skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there is a low-pass filter on Alexa's microphone? Triggering your Alexa with ultrasonic commands outside of normal human hearing would be even more entertaining. Ads already embed ultrasonic chirps to some extent for tracking purposes.
That's not what the data actually shows:

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-softw...
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Senior_Software_Engi...
https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Senior-Software-Engineer-Sal...
the problem is not JS, problem is people are not using the latest version of browsers. if you have to still support IE because your clients still use it, I don't see how WebAssembly can help!
Absolutely stunning! Congrats!

Thanks for releasing paper & source to play with!
Red Herring to irrelevant what she majored in in college. C level employees are not in the weeds or frontline when it comes to security anyway. At worst, she could be blamed for not having the correct vision or grasping the scope of importance securing this data required. As long as she hired and trusted the right people that is all that really matters. A breach like this is more than just one persons fault...
> 508 Resource Limit Is Reached

The network ate my webpage...
Why are you throwing "knee-jerk naysaying" and having a conscience and an awareness of the recklessness and greed of some, and of the lack of spine of others in one bucket?

What about the knee-jerk cheerleading? How does that express more and deeper interest than discussing potential pitfalls? I don't know about anyone else, but when I code I spend more time thinking about what could go wrong and how to address that, than admiring the parts that work perfectly.

When someone gushes at the mouth about how "awesome" it is that it took many very talented people a lot of time to make a toaster play music, the heretics are quiet already. What more do you want?

There seems to be a trade-off of chilling effects here, on the one hand, nobody would show off things they made to a community that just bashes it, on the other hand, nobody would show off their serious thoughts to a community that just wants fluff.

> sometimes relevant and valuable when they have actual numbers behind them

Oh, "actual numbers". Do you have any actual numbers proving they aren't held to the standard they should be held to? If you do, I changed my mind, I now want actual Egyptian hieroglyphs of a seer announcing you making that claim; I can make up arbitrary, oddly convenient demands too.
The way I read it is that: hey, they hired a person whose most relevant experience is a music degree. Of course, the title certainly leads itself to other interpretations.
Using Abrade-an open-source webAPI scraper-to scrape Ring Doorbell videos
We're arguing past each other then. I have no doubt that evolution is the essential thing that made us capable of unsupervised learning. That's not the central point of the debate for me. What I'm talking about is the problem of replicating that ability (unsupervised learning) in AI systems. We don't have the luxury of billions of years of evolution to do it. So we need to engineer another way.

I understood your previous comments as diminishing the sheer amount of unsupervised learning we do as humans.
1993 AT&T Vision of the future video nails it
> no evidence whatsoever is provided for it. Could it be that the New York Times writers are projecting their slavish political devotion onto the rest of us?

It is important to note this is in the opinion section. This is written by a professor at MIT, not anyone on the NYTimes staff. ( https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/alan-berger )

> Once we're all married with school-age kids, we will choose to move out to the plain, boring suburbs just like the generations before us.

You provide no evidence for this, and the evidence is strong against you. Nearly everyone who wants to show "suburb preference" tries to show that "hey, when people turn 30-35, they still tend to move to the suburbs", which is no surprise. And the opinion article in the NYTimes even does this. That is "lifecycle change" and obviously will occur.

But the question is whether there has been generational change. Are a higher percentage of 35 year olds living in the city than there were 15 years ago? Are a higher percentage of families choosing to live in cities than 15 years ago? The answers to these questions is yes, indicating a generational change towards the city. You see new groups popping up pushing for better facilities for strollers. They have become common enough on public transit that Boston tried to ban them. That's an indication that people are no longer fleeing to the suburbs once they have kids.

I don't have a convenient graph for city vs. suburbs, but I do have one for the somewhat related homeownership[0]. What the graph shows is that yes, there is a lifecycle where more people own homes as they get older, but there is also a generational change where 2014's 42 year old is less likely to own a home than 2001's 42 year old. And the same for pretty much every age from 20-65.

[0] https://goo.gl/wp1eQu
The headline does not match the article that I admittedly skimmed. The headline assumes that you, the reader, are Equifax's customer ("your business"). That's not true, and the article even says so:

"Credit reporting businesses have been built primarily to serve banks and credit card companies, not the consumers they monitor."

So, yeah, big shocker that they haven't beefed up their phone staffing for individual consumers.
Speaking of unconventional system stuff in Go, Google has a Linux boot FS, which, instead of featuring the usual BusyBox, ships with an init, the Go toolchain and a source tree. The /bin replacements are symlinks as expected, but the twist is that they point to a binary that is compiled on first boot.

http://u-root.tk/
A relevant note from the interview is official confirmation that the 5-presses-of-sleep/wake-disables-Touch-ID is intended as a privacy move. (and adds new info that the iPhone 8 has an easier squeeze-only trigger for this feature.)
>Isn't that why we take tests in school?

Maybe not. I remember (but don't have on hand) that people who studied a novel concept for 1 hour and then were tested on it for 1 hour, without seeing the result of the testing, bettered recalled the content than those who studied it for 2 hours. Granted, lots of variants of such a study should be performed before drawing strong conclusions, but it may be that back propagation isn't much used.

>I see a stove eye is black when cold, then when I see it turn red, I touch it. Ow, it hurts. That's supervised learning.

Yet most people learn to avoid glowing hot things without having to touch them. I can be told something red that isn't normally red is a danger, and I learn without ever having to touch one and be told my touching it was the wrong course of action. There is also interesting things that happen with sensation vs perception. Ever burn yourself with really hot metal that wasn't glowing? When I did, my fingers perceived extreme cold, not heat. You can also do the reverse by getting a rod made to look like it is glowing hot, chilling it until it is really cold, and hitting someone with it. They'll perceive being burned.
I think we're talking past each other. I agree that's why YC banned him. I agree that he said that thing on the Facebook thread. But he said other things as well, and, apparently, other things prior to that Facebook thread.
Check out DolphinAttack

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21HjF4A3WE4

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.09537.pdf
"of a company handling important private financial data of more or less the whole population of the United States" would be more relevant than the market cap here, I think.
Inferior initially but they may become superior in the long run at least in some specific aspects.
the quote was "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory."

"640K... nobody would ever need that much memory" was just a contraction

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
If you look at the .obj model file that you can download you can see exactly how accurate it it. The mesh is dense and the detail is not. The detail that it does have however is very plausible.
Nice catch! Thank
Trump attacks ESPN after host tweets unprofessional remarks
They are at fault because they are systematically underpaying women of equal qualifications.

It does not matter what the "reason" is. It does not matter if the bias is because equally skilled women merely ask for raises less often.

If for any reason at all, you are systematically underpaying certain groups that are equally qualified and equally productive, you are legally liable and the onus is on you to fix it.
so a college degree in Computer Science, where they recycle old final exams would have save the day? How many degree holders can even go back and pass the final exams, cramming knowledge for a test is not an indicator for security competence
> how does anyone expect to build this stuff, when we can't even build regular housing, anywhere near the amount that is required to match demand.

You can't in SF, NY, LA... other areas don't have this problem.

If your biggest desire is to have your housing not cost more than 60% of your paycheck, move to the suburbs of somewhere like Dallas. You'll be shocked at how many millennials can afford to have nice apartments or even buy homes without spending close to that, percentage-wise. Sure, they're doing it on a later schedule than the baby boomers, but in a lot of places that's a separate discussion of higher education requirements, student loan situations, etc, not terribly inflated housing costs.

But long-term-wealth-wise it might be better to land a top-tier job in an expensive city making $100K more a year in some combo of cash and equity and plowing that back into some of that expensive housing. Bit of a gamble, though. But if you aren't making more than (rough first guess, I feel on the too-low side with what I'm seeing rent-wise these days) $120K early in your career in one of the super-expensive cities, or have a clear path to well eclipsing that, you'd probably be much more comfortable making $70-100K in one of the cheaper, more southern, booming-yet-still-building-housing regions.
You know that "only asking" is a well known trolling technique, right?

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
It isn't "gone", by any stretch.

Its images and the research directions it spawned will live on far longer than anything most of us will hope to every be able to bring into the world, or otherwise accomplish.
It is not only you. It exposes everybody to be blackmailed by the government or who every gets hold of the information. Judges, politicians, businessmen, scientists, journalists, etc, etc. It weakens the democratic fabric.
For Google Now that demand is reasonable but Amazon Echo is designed to be triggered by anyone in the room, not just a specific owner.
Speak for yourself and your own city. My city doesn't really have a housing problem and I'd bet a vast majority in the US don't either. I'm easily a 15 min train ride from downtown and I have a huge back yard, garden, and space for my kayaking stuff.

Sure it's pricey in the city centers but not outrageous. It's only my California friends who are complaing, and to some extent Seattle.

If you're spending 60% of your income on housing you can easily find work elsewhere, take a pay cut, and still make out ahead. I spend 20% of my net pay on rent after taxes, insurance and 401k.
Maybe that's what They tried in Cuba? ;)
I dont think it is audio frequency, it must be microwave or just plain old chemical poisoning.
I strongly disagree with the core claim that the reason is "unproductive growth". That's not the reason. The reason is municipal debt and gross mismanagement of the townships at every level. The municipalities are taking on debt by the truckload because they have failed to 1) manage their resources and personnel properly and 2) tax accordingly to what they need to actually maintain all services, which is why they take on the debt.

If they instead were unable to take on the debt they would be forced to either raise taxes, cut services, or some combination thereof. The past ~40 years have seen an ever decreasing interest rate environment, which allows municipalities to borrow money by issuing bonds, pay only the interest, then when the principal comes due, they roll it into a new bond that borrows even more. That new bond pays the old one off and then they have some more borrowed money to work with. And because interest rates have gone down more in the years since the previous bond issuance, they can pay the same interest. Basically, they just keep rolling debt over so that the principal is never paid down. Example - in 2000, bond rates were around 6%. In 2010 they were around 4%. In 2000, if a municipality took out $100M to build schools or whatever, they need to pay $6M a year in interest. Ten years later it comes due. Uh oh, they now need $106M this year but only budgeted for 6 of it. Our bureaucrats spend every penny of tax revenue over the last decade and never made allotments of $10M a year to pay back this loan. So what do they do? Thankfully the rate is 4%, so they can borrow a whopping $150M and still pay the same interest! So that's exactly what they do. Now they get to pay the same $6M every year and also have an additional $50M to spend on "growth" and "sustainability". This has happened across the board in nearly every municipality (city, suburb, etc.) across the nation. This is why the Fed hasn't raised rates. It's the same reason why Japan is in the situation they are in...for 30+ years.
We did that - and our kids were sick of Disney and amusement parks by the time they were teenagers. They'd much rather do beach, national parks, etc.

Big win, in my book!
Three Approximations You Should Never Use When Coding
ICOs are Kickstarter 2.0.
The demand can still be reasonable for the Echo, if you believe that it is terrible design to be triggered by anyone.
Non-native languages with Win32, access: VB 6, VBScript/ JScript (CScript), everything on top of .Net, Python, Perl, heck, even Autohotkey.

Regarding the second part, don't take it so personally, I was just joking. You're also on the internet: if a lighthearted comment such as mine annoys you, a real internet troll will ruin your day...
The problem is only with google at this point. we are not on any spam lists. I hate how one provider pretty much owns the internet.
> They want breathing room but disdain the energy wastefulness, visual monotony and social conformity of postwar manufactured neighborhoods.

then a few sentences later

> Existing suburbs were developed to maximize house and lot sizes,

There is an important piece of info they brushed right past: Existing suburbs were developed to maximize house and lot sizes within a single development, but optimize for that development to be as tightly clustered as possible.

This is obvious if you travel through the outskirts of a major metro area. Loudon VA years ago (DC) or Gig Harbor (Seattle). There will be a bunch of nothing for 20 miles, then 40 houses with about 20 feet between each of them, and then a bunch of nothing.

I think it's lazy and shortsighted of NYT to write this off as disdain for "visual monotony and social conformity".

It's about peace and quiet. The next generation of suburbs needs to be optimized for a bunch of tired sacks aching for reprieve from a world that seems to always be poking at them for something. That means not being elbow to elbow with your neighbors and their shitty, shitty kids.
Update: should be good now. The engineer logged in and killed a couple of stuck processes. In 2017, folks.
People are doing exactly this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199233
Expansion of the Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All
I was pretty sure it was true (that she had no experience at all) after listening to the first two or three minutes of the video interviews that were available here[1], but apparently they don't want anyone to see interviews with the CISO from before the breach. I have never seen anybody say cloud so many times in two minutes.

By the end of the interview, I felt sorry for her. I have no idea if she had relevant experience or not, she just sounded like someone who has been conditioned to argue that delays in new development are unacceptable, and that the cloud is inevitable, and if it costs more to do it right then you'll have to make do with less, and cetera and so forth.

I'm not terribly shocked that they've taken down these interviews, but I am very sorry I didn't save a copy when I found them. They were still available for viewing as of 12:31pm Eastern Time on Sept 10, and there are transcripts that you can find following the links in the article, which has been updated to note the videos were scrubbed from the internet.

Serious question, is there any way this might actually count as destroying evidence?

[1]: https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-offic...
Well, we can all argue one way or another about how relevant a CS degree would have been. The fact though that the profile was altered and other data deleted remains highly suspicious, if true.
"Same as if you don't want to follow any other rules laid down by your job"

Instead of doing that, I will just prevent the rules form being implemented in the first place.

The real world situation that we live in is that if I do not want to follow these rules, there is a perfectly easy way for them to be stopped. And the way for them to be stopped is to prevent the union from forming before they get any power over ms.

As most people in tech oppose unions, I do not just have to "deal with it". I can stop unions from having any power over my life at all by preventing their existence in the first place.

"So because you think you're a snowflake, you don't want things to improve for other people"

No, I'd be perfectly happy with people engaging in voluntary association if they didn't always inevitably end up trying to force me to join their special club.

As long as these people won't drop the whole "force everyone to join us" clause, I will continue to oppose them.

Fortunately, the pro union people are in the vast minority in tech, though, so there is not much to worry about yet.
Sure, but the performance envelope on the Arrow was not even close to being tested - it was cancelled before it was fitted with the engines it was actually designed to use. Some of the maximum performance numbers are overstated for sure, but it's hard to say what it's real performance would have been. Similar things can be said for the range - the final numbers for that _should_ have been much higher.

Also keep in mind, this was designed as an interceptor for defence of the vastness of Canada against Russian long-range bombers. It wasn't just about speed, but the combination of speed, range, and advanced avionics that made the Arrow important.

I don't know why you'd compare this to the XB-70, they're vastly different designs for different purposes.

When Sputnik and the threat of ICBMs loomed, most assumed interceptors were a waste of time - which turned out to be a premature assumption.

All in all, it was probably the right decision to cancel the program, as it's costs has spiralled out of control - but to make direct comparisons of production aircraft to prototypes seems unfair.
I love how even 15 years after you've been out of school, your work experience isn't as relevant as what you studied in school.
Here Are the Next Space Missions to Watch Out For
Nobody will know your s3krets

Except FireFox who will sell them aggregated for a non-profit...
Yeah? Try dealing with a printer that has to have a font file sent to it with an lp command from cron every 15 minutes or else checks wont be formatted correctly. AND there is a physical device (either USB on the printer or inline on ethernet in front of the printer) which has the MICR fonts stored.

And then the printer you are migrating the MICR device to has decided it doesn't understand the PCL in the font file anymore.

This is 2017 and I just dealt with this today.
Like someone burried in the comment tree said:

CTRL+clicking the "+" sign will open a new tab on the same container.
> A webapp will inherently lack some optimizations that a native app could provide.

Then let's not even bring Progressive WebApps into the mix...
Is it good marketing or engineering (the latter implies both)? I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Excellent points!

One would have to figure out which evolutionary pressures to apply in order to select for the desired traits. For example, at some point in the past, humans and rats had a common ancestor. That ancestor had two offspring. One offspring's descendants faced a series of evolutionary pressures that led to rats. The other's descendants faced a different series of pressures, leading to humans. The designer of a multi-stage evolutionary algorithm could choose which evolutionary pressures to apply, and when to apply them. The designer could thus shape the evolution of the program in the desired direction.

The trick is knowing what pressures to apply in order to get the desired results. How could one do that? I have no idea! But if someone can figure it out, perhaps they could mimic what nature has blindly done.

EDIT: As for the worry of ending up with a menagerie of programs, there are a couple of things that I think could help. First, the designer must be careful not to take the natural-selection analogy too far. The real world has numerous diverse environments, each with myriad niches; and in each niche, different evolutionary pressures shape organisms. This sort of algorithm need not provide all these diverse niches. It could apply a single set of pressures to all the programs in it, pushing them either in the desired direction or to extinction. Second, if the designer could identify evolutionary states that are a "dead end" and unlikely to evolve in the desired direction, they could remove the dead-end programs. Whether such dead-end states can be reliably identified is anyone's guess.
He was intentionally being confrontational in order to become a right wing martyr and gain noteriety. Looks like it worked.
“I thought my rules were stronger than they were. [Cognition Builders] showed me how I’d turned my children into negotiators."

Why is that a bad thing? Don't you want your kids to be able to stick up for themselves?

The quote at the end is just heart-wrenching:

“I think the best thing is being able to talk to my friends and my family. And the worst thing is definitely having a lot of homework. I’m taking a lot of honors classes. And then I have therapy once a week, drums once a week, tutoring twice a week, and an executive-functioning tutor once a week.”

Poor kid just wants to talk to his family and they stick him with the executive functioning crap. He's going to grow up and be pretty angry about this.
Hah. Never thought about harvesting the gravitational potential energy of garbage before.
agreed but the hack was a result of credentials being "admin/password"
What is the cause for this in December 2005???
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Anal%20f...
"All solar systems missions are subject to constraints designed to minimize the unintentional impacts of Mars and, when applicable, the contamination of icy satellites such as Europa, Enceladus, and Ganymede." [1], also see [2]

"The Huygens probe which landed on Titan was not sterilized as the chances of finding life were considered insignificant. From further investigations it is evident that chances for life on Titan are higher than initially thought. Although forward contamination in this case is still considered unlikely, it reinforces the need to ensure we protect extra-terrestrial chances of life." [3], also see the second page of [4]

[1] https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/requirements
[2] https://saturn-archive.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/FAQHuygens/
[3] http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-exploration/extrate...
[4] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huyg...
But is it going to work once FF drops add-on support?