnc setup)
Is there no confirmation under penalty of perjury that the image provided was a photograph (and not just a likeness)? Or, is it as he claims, satisfactory according to the requisite standards?

"Artist uses a blog post to provide evidence of government falsifying documents."
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>Your passport photo is supposed to be a snapshot of what you looked like in person at a certain point in time.

Then the photo the Post Office official took fails this test. My skin is not green and my hair is not black. They sure look that way in my passport photo.

The likely effect is that my official "photo" will become an amalgamation of AI facial recognition scans at official checkpoints through time. Perhaps closer to this render than any single photo could be.

That's the scary part. The machine will simply learn to recognize me on sight. The 4th Reich won't have to demand my papers, it will already know me by heart.
As the article mentions, for the developing world (where people can't necessarily easily travel to anywhere anytime), they still have some relevance. For us, it's also a good opportunity to develop business with developing countries. Then again, they don't always have very open markets, so this applies more to folks in fields that are already largely multi-national.
TensorFlow automatically discovers and uses GPUs and multiple cores, and I'm assuming Google is working on better supporting multiple GPUs, which currently requires hacks/tweaking to get speedups (it's easy to 'use' them)

TensorFlow is a platform "winner" and approx 100% of all innovations will quickly be ported to TensorFlow - TBD which of the others will "keep up" with innovations as they continue to come out.

other recommendations:

- by default, TensorFlow allocates 100% of GPU RAM for each process. You'll want to control this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34199233/how-to-prevent-...

- Keras. yes, this. Dramatically reduces code by 2-10x, without loss of control AFAICT.

- cloud hardware. Pretty quickly, you'll want to scale and run multiple tests at once, and e.g. quickly backup & copy data, replicate system images, etc. I use Google Cloud Hosting and it's much easier (and cheaper) than AWS. Haven't tried Azure but heard good things. At least once, Google's internet bandwidth has saved hours waiting for data transfers.
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This article is not relevant to hacker news and is incredibly insensitive.

"Kanter and his colleagues say they've found no evidence that Warmbier, who has demonstrated no awareness of his surroundings, suffered from the effects of botulism — a finding that appears to contradict the explanation offered by his North Korean captors. Authorities there have said Warmbier fell into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill.

Instead, the doctors told reporters that the more likely cause of Warmbier's condition is cardiopulmonary arrest. Their tests also did not reveal any signs of physical trauma to Warmbier, such as "acute or healing fractures."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/15/533054112/...
The OP is anonymous. Are there any other SoundCloud employees willing to stand up and confirm these accusations?
No. We don't know what happened. I am not an MD. I am sure there are many options what could happened.

But the way he was taken care of and returned (they could have claimed he died) seems to suggest that he was not put into this condition on purpose.
This study should be replicated with n > 200.
I saw this recently too, in Northern California. Beware nachos from family-owned gas stations...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/23/529589579/nac...
> How is it that the zero byte is part of UTF-8 then?

It is a valid code point, just not a printable character. Unicode encodes every character that is or was in common use, not just the printable characters; this includes the control characters at the beginning of the ASCII table.
Many SoCs have under-utilized DSPs that can be used for tensorflow.

E.g. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2017/01/09/tensorflow-mach...
> What difference does Assange's personality make?

quite a lot of difference, actually. if you know someone to be driven by ego, greed, or other negative influences, then you must always question why he chooses to reveal this particular thing, at this particular time, and what other similarly important things he might be choosing not to reveal, because it doesn't suit his agenda.
As a member of Dev Bootcamp's first class in Chicago (summer 2013), which was one of the very earliest coding bootcamps, I can shed a little light on outcomes for me and all of my fellow DBC graduates. Hopefully this avoids the selection bias being discussed.

All 14 graduates are today using the skills they learned at DBC. Here is where they are:

I am the founder of Code Platoon, a nonprofit coding bootcamp for Veterans, heavily modeled after DBC. Of the remaining 13, they are :

10 are software developers,
2 are founder/presidents of small tech-enabled companies, doing development as well,
1 is an instructor at Dev Bootcamp.

I think we would all agree the Dev Bootcamp had a profound (positive) impact on our lives.