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I hate to say it...but I agree. That really pains me to say because I wish there were opportunities like this beyond a typical PhD program. The concept is great. But this doesn't seem like the best implementation of that concept.

It does feel like there are more questions than answers here. What are the differences between full "members" and "affiliates"? Why aren't there more recognizable names behind this? I don't see a celebrity research behind this, so to speak, and that is precisely the kind of person I think you should get to start this kind of organization.

I also don't understand what "decentralized Bell Labs" is supposed to mean. The monetary funding is clearly centralized under one organization, so do they just mean the researchers won't literally be physically colocated? Is that meaningful enough a differentiater to highlight it? I can't think of a single industrial lab that has researchers who work in isolation with mentorship here and there. Didn't we try this with the Thiel Fellowship already?

However I don't think this is shady, and I think that's an uncharitable way to interpret it. It looks like the members' credentials are legitimate. The problem I have is that there doesn't seem to be a top researcher with tour de force accomplishments backing it. That probably sounds prejudiced, but I consider it a negative signal that there are no such researchers who were even willing to affiliate their names, let alone their guidance to the project.
Seems consistent to me: Ubers don't want to places where they can't easily pick up a return trip; same as cabs. That's always been my assumption, anyway.
It looks like the only reason to use AMP is to bypass ad blockers and sell more advertising, and this is also the only reason why Google developed it.

Personally, I think it's stupid from content creators, because if I visit the website I might read more articles, share, or sign up to the newsletter, and that doesn't happen with all AMP implementations I've seen.
I live 20min from the largest aluminium smelter in Oz. :) It's the largest energy consumer in the state and every time there's fears about electricity blackouts they make the news because of the worry about their potlines getting killed.

We're also a bit LNG exporter... so I'm curious, as what you're saying they're doing in the gulf should apply here too. When they use LNG for smelting, are they using it to generate electricity or burning it direct for heating?
I've been taking Ubers from and to JFK, EWR, and LGA from Williamsburg and Chinatown for years never had a cancel on any of them.

I thought the driver couldn't see the destination until they started the ride after you get in. Although I've encountered drivers starting a ride as soon as they see me on the street (which I contested and got money back for).
What's your hardware story?
The data is encrypted. The US government has attempted to retrieve customer data from Apple and they were unable to comply.
The micro in Tomu is like most other modern micros, in that it has multiple lock bits around access to flash, for various purposes. Specifically, one bit prevents anything but the running program - ie the debug port - from reading flash.

The only way to clear that bit is to erase the entire flash, with the notable exception of the user data section, so don't put the secret in there :).

Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587673
That's calculated and stored entirely locally. Apple never sees that information.
Looks to me like that map indicates about half of one side of all the steeets are ok for parking?
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Cool. That makes sense, I think I need to tweak the whole UX for when there are no results.
Any idea why this is the situation?

What about doing a state-by-state charter?
I have a bunch of these: pocket and wrist. I like them. They still work and I would wear that over an Apple watch any day. That is just taste though. I would buy a small programmable, none networked, ‘infinite battery’ watch like this now.
Nice!

Some perspective: the existing, Federal competition in this space is the NSF GRFP, which is about $165k over five years, instead of $100k for one year. Obviously if you win the Shannon Fellowship for two years, you are coming out ahead of the GRFP. The GRFP is also extremely competitive. It does open some academic doors to you though, since you are paying for your own PhD basically, advisors don't have to worry about how to pay you, and your ideas had merit to the NSF so there are two positive signals for you already.

Like some other comment said, science is all about collaboration. Not being subject to "publish or perish" is nice but a lot of social capital has accumulated around the black hole of anguish that is the research infrastructure, it's hard to work with people that aren't on the paper treadmill because even if you get paid whether or not you publish, your collaborators don't.

From experience, in research, one year is not a long time. It will go by much faster than you think. If you have an idea and you need a short runway to just get started, that sounds about right. Doing anything with human systems seems perilous though, you can spend months just figuring out how to get lab space and how to recruit subjects and setting up equipment (oh yeah, I guess this $100k is also your equipment and space budget). Also from experience, in research, $100k will go faster than you think.

It would be awesome to win this and whoever is doing this deserves major credit for stepping up and doing this, but don't get too starry-eyed when you're thinking about what you could do. If you've got a project already waiting, "facing downhill" and it needs a push, this sounds like a good opportunity. If you want to chase a "deep idea" and only have a hazy idea of where to go, this is probably not what you want.
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding your point, but that still sounds like a fundamental problem with the originator.

If you are lending money with the unspoken understanding that the note is likely doomed to be a loss unless the real estate market continues to go up, then you are not really in the loan business anymore. You are putting letting your capital ride on the real estate roulette wheel, while enjoying the fat fees in the short term. The fact their were enough greater fools around to move your capital from new bad loans to newer bad loans may let you bank a few more fees, but it still means the originator is choosing to screw up while hoping to be rescued by real estate market forces completely beyond his control.
I’d get one now. Especially if Z80.
Apple manufactures all their own devices. They don't have any incentive to do so nor any way to do so since they're not dealing with 3rd party phone manufacturers.
How easy is it to build custom architectures like segmentation and object detection networks? I am working on a segmentation coreml tools and apple coremltools only coverts a selection of layers.
To the contrary one LGBT person I knew felt that Brendan supported her (in a conflict that involved her identity) when her own management did not (this was before he was CEO). I never heard any and anecdotes otherwise, and while I'm not particularly well connected I did ask some of the people who were outspoken against him.
I think there's a 4th factor which is under looked by your comment and it's that the way in which ride sharing is taking away revenue from the MTA. While this is likely caused by the system constantly being under construction and having delays, removing idling cars from the road would very likely also help with reducing bus traffic (although it's pathetic that NYC hasn't implemented BRT on all major corridors such as they are going to do on 14th street.
Very cool idea! Nice to see funding for non-traditional research models.

But I'm a little confused why you made this comment on an earlier HN post about Shannon Labs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675617
What makes you think they seem to love them?
Sure, blame the EU for trying to stop companies from keeping your contacts, pictures, location history or whatever just because you signed up to write a review or comment an article.

If companies can't manage to offer their service without exploiting your data and have to blacklist Europe, that's a win to me.
Yes, and execs will give you more budget to maintain the additional site, which they're encouraged to do due to Business Deals or whatever they read on LinkedIn.
>>> The CCZ (congestion charging zone) covers less than 5% of the Greater London area.

The "Greater London" is an abusive name to designate the whole region around London, with little relation to the actual city. It should not be used for any comparison.

For comparison, London and Paris are about the same size. Paris is 105 km2 while (The Greater) London is 1500 km2.
I can recommend the DigiSpark as a cheaper, slower, alternative that works with the Arduino IDE [1]. Somebody could easily get it into a smaller form factor.

I've bought some of the official versions in their KickStarter and whenever I buy through some company/research funding - but can also recommend the cheaper Chinese implementations to be just as good for projects.

[1] http://digistump.com/products/1
Actually, the argument is "they're just whores anyway". Note the bit about "commoditizing sexuality" - this, referring to streamers of games or ordinary lives etc, not sex acts.
A very interesting subject indeed, living in China and running a startup in that field, I find educating people is the biggest challenge of all!
You want even congestion pricing, or at least congestion pricing on delivery and professional drivers too. This incentives efficient car services, because 1 car carrying 4 (or 20) people can split the cost amongst those 20 people without much of a sweat. A UPS car making 100 deliveries can split the cost for pennies per package.
The difference is social, not linguistic.

I assume you're making your judgement about "clearly English" based on mutual intelligibility. That is, you expect that someone with strong skills in "English" but not "Chicagoese" would be able to understand someone speaking "Chicagoese".

But what about dialect continua where any two neighbors are mutually intelligible, but the two ends are not? How do you classify which is in which language, if you are going to declare that there are in fact two languages based on the ends not understanding each other?
Your project sounds really interesting. Machine learning models that can be updated and treated more like packages will really give people an edge over people who can't perform that task.

I made a project called mms2concept. What it would do is given a picture taken by a phone (or anything that could send an MMS really) and it would attempt to identify the image based on the picture. I used Clarfai and Twilio to do this.

I think with very resource constrained edge devices either you would have a much more powerful "basestation" style deployments where you have an arduino or similar device collecting edge data and sending it back to that "basestation".
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> If you're really good, you can charge $50/hr for private dance lessons

That seems a little low for even a minimally qualified instructor, IME (though I suspect the form of dance has a big effect on the potential market.)

> Subtract the cost of the dance studio, and it's not much.

That, on the other hand, seems spot on.
> It ties you to a location and makes it harder to move to where the jobs are.

This sentiment gets expressed frequently in these discussions. There is a hell of a lot anchoring me to a particular place than whether or not I own the place I live. If I had to move, selling my residence would be a relatively minor consideration in the grand scheme.
FaaS/Serverless will be a good starting point for something like this, so either AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions will be good enough.
No, they didn't and I'm sure you know they didn't too.

The data is encrypted and users in China have to accept the terms that explicitly state that Apple must comply with government requests for access to their cloud servers in China. It wasn't a situation where they changed course or pulled the wool over someone. You're being deliberately disingenuous and misleading.
There was no mass exposure of sensitive data. Two paths existed for determined attackers to get the home address and possibly SSN for individually targeted accounts. The process was manual and would have been difficult to automate to compromise "millions" of accounts.

Based on the details in the article, this sounds like something that needed to be fixed, but probably not even worth the time to write this article.
... wasn't the election integrity commission was mothballed by blue states?
recognising toxic behaviour and calling it out is no joking matter dewd
The address exposure vulnerability is really, really bad. Just about anyone was able to impersonate another Comcast customer by sending their home IP address in the X-Forwarded-For header to Comcast's device activation page, and easily see a masked version of their address (first number of street number and partial street name; street name is trivial to figure out with IP geolocation, street number would need some trial and error).

I wonder how many Comcast customers were doxed with this method before it was fixed.
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Email notification is a fantastic event notification tool for services that don't / won't emit events or submit to callbacks.

It's the one pixel gif of systems integration.
Be advised, sometimes mileage varies with the larger corporations despite HRC ratings. Even if the overall company has policies against discriminatory behavior it can occur anyways at the department level. CVS recently had an incident where a pharmacist engaged in anti-transgender behavior like breaking HIPPA and refusing to fill prescriptions. Eventually they responded to it because of media attention, but a lot of this stuff happens under the table.
>it’s difficult for me to determine if your comment refers to some context I’m unfamiliar with.

The city has only lifted the ban on electric bikes a few months ago[1], but still bans electric scooters[2][3] because screw you, that's why. (They have reasons now, just like they've had reasons for banning e-bikes for over a decade after the technology provided a really viable mode of transportation at a reasonable price point).

That's the context you're missing.

[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/11/why-does-new-...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/nyregion/new-york-today-a...

[3]https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2018/07/19/nyc-s-do...
There is a doable solution, and that would be implementing a system where all major throughways have BRT with proper right of ways (and not the kind where other cars can just enter the bus lane). Yes this will lead to more congested streets for those who choose to drive their own cars, but to remove the current gridlock that exists due to the failing subway, this is the only real solution (where it could also easily be extended well beyond where the subways and existing buses go now.
Strongly disagree. This effectively granted anyone with basic HTTP knowledge the ability to dox anyone they interact with online, if that person is using Comcast. The attacker does not need to be "determined" at all; it's trivial to get someone's IP address (send them a link of any kind) and with this vulnerability, trivial to find most of their home address. In short, some asshole kid could send a SWAT team to your house just by knowing your IP address, with not many steps in between.

The SSN last 4 digit bruteforcing is really bad, too. I'd say arguably not as bad, since it's not very hard to get most people's SSNs on black markets these days.

This is not a breach, but these are two massive vulnerabilities and deserves many articles.
You can't vote if you're in prison..?
That only makes sense for absurdly aggressive speculators or people with the political connections to borrow money for 1% or less.

I have a fixed 15 year loan at 2.75%, which seems like a pretty good deal to me. Know where I can borrow a few hundred thou at 1%?
sometimes the risk analysis comes out in favour of providing a service for your users ahead of studiously avoiding making mistakes
Most purifiers on the market with built-in sensors are unreliable to measure. They usually go for cheap IR sensors without flow control. Your results will vary wildly depending on conditions (temperature and humidity affect measurements a lot).
I personally like Xiaomi purifiers for their affordability and noise level.

If you're concerned about measuring pm2.5 in your space, you should consider buying a good entry level monitor like the laser egg or air visual (acquired by iqair not so long ago).

Don't hesitate to ask more questions, air quality had been my main business for the past 4 years.
Help me understand your theory... So in your mind, Elon's genius master plan is to give money to current share-holders that will leave and don't stay as investors when Tesla goes private, in an attempt to raise capital for the company? I'm not a math surgeon but that does not add up...
All four named authors were communists. In attempting to demonstrate diversity, they accidentally demonstrated the opposite.

It would be like bragging about the diversity of people that you listen to today, and then listing Bill O’Reilly, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson. Yes, that's a lot of work by a bunch of different people, but you're not really getting exposed to the full range of thought in our culture.
The best approach, as often in these cases, is a bona fide private conversation. Just a very short pitch of your idea and a timetable for the 12 months would suffice, imho, and make clear immediately where you do stand and them.
I've been looking at ways I could squeeze more performance out of my long running PHP jobs (wasn't my decision to write it in PHP) at work and HHVM was very attractive due to the extreme focus on JIT optimizations. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like any major framework still supports HHVM officially. Even artisan dies when I try to run it unfortunately. At one point I remember everyone pushing to support HHVM, that effort seems to have stopped. Does anyone know why this happened? Was this just performance improvements of PHP 7? JIT optimizations like this would really shine in longer-running use cases.
it was posted earlier, but never made it on the top 10 pages for reasons we couldn't figure out despite getting plenty of upvotes on /newest. To check if it was actually alive we posted a couple dummy comments after a while, and then abandoned the post.

(disclosure, I'm a mentor and the post was sent to a few mentors, which likely tripped some bot checker)
It isn't about the software. Ofcourse voting software can be made reliable.

But how do you trust they are reliable? How do you verify them? How do you verify the surrounding systems? It is a dead giveaway if planes start falling out of the sky that something is wrong. Not so when someone steals an election.

If you want a good password hash you don't go for a fast hash that can be implemented in hardware. You go for a really slow hash that is hard to compute. I think this worse is better approach applies with voting systems. You really don't want them to be efficient. Optimising for efficiency takes away some of their other good properties. Paper voting is incredibly inefficient compared with machines and that is why it is so appropriate.
That rumor sounds far from plausible though. If they were to attempt to use the reverse-engineered API from their own servers without consent, banks would find out (in a matter of hours) and shut them down when they discover a huge spike in traffic from a relatively small pool of IPs. If they were to access it directly from customers' phone/browser via their (web-)apps, I expect that it would've caused a huge media storm by now when someone finds out they are storing/transmitting the password in plaintext (or its equivalent) to be used for authentication.

As for this instance specifically, I believe Chase grants Mint (and few other whitelisted companies) account access via OAuth. It's a step in the right direction, although it's not clear to me what their long term goal is.
Do you work with the people at QUT (Brisbane) or Floreanopolis (Brazil) doing fine particulate work near airports and in hospitals? my partner did some proofreading and english-as-a-second-language with these people, fascinating stuff (as a complete outsider) and very important.
From the current Harvard case:

>For example, Dr. Card’s simulations show that if Harvard had not considered race, the proportion of African-American students in the Class of 2019 would have dropped from 14% to 6%, and the proportion of Hispanic or Other students would have dropped from 14% to 9%.

It follows that there was a group of applications numbering 13% of the Class of 2019 who were disadvantaged due to their race.

Yes it's probably quite rare that a student is rejected at say HYP and does not get into any other college but I don't see why that matters? We accept that there is a benefit to attending certain schools over others why should it depend on your race whether or not you "deserve" your first choice or should be happy with second or third choice college?

>But your argument seems to carry this unspoken corollary that there aren't resources for white folks or men

You're inferring that.
Probably both. I"m just angry that I had to work hard for [relatively] little when I could have just done nothing for 4 years and been in the same spot or better.
why AI?
I hate AMP. Here's my AMP experience on reddit:

1) Click on an AMP link by mistake in google results
2) Get annoyed at the less-functional AMP experience to read reddit (limited replies on AMP page, no JS expansion, etc)

It's also super frustrating AMP prevents hold-tap on mobile to open a link in a new window, it just doesn't work.

3) Press the chain link icon to switch to mobile site

I've been frustrated and delayed in getting to the mobile site directly.
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That's not confusing :)

It looks like the founder was just trying to kick off discussion without being explicit about her involvement. The submitter (Aaron Lin) is also part of the organization.

In the scheme of things, I give them a pass. Raising attention for an initiative like this can be challenging. It's not actually dishonest.