skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today my bank detected a fraudulent transaction on my CC. They blocked the transaction right away and cancelled my card after confirming it with me... so they probably can prevent a lot of these cases. Very interesting article nonetheless...
Are you taking about sets? If so, no it's still in development.
No offense, but this is like asking to see an example of someone doing OOP in C and being handed C++.
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Michael from Vsauce mentioned this on his Twitter today and mere minutes later @ replied "Hiya!" and I burst out laughing.

https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/989899710176509952
I found this workbook really helpful [0]. It's a seven week CBT course you can do yourself. I'd argue that it'd be useful for anyone who wants to identify their values and then better align their thoughts and actions with those values. But CBT is also a proven method for treating depression. Good luck :)

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I'm with you to a point on AvE - I mostly watch him for kicks. However, the guy's used a lot of tools for a long time. He might actually have the experience and appropriate exposure to know what does and doesn't fail or endure under regular use.

But yeah. He says it all with virtually no reserve, haha. Take most of it with a grain of salt. He does seem to know a lot about materials, though. Definitely not a dumb guy. His brain is chooching at around 50% at least
You mean modern poetry like e e cummings and Jabberwocky?
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Did it get horrible, or was it always horrible and the sharp edges finally knawed on you until you looked eleswhere?

I know when I first picked up Eclipse I was blown away by the power(coding in mostly Kate at the time...), some level of rose tinted goggles as first introduction to a proper IDE.
You're right, collaboration could be difficult. I'm hoping to identify some other likeminded people in my field who I could collaborate with online at the very least.
Now if they could just fix the problem with graphics cards having intermittent terrible framerate in windowed mode ever since Creator Update.
Maybe it means that you know it's supposed to me amazing wondrous art (Mozart), but it feels like nothing (bubble gum) while you are waiting for the amazing experience you are expecting.
>And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.

Actually, I doubt that Microsoft tech leads are as special as all that.
If this were NPR's real motivation, they would just censor the subject's name.
We moved from halogen directly to LED bulbs. Never liked CFLs mainly because of the mercury. I guess it's up to you to decide and educate others.
> And Trump has less credibility than other presidents given he is well known to lie and bluster. So there is no evidence that NK would feel more threatened by Trump than previous Presidents.

Except that unlike other presidents, he is also crazy. He ran for President because Obama made fun of him. A crazy bully is a lot more dangerous than a smart bully. A smart bully will be afraid of consequences, a crazy one behaves erratically. In a way the crazy image is, I day say, benefiting in this case. Can you imagine Obama both calling NK leader short and fat, then swearing to nuke him? I don't. That's pretty different I'd say.

> So one scenario is China hoping to evict the US from the Korean Peninsular (as one of the conditions of NK/SK peace treaty/nuclear disarmament).

If this was all done by China, why would SK agree to that? Have they been duped and being taken advantage of? So far from what I've read US troops leaving is not a precondition of a declaration of peace and further strengthening of ties.

From China's side, would this peace process move NK closer to SK. Perhaps more cooperation. Economic ties even? Why would they lose their puppet state and buffer zone between themselves and US ally.

> My main point is that I see nothing different from the US side than what has happened in the past.

Well what did Pompeo talk about with Kim? I don't know, it was "secret" meeting. But pretty sure it wasn't about nothing.

And I'll still go with the Foreign Minister said. You might say your analysis shows nothing happened, but she is making pretty strong claims. I am inclined to believe her words. I guess we'll have to wait and see as more details come out.
Caves were just an example, and pretty much the rest of your comment actually proves my point. If a "more active predator" enters a cave and subsequently eats everything and dies, then evolution has selected against it. Evolution selects species that best fit the environment, and that generally means species that find a sustainable balance through both internal and external regulation mechanisms.

Your example doesn't require an invasive species. Aggressive species (ones with their consumption and reproduction clocks set "too high") can arise through mutation, too. In either case they spread like cancer and usually take down parts of the ecosystem with them before they are finally selected against. Eventually, ecosystems find mechanisms to limit the damage of cancer-like species and adjust everyone's "clocks" to appropriate levels. Ecosystems that cannot bring their species into stasis experience repeated shocks, are less stable than ones that do find stasis, and often disappear. This is exactly why the long arc of evolution is best understood as a punctuated equilibrium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium) rather than a constant drift. Systems that find stasis are more successful than ones that don't. Unfortunately these systems are repeatedly interrupted by drastic environmental changes like geological events. So, the systems that survive are the ones that tend toward balance but are able to adapt to occasional disruptive events. That requires biodiversity that is generally reduced by aggressive species.

> To visualize this, watch one of those speeded-up videos of starfish and sea urchins. At our pace, they are sedentary. At their pace, it's Thunderdome all day every day.

Or look at hardwood forests that develop extremely slowly over thousands of years, despite the availability of plenty of energy from the sun. The slower the system, the better it actually proves my point. Clearly, evolution does not select for the fastest growing, most aggressive species out there. Otherwise starfish and sea urchins would move faster, or be displaced by something that moved faster.

Properly understood, ecosystems are super organisms that require many many moving parts to bootstrap, grow and function. Human bodies are analogous. Your cells aren't trying to "outcompete" every other cell in a Thunderdome situation every day. They are carefully regulated both internally and externally. When those regulatory mechanisms fail, you end up with cancer and you die. Clearly, cell replication rate is a key regulator internal to a cell that prevents us all from experiencing runaway cancer and dying. Clearly ecosystems have species with internal regulation mechanisms as well.
>Because, in reality, there are only a handful of decent cities that offer a plethora of jobs, interesting ones at that.

How do you know this?
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Are they going to add a new Power Management setting saying "Don't randomly lock the screen and/or sleep the computer while you're actively using it"?
I don't doubt that your statements are true. However, services like this do stop a lot of fraud. If you do not have some basic filtering in place, it is that much easier for the less sophisticated fraudster. The particulars of your business will definitely affect the ability to stop some types of fraud. However if you are shipping a product to your customer you can make fraud pretty hard. It will depend largely on the product you are selling. You have to increase the effort required to successfully get a product shipped so that it exceeds the profit that can be made from it.

In our case we often do something similar to this:

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No order is rejected outright - but various combinations of criteria cause a manual review of the order. This prevents customers getting error messages and also avoids having fraudsters receive quick feedback.

Shipping addresses known to be forwarding mail centers or mailboxes are flagged.

If the billing address does not match the shipping address, and the IP is flagged as proxy/vpn/datacenter, etc. or is too far from the billing/shipping address, it is flagged. This allows most people to ship to their office even though the credit card is at their home address, etc.

If the billing address is to far from the shipping address it is flagged. Fraudster are limited to using cards that have billing addresses in a close range to where they can receive goods.

The machine learning system gives a score and various thresholds of that score are used to trigger in combination with other factors.

Flagged items are manually reviewed. Sometimes customers are called to do human verification.

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Some still get through, but I just implemented one a few weeks ago and saw 99% reduction in fraud orders, and a 90% reduction in man-hours for reviewing orders. In most cases, the fraudsters will just see that it is no longer worth their time and move on to easier targets. Obviously this particular store had a serious problem due to a high level of automation and an easily resalable product. The margin of the product and relatively low shipping costs allowed the fraud to get to pretty high levels before they really focused on it.
Me neither. I don't understand why Russian settlers after WW2 didn't feel a need to learn local languages. It looks like at least some of them feel culturally superior and try to stay away from "peasants" language.

As for the locals, when you're being forced at gunpoint to learn another language, resentment is natural. When the push is gone, it's kinda natural to exercise your newfound freedom too.

Of course, Ukraine was a symptom, not the cause. But if the cause for Ukraine was not there, it'd be damn nice. Now it will take at least another generation change for people to drop subconscious hate/fear of Russia. The clock is set back by 30 years if not more :(
Then I posit a philosophical question.. What exactly is "obscure"?

Is it 1 in 10?

Is it 1 in 10e6?

Is it i in 10e77 (2^256)?

Is it 1 in 10e174 (2^512)?

Is it 1 in 10^1233 (2^4096)?

Where is the value where its no longer "security by obscurity" to security? Is a simple password enough? What about a login/password? What about Login/password/2fa? Or is a 4096 bit key acceptable as security instead of obscurity?

> The problem with obscurity is that it doesn't really impose asymmetric costs on the attacker.

If you don't know the "number", and all you can do is guess, adding another binary digit increases the keyspace by 2x. I can add 2's faster than you can guess.Mines sales linearly. Yours scales exponentially.

> Do they find your secret URL on accident?

Does the same apply if they find a 4096 bit key by "accident"? Or lets take a ZKP - if I successfully make 128 correct guesses at 4096 bits each, is that just a "lucky guess"? According to gambling and odds, that's pretty much a 0% chance to just guess it.

> Were they an ex-employee who simply knew?

And the employee should have been deactivated. This specific secret should never have been memorable or copy-able.
When has this ever been the case? Serious question...
And also a great article, which is shortened version of a book

https://hbr.org/2015/09/design-for-action
Those ad impressions only happen when the ads are loaded from Google's server. If routing to all Google servers gets blocked, those ads won't load anymore either.

Then webpage owners won't make money anymore off of having Google ads, so they'd replace them with different ads and you'd have the most flourishing ad industry in the EU within a few months.

But even just blocking access to google.com/.fr/.de/etc. would hurt Google quite a bit. Companies pay a lot of money to bend the truth and have themselves appear as the top result. As far as I'm aware, that still is the main source of income for Google.

Would they dare it? If pulling out means that Google disregards, therefore breaks EU law, I do think so. That would be entirely in the hands of the jurisdiction, which is relatively strong here. Which is to say, they generally don't need to give too much of a fuck about the effects of their doing. They just look at the laws, look at the facts and then make rulings out of those.
“Exploit authors don’t really care about stack cookies, especially with today’s techniques like rop, jop, srop”

None of those suggested techniques address stack cookies but okay, I’ll keep listening.

“We can overwrite parts of the heap, the problem is the heap is not executable on amd64 and arm64”

And that’s where you’ve lost me. Processor has no concept of the “heap.” Whether or not you can make heap pages executable is up to the OS, and all common OS’s let you do this. Not only that, but the browser you’re using to view this very page is probably using executable allocations right now to JIT the (very little) JavaScript on this site.
Yes, I think that’s the one. Damn :(
I don’t think they’ll add a “please don’t restart for updates forcefully while I have a full screen presentation on projector for my peers” setting either.
Your statement doesnt make sense. as a male, you are naturally capable of rape.
At a certain level of abstraction, everything is an idea and therefore the same.
It's quite impossible that the VC downright stole the customer data. There seems to be a mixup where our customer data got into their system. Not sure how to ask them to purge our data without seeming like an asshole.
Interesting, thanks. Is it difficult to just try to DNS-query for all possible confusing homographs, and display punycode unless all responses are negative? Not sure if that would overload DNS servers too much (maybe limit it to 3 characters and display punicode otherwise to avoid exponential blowup?), but it should be very cacheable.
That you believe you can judge any developer by how they use their text editor is one of the most pitiful things I've heard on this topic yet. Every time I begin a new job, I pray I'm spared crossing paths with people who think like this.
It's there as a group policy, fyi.
A modified version of the algorithm is used in the US for matching graduating medical students with hospital positions. It's interesting topic ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Day_(medicine) )
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This sort-of feedbacks on itself. I use estimators, so type errors occur far into a run, but not during training itself, and checkpoints mean very rapid recovery, so ...

I think I actually stopped caring so much because the recovery is so fast.

Big help for me was coding a little script that means I can just send a notification to my android from from cli and/or python, so I know when these things need attention.
Working on a Quart extension for GINO now.
The day I escaped from being murdered is how I learned to overcome frustration
For my sins, here's a recentish poetry book I liked: https://www.amazon.com/Olives-Poems-Stallings/dp/0810152266
That was fixed with driver/drive combinations that replaced electric motors coupled with on/off thermostat switches.

Anyway, I still wonder why ammonia fell into disuse as a refrigerent.
If it's in orbit, yes. I thought the discussion was based on something sitting on the surface of the Earth.
Fair enough - having said that, I'm pretty sure you would have done alright with or without Tinder.

The issue is selling hope to incels. That's where the real money's at.
You can use the decision version of an optimization problem to answer the optimization problem.

For example when you're looking for the fastest route, you're not directly asking "is this the fastest route?" You're asking "Is there a route shorter than length x?" It's a yes or no question, that's easy to verify given a certificate. If the answer is "yes" then the certificate is a route produced that is shorter than length x.

Assuming the existence of an algorithm that can reliably produce a verifiable "yes" with a certificate or "no", you ask "Is there a route shorter than length x?" and if the answer is yes (which you can easily verify), you keep reducing the length of x in the question until the answer to the question is not yes (no certificate can be produced). The certificate of the limiting "yes" is the optimal solution.
Interesting. At which point is this recovery a problem? Id assume it would only be recovering on the slave since there will have been a newly promoted master after failover?
I’d then sue them for illegal detainment for every day illegally detained....
But, God forbid, we issue people identifiers and keep a full tally of the citizens. You either have a proper identity management or stories like this (and identity theft and fraud and many other unpleasant things). It is the conscious choice of the society not to maintain proper records for the fear of overreach and these are the consequences.
MVP mania perhaps? You know, the old chestnut about "You have to get the shoddiest, most ethereal, stuck together with sticky tape and chewing gum version of your app out there to get market validation before you do some serious development work on it" ideology that is always being touted in the startup world... It tends to lead to this sort of technical debt.
Maybe they forgot to convert inches into centimeters...
Anyone know of any deep dives on new kernel/lib stuff in this release? MS has been doing good work on their network stack but it only occasionally is editorialised like this https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2017/07/13/co...
Yeah, but do the guys making ML models at the credit rating agency or immigration agency know or care about that? I think the parent poster has a point here, who audits these models and their systematic errors (biases)?
It's not just ensuring they are productive, it's also ensuring that they feel included and their voice isn't drowned out by the proximity and presence of the local team. So yes, nothing to fear, but it takes a little more tending to if you have a blended local/remote team.
New features:

- Voice as text entry for any text input, across the OS. (Surprised this has taken so long; the speech recognition libraries have been in .NET since 2014.)

- Ecobee, Honeywell, Nest integration with Cortana.

-Timeline... Tracks your "stuff" (files? online activity? It's unclear) across all Windows devices. It has 30 days of history. I'm interested in knowing how much of my file and URL history is being sent to MS.

- Focus Assist is a notification cache. It will pend notifications during focus time, and give you them all at once when focus time is over.

- Edge browser has a few:

-- When a tab is playing audio, clicking on the speaker icon will mute the tab. (Just what we need, yet another mute button to miss.)

-- Autofill for payment info.

-- Full screen mode for PDFs, books, and reader mode.

-- Grammar Check.
> war on attention

lets not stop at one hyperbole shall we?
Imagine John Doe was named as the owner of the site, and he is not in fact connected to it at all. When people search his name, the top 20 results are this incorrect fact.

No one is repeating it like it were true, but the man's reputation is harmed and he could sue. Maybe he did sue in fact.
My biggest problem with Windows is the automatic restarts. Under no circumstances should my computer restart without me telling it to.
Facebook did the same thing.

I remember having to merge multiple "person" Facebook accounts into a single "business" Facebook account for a client once business accounts became available.

It was extra hard not only because FB made the process cumbersome, but because everyone in the company seemed to have taken it upon themselves at some time in the past to create a person account for the business. Sales people, the owner, various marketing people no longer with the company, etc...
Sorry, I don't mean to pick on you.

It freaks me out that we seem to be facing a massive global ecological decline (not to say collapse), and I'm not sure what to do about it.
Right... but how did they have anything to match it too? They have the rapists DNA because he left his semen in the women he raped.
or an unregulatable and opaque shadow economy
.... what? This is patently false. The instagram feed is no longer sorted chronologically, and hasn't been for some time. The ads they show you also definitely depend on "smart algorithms". The follow suggestions they give you, the content that populates the explore feed... all definitely derived by "smart algorithms".
They never collected the rapist's family's DNA. All the FBI has ever had access to was the rapists DNA (from his semen). They matched it using a service that his relative opted into. The rapist has no right to control relative's DNA.
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What problem does CoinSwitch solve?

Problem 1: Not all coins are available on all or most exchanges.
Problem 2: Even for coins available on most exchanges there is a difference in price of the coin due to limited supply and demand.
Problem 3: Every exchange has complex buy and sell procedure.

And because of the above problems users have to create accounts on multiple exchanges.

Solution: CoinSwitch.

CoinSwitch is an aggregator platform that aggregates multiple exchanges and hence supports all the coins supported by these exchanges. It also provides the benefit of comparing prices across multiple exchanges and fulfilling the order without having to create an account at any of the partner exchanges. All of these with a unified user experience is what makes CoinSwitch stand out in the cryptocurrency industry.
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> "...three times as many employees in installations as they do service"

This is more in the compliance sector, but I get what you're trying to get at.
> for the fear of overreach

Yet if any organization uses overreach as a fundamental tactic it is ICE (along with DEA and NSA). I am no fan of conspiracy theories and in fact am typically favorable towards using government as an implementation of common policy, yet I can certainly also recognize a systems problem.
Ask HN: Why do sales reps make it so difficult to buy things?
Me: Hi. I'm an engineer at (very well-known company) I am interested in your products, and would like to place an order for a few samples to test them in my application.

Sales rep: Hello. I am the West Coast regional district inside sales manager for MegaSupplier. I will be in your area in two weeks. When can we meet in person?

Me: Thanks. I'm under a tight deadline, and need to get my project working. May I purchase some samples now, and we can meet after I've had a chance to test them?

Rep: No problem. I'd like to understand your application, business goals, and ways that our companies can work together. When do you have time for a video conference?

Me: I really appreciate it, but I'm focused on engineering the product, and cannot make progress without some test results. May I purchase the samples?

Rep: Sure, but first we'll have to setup your company in our database and learn about your application. Would you mind filling out the attached company information forms, credit application form, nondisclosure agreement, and sales volume estimates? Also, we'll have to setup a quick call to discuss your application with our technical staff.

Me: The project is confidential, and these components are fairly generic. May I purchase them?

Rep: We don't sell directly. You must contact one of our distributors. I've cc'd our West Coast distributor coordinator who can help you contact a distributor.

Me: (buys slightly less-perfect part on Digikey. Receive it next day. It goes into the design.)