skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no fan of Equifax, but some of the most talented engineers I've worked with have been music majors, musician, etc. It has nothing to do with whether she is qualified or not for the job.

The real story here is how Marketwatch (and HN, and Reddit, and Twitter, etc) is coming to the conclusion that she is unqualified simply by looking at her LinkedIn profile. I know many security professionals that have no LinkedIn profile, or list very barebones information on it because they see themselves as targets for spear phishing and see no need to give potential attackers any easy ammunition.

From looking at her LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-m-93069a/), it looks like she also follows this practice. If you look at her previous positions they are listed simply as "Professional".

TL;DR She may indeed be unqualified, but there is no way to determine that only from her LinkedIn profile.
Here is a coal mine in Alberta [0]. If you turn on the 3D google maps, you'll see that it's at the top of a mountain. They transport the coal down into the valley and then onto rail cars.

0- https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.6515022,-114.8604751,14053a,3...
I have the same speculation as you -- the only use of dump trucks I've ever seen is to haul stuff uphill. Maybe it's different in some parts of the world, if anyone can weigh in.
South Park trolled Amazon Echo owners in the best way possible
I think you're running up against the fact that ML is a tool that can solve classification problems, which just like search in years past, has the potential to be very political.

We've mostly gotten used a world with search -- in the past it was a big political controversy that powerful groups could scan huge volumes of data for advertising, tracking, or criminal activity. There were jokes in chatrooms about using the word bomb because the FBI would pick up on it. Or that your search queries and web history would be scanned for keywords and used for ads.

Now there's this new tool that allows people/things to be grouped and classified very precisely by imprecise rules. Combine the hype about the different problems this new tool will help people solve and the inexperience that people have with the ethical ramifications of the things they build, with the crudeness of the initial implementations and it's easy to get the sense that ML will be a net bad for society -- just like search.
I remember seeing a demo of video conferencing over fiber optic lines back in '89
Option 1: your network, people that trust your skills enough to give you their things todo.

Option 2: internal project aiming for visibility.

Option 3: traditional search, but if you don't have excellent sales and marketing skills I really don't recommend it.
These creators are just great guys. Not only is this again a sign of them being on the edge of healthy creativity, but they're also the only show that just has all episodes for free to watch.

There's a documentary on how they make each show "a la carte" each week, and never missed its deadline except once, but it's often been a close call of just a few minutes.

Edit: "6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-Un8JjUwo
I don't really see how you could draw that conclusion. No. I'm saying this it makes more sense to shun people based on actions that negatively impact you, than to do so for views that are totally irrelevant.
It might be my cynicism, but in the PL literature I find "intuitive" to be a very low calorie word. Obviously you would describe your own system as "intuitive" what are you going to do, write a paper that says "we have a complicated and difficult to understand system S that..."

"intuitive" is very subjective, I think. I know lots of PL people that think that functional programming, for example, is intuitive. After many years of study and practice, I too find functional programming intuitive, but I can remember a time when I did not, but I could still program. From this I conclude that something being "intuitive" is very subjective.

Expressive power, on the other hand, I think we can put an objective definition on. My favorite take of this is Felleisen "On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages." Of course, what use is something being powerful?
> You're not dealing with projects. You're dealing with keys. It's not one key per project. It's one key per contributor.

My rough guess is that for the Python community, these are roughly proportional; there are a lot of different people maintaining approximately one library each, not a small number of people (or companies) maintaining large parts of the ecosystem. There's nothing directly like org.apache for Python.
AMD Threadripper does have 32 cores (4 real dies) after all
I have to agree, nice website!
I consider that more the reverse - do you think Gab would be seen as something to force Google to include because it would make things more "honest, equitable, and balanced"? Requiring a "sufficient level of moderation" seems reasonably aligned to following the spirit of that.
I'm reminded of a quote from something related to nonviolent communication I read. It went something like: "You cannot make someone do anything - you can only make them regret not doing what you want. And soon, you'll find they they have ways to make you regret making them regret not doing what you want."

My parents were also huge fans of the operant conditioning style. They definitely wanted to have convenient kids that fed their "I'm a good parent" ego. When I got bored and tired of school in my early teens, this caused a significant amount of conflict. I basically decided that the level of punishment they were in fact willing to inflict was my better than paying the escalating costs of keeping them happy with me.

I ended up spending a week in my room reading books with no access to things they were actually willing to take from me. They were wisely unwilling to cross the line into actual abuse - no withholding food, physical punishment, etc. It was pretty much just limited to angry lectures that I dissociated through and waiting around with books in my room. And since they had some empathy and "punish me until I improve" wasn't working, they blinked first and let up.

Anyhow, I guess my point is that this sort of thing would have been completely unacceptable to childhood-me. It would have done little other than provoke reactance. Like this:

>“Hey, buttholes!” he said. “Why don’t you leave us alone?”

>At first, nothing happened. Then there was a crackle of static, followed by a voice on the other end. “That’s a strike,” it said.

I'd have asked for another strike, and reiterated my request to be left alone. What could they do that's both not child abuse and worse than the constant surveillance? Depending on the specific context, my followup would've probably been physically destroying the cameras.
I trust Dropbox. I've never heard of Fly.

I used public links extensively and am sad to see them go.
As long as you understand their business model, that's pretty much it. With Credit Karma you are the product--they monetize your data for ads and affiliate offers, and potentially have deals with data brokers (although I can't easily confirm if that is the case or not).

But so far I haven't had issues as long as I ignore the offers. Kind of like Mint--the service is valuable enough that the value of the data I'm providing is worth it for me.
“The use of drones will reduce the need for many car errands — and their emissions”

Apparently the suburb of the future will be powered by magical fairy dust.
How We Got to Continuous Deployment at Opendoor
There are ore train cars that use regenerative braking on the way down the mountain, generating as much as 5x the power needed for the empty trip back up. Reportedly, they power the mining town at the top of the mountain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake#Conversion_...
> 12.0 x 0.50 x 0.50

I assume this means "12 cycles delay × 50% instructions can miss × 50% miss rate". But that's not really right; you're comparing against an IPC of 1 sans misprediction, with each instruction latency-1 and all of them dependent on the prior. Less importantly, you're assuming 50% of the instruction are branches, where it's really more like 25% since you have the load and add as well. Your mispredict penalty also seems a tad small.

A not-horrific compiler and a fast CPU should do far better than that, with peak IPC of just under 4 (since theoretical peak is 4 and there's generally a little overhead). Mispredicts linearize the graph, reducing IPC to some fraction, which you can guess is a bit over 1/2, since you average ~2 loops of 4 instructions per mispredict. This means you've got a reduction of slightly less than 8x.
Read the small print with credit karma. A friend told me to use it, but after reading their terms I said no way. They basically sell your info to other companies. Which should be obviois if you realize they need to make money some how.
python-dev thread:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-September/...
Audio is a terribly insecure channel to accept commands through. You presume no one else has access to the device because it is physically locked in your house, but sound travels through walls and through speakers. Heck, you can even make a window pane into a speaker with some simple gear.

It's no big deal when the worst case scenario is being served up a search result you don't need or listening to a song you didn't request, but you definitely wouldn't want to link voice recognition tech up to anything non-reversible like a stock trade or the lock on your front door.
Google Play Services offers a lot of baked functionality many apps have come to rely on.
(On windows) A 70MB download for a terminal? I'm already suspicious. This better not be an electron app :)

A yearly subscription, too? ugh.

Edit: It is an electron app. Pretty, though.
Word on the street was that they were planning on including both TouchID and FaceID in the X, but scrapped it earlier this year due to low yields during mass production[0].

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/12/apple-struggling-with-t...
I hadn't heard of that at all! Thanks. I'll check it out.
No doubt the skeptics will continue to contort themselves into creating even more contrived scenarios.
Given the rumors that they were trying to embed it into the screen, my guess is that 11 will had both FaceID and screen embedded TouchID
Isn't that only on mobile? I've had to push back on looping video backgrounds from designers far too many times to count.
It is open source so anyone could submit a PR for it though they might get more help if the drop svn and go with Github.
Federighi has been with Apple/NeXT for at least 27 years. I worked with him in 1996.
Me too. Both are great.
I think had a book been written where the parents paid to have this level of monitoring and treatment of their family, it would've been seen as too implausible.
Of course they did. This was even briefly touched on in the announcement demo.
And yet in every typo squatting case, there's multiple projects leading back to a single contributor. It's almost like noticing a little known nobody sneaking to the front of the Pareto distribution would be a huge red flag.
The inside story of 'brain' of the iPhone X: the A11 Bionic chip
Hadn't seen that one. Brilliant, and absolutely true.
>But I've wondered if they had anyone "red team" to see if they could fool it.

It would be a phenomenal oversight on their part if they failed to do this. As in, the only reason I wouldn't deem it criminal negligence would be because the legal bar for that WRT people's personal data is so low.
> You're not dealing with projects. You're dealing with keys. It's not one key per project. It's one key per contributor. This has the added bonus that if a contributor goes rogue, you can revoke the one key and all the suspect projects are are invalidated at once.

you cannot locate said rogue contributor without regularly manually reviewing 117,226 packages.
The photo of the masks they had Hollywood make for them for testing was quite memorable.
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Headlines like these are why companies list relevant college degrees as job requirements.
> Faces are less private than fingerprints

Possibly, but it's also easy to pick up someone's fingerprint from anything they've touched after the fact. With faces, you have to actively record/3D scan someone. It's not clear whether e.g. security cam footage will be sufficient fidelity to reconstruct a 3D face in enough detail, but this will be interesting to find out.

In case anyone missed it, Apple claimed false positive rates for Touch ID were 1 in 50,000 and for Face ID were 1 in 1,000,000.

> Statistics about the false-positive rate are mostly meaningless in an adversarial case.

I imagine what those special effect masks were for, to test for the adversarial case. I also imagine that's why there's an IR camera too -- I'm not sure what wavelength of IR this is, but it seems distinct from the depth mapping, and would be more difficult to fool on a mask.
So some years ago, a company you'd recognize in node.js land, said at a meeting that they were trying to find a javascript expert. Nagged enroute to a bar afterwards, I explained that I wasn't one. I'd never written a full javascript implementation, only some hack bits and pieces. It had been years since I followed committee discussions. I'd not even seen the latest draft. And that I was mostly using coffeescript these days. They replied... coffeescript is ok, we can train you in javascript.

At which point I realized that they were using "javascript expert" to mean something very, very different, than I was.

Perhaps kcorbitt's "a good senior developer" means something different than glassdoor's "senior software engineer"?
Our effective tax rate was 34% in CA. :-/ Not counting sales taxes or property taxes, since we rent and the amount that's passed on to us isn't clear. Our marginal tax, though, is 52%.
To be fair you can do a lot with simple heurestics. New package + large number of downloads || new package || new package author = show users a warning message before installing the package.
Face ID doesn't work if your eyes are closed. Sure, there are situations where that won't be tolerated, but it's a start.
Can confirm those numbers in the Toronto area. Maybe not at the absolute top end or the levels where job postings aren't even put out, but in the rank-and-file corporate and startup community, just take a look at any major job board lately.
And everyone looks like an idiot in a bear market?
My first thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_does_not_exist
So, Where do we draw the line between a company rightfully refusing to host inappropriate content and a company "abusing" its network effects?.

Where do we draw the line between a company "abusing" its network effects and a company avoiding being abused by other companies? (e.g. Imagine a app store that distributes only free software backed by a big corp, then a small proprietary app maker complains that they don't want to accept their app because its proprietary).

Is the size of the company the criteria that decides if they are in the right or in the wrong?
>I hate Disqus with a passion and wish horrible flaming death upon it

I mostly just ignore it, why do you hate it with such intensity? hahah
Quoted bullet points FTA:

- If you haven’t used Face ID in 48 hours, or if you’ve just rebooted, it will ask for a passcode.

- If there are 5 failed attempts to Face ID, it will default back to passcode. (Federighi has confirmed that this is what happened in the demo onstage when he was asked for a passcode — it tried to read the people setting the phones up on the podium.)

- Developers do not have access to raw sensor data from the Face ID array. Instead, they’re given a depth map they can use for applications like the Snap face filters shown onstage. This can also be used in ARKit applications.

- You’ll also get a passcode request if you haven’t unlocked the phone using a passcode or at all in 6.5 days and if Face ID hasn’t unlocked it in 4 hours.

Lots of people in the threads here yesterday seemed to misunderstand how these things are implemented. Importantly, you cannot set up FaceID without first setting up a password (biometrics are a carrot for getting users to set up passwords, not intended to subsume passwords), and you'll still be prompted for a passcode around once a week so you won't go forgetting it.
I'd say comparable in harm to drugging the kid but far more harmful than using a nanny. I don't see an issue with a nanny, especially one who is long term, bonds emotionally with the kid(s), and who is compensated fairly.
Same...I think it's sad that people who theoretically know how to 'code' (writing music, converting music notation into sounds) and spend thousands of hours on a rigorous practice are cast as being useless to the modern workforce.

I feel like music majors have to be very technical and studious...something that really does transfer well to any other field if they put their mind to it.
That the author writes for a company that sells products (tools for analyzing dns and web shenanigans) doesn't make the post an'ad' does it? What struck me in particular was that if it's this easy (granted, using custom tools) to track these kinds of activities, why doesn't Google do it for us and block these (long list of related) domains from search results?
> The TV producers have learned

Not to detract from your point, but to reinforce it: TV producers didn't "learn" as if through trial and error, but something far more sinister. They, and commercial producers, employ actual child psychologists to study the underlying mechanisms of attention in actual children to maximize the impact of their "product".
Your beliefs don't play into it at all. It's working 'as designed'
> It needs to be done locally in order to be secure

You know that. I know that. Technical personnel generally know that.

"The suits", however, will find some way to profit from collecting biometric data, at which point "appealing to security" will cease to be relevant (to them).
One scenario where it would be really useful is being pulled over in a car. Give your phone a quick squeeze before you even stop the car. It'll also be a more convenient way to disable the feature before going through customs.

The tech community's reaction to this stuff seems to boil down to "it does not solve every single problem therefore it is pointless." Which is silly, although to be fair it seems to be the tech community's reaction to a lot of things.
Didn't Google have this issue with a Burger King commercial? Shouldn't Amazon have learned from that, and tried to cut this kind of thing off?
Awesome to get all the attention. We've been working on this product for a bit, with everybody worried about this in a timely way we thought we'd push it out soon, and some social attention is great as launch is right around the corner. CK brought some evolution to free credit score years ago, last year we brought it to tax, and this year we start on the ID monitoring space. The hope is the same credit karma promise and package (always free, monitor the data, notify you if an issue comes up, give context on how to fix it, and try to help people make progress) works in this space. We're hiring a few more senior full stack engineers for the team and if you are interested in identity monitoring, dark web monitoring, data security, batch processing, and helping people we'd love to have you. Feel free to hit me up via email matt _at_ creditkarma.com.
"leave me alone. I am watching ipad"

Imagine you lived in a house with no doors. People could come and go as they please, and they did. There wasn't any corner or closet where you were guaranteed solitude. Moreover, you were _stuck_ in that house, as you had no means to leave of your own accord, even just to walk down the block alone.

I think my son first barked, "stop talking", to us before he was 2. That first time he was just tired of being peppered with questions and wanted to be let alone. No devices were involved. Sometimes he says that or something like it when he's being reprimanded, which is of course not acceptable. But in any event I've always tried to appreciate the sentiment. I appreciate (and require) solitude more than my wife, so perhaps I more sensitive to that need, or at least more credulous.
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Not true. He was at Oracle around 1992 where he worked on "druid" user interface builder, then he went to NeXT where we worked on WebObjects then he went to Ariba where he was CTO, then to Apple. (Source: I worked alongside him in the early 90's.)
>you cannot locate said rogue contributor without regularly manually reviewing 117,226 packages.

Herd immunity. Someone is out there reviewing it. Most users won't need to lift a finger beyond verifying signatures.
I had the same intuition, but if anyone is out there wondering -- there's a hidden source of energy: all the energy that goes into arranging the trash at the top of the hill in the first place.

So the energy that the truck is gaining is really the stored potential energy you got from the kinetic energy of bringing your food home from the store (or other similar things).

I think the idea is really clever, to utilize that kind of latent stored energy to make your trip more efficient.
I want to see some hair reconstruction!
Doesn't an electric train have overhead power cables?
Tim Cook's voice (or someone else from the presentation) enabled Siri on my phone during the iPhone X event (watching over YouTube). I thought it was supposed to be locked to my own voice though?
Was it called G.O.A.T. by any chance?

In all seriousness though, that's one of the reasons I dislike academia. It seems to have a propensity towards limiting people, maybe it's just been my experience so far.
The future of the suburbs depends greatly on renewable, clean sources of energy. Reuse and recycling of resources is also important, but for things like power lines or water pipes, seems less so (more for things like those self-driving-electric-cars everyone's waiting for to give them suburbs + not having to drive in stop and go traffic).

Of course, so does the future of the city, just in a denser package, so it has better per-capita figures in many ways - but is there a scenario where we can get enough of it to power cities but not cities + suburbs? That seems unlikely to me.
This is the same as Touch ID with the exception of the 4 hour rule and that you cannot get any data from the fingerprint sensor at all directly.
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That's not a theory, that's someone injecting creation myth into science.

It violates Occam's Razor badly.

It is less plausible than life just starting on earth.

There is no good reason for adding the complexity of starting elsewhere, surviving being blasted off planetary surface, surviving long enough to reach earth, somehow reaching earth, surviving reentry, surviving alien conditions on earth, and somehow thriving... while the original source died off and/or cannot be found, if talking about Mars.

It is miraculous thinking, and has no place alongside more reasonable ideas.
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I guess it depends on what your cutoff is for "good". I can say from firsthand experience that senior developers at Facebook or Google are hitting those numbers pretty easily.
- If there are 5 failed attempts to Face ID…

This is what the article says, but it's also been reported to take just 2 failures with Face ID before requiring a passcode (as opposed to 5 with Touch ID). I can't remember now if that was said by Apple directly on Tuesday, but I've seen the "2" figure reported several places, so I'm not certain which is right.

EDIT: It's apparently been clarified to be 5 on both Touch ID and Face ID — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/localauthenticatio...