skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a fellow South Floridian I feel your pain and I would say it sounds like you're being underpaid for the position you're in currently but that's the story of Tech in Florida I think we can all agree on that based on equal experiences hopefully?

In my own experience it's been pretty hit or miss as you can find very wide ranging salaried jobs but it's also dependent on location here as well, some areas might be better than others as far as where the actual wealth lies thus the big cities usually seem to hold more value and wealth, you might be able to get lucky and find something in between the big cities though.

Also cost of living in Florida is relatively low but it is also raising so it's not easy when you start off with a low base that should really be higher when you compare and contrast positions elsewhere... especially surprising in the government area where you think they would staff people at least with wages people can feel financially comfortable with and not just to be able to live week to week based on their paycheck.
And there's a nice real world test of this happening right now :) BTC is experiencing a flash crash. I've taken a screen shot that shows the effect on Alts (https://imgur.com/a/4vNOP). Almost everything is down but at the moment DASH is still in the green and EOS has only lost 2% (compared to others losing 12% or more).

Will be interesting to see if DASH stays green or starts to hit the red like everything else.
> What's particularly cool / safe (and interesting if you're a finance nut) about futures vs. actual trading of Bitcoins is that there is zero crypto involved. Everything is cash settled in dollars.

I certainly find this interesting, but I don't think it's a good vote of confidence for Bitcoin just yet, even if it's structurally safer for the exchange. For the most part futures are not cash-settled, or only cash-settled when it is very inconvenient for the buyer or exchange to settle them physically. If you buy futures, you are usually trying to gain speculative exposure to something that is otherwise very difficult to hold (e.g. oil futures vs oil barrels).

If there is no structural obstacle to settling futures physically, that implies there is another reason the market or the exchange doesn't particularly want to. This can mean various things; in the case of Bitcoin futures specifically, I interpret this to mean that the exchange would rather not handle Bitcoin directly, because historically holding a large amount of Bitcoin at once invites hackers to try and steal them.

That's pretty savvy and does seem good for overall safety, but from the perspective of financial stability, I think it's bad for Bitcoin's overall market confidence long term. My concern is that since Bitcoin is convenient to purchase and trade directly through existing exchanges, people who are long on Bitcoin should just buy Bitcoin directly, instead of Bitcoin futures.
Does this relate or help at all with speaker identification? The Microsoft speech API also provides speaker recognition which is useful for many applications: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Presumably it’s both; hashing like this is fairly trivial to break if you can access the code.
I too play with friends but it's not outright cheating that's an issue, it's usually more innocent than that, just edge cases or forgetting about less common rules, especially in more complex games like Eclipse or through the ages. It's easy to forget a rule that only applies in selective situations but which can have far reaching consequences.

It's nice to relax and have the engine take care of it, and by pushing things you can actually learn odd interactions you wouldn't have discovered through reading the rule-book.
Websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser
Well I agree in general, but to get there you would have to change how vendors operate with customers and between each other, and that doesn't seem to be happening despite all the spyware and other craptastic after effects. If congress wasn't so corrupt I would say regulation might help, but as it stands Kstreet would likely make it worse...

Another point of view is I don't like this assumption users can't or won't learn. I don't complain that a TIG welder is only for experts because I can't operate it with no training, because its a tool that requires training, and so is a computer. This is why I think one of the main problems is that schools should not be teaching proprietary systems. (Once again a thing RMS was right about)
Isn't Shazam patented?
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Vassal has two main limitations:
- It requires a download (not web-based).
- Most games still require you to manage the board state yourself.

Like someone else pointed out, boardgamearea.com, yucata.de and (my favorite) http://play.boardgamecore.net/ also manage the game state for you.

I've been working on a (very early stages still) rules engine that will hopefully make it easier for more websites like the above to pop up in the future: https://github.com/google/boardgame.io
Exactly, the point it validates and updates the current status of friendship you have. Further it informs facebook who are the people you really know opposite to your "facebook friends" .
Probably. I actually wrote one about half a decade ago, though I'm not sure how well it works with recent or really old versions of the software: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0
I've long thought about setting up a service that people can connect to with their mobiles or other devices (who don't want or can't root) that basically sanitizes their connection: strips out ads, beacons, tracking cookies, etc.

Or, set up virtual desktops that people can connect to that also use VPNs that could allow people to originate their traffic from a given region.

I'm primarily interested in created a sanitized stream more than anything. People have a right to surf without being tracked.
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Do you really think its niche? Sure its not going to be a GoPro consumer product but the market for "smart video cameras" or whatever you want to call video+insight is going to be pretty darn big. This seems like this easiest foray into combining a video camera with learning with limited bandwidth issues. My only concern is whether or not Google will come out with something similar in the near term.
I agree. The person who wrote the Medium blog about Cortana, actually pasted a full URL in the box meant for tracking ID.

It would be so wow if Cortana were really able to parse the URL, identify the tracknig ID and then use it but how can implement such stuffy. Different providers have different URL and query params for their tracking page. Some may call it TrackingID, some may call trackId, tid, t, xyz....
I'm sorry, but it just means you've never been to a good nightclub. A good nightclub is a place about the music, the DJ and the dancefloor; posing for selfies is just killing the vibe for everyone around you, and thankfully, there's a lot of places where it would get you thrown out of the club.
I referenced “round earth” because it is so trivial to demonstrate with tools available to almost everyone. A subset of people are able to directly observe the earths curvarure from ships, aircraft or outer space. There are people in the space station right now who looking at the round earth.

The notion that the earth is flat is absurd to all but the ignorant.

There’s a reason why skeptics target things like round vs. flat earth — it’s a variant of “the big lie” approach used by oppressive political regimes. As humans, we dig into and push back against nuanced arguments. But when you challenge fundamental things, people who are actively ignorant and charismatic have an easier time convincing people about nonsense.

A similar example is the UFO phenomenon of the 80s and 90s, where the military planted or encouraged wacky stories to divert attention from aircraft and cruise missile testing.
Be sure to read the text on that page.

> Tikku is a safe-house for neo-archaic biourbanism, a contemporary cave for a modern urban nomad.

> Tikku is self-sufficient.… Fresh water is carried in.… Modern man has to die a bit in order to be reborn.

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What if you need to calculate the percentage difference between two monetary values?

Ints wont cut it there.
But does this lock you in to Amazon?

Trying to run a DCOS/marathon or K8s cluster is not trivial. Last time I looked, every service out there basically spun up a Docker machine with some auto-magic cert generation.

Surely there are other services out there which will just run containers, allowing you to deploy from a k8s or marathon template? What are the other options?
Yes there's a limit, but with contracting rates reaching 2500 GBP per day (a real life example) I'm fine with that limit.
> (maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets?)

Stolen is rarely the right word (that is, it's possible to steal digital assets, notably if also stealing the physical medium on which they are stored, but usually the term is used in only a loosely figurative sense), but “property” is often correct; there are all kinds of nonphysical property that share important features with physical property, and there are equally important distinctions within classes of tangible property as between tangible and intangible property.
no one gives promotions at Google. They go to a review committee who decides if the person is performing above their current level. It is possible he wrote for her promo committee packet, but managers are generally not as important as peers in the promo process.
I have heard of many incidents like this from various companies, but not Apple that I know of.

But yes, responsible disclosure includes a deadline (60 days?). Flexibility granted if the company truly needs it, and the nature of the vulnerability requires discretion until fixed. A major widespread flaw with no workaround short of air-gapping the machine would be wise to keep secret until fixed.
That's called 'hedging' and is literally all hedge funds do. So long as markets remain 'sensible' its a brilliant strategy. Markets, of course, do not remain sensible for long. I'm presently listening to 'When Genius Failed', a book about the implosion and utter failure of Long Term Capital Management, one of the biggest hedge funds who learned just how utterly batshit irrational the market can actually be.
The next level would probably be: provide your SSN.
It works incredibly well on aggregate of millions of people. On any particular person, it's an incredibly weak influence.
I meant the spectrogram encoded as a 2d array, but I guess there isn't a big difference when the db query is the most expensive part.

I've always wondered: Is there a way to compare fingerprints with humming sounds or live recordings?

Those fingerprinting techniques don't seem to be suitable for those tasks, do you know of any methods to accomplish this?
Uber does this for their drivers to confirm it's the registered person driving the vehicle.
The salary is roughly a wash and then the RSU's and bonus are serious bank. I've saved more in 2.5 years in the Valley than in 33 years outside it, and my bank considered me good at saving and ahead of the game before I left for SV.
You didn't have much choice back then. A few songs were released as single tapes, but a full album wasn't much more expensive, plus many stores did not carry singles, or if they did, the selection was often small. There was no concept of a single CD.
Eat when you feel hungry.

Stop before you feel full.
The link you post claims that root/empty password worked on the first try, not the second, which probably means that the system in question had the root account enabled with an empty password already (which is a thing you can intentionally configure and then forget about).
Is there a product like this just for kids: a furry, friendly, interactive, mobile, voice-based connection to the internet? It could be an early learning tool (and source of great annoyance and surprise hilarity). Kids could learn to make apps for their wrapped Alexa, apps that help them help themselves and their friends, parents, etc...

[I am now imagining the Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" where all tribbles are Alexa wrappers... X_x save me!]
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Let me elaborate and be more concrete. Suppose a special interest group - say, Comcast's PR team - wants your organization to consider their press release as "news". Either you accept their claim of newsworthiness and have more of a "for" slant, or reject or modify their claim and have more of an "anti" slant.

Or another example: the website itself is far easier to contribute to with stable electrical supply, broadband internet access, and an ample supply of free time. You can bet that the news is going to be more relevant to white-collar first-world educated folks than subsistence farmers in rural India. I mean, yeah, Indian subsistence farmers could contribute in principle, but in practice, you're going to get a lot of news suggestions from other folks, and those suggestions are going to wind up as news articles.
I've often thought this - but more in the context of pedestrians in crowded thoroughfares ignoring crosswalks. Sure, the police could be automatically summoned to let this car go through the mass of hundreds of people, but one block over... (Obviously, pedestrian thoroughfares separate from autos would help - but in effect, thats a subway system.)
So you hope. But you have to upload your picture first. If they were serious about this they would allow you to compute the hash locally and then only to upload the hash.

Note that they explicitly state that a human will look at the image and then hash it. So they are storing it at least for a while. And you will not be able to verify whether they really delete it or not.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation does a nice guided tour of the pedway: https://www.architecture.org/experience-caf/tours/detail/chi...

I've done it before and it's a great way to see Chicago in the winter when it's silly cold outside.
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That's a $22 backup camera.

I haven't seen it yet, but I don't know why somebody couldn't develop a similar kit to put on the front bumper that could warn about traffic ahead, lane drifting, etc.

A <$100 kit that can retrofit my old beater with some modern features would be money very well spent to protect a multi-thousand dollar asset, personal injury, and liability.

I believe that all manufacturers are required to build in backup cameras now. Why not require all registered vehicles to be retrofitted?

Next up, auto-braking.
I hope not but I only noticed the opt-out feature just a few weeks ago. It's sickening that Google thinks it's acceptable. Opt-in or opt-out, it never should have been considered a viable "feature" to include.
> As long as you don't buy in at one of the speculative bubbles

I'm not so sure about that. You could have bought BTC anytime before the past week or so and it would have appreciated significantly, regardless of whether you bought it in a peak or trough. It's just a question of magnitude. E.g. if you bought 1 BTC at the lowest or highest price in 2015 you would still have outrageous returns on it today.

This is not to say it will continue being the case going forward but it's crazy to look back at.
There is no official statement of Google about this but there is a generic Android warning saying "This method can collect all of the text that you enter except passwords including personal data and credit card numbers.". I wonder why Google doesn't explicitly say what they are doing. I don't want to distribute FUD but this is a critical component.
Thanks for the links. Will experiment with these.

I have been building a personal knowledge graph based on concept maps[0] using cmap tools[1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map

[1] https://cmap.ihmc.us
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Ah, yes, but that is what I meant in suggesting that it was related to a High Sierra upgrade.

If we assume that ShadowHashData hash was introduced in High Sierra, I thought it was safe to assume that a crypt hash would only origin from a pre-High Sierra install. Unless, of course, they are used as some form of default value (such as when disabling the user)...
You can freeze your credit to "opt out"
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What is a strong lambda?
Yes, I was talking about GraphQL.
The header could have a better background
There's still counterparty risk: I could start paying the wifi hotspot but there is no guarantee that it will let me use what I've paid for. At any point, the next microtransaction could fail because the counterparty decides to steal my cash.
Even if all you were getting by buying into Devslopes lifetime access is the current courses it would be worth it but when you know you add to that the huge improvements and the vast library of content these guys are planning to release in just a few months from now it would be insane for you to miss this opportunity. If you are a beginner I guarantee that you would learn everything you would need to either get a job in the field or build your own apps. If you are an experienced dev this would allow to allows stay up to date on the current trends and technologies
I think there are two separate questions being raised. My understanding (EDIT: my understanding of the concern being raised in this discussion) was not that they would try to recover individual readings from a trained model, but that they would run a model on your face to extract features, then save an array of features that defines your face. Only those features are needed to identify your face - after data extraction the photo is no longer needed.

This article talks about how those data points are extracted using a different method.

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-4-...
I like the term "bank slander"[1]. The company that gave a loan to fraudster (a bank) lies to the credit bureau (slander) and now you have to spend a bunch of time trying (and usually failing) to get those lies off your credit report.

[1]previous HN comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15657887
All that spammers have to do now is to upload other people's photos first.

Imagine the surprise we'll have when we'll find out our accounts were cloned.
If the two parties engaged in a transaction know all of the information about the transaction and the transactions consequences and still agree, then by definition, it must be a "fair" trade, where "fair" means fair to both parties engaging in the transaction.
Odd. No reasonable amount of attempts would reproduce it on my wife's few-weeks-old work machine, where the root user was visibly disabled.

The factors that differed from my laptop, where it worked until I set a root password, as that her machine was a fresh install, and she is not admin (a managed machine).
Correction. It's easy to find inexperienced programmers.
It's not a simple hash. From Alex Stamos: “There are algorithms that can be used to create a fingerprint of a photo/video that is resilient to simple transforms like resizing.” That doesn't make it clear that they are making use of the powerful classifiers that Facebook has, but it's clearly not md5, either.

Regardless, I think your point stands.
I keep looking at these things to find one that is actually affordable and can survive a winter. Every "tiny home" or "micro-?" is much more than a trailer. Its really disappointing that with all the advancements there is really no innovation in cheap housing.
No showers? No thank you. I don't want to live in a city where nobody showers before leaving their cave.
Really happy to see someone major looking at open source speech recognition. Due to the lack of a self-hosted or on-device solution, my assistant/automation software is basically designed for speech, but not currently doing recognition because I haven't found a non-cloud option that does what I need it to.
While I value your experience and perspective, I don't believe you speak for all people who are food insecure. There is lots of evidence, given the success of food banks, meals on wheels and other programs, that many would welcome this type of universal free food. You also assume that I am somehow in favor of paternalistic policies and against the agency of poor people, when that is not at all the intent of my comment and does not reflect my personal beliefs. I am personally strongly in favor of a universal basic income and other approaches that enable people who do not earn wages or have other sources of income to make the best decisions for themselves. I also think this is a good idea. I think there are a lot of different ways to improve the quality of life of a lot of people, and I don't think just giving away food to everyone (rather than means-testing the program or something) is particularly paternalistic or highly choice-limiting.

With regard to "virtue signaling", that is a derogatory term used to imply that a person is only promoting an idea to appear good to others, without a genuine care or interest in effecting the change they are promoting. I think we have a fundamental disagreement about what sorts of policies would be effective, and using that term is unnecessarily dismissive.
In four years of developing iOS apps I can't think of a single client that didn't want some kind of third party analytics service installed. This is SOP for pretty much anybody trying to drive user growth on mobile and isn't specific to one platform or the other.
> That's called 'hedging' and is literally all hedge funds do.

Uhhh, no
Well, to be fair to Chicago's system (and I live here), it's more like a set of connected basements.
Now do that on mobile, with a slower, cramped keyboard, and poor multitasking. Not everyone matches your system.