skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not entirely sure but there maybe some truth to the suggestion that animals can sense earth quakes in advance
- https://goo.gl/j4sLFw
- https://goo.gl/YrSzJm

How about a pet owner data collective that predicts earthquakes? It would work by having some sort of Fitbit accessory for our pets which would collect and share their electrical signals via an app. Machine learning could then correlate these signals with actual earthquake activity and learn how to predict quakes (or if we would be able to predict them). Maybe just in time before the next big one hits the Bay Area :-) .
Science cannot be "broken". The sum of our current understanding can be incorrect, misguided but not broken. The only thing that would "break" science is if we somehow incontrovertibly showed that knowledge cannot be acquired: an oxymoron.

Thankfully the narrative of the article does meander through such thinking, but never acknowledges it.
Crust has fiber.
Sufficient side-channel resistance for real world uses, sufficient GPU resistance. It's the best of both worlds. It's also going to be the libsodium default in the next release.

It's literally two passes that are memory independent, then two that are memory dependent, when r = 4.
Some amusing quotes:

"A closely related problem is that of distinguishing between physical systems such as digital computers, which appear to compute, and physical systems such as rocks, which appear not to compute. Unlike computers, ordinary rocks are not sold in computer stores and are usually not considered computers. Why? What do computers have that rocks lack, such that computers compute and rocks don't? (If indeed they don't?) In other words, what does it take for a computation to be implemented in a concrete physical system? Different answers to these questions give rise to different accounts of concrete computation."

...

"Consider a rock under the sun, early in the morning. During any time interval, the rock's temperature rises. The rock goes from temperature T to temperature T+1, to T+2, to T+3. Now consider a NOT gate that feeds its output back to itself. At first, suppose the NOT gate receives ‘0’ as an input; it then returns a ‘1’. After the ‘1’ is fed back to the NOT gate, the gate returns a ‘0’ again, and so on. The NOT gate goes back and forth between outputting a ‘0’ and outputting a ‘1’. Now map physical states T and T+2 onto ‘0’; then map T+1 and T+3 onto ‘1’."

According to the simple mapping account, the rock implements a NOT gate undergoing the computation represented by ‘0101’.

By contast, according to the counterfactual account, the rock's putative computational implementation is spurious, because the physical state transitions do not support counterfactuals. If the rock were put in state T, it may or may not transition into T+1 depending on whether it is morning or evening and other extraneous factors. Since the rock's physical state transitions that map onto the NOT gate's computational state transitions do not support counterfactuals, the rock does not implement the NOT gate according to the counterfactual account."
Although I would like to expand on my true if I may. The dribble of defectors to the completion fuels a virtous cycle, I myself migrated to Pixelmator (I have little use for vector as a marketer) and since then I have seen its capabilities jump.

I like to think those capabilities jumped because the new influx of Adobe refugees provided them with enough revenue to supplement their dev team. Or am I wrong?

I would argue that the more psychos in the market, the better for startups and I am quite comfortable with that idea.
If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where.

And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not visually impaired. For the person who is, every single thing they look at and read is going to be recorded and used.

It's an unfortunate situation for people to put in, and I'm sure everyone will choose using improvements like this over not using them. As much as I would love to see a focus on privacy for projects like this, I don't imagine it happening any time soon, given how powerful the data involved is.

I imagine a future where AI assistants like this are commonplace, and there is no escaping them.
Not really snark. It is, as evidenced here, apparently an issue some people are confused about.
Yes! It includes a great track called "Palo Alto".

As someone who lives in the area I've always been curious how it came about, especially circa 1996/97.
As long as they're inclined to seek out females in the wild and spread the mosquito STD, they could be just as useful as males :)
This is easy to dispute. A lot of restaurants operate on a razor's edge of profitability. More restaurants fold every year than VC firms. Restaurants tend to be operated by middle class people with weaker backup plans than venture capital firms, which are staffed by investment bankers, most of whom have Ivy League pedigrees --- in fact, most of whom collect 2/20 on funds invested no matter how bad the quality of their dealflow gets.

Meanwhile, these same VCs that people on this thread are champing at the bit to defend routinely create blacklists of founders, which they'll share with competitors to fuck people over. If they don't like you, they'll take meetings with you, telling you the whole time that they can't wait to get you a term sheet, and then take your slide deck and their notes from the meeting and send them to portfolio companies and other VCs for competitive intel†.

It's a little silly to think we're going to feel sorry for these people in this situation.

Really, the distinction is that it's important to some people that we all believe a large fraction of sexual harassment complaints are bogus. It's got nothing to do with the impact of YC shunning you, and everything to do with the politics of the issue.

† Ask me how I know this. But, I mean, you already know how I know this.
If you have a decent credit rating then a new car loan will typically have a lower interest rate than a home mortgage. Car manufacturer captive lenders subsidize the rates to increase sales. And most consumers will default on their car loan last because they need the car to get to work. If you're desperate you can always sleep in your car but you can't drive your house.
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Would you mind specifying these smaller vendors and a few details about your experiences?
I like to think that if I ever gained the ability to execute preimage attacks, solve P=NP, etc. I would use it to troll everyone by making my passwords hash into "password", grabbing heylookicrackedpublickeyencryption.onion, and emailing prominent security researchers messages signed with their own keys.
Yes...translating to Australian is a slow and tedious process.
Its the same in Australia
+1 to volunteers and FYIFV. Can attest to both of these.
Hrmm. "funded until Q4" does not necessarily mean "funded until the beginning of Q4".
What's commendable also is that Microsoft has released a free app on Apple store.
"No such thing is suggested"

How much more explicit do you need me to be?
Got a ton on flame for this post. Probably should've avoided "Tesla fanboy" part. Lesson learned.

But look, if you reference other articles, Audi can only do self-driving when: "In slow-moving traffic on divided highways at speeds of 37.3 mph and under only. " (TechCrunch).

Tesla can already do that. It simply require the driver to keep hands on the steering because it also allows for all the other options, and Tesla doesn't want you to let go of the wheel and run over a human.

Note that Audi isn not saying their car will do self-driving in the city, with pedestrians throwing themselves onto the road. NO, it will ONLY do it on highways, while in slow traffic. So Audi can only do self-driving when the car is barely in motion and the possibility of interference is close to zero.

That's like calling yourself a University Professor because you wear a checkered jacket with elbow patches.
Chrome no likey the SSL cert
Trump Administration to Slash Green Cards by 50%, Affecting H1-B/EB
Recursion: hacking a customer development survey to assessment the customer development needs of hackers.
I just noticed now, 4 days late, that I wrote APFS but meant HFS+. Sorry.
Projecting a visual image directly into the brain, bypassing the eyes
This might make Erlang practical for FAAS. I also wonder if this will work with Elixir (since Elixir might have extra modules being loaded in too).

I'm not sure why one would do that as opposed to say, running things with JavaScript (ubiquity) or Ruby/Python (library support). I like Elixir, though I recognize that many of Erlang's advantages is in concurrency and control.
So the line breaks and stuff are fine on the right? I could argue that _any_ line break in CSS is extraneous whitespace, so why are some line breaks OK but others not?
Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials
My point is that no one supports any of those things that would actually help either and I don't think it's because they would upset the social order because the social order wouldn't change. I used minimum wage as an example because it without a doubt will not upset the social order, not necessarily because it is the best example. Substitute whatever you want in there and the argument is the same.
This was the name of Elon Musk's banking startup which later merged with PayPal. Elon acquired the domain recently, though we don't know what he will use it for.
So best advice for VCs not to get on the blacklist, don't deal with women.

Best advice for startups, deal with people on the blacklist, less competition.
Except after you're done, you get paid like $500 per hour
Opposite in Canada, you "can" say sorry, and it can not be used as admission of guilt or fault.
No. Just for reference. :)
if you have counterexamples then you are right and I am wrong.

I shot you an email asking for details of your counterexamples and will write in a reply if in my opinion they falsify my claim. (Or you can include them here if they're public.)

I'm open to the idea that I was wrong.
No that's not how it works. Most SFH owners are more concerned with quality of life issues (traffic, crime, noise, school access) than with property values.
thanks for the information. kind of weird it's not really publicized anymore. Any major products that came out recently as a result? if I recall, Google maps started out that way...

maybe you guys don't like to talk about it anymore though...
One of New York's special public schools not only teaches latin, they require everyone to take four years of it: Brooklyn Latin School [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Latin_School
He didn't say that when he was using end-to-end encryption.
I want this to be a big thing.
It's notable this was a experiment from a Chinese university - in the 1950's and 1960's there was significant role reversals in Chinese society - landlords had their land confiscated, and those who resisted were rounded up and killed. This was followed up by the Great Leap Forward movement which ended up with millions dying from starvation.
I'm impressed. Good job MS
Based on booty, both kinds.
I've always found "A Painless Guide to CRC Error Detection Algorithms" [1] from the zlib site pretty useful and easy to understand. Once you understand polynomial division, things start making a lot more sense.

[1] https://zlib.net/crc_v3.txt
If you knew the hash being used you could just brute force them.
> Google or any other cloud provider could spin up a service that pairs drivers with ride-seekers.

People said the same thing about Google Plus and yet they completely failed. Its not so easy as it looks even if you have billions in the bank.
Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet
I feel like I've seen that font before, on non-Apple electronic products, where it was used for similar serialisation and part numbering purposes. It actually looks like a monospace version of http://www.identifont.com/find?font=code&q=Go

I wonder if Apple actually designed this font, or just asked for permission and extracted it from the built-in font of some industrial printing machine.
As ogdan mentioned, if you're posting something you need to be that concerned about, you just should be using TOR.
The way the data was structured is they were asked what is the MOST important factor (you can only chose one) whereas other parts of the survey were what are the important factorS.. Might create the confusion.
Just as an extra piece of information for people, the person presenting the videos in that page is Saqib Shaikh, who is a developer at Microsoft. Earlier on HN, there was a really interesting video of him giving a talk about how he can use the accessibility features in visual studio to help him code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0
Looks like this is only for iOS, any plans on coming to Android?
Hope this becomes big, all the best. The beginnings are extremely promising. My biggest motivation behind seeing this succeed is that this is a free software alternative to Android.
I think it's a good point and it could be more than wealth but also security... A social hierarchy undergoing chaotic changes could even pose danger to one's life - and in such a scenario you don't want to pick a side.
Hooking a web page to Firebase with Vue.js
A few years ago ... http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-03/malcolm-turnbull-us...
Besides, the individual rf components like synthesizers, attenuators, switches etc. that make up a system are all digitally controlled. You don't need much of a microcontroller to control them - I generally just use a PIC - but you need something.

And once you have a product with a serial or USB interface, some manager is sure to ask if you can add a LAN connection.
While I realize the two are entirely different platforms, they need to partner with Spotify. To do what, I don't know, but Spotify seems to have figured it out.

I'm an artist (at least on the side); all my friends — artists and fans alike — love SoundCloud. There's no real alternative to it.

The problem they're solving is a hard one. Not technically, but the market. Spotify solved the problem with music piracy (at least, en masse); SoundCloud... I don't know.
Even if half of the hardware features don't work, having a working, standards based linux image for old cell phones is super useful for prototyping random IoT devices.

An old cell phone is like a raspberry pi, if a pi had a built in touchscreen, camera, microphone, battery, wifi, and gps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
These are all definitely applications of ML we've seen around in different places, but this is the first package I've seen to put them together in an integrated way on a smartphone.

I'm also impressed with Microsoft's effort here. It looks pretty nice, especially the different 'channels' metaphor for the various ML processing tasks (Scene, barcode, people, short text etc) for the visually impaired.
When / did he stop?
I'd say anticipated exit, comparable companies, competitive pressure and desired ownership play the role of social proof. For revenue, most likely related to the business model.

The interesting distinction in the report was between deal flow and deal selection. VCs care more about deal selection. For deal flow most of it is in their own network or through syndicates.

For the 90% fail 10% success you can look at exit multiples coupled with type of exit (M&A, IPO, failure).

My hypothesis is that most of them dont really have a proprietary deal flow and are unable to make great deal selection apart from the top VCs..
That's pretty interesting, and seems like an "obvious" use for drones.

I bought a flat in Helsinki last year, and the online marketing included all the stuff you'd expect - location, details of sauna, rates, floor-plan, etc - as well as a video (hosted on youtube) which was obviously taken by a drone flying around the interior.

Had it been a freestanding house, instead of a flat, I'm sure the drone would have shown the exterior in a useful way too.
Using geomagnetic interference data for indoor positioning has already been in place for some time, but glad to see it getting more traction in adoption.

The original researchers have started a PaaS solution providing an API that you can hook into your apps today, allowing you to get (lat, lng) coordinates inside mapped structures. One needs to build path-finding on top of that though.

http://www.indooratlas.com/
4Chan starts dropping 0-day vulnerabilities without vendor notification
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what skills I need?
and where to get them?
Any homemade Labs I can do (Virtual machines) ?
Also on the technical side, the fact that Microsoft (Microsoft!) is releasing an iOS-only app, even if it comes from its research department, is maybe more shocking than its open-source releases of late. Who are you, Microsoft?!
Too many Kids and Pets die of heatstroke every year after being left in vehicles - https://goo.gl/FFDbEr

How about an internet connected Amazon Echo like device that with camera and vision analysis https://goo.gl/SoUzEi . It can basically learn to
- subtract the vehicle https://goo.gl/x4uKVU
- sense when temperatures are at dangerous levels
- Take a picture and send it to certain pre determined phones alerting the owners that a kid or pet might be in the car.

Maybe we can even wire the car to switch on air conditioning till help arrives, alert local authorities to go check on the car etc.

Another way to have an API that would let sites like reddit, hacker news, you tube have a live feed of "potential kid in hot car" images that could crowd source a second level of human verification.
This piece is interesting. Reminds me of a little of endless.horse from a couple years back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558687
Whoops, I stated that backwards. My time is more valuable than the CPU's most of the time.
Any reason why you lay blame on Redis and not Gitlab? Gitlab is what's in charge of serving and rendering the pages, after all.
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The issues you had may have come from GitLab not having enough resources available to handle everything, as opposed to Redis itself; anecdotally, I have an application with a couple thousand keys in it that only uses ~5MiB of RAM.
> logic is the first causality

Probably the opposite of your intended meaning heh
Can I drop you a mail, I would be interested to explore where its incorrect.

Also please remember that the survey simplifies the reality by putting everything in the same model of deal selection.

From a practical standpoint I have some VCs friends that use a model similar to this and others dont.
I've worked for an IoT company once where random old Android phones were sometimes called "best Raspberry Pi ever made".
Any technical reason not to use a QR code?
“Send Me” by SFMOMA (Text something, get art back)
I've said this before but... I really do not get California's obsession with cars. Of all the places you'd want to be walkable, one that is nice outside almost all the time and gets no real winter to speak of seems like an ideal spot. But no... all the walkable cities are in areas that get run over by a glacier for six months out of the year.
I think you misread my comment. I agree that income will be affected. I agree it's not perfect and that it needs to be moderated and substantiated.
It makes sense to start with iOS anyway, it's known for having great accessibility. A lot of people with accessibility needs use iOS for that reason.
It was very unjudgey about my living room too.
They can't recognize things upside down.
Pushed on how encrypted messages could be read when service providers don't hold the keys necessary decryption, and Turnbull had this to say:

Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/07/14/uk_spookhas_gch...
Wow. You can imagine a near future where this, a small wearable camera and an earphone could really make a big difference to a persons daily life.

Screw Siri, thats a real AI assistant :)
> So I think the argument was that it made economic sense for a single organization to own all the wires, so it could maintain them with a set of common specifications and processes.

Well, sort of. At least insofar as The Idea Factory describes it, AT&T was able to maintain its monopoly for a large number of reasons: first-mover advantage, vertical integration (through Western Electric), wartime value, political connections, public perception, and so on. It is true, though, that once people realized a monopoly was not necessarily the best state of the industry, the winds started shifting.

> So my question is: Is it possible there will be a breakthrough in decentralized distributed computing?

One could make the argument that the idea of the blockchain and the rise of Bitcoin and Ethereum embody this (:

> Centralized distributed computing will always be more efficient than decentralized distributed computing (?) I'm not aware of any fundamental theorems here but it seems within the realm of possibility.

The speed of light comes to mind, which places a hard minimum on the speed of network communications.
Thought provoking:

"The expressive power of real numbers may be used to generate a simple recipe to obtain the values of a Turing-uncomputable function. Consider that the digital expansion of a real number contains countably many digits. Hence, for any characteristic function (i.e., a function whose values are ‘0’ or ‘1’) defined over a countable domain, including all Turing-uncomputable such functions, there is a real number whose binary expansion encodes its values. This is because for all values of a characteristic function, the nth value of the function may be defined to be the nth digit of the binary expansion of a real number.

Suppose you wish to know the value of a specific Turing-uncomputable characteristic function, such as the halting function for Turing machines, for its nth argument. Take the real number r whose digital expansion encodes the values of the halting function. All you need to do is obtain the value of the nth digit in the binary expansion of r and you have the result you desire. If you can do this, you may obtain any value of any characteristic function defined over strings, including all Turing-uncomputable such functions."
Probably so it’s human readable.
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The reason Chinese/Indians have huge delays is because of the sheer numbers who apply for green card. What does race have to do with it. The OP might be an Indian Italian.
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