skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears to me that this mostly fools whole-image classification algorithms. If the system performs object segmentation first and then applies classification to each object in the scene, this method is unlikely to be effective.

One can paste such a sticker on top of the face or other objects to be disguised and it might reduce recognition accuracy a bit, but applying some “paint-in” algorithms to fill in the blank covered by the sticker would basically remove its effect. That is unless it is used to cover some prominent features, although that is often unpractical in many circumstances.
No, performance is not usually cited as a reason against capabilities. Capability-based authorization usually has near-negligible cost to evaluate -- certainly less than the cost of evaluating ACLs. The problem with capabilities is that you have to design your code differently to use them effectively.
Unless things have changed. This shouldn't affect face recognition systems. Facial recognition systems look for 2 things.

1. They look for the general shape of the face

2. They look for a skin region and classify it based on shape.

From the segment, then it becomes a complex search problem to match the face to a known face.
the statistical data given in this article seem to show us only one part of the whole picture...

And according to an article published at [1] (and of course, by intuition for many of us), there seems to be an association between a person's wealth and that person's longevity.

If the income gap between different social strata has been widened in the past decade, then it is very likely that the life expectancy of poor people in the country decreases much faster than that overall data could tell us....

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[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/
You use a wiki in a different way than a journal -- journal entries you write once and maybe read again. You can iteratively prune and refine a wiki over time.
They should be pushing for a study on neck injury / muscle strain on smart phone use. Millennials and the next gen after are going to pay dearly from injuries from bending their necks/heads down for years and years looking at their phones.
Not with MacOS.
This is precisely what I was thinking. Something interesting that I hadn't thought of before is that we now actually live in a time where genome sequencing has become cheap enough that low-N studies (like those in MRI/fMRI-based studies) can actually begin to participant-match based on genetic background. This might become the new gold standard!
Linklater's Tape (2001) takes place entirely inside a hotel room, no cheating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_(film)
Ha! Tell that to Céline ;)

But as someone who used to write nearly every document in LaTeX, I can tell you that I still prefer the correct version ;)

(degustibus non est desputandum, eh?)
The point is that marginal price is easily manipulated, when the good is easily electronically traded. Stock trading is heavily regulated (& companies can issue more shares if demand is very high) which prevents the massive amount of manipulation we see in the CC space. Shavers/cars/toilet paper have higher transaction costs and aren't typically seen as assets with which to speculate.

This manipulation makes the marginal price a potentially bad way of ranking different assets, especially when the market depth of the asset is relatively thin (i.e. on many CCs).

The point of the metric I gave was that it is more robust of a measure to manipulation than market cap. What do you think is the "value under liquidation" [0] (VuL) of XRP? BTC? probably significantly less than the market cap. The more interesting thing to do would be to try to estimate it for different cryptocurrencies and compare them (i.e. XRP vs ETH). That would be fairly difficult though, but perhaps an upper bound could be estimated, better than the trivial upper bound of market cap which assumes that the market impact of selling is 0.

[0] - https://cims.nyu.edu/~almgren/papers/optliq_r.pdf
All in all, from a certain perspective it's a nice list, but keep a critical mind while reading it because the author sometimes seeks to rewrite the terms used to advance his own views on what is valid and what isn't.
I think that working around these type of fooling is easy but not really worthwhile for now. After all, adversarial models are designed to improve the performances of the models.

Also in the article, they test a detector that has to identify a single object in an image that contains two: place an actual toaster next to the banana and call it fooled.
I use Space and I like it. It diminishes the kick of Facebook and Instagram. I check them less often as a result. I do like esp Instagram and I keep in touch with friends with Facebook so I do want to use these apps, and this dulling of the instantaneous gratification aspect via Space is positive. (I never was anywhere near an extreme user of FB/Instagram.)

The reality is that many people like and dislike social media at the same time, and the dopamine triggers is an issue for many people. Hence, Space. Thanks Space developers!
I would like to see more evidence that fruit is much better than fruit juice, beyond the fact that it is easier to over-consume the juice. The sugar content of fruit still makes it suspect as a net-negative to a diet. There are better sources of fiber.
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The whole piece's playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9CSjAx04SPvTyIBZpE2S...
> more than 17 kilograms of special glass

That's not very much glass for such a large area, that would make it just a very thin layer... is this correct?
Rough cost to S Corp incorporate in FL?
According to youtube tutorials on telescope mirror polishing, a certain amount of randomness in the system is actually quite beneficial. No idea about the final stages, however.
I'm not suggesting the converse is true - just because something took a lot of effort/skill to create doesn't necessarily make it art.

Simplicity is often genius, I agree with that, but I also don't see Minecraft as a work of art.
> There's no "mess" with unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth is not like electricity itself. It's a fundamentally cheap thing to flash LEDs down glass pipes.

Electricity is actually a lot like Internet. Sending electrons down a wire isn't as cheap as sending flashes of light down optical fibers, but in both cases variable costs are vastly lower than the fixed costs.[1] In both cases, there is a total system capacity you can achieve for a given fixed cost. And in both cases, usage is such that what you're really trying to manage is the amount of fixed capacity in relation to usage peaks. It's fundamentally about managing congestion rather than delivering units of a product.

> every major American city shouldn't have unlimited gigabit for $50/mo per household

Other than the fact that it's not economically possible? Chattanooga charges $60 for 100 megabit and $70 for gigabit, and its just about breaking even. And Chattanooga is a very favorable city for fiber buildout: power lines are overhead, not buried (the same reason Google built in places like Kansas City, not San Francisco), and its a southern city with relatively low cost of labor. New York, D.C., etc., are all going to be more expensive. Nor is $50 for gigabit common in western countries for fiber, at least in places where fiber isn't subsidized. Gigabit fiber in the U.K. is $70-100/month. In Sweden and Denmark it's $120+/month (and typically have multi-thousand up-front install costs).

[1] The typical American pays 12 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. The fuel cost for a fossil fuel plant is about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour, while for nuclear it's less than 1 cent. Almost all of the cost of electricity, just like with broadband, is operations and maintenance of the infrastructure, and fixed cost recovery.
I've recently made an active effort to combat this — now I mind my posture almost obsessively.
For those wondering why do they have to go to Chile?, I presume it's for the same reason as given here for the ELT (extremely large telescope, to be completed in 2024): The location was chosen because of its high percentage of cloudless nights and low light pollution [1] and (notably but with a lower weight of importance) the temperature is cold enough that there will not be differences in temperature between the interior and exterior of the telescope which could cause the rays of light to defract (ever so) slightly [2].

[1] https://newatlas.com/extremely-large-telescope-construction-...
[2] https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/21413
"Steep learning curve. Scores of authors use the phrase “steep learning curve” or “sharp learning curve” in reference to a skill that is difficult to master. For example, when referring to the difficulty of learning a complex surgical procedure (endoscopic pituitary surgery), one author team contended that it “requires a steep learning curve” (Koc et al., 2006, p. 299). Nevertheless, from the standpoint of learning theory, these and other authors have it backward, because a steep learning curve, i.e., a curve with a large positive slope, is associated with a skill that is acquired easily and rapidly (Hopper et al., 2007)."

Curve does not mean "slope". I feel like it's the "learning theory" folks that aught to change their terminology for this one.
honest, good faith question: at what point do we say "no more surveillance" and start smashing cameras?

the thoughts "we are free" and "total surveillance when in public" are incompatible...
Since there doesn't appear to be a link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01275
Do you offer an option (presented equitably and not hidden under layers of UI) to quit using an app altogether? Otherwise you're just selling the illusion of control in order to keep real control away from the user, and you're helping to maintain a permanent parasitic relationship.
How IT is changing the Business?
I did a proof-of-concept [1] of such a system several years ago in C/Lua to allow non-root users to bind to privileged ports [2]. The things I got from this were:

1) Odd that something like this hadn't been written for Unix years before as a way to avoid "set uid" programs and

2) passing FDs in Unix is a pain.

3) only Linux supports passing a PID along with the FD request (and Linux may be the only one to pass UID/GID as well, which may explain why 1 wasn't done).

I don't really use that program as it's utility is limited. Shame, as I think it's a good idea but way too late to be of any use these days.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/ipacld

[2] You can see a set of "rules" in this file:
https://github.com/spc476/ipacld/blob/master/ipacl.lua
I have always place diamond turning and aerospace composites part/tooling very high on my list of high stakes manufacturing.

The process that this mirror goes through, just redefined high stakes for me.

Think about it, if somebody or something makes an error with any significance. Bolt wasn't secured, sensor calibration was off, etc. The entire project is derailed by years. Just getting new material, will take at least a year based on the video.

In aerospace, usually it's alot of money to scrap a part. But then you call up your supplier, and they can make another one "quickly".

With this, you have no wiggle. At all.

I'm curious how they manage risk/failure modes on their team/facility/machines with a project so critical.

Especially since the entire project has a QTY output of less than 10 over a few years.
it's pretty well agreed that buzzfeed is responsible for bringing forth the "listicle" format. How about you lighten up, eh?
That's a really great question! A few of our investors actually found us though Space (Esther Dyson and Howard Morgan among others) -- They got the "whole mission" stuff before we spoke. I'll assume your one of our other investors.

We're leading a mission and a movement -- That technology powered by AI and neural-modeling can "make change easy." That these technologies can make you whoever you want to be. We're telling people that behavior design should be respected, but not feared. There are parts of our mission that show up on the profit side of P&L, and there are those that don't. But the movement we're creating, the whole story we're realizing will succeed or not as a package. Without Space, and what it says about who we are and what we're doing, our hiring pipeline would change radically -- our PR strategy would have to change radically. By taking the time to communicate the larger vision through products like Space, the profitable products we make won't be seen as one in a sea of competitors, it will be accurately seen as the product of a team of larger mission to "make change easy."

Hope that helps, and I hope I didn't get to "cult leader" for you!
- It still wouldn't be silent or automatic
- npm-based projects have a package lock
Makes me think about something I recently heard from the Dirty Jobs guy about not following your passion but rather opportunity; basically he argued that passion is no guarantee that you'll actually be good at something.
https://youtu.be/CVEuPmVAb8o
Why does your coffee mug fill fast from the faucet but your swimming pool doesn't?
You go to your state website and fill out the forms. Takes 30 minutes and a filing fee.
wait why isn't this reverse causation?

people with strong verbal memories will choose to memorize mantras.
Funny, I just read Andre Weils biography, and one thing that stood out about it was that he spent a lot of time learning sanskrit. I wonder if there's a connection between this and his massive intellect.
okay, silicon valley: disrupt income inequality. find a way to get rich by un-riching the rich.
IMO the biggest difference is the style of games. Switch games are much more comprehensive like Zelda.

iPad games are geared towards button mashing and showing ads for other games that do the exact same thing.

A switch game will be $30-60. An iPad game will be “free”. Subjecting your kids to advertising driven games which aim to have them play much as possible to drive revenues is noticeably different. I’ve taken away the iPad entirely after seeing how my kids respond to it.

Contrast it with the WiiU or Switch that we’ve had and it’s a totally different experience. Right now I TRUST Nintendo with the game experience that’s best for my kids.
Full disclosure: I work for a company called DnsLearning (although we are rebranding to StudyCity)

Our system is simple, you point your child's device at a DNS server then add various accounts to supported educational sites like Khan Academy, Duolingo, Prodigy Math, etc. Our server detects when your child earns points on these platforms and disables access to non-educational (junk) sites until they earn X points to unlock Y time. Most of our user-base has noticed their kids now fully understand the value of their time instead of being stuck in a zombie-like YouTube spell of watching 5 hours of minecraft videos recommended next.
Diagnosing failed windows updated is tough for exactly this reason. The UI doesn't bubble up anything detailed, not even an opaque error number. You have to dig through the log files.
>There is definitely a learning curve to state machines,

In my view, the concept of a finite state machine is a simple one with essentially no learning curve. It is a straightforward concept. I would never hire anyone that described experiencing a learning curve for this concept.
Pay attention to the tags they themselves added to their report. Namely, "#SPAM IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS". Oh npm...
The contrarian search engine, I like the way they think. I'll take it for a spin later.
Show HN: Python script to find passwords with a url
Brings to mind psychohistory from the Foundation series. To what degree could you develop an equation for a population's willingness to bear certain circumstances, and from that draw conclusions about when that threshold may be passed.
With a hundred bucks anyone can start an investment program in stocks. In contrast, I saw on the news the other day that the average lottery ticket "investor" puts in $250/yr, and lottery investors skew heavily towards lower income people.

$100 in the S&P 500 last January would be worth $120 today. And low income people are pretty much exempt from capital gains taxes.

The democratization of the ability to invest in companies like Microsoft and Amazon is one of the great opportunities that exist in America today.
No wonder it seems like you can't lose money. Thanks.
Today, we don't. We're a seed stage startup, and like every startup, we don't get to implement everything we want in V1. Our goal is to make sure that the end users interests and priorities are respected. Currently, we do that by prioritizing who we work with. Eventually, we plan to build user facing tools like the ones you describe.

How we screen customers. --> https://medium.com/dopaminelabs/how-we-score-leads-for-value...
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I blocked reddit. I can still use it via incognito mode if it contains useful information while doing Google search result. What I've learned is that, I wasn't really addicted to reddit as much as my bored fingers were. I don't miss it.

I also blocked cnn.com, and couple other sites that I habitually go to. I may even add HN to the list. Sure there are some gems to be found here, but I find myself coming here more to read comments and headlines. It has essentially turned into reddit for me.
> With Australia, submarine transport costs to Singapore (nearest 'major' Internet hub)

There's very little direct bandwidth to Singapore - there's only one cable going west (SEA-ME-WE-3), it's old, and constantly has breaks.

Unless you live in Western Australia, your traffic (even to Singapore) doesn't go via that - it goes via the US over SXC or Endeavor to the east, or to the north to Guam (PIPE-1) or Japan (AJC)

> It's reasonable for them to zero-rate that traffic as they're effectively passing their cost savings on to their customers, as opposed to trying to double dip by charging content networks for access to their subscribers. This may violate more pure definitions of net neutrality, but should be desirable behaviour as it's pro consumer.

I agree, however I've had (heated) arguments with people on this aspect. Not everyone agrees, and thinks that all traffic should be zero-rated if any traffic is going to be.
> Kids who spend a lot of time on iPhones are

showing signs of decreasing attention spans and cognitive abilities [1]. This may be misdiagnosed as ADHD and then medicated. Yeah, they're fine, you guess. I'll cite you the next time someone brings it up to assure them the kids are fine.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403814/
This story again? This is bananas!
I'm not defending surveillance in the US, but given the very different institutions and political systems involved, maybe different conclusions can be consistent?

Snowden is a hero by the way.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any similarity besides enumeration and HTML with the NIH article posted here and a listicle you'd find on Buzzfeed, much less find anything to worry about. It's well explained and referenced and features no graphics or clickbait text.
Do Submliminal Ads work?
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I guess it depends on type of business. If you end up running like healthcare etc which is heavily regulated, it is better to incorporate as soon as possible. Otherwise delaying it a bit is fine too.
Can someone explain what it actually does?
Stochastic Matrix-Free Equilibration (2017) [pdf]
The idea that phones are changing our attention span and giving rise to harmful addictive behaviors, especially applied to children, does not strike me as outlandish or unworthy of investigation.
> Please direct me to a source explaining why malicious network traffic is exempt from net neutrality

All the Net Neutrality legislation proposals I've seen contain explicit wording to the effect of "lawful network traffic". If malicious traffic violates the CFAA or CAN-SPAM, they would be in their right to block it.
Lowering corporate tax rates helps stock values, and 50% of Americans own stock directly or indirectly (via pension plans).
I didn't read this as them equating "slope" with "curve", but rather that the "large positive slope" was an attribute of the curve.
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While generally correct the last paragraph is a bit off.

You "might" get the same pepper, lettuce or tomato. If the parent was non-hybrid or open pollinated.

If it's a lettuce, pepper or tomato from the grocery store almost for sure it's a hybrid and you won't get the same plant as the parent.
Right, but it does prevent zero-rating, which they need to make some of the more restrictive data caps not seem too onerous.
Deadly badges of honor
A million anti-Net Neutrality comments were likely faked
What about the other half?
My pet peeve is HTTPS/SSL errors when your clock is off (usually caused by a dead battery and your device time resetting to 1970). Breaks pretty much all network services on your machine, and absolutely no software tells you it's because your time is completely unreasonable.
It'd be nice if the article this news story bases it's premise around (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38&q=%22...) wasn't a non-peer reviewed working paper that self-cited unpublished research.
I don't have kids so I haven't looked into it, but I assumed there would be more games with educational value on iOS than Nintendo.

Is curating your kid's apps to only allow such games an option?
The initial filing fee isn't bad: ~$80 or so. Annual reports come with a fee of $150 though.
I guess this is one way to summarize the idiom - It takes money to make money.
End of last year released an experimental custom postcards web app: https://www.cardwhat.com. Currently about to release an update for it https://cards-nrhwdfdpsx.now.sh/.

Later in 2018, I want to extend this to a custom t-shirts app.
How do stock market gains compare to lottery gains?
And given that these people are willing to invest in lottery tickets, what's the odds that they'll make good stock market investors?
I guess the main reason to migrate off CoffeeScript is that popular JS tools like for example Serverless Framework do not maintain their CoffeeScript plugins.

I have about 30 old AWS lambdas written in CoffeeScript, which I tried to convert to serverless framework.
I tried two serverless-webpack-coffeescript plugins and none of them works.
Fixing them requires to know both serverless framework and webpack internals and their plugin APIs are constantly evolving without regard to backward compatibility.

It was much easier to either add a script that runs transpiling before running "serverless deploy" or just to port the source code to JS.

Decaffeinate make this even easier by porting to JS6.
I think the idea is that you don’t want to be holding 100% US large cap equities when you’re in retirement.
Converted Stack Overflow Documentation into free PDF books

Link: http://books.goalkicker.com/
It is temperature controlled and made of a low expansion ceramic (zerodur?) [...]

Borosilicate glass. I also don't think they control the temperatures of the mirrors but I am not sure about that.

[...] but still bent by active optics to make the focus of "guide star" perfect (and to deal with any high altitude atmospheric "seeing" artifacts).

For the GMT atmospheric compensation happens at the secondary mirrors. The primary mirrors are still active to maintain the optical alignment but slowly - less than 1 Hz - as compared to atmospheric compensation in the kHz range and I guess this also compensates for thermal expansion.
Xanga was great. I loved default anonymous nature of it.
You could confusing you solved housing.