skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone finds my phone, it'll be locked and they won't be able to install anything. If they can unlock the phone then it's already game over for me.
Not entirely -- keyboard apps can intercept keystrokes and send them to a remote server.
While XLSX is proprietary by descent, it is standardized; thus, it's readable/writable by man and machine alike (essentially a zipped XML with some bells and whistles). I have not encountered a less broken format that is similarly widespread.
With Amir.

Given the context of an intelligence officer knocking on an unfamiliar person's hotel room door unexpected and asking them to defect, I think "salaam habibi" would strike most Farsi speakers as a bizarre and malapropos greeting.

"Hola amigo. I’m from the CIA, and I want you to board a plane with me to the United States."

I see it as an indicator of careless journalism that the author is citing an unnamed source "familiar on the matter" about a 10-year-old conversation that he seems not to have transcribed into the right language. I put it into the same category of people who ask what part of Mexico the Puerto Ricans are from.
>is it possible to measure a system and control for the same factors that the system itself is trying to control for?

It's hard to have a meaningful discussion of these issues in the abstract, but the short answer is:

1) it depends
2) bias correction is not a trivial matter

Firstly, you have to have some sort of quantitative estimate of the bias. This is not always possible, and even in cases where it is, said estimate may be noisy or, itself, biased.

Bias correction is useful and often legitimate, but its use should always be interpreted as weakening the epistemological rigor of the analysis. In lay terms: bias correction should be consumed with a grain of salt.

General entry point into the subject matter:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/31253/17054
Chaos Testing for Docker Containers
Imagine you have a meter-stick. It has uniform graduation markings to show you centimeters and millimeters.

Now imagine that it is getting longer. No matter how hard you look at it, the stick is still one meter long. That's what the markings on it say, anyway. It's actually getting longer at the same rate as all the other meter-sticks. That's the expansion of the universe.

Now imagine you balanced two marbles on the stick. They bow the stick ever so slightly, and roll together at the 50 cm mark. They are not expanding--or at least not expanding like the meter-stick expands. But they will continue to roll together. They are detectable masses acting under the effect of gravity. If you look closely, they appear to be shrinking. But it's actually the meter-stick expanding.

When you expand this out to galaxy scale, two galaxies that are not moving with respect to each other are getting further apart. The mass in the galaxies have enough intra-galactic gravitational attraction to keep themselves from flying apart along with the vacuum, but not enough the keep their neighbor galaxies close. The inter-galactic gravitation doesn't pull hard enough to overcome the expansion. So they surf away from each other, becoming further apart.

At least, that's how I understand it. I could be wrong.
I caught them doing this a while ago when I first got my OnePlus 3:

https://twitter.com/__Tux/status/754085708843786240
It's really astonishing how intelligent people delude themselves into thinking intelligence is just magically distributed equally among all races and groups of humans that have developed in completely different environments mostly independent from each other over long periods of time. As if evolution somehow took a break when it came to the human brain.

It's pretty much denial of evolution. And the IQ differences between Asians, Blacks, Hispanics and Whites in the US have been well studied for over a century now. It's really no surprise that the demographic changes in California have led to the stagnation regarding test scores.

The same effect can be attributed to demographic changes in other countries, too, for example France:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615...

And here in Germany, the two states that continuously rank worst education statistics, are those with the highest amount of immigrants.

Still, we're told to just ignore the obvious pattern and if anyone dares to mention this pattern openly, they are socially ostracized for it.
Sure they do, but how much is because of formalization?

I mean, just look at SQLite, which is a highly reliable software. They bought this stability with a gigantic test suite.
> "featuring new methods, both advanced and original."

When you Google the word "innovative" that's almost the definition that comes up, only slightly different punctuation. Google says "featuring new methods; advanced and original."

In any case it's stating that to be innovative the method must be new, advanced, AND original. If it's not all three, then it's not innovative.
If they only report hispanics or other non-whites walking around as "not belonging", then yes, skin tone is playing a part.
Number 3 is called helpless for a reason. Even saints typically attempt to maximize gain, helpless do not - they tend to minimize loss instead.

In fact I would say many if not most people are helpless. This is part H1. Part H2 is the benefactor.

Likewise part I1 which is upper left triangle of I would be the inventor, scientist or good reformer. (They benefit but society benefits more). Bottom right of I would be good businessman. (Their own benefit is higher than society.) Top right B2 would be exploitative businessman. (Society loses a bit but the businessman gains a lot.)

As per political systems, capitalism attempts to promote rightmost two quadrants.
Socialism (not Stalinism) attempts to penalize bottom half.

Essentially the full graph would be a square with a 45º rotated square inside.
The stupid have two categories too - unnecessary cutting corners and messing up for minimal immediate gain with net loss (shortsighted) - top right of stupid quadrant - and plain old danger to society.
"Then what you have is a truckers’ lounge with 20 or 30 guys standing around getting paid."

THAT's the error: those guys aren't getting paid anything to stand there. They get paid by the mile. Making them wait is benefiting the warehouse, and costing THEM.
As mentioned, protects by showing a wall of text with "yes" preselected at bottom; equally useless and annoying.
I am TOTES buying one of these for myself (cis male).

I wouldn't deprive anyone of this.
TouchID is replaced by FaceID which I assume likewise eliminates the vast majority of password prompts?
I don't know about that... Doctors famously didn't even wash their hands between patients.

In fact many still don't. The best practices and process-oriented thinking seem to not be uniformly spread.

I'm also reading Normal Accidents by Perrow and what he says about nuclear safety up to the 80s (that's when the book was published) is scary.

My thoughts: our safest endeavours look and feel safe, but they are still more failure-prone than one would assume and making them safer is incredibly hard because of social, technical and human issues exhibiting hidden coupling - system issues.
> Imagine a doctor saying it's 5pm on a Friday and I'm meeting a friend in an hour so I'll just do a rush job of this surgery and it will probably work out fine.

Imaging right now. No problem. Humans are humans. Humans sometimes do rush jobs. Or are overworked. Or stressed. Maybe they have private problems, so their mind isn't 100% on the task.

Your suggestion that doctors are all professionals and wouldn't do such things is actually the exact opposite of the medicine professions conclusions: Humans make errors. Doctors, software developers, we all. And what helps to fix these things are better tools and allowing other people to check something (see above, nurses training to question doctors is exactly for this problems).
> Especially at a time where menial jobs are at great risk due to outsourcing and automation.

This is what is so frustrating to me. Tons of people on this site say "more people should be going to college because the lower class is getting screwed," but fail to acknowledge that an enormous chunk of the population is mentally unable to obtain a degree, and that higher degree attainment rates doesn't help the issue because it devalues the degree and makes it where young people basically must get a degree to get a good job, forcing an entire generation into massive amounts of debt before even starting their career.

Instead of expecting the half of the population with IQs lower than 100 to suddenly get an advanced degree and move to a large city, we need to do something about the negative effects that globalization and capital concentration have had on our nation. We need to make it so that quality of life for our lower class goes up as time goes on, not down.
How many of them have "News" in the name? CNN is the only one I can think of, and they brand themselves as the acronym.
RT was specifically created by the Russian government to influence foreigners.
>> in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.

> This clause should be considered the antichrist of clauses, because it just makes the entire policy void in case of a merger. Not that I see Apple being acquired by anyone soon, but still.

Google's clause:

If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

I like Google's more :-).
Congratulations on your success!

1. If you're not using electron, what do you use? Are you happy with your choice (can you do what you want to do with reasonably effort)?

2. How did you get started? Did your app start as a side project, or did you go all out from the beginning? Was is spun-off as part of a consulting gig?

3. How did you find your niche? Did you scratch your own itch? Did you look for opportunities? Did you come across an opportunity by chance or through some previous experience/employment?

4. How did you decide that this was an opportunity worth pursuing? That is, how did you decide that your niche might be big enough to support you, and/or that you could compete?
That is true for most branchs of Protestantism, yes.

The Orthodox and the Catholics have the notion of Purgatory, where a soul goes through a transition of detachement of what prevents him/her to actually enjoy the close presence of God (ie. heaven). They also hold that people are not qualified to make a statement whether a person will go to hell (or heaven for that matter); hell defined as being away from God forever: those who repeadedly persist in not wanting to love God will not be forced to be with him.

What is perverse is the attempt at bringing this judgement of the will on earth. If someone is in prison, is deepely remorseful and asking for help to ammend their ways, it should be our duty as a society to assist that person. Attempting to "play God" is in opposition with Christian dogma.
Or, maybe just the harder criminals are always going to reoffend. Vs the probation criminals did something, which they learn from. Because they are the softer criminals.
The mistake you are making there is assuming that those improvements add any value to the landlord or property. They don't. That $20,000 grease trap is an anchor that the next tenant has to have pulled out at great expense. They probably want different lighting so the electrical will have to be redone as well.

In any commercial property I have ever dealt with the tenant is responsible for any renovations because every tenant is looking to outfit the space differently. If the market is heavily in the favor of the renters at the time, I have seen landlords offer discounts on the rent to help cover certain renovations, typically expanded electrical service and the like, but even that has it's limits as landlords typically have costs associated with ownership they need to cover out of the rent.
>The login prompt could easily be spoofed by a user-mode program.

On the VT100 terminals in the computer lab in college (back in the early 90s) someone was doing this. A shell script to harness logins, print it was unsuccessful and log out. .

There was a key at the top of the vt-100 keyboard that would reset it. The "key" part was often pried off (accidental pressing was bad), but you could still press the nub left behind.
In the UK at least a "doctors' surgery" is synonymous with a doctors' clinic, practice, or plain office - just a place where you'll find a concentration of general practitioners.
> 27" 144p 144z for $250 (from Monoprice)

I think you mean 1440p...
I’m pleasantly surprised to have my company included but he spelled Zencastr incorrectly.

Ah well. I guess thats the risk I took going with a weird spelling :P
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This attack has been obvious for quite some time, it's amazing that Apple hasn't modified IOS to incorporate a trusted modal for password entry.
To get a solid browser with a decent experience though you're going to pretty much need most of a smart phone's performance anyways and most of the power drain because you'll probably want a good screen and decent performance on the browser so a good processor too. Dumb phones lasted so long because they had really low power processors and beyond texting and calls there was no reason to constantly interact with them so they could be in a really low power state 90% of the time.
Mapzen is also excellent (although definitely less mature than Mapbox), and a huge chunk of their stack is open source.
Mapbox actually just changed their pricing structure to be more friendly to startups and developers - take a look https://blog.mapbox.com/pay-as-you-go-new-flexible-pricing-o...
I never thought this kind of attack is possible on my iPhone — I don't know why, maybe I was expecting Apple's OS to prevent it.

So I don't remember weird, unexpected password prompts, but I just changed my password anyway.

The advice on recognizing legitimate popups is pretty good.
Seems like the study is confusing cause/effect. Those on probation are probably less likely to commit another crime partly because the crime they did commit was a first offense, less serious/violent, etc. -- otherwise they probably would not have been paroled (e.g. you're more likely to go to prison if you killed someone than if you got caught with a small quantity of illegal drugs).

Similarly, the article talks about how "education reduces recidivism by 50%". However, this is a self-selecting group of prisoners who decide to go to school/college, and so they are less likely to commit future crimes. I doubt those kind of numbers would hold if you forced all inmates to gain education. Since HS education is free, and most people now can get a loan for college and go somewhere (at least as good as prison college), almost all of these people who didn't get the education "on the outside" decided not to pursue it. So logically, those prisoners joining these classes voluntarily are mostly prisoners who realize they need to change and already see education as a "way out" -- so its not really a cause/effect but a correlation.

Edit: Clarity of last sentences
One solution that seems obvious to me is - the OS itself can detect fake popups such as this. It can even be a fast neural net that checks the screen, say, once a second.
I drove around Australia whilst still maintaining several django projects for a web hosting company back in 2011. Started with an old 15 inch Dell and a Samsung Galaxy tab but got a 11 inch Mac Air later.

Great fun! You really learn to optimise your setup around current draw and avoiding overheat :) My biggest lessons were combining mosh and tmux It'd be more of a struggle as a front end developer.
What does your question mean? What paid membership?
I found this very interesting, regarding crowdsourcing the training data:

"After the first pass I had enough verified data that I was able to add an automatic accuracy checker into both tools for future data runs (it would periodically show the user known images and check their work to determine how much to trust their answers going forward)."
The prevailing thought and media narrative can never be dismissed, no matter its factual basis or lack thereof. If it is not identified explicitly and challenged, it anchors the starting point of all discussion and thereby sets the bounds for it.
Try not to think in the very short term. Finding a job at ~70% of the going rate for your field is not that hard.

Now at 70% a 10% raise might not seem like a huge deal as your still under market, but it only takes 7 of those to double your salary. And a 15-20% pay raise to jump to the next job is hardly unreasonable. Do those every ~3 years and you will massive difference inside a decade.

Remember, the median salary is just that people really do get paid more than it.
Taking public funds does not make you a public school. Charter schools do not have the same public accountability as the public schools system.
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I agree, the ongoing and erratic basis that my devices ask me to sign in to iCloud is a serious flaw. I already find iCloud a completely opaque mess of services that I don't understand, and this doesn't help. The only saving grace is that cancelling out of these requests usually has no obvious downside.
Ask HN: What's the best way to involve oneself in research after undergrad?
How do people cope with the threat of HSM hardware failures? Would be awfully bad to lose the ability to read all of your sensitive fields including backups.
>It points to a problem in the test itself

Please forgive what might be construed as quibbling, but I'm increasingly dismayed by the doxa that poor scores on tests reflect poor testing practices.

To be clear, testing practices in the U.S. are crappy, but so is the secondary education system in general (at least, compared to much of Western Europe).

More to the point: these results point to a problem either with the test or with the educational system, or with the cultural values surrounding education in the U.S.

My bet, having lived on both continents, is on the latter. I invite the reader to read Assimov's 1980 essay A Cult of Ignorance, as it provides a good description of what I believe to be the fundamental problem.
It sounds silly, but that makes a lot of sense. Lots of tips for me to take away from this thread. :)
7:45 to 4 is hardcore? I thought that was normal?! What are non-hardcore school hours?
> That's the first big strike against vanlife for me. In the US there's no cheap and reliable way to park and sleep without being harassed by police.

The US is large. There are tons of places you can park without issue. BLM land, for example, is explicitly available for anyone to use. Most cities don't have anti vehicle dwelling laws. All you have to do is go somewhere that doesn't care.

> The second is illness: I ate some bad chicken earlier this year and was violently ill, projectile liquid from both ends ill, for three whole days. It was miserable but bearable because I had an apartment with a bed and a bathroom. I can't imagine what it would have been like in a van.

OP has an RV with a bathroom. It'd be much like your apt but with less distance to travel between the toilet and your bed.
I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.
We build a data store for municipal governments, we have a very light weight data viz tool that allows municipal workers to view the data on a map: http://john.je/mzHm
You _are_ featured in the article with that exact tweet, right? :)
Excel is the source of so many problems. At work, we ask users for an input in CSV or Excel format, and most people see "CSV" and export Excel data as CSV. Which is fine and great, but long numbers - such as UPCs - show up in Excel as scientific notation, being big scary numbers, and also get exported as such.

So when an Excel cell contains the UPC 123456123456, we get a CSV file that contains "1.23456E+11", which is worse than useless.
The Tamagotchi is back, but does it need to be?
Reminds me of https://www.indiehackers.com/
Keyboard apps explicitly have to ask for “full access” and you need to opt-in. Also, apps can block 3rd party keyboards, not sure how many secure / banking apps do that though.
Could you give more details about how you combined these? I'm aware of both of these tools, but wasn't sure how they could be used together. At the moment I heavily use mosh which is pretty much perfect aside from the fact that it kills my local scrollback history.
I think he meant for character recognition -- it's explained in the post that they went for an in-house dataset (from sudoku magazines I understand) instead of MNIST. They ran into some issues, found the way to solve them, and improved their training set. This allowed them to reach 98.6% accuracy, and after a few updates to the app over 99%.
Agreed. Let's not forget that a huge portion of software written is games.
“Girl's Hair-Do Reveals Love Life” – LIFE Magazine, 1944
Opening a restaurant in a "hot" market is mostly a zero sum game. To succeed you have to wrest market share from other local competitors. A better strategy might be to open in a "cold" market with a lot of unfilled demand.
> I'm curious - don't people miss big monitors when coding on a laptop?

i don't. i have a laptop and a couple 24" monitors but over the last few years i've found myself just using the laptop more and more without the externals.
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I think it is. There is a persistent myth that rich people drop out of school at larger rates than average. That "fact" is often used to suggest that education might be the opportunity cost that prevents one from getting rich.

It looks to me like the distribution of degrees among the billionaires skews higher than the general population, according to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_th...

Your point is super important too, because it's extremely unlikely that level of education has anything to do with being in the top 0.01% of the income distribution.

The article's "AI data" that says a bachelor's degree is 6% important is sort of meaningless. He's measured the relative correlation of variables, among only billionaires. It's still true that only 0.01% of bachelor degree educated people get there, just like only 0.01% of dropouts get there. We can't talk about how important education is to getting there until this analysis is done on the general population.
The Atlantic article that Uncle Bob was writing in response to lists several specific examples of software failures that did, or could have, resulted in loss of life: a failure of the 911 system; air traffic control systems; medical devices.
This might solve the "readable" part of the problem, but not the "writable" part of the problem.
The only safe solution is for the popup to have a "Settings" button. Anything else can be faked rather easily due to the fullscreen nature of iOS. Given enough time and dedication, any overlay or "feel safe" icon can be faked.
What is the scope of said side projects? Apps or other ventures?
So you added your own stuff? Then you're just talking about a system that is available in tons of services. Not a big deal. Nothing to do with credit bureaus.
Ask HN: What does impact investing need to take off?
Impact investing still seems to be in its infancy in the US. Some areas, like Chicago, are slowly starting to see some growth in share of VC money and focus on social enterprises. In general, what does impact investing need to take off? What will make it break into the mainstream?
Haha, yeah. Jumped the gun and pasted the tweet while making breakfast before reading it.

That was a bit surreal.
That's a really great idea.