skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One technique I've seen work well for getting bosses to care is showing them how much slower their sites are than their competitors - nobody wants to be worse than their competition.

were the filmstrips enough to convince them, or did your bosses want to see numbers/stats like how many were dropping off your site for each x-seconds of delay?
Asking questions to images with Deep Learning and visual question answering
How does this count as a palindrome? It's just a bunch of nonsense words (ignoring all the acronyms, are the rest all actually even really words?) separated by commas, that doesn't even seem to pretend to take on the structure of a sentence.

Am I misunderstanding the level of coherence of the text? If the requirements are that loose, it seems it would be trivial to generate a 'palindrome' of arbitrary length.
American here: that sort of thing would be totally unacceptable here too, evidently except for bizarre cultures like that in the story, the bizarre aspect being the reason for the story, I'm guessing.
This part is a little dated (it is a 2012 post after all): https://rszalski.github.io/magicmethods/#comparisons

In Python 3 __cmp__ is ignored and you have to use the other methods. To make this easier, you can use https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.t...
As someone who is an artist on the side, the fact that this can fund art projects sounds terrific. But I'm wondering what could be expected when an artist goes to SF? The mentoring and networking aspects of such things seem less applicable to an art project vs. a company, so could you tell us what you had in mind for such scenarios?
> There's no reliance on DNS.

In practice there is for most situations. Are you going to get a static IP and go through the work of finding one of the rare cert authorities to get an HTTPS cert for it authorized?

> Nonsense. Two layers of valid encryption are no more secure than one, and two layers of flawed encryption will almost certainly still be flawed.

I hate arguing about this because I feel like there is a difference between how mathematicians think and how engineers thinks. I agree that one of the layers should be HTTPS if the context allows for it, because it has a lot of eyes on it, as you mention; but I fail to see how layering encryption is bad from a privacy standpoint.

Mathematically, this statement:

> Two layers of valid encryption are no more secure than one.

Is only true if there are no mistakes and if it would take more operations in the universe to break the first layer of encryption.

But why should we, a priori, assume that there are no mistakes? We have hundreds of examples of thought-to-be-secure ciphers / one way hashes ending up in the trash heap. Look at things like Cloudbleed. In reality things break. In reality cert authorities get moled or hacked. If you've been using layered encryption you're safer. Also, HTTPS basically mandates that you use TLS, which for some contexts doesn't work because we'd prefer a one-way (i.e., connectionless) channel to communicate to stop inbound traffic at the physical layer.

> It's that I don't think autodeletion or one-device-only represent a meaningful security improvement.

It's helped plenty of people that have had their phone seized at the border or their other device seized by the police. Sometimes you don't that information is sensitive until later, and sometimes you choosing to delete it at that point is illegal or impossible.
“Jotting down some code on a whiteboard” with a colleague is a much lower stress scenario than deriving and writing down, under a time limit, some DP algorithm you might not have used since college, and proving its correctness and run time to some stranger who may be barely out of college themselves.
> The salary is excellent and well above US GDP per capita.

GDP per capita is a stupid measuring stick for salary (except that an annual one below it is bad), since you are averaging eco onic activity across everyone, including those not working and outside the labor force (children, prisoners etc.)

> But the pensions are driving housing prices and property taxes through the roof around here.

I'd like to see your argument for how pensions are driving those two things (especially given that California has limits on the latter.)
Being an underdog leads to low serotonin levels (eg. depression) which in turn leads to impulsive behavior.

Also much of the behavior of poor and middle-class people that seems "poor" might well be correct given the circumstances.

For instance, it seems the field of "behavioral economics" was invented to "nudge" people into putting money into 401k(s). It's clear that this a policy that makes Wall Street rich, but it is self-defeating when it transfers power from Main Street to Wall Street and makes you lose your job and then have no money to put in a 401k. Also, it seems that Wall Street doesn't allow most companies (such as telecoms) to invest for the future... However, money in the future is only worth as much as there is productive capability in the future, thus disinvestment in broadband infrastructure and in companies based in 49 states (eg. NYC and the bay area count as 1/2 a state each) means that the $1 million somebody has in a 401k 30 years from now will pay for one ride in an automated taxi. Spend the money now and you know you get something for yourself and you give somebody else a job now...
You don't need root to run F-Droid, just enable 'Untrusted Applications' in Settings, which I think is what you meant by third party code. The core reason I prefer F-Droid is that apps on it are not bundled with Play Store APIs and thus you can run on Android devices that don't have GApps installed.
Wow, 27 hours of coursework and a thesis! Are you sure you can complete this in one year? That seems like a very heavy schedule. I guess it depends how your department accounts for course credit hours. My department was 30 hours of coursework for the course-based masters, 18 for the thesis-based masters -- 3 credit hours per course.

It sounds like a very important role of your coursework will be to get a more refined idea of what research you'd like to perform. I'd recommend taking classes in each of your areas of interest. The more advanced classes might give you a better idea of research in that area. These are probably the classes the PhD students will be taking.

I think a goal of 2-3 publications in one year is pretty lofty, but it depends how motivated you are and how much work you have to put into each of those publications. I think one solid publication (long paper, good conference/journal) will already give you a substantial edge in PhD admissions. This is a good goal; if you can do more, all the better! But I would hate for you to feel like you didn't meet your goal, and not be satisfied with one publication. Honestly, even if you go through the trouble of submitting a paper and it gets rejected, that is still an incredibly valuable learning experience.

Feel free to email / google hangouts me at adam.r.drescher (at) gmail (dot) com if you have more detailed questions, want my perspective during your graduate school experience, etc. I'm happy to help.
Wonderful. I’ve never seen this resource before.

A related article I got a lot out of was ‘Understanding Python Metaclasses’, an in-depth breakdown of Python class instantiation. Here’s the link to that:

https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2015/02/09/understanding-python-meta...
I think the newspaper endorsements line was meant to be evidence, but I'll flesh it out a little.

Of the 100 largest-circulation newspapers in the US, 57 endorsed Clinton while only 2 endorsed Trump. Of the top 50 papers, two gave no endorsement, two endorsed "not Trump", and one endorsed Johnson. The other 45 directly endorsed Clinton, with zero endorsing Trump. So: when traditional journalists and editors at major newspapers took explicit positions on the election, they almost all opposed Trump.

This is obviously a different question than "is the media conservative or liberal?", "is the non-editorial coverage at major news organizations generally anti-Trump?", or "are news organizations employing a partisan agenda in their decisions about how to cover Trump?

The first one of those questions is relatively easy to answer: according to an Indiana University survey of 1080 journalists in broadly 'traditional' roles, 7% identify as Republicans, compared to 28% who identify as Democrats. The number identifying as Republicans has also been falling faster than the number identifying as Democrats in equivalent prior surveys.

The second one is more open ended, but I think we can at least sketch the outlines of an answer.

Intuitively, I would propose that cable television leans left with one obvious exception, while local news and television stations are much more scattered - and less dependent on the views of their journalists, since they often have purchased content and partisan owners like Sinclair.

Factually, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard finds that in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, news coverage of Trump was 80% negative. They find that CNN and NBC were most negative, while even Fox was 52% negative.

The third is so open-ended that I can't imagine discussing it without agreeing on a bunch of specific standards for evidence and discussion, because it requires deciding where objective coverage of badness stops and partisanship starts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...

http://archive.news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/05/2013-ame...

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-fi...
What's the best way to get the correct device name? Parse /proc/mtd ?
I have the "blue light filter" on by default, on my android mobile. Don't know how effective it is, but it will at least help a bit.
The LDS church has a church in every neighborhood out here. People don't take public transportation to get to them. They're literally as close as the bus stop for many people.
wow. it took apple over 15 years to catch up with OLED?! I haven't touched LCD since nexus One was out...
Why are you trying to provide "reasons"? You'r a company. You just want to make the maximum amount of money. Everyone knows this. Why try to pretend anything else?
Interviews are necessarily more stressful than typical work. That's not just a property of whiteboard coding.
How IT can help overcome corporate silos
Wait, are there people who live the screen on just to look at their wallpaper?

Usually my routine goes like this:

- Unlock screen

- Tap app

- Use app(s)

- Be done with app

- Lock screen
Industry gets professional programmers by hiring people who have been hammering out shipping code in paying products for years, and years, doing support, maintenance, and new product development and research.

Grad students may be brilliant but that does not help give them any insight in to what makes a good ecosystem, toolchain, and feature set good.
Not quite: the argument for Julia is that a casual user won’t drop down into C from Python for performance while in Julia it wouldn’t be necessary, thus easier.
> I get the sense that people are more attached to the fantasy of a perfect relationship than they are to the imperfect person they're with who doesn't fit that mold.

This is really common and also a tough nut to crack. Introducing the idea of love as "seeing each other's shit and choosing to put up with it" is somehow significantly less romantic than "everything magically works out beautifully."
The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It
Why did they not park the car back and wait with the police on call in order to catch the thieves that would have come back the next night?
Its shocking and horrifying to me that such a "young" company and in such liberal areas can be like this, and that it can in any way be tolerated. This culture absolutely comes from the top, in the form of who they've chosen to hire and choosing not to ever course correct (I imagine these sorts of things get brought up on a monthly basis).

Brandon Beck and Mark Merrill as the business guys are ultimately responsible for the culture allowed to flourish under them - they made the hires that made this possible, and not stopping it is on them. I look forward to an expedient response, because the fact that its gotten so far to come to a post like this means they've been negligent for a long time.
... which is paid for by taxes.
> You can't produce a thesis by memorising someone else's work

I did not imply this. If you looked up every basic result, you'll be demotivated easily.

It does require some memorization.
I published an app on F-Droid once: it is a very light-weight process. One gives them access to the open source repo where the code is with build instructions and they then take care of pulling updates and publishing new versions.
It started out as 5" and that was large. This was in a world in which phones had bezels, but I am not quite confident they can get their bezels small enough to make the 5.7" not ridiculous.
She has to work because most women work. Property is the bottleneck in the system, prices and rents rise to consume any surplus. If most women work, then prices and rents rise to the level only affordable for dual incomes. If one half of every couple stopped working, prices and rents would have to fall back to single-income affordable levels.
perhaps someone took it too literal and thought, htaed fo guh != hug of death

I upvoted your comment to make it up for you...hope you have a good one...
I've thought that getting Xamarin Forms working on this thing could be interesting for jump-starting app development. There's already GTK support for XF[0][1].

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platf...

[1] https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/forms-gtk-progress#gallery
Additionally, I'm pretty sure it's trivial to verify the APKs that Google Play serves are identical to the ones the devs published.
yes. I honestly don't know why this was not done. It sounds like the most obvious thing to do if you know that the burglars are going to come back anyways the next day.
That doesn't make much sense to me. The engineer is the guy who builds the system. In both cases he is interested to not being a flawed system (crash caused, voting system compromised).

I think it's better described if we distinguish between functional safety and security.
While the avionics software engineer is interested in functional safety and must mostly not be afraid of smart attacks, the voting software developer (or software developers in general) must mostly expect that his system gets attacked by smart attackers.

Although you can do distinguish between both, it's kinda sounds like a lame excuse for me.
I think the real reason is, that computer scientist still suck at building correct and secure systems. There is not that amount of funding in computer security research as it should be (like in functional safety).
> A 2017/2018 Toyota Prius can be driven off the lot for $20,000. The Model 3s that have been sold are $40,000+.

The Prius is basically the best car on the market if what you care about is the combination of safety, mileage, and cost. Until the model 3 able to pass the NHTSA safety testing, I don't see Tesla being able to make any serious inroads into the core Prius demographic. FWIW this is their current 'rating':

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2018/TESLA/MODEL%2525203/4%252...
Makes me wonder how many of the thieves of modern cars are professionally trained service people from the respective car companies who are paid off to get the vehicle into a state where it can be cleanly taken away.

You are basically just paid to bypass security.
Not a single hard number in the whole article. Here's what I'm picturing:

<Recruiter>: "wanna work for Evil Corp.?"

<Candidate>: (long, multi-paragraph rant; something something ethics.)

<Recruiter>: (reads first sentence) "I'll just put you down as a 'no'. Next..."

Not a quote from an Amazon or Google recruiter saying, "man, numbers are down, hiring has been hard." Nope, not a word. Just anecdata like "I rejected Uber so hard, so many times". Oh, yeah, I'm sure Uber is feeling so burned over there they are having discussions right now about what to do about it. Or maybe it went down like my first paragraph.

Don't get me wrong, I turn down my fair share of companies, too, and sometimes for ethical reasons. But let's not kid ourselves, there's someone right behind you eager to get to work on Evil Corp.'s "interesting problems". Hell, Intellectual Ventures (you know, the big-time patent troll?) here in Bellevue, WA is hiring. You and I might say "hell, no", but they're still in business, so you know someone is hiring on there. Say "no" so that you can sleep at night, not because you think someone gives a shit as to why.
Hey folks. Adam here. I work at Tonic and helped developed Condenser.

Happy to answer any questions and in the meantime, if you'd like to learn more you can also read more on our blog.

https://www.tonic.ai/blog/condenser-a-database-subsetting-to...
That's a better way to put it. Thanks Alex. I'm excited to see where we end up.
Many suggestions for foiling this (including some interesting Tesla specific ones, like having the screen ask for a PIN), but the simplest is to just have the key not unlock the car unless a button is pressed.

Not a massive inconvenience.
Some people like the smell of ozone.

Ozone doesn't have a smell. What you actually smell is your nose burning. Ozone is a very aggressive oxidizer.

Looking directly at the sun is also a super bad idea.
Have we fixed the “optimized for electronics store demo” problem with monitors yet?

Part of my ritual of setting up a new monitor is to turn down the brightness and increase the contrast. They almost always default to very bad values. Brightness, temperature and green/blur balance are all off for an office setting.

In the worst case the backlight was capable of outputting twice as much light as I really needed.
Well, I assume that the burglar was paid, de facto making it a professional replacement.
"Metrics are a great servant, but a terrible master."
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You are free to criticize the US, as is China. But this is a thread about China, it seems you're not making an argument that the US is equally as bad as China.

I suppose you could say there are more minorities in jail, but minorities tend to be more on the poverty line which is an easy explanation, I would be interested in a study on the treatment of only those in poverty.

Illegal immigrants should be deported, legal immigrants should not be.

The US is not a utopia, but my point was china is looking more and more like Big Brother in 1984.
I've thought about building this given that I've built solutions for:

- Grocery Delivery (Shipt)
- Gym Management and Scheduling (SimpleGym.co)
- Data Visualization Platform (https://chart.ly)
- Photo editor
- Email marketing (salesjoy.co)
- Football Pick'em Site
- Job listing site
- and others

Would be a fun to do, but just haven't gotten around to it.

Best of luck with your growth!
Yes, clearly the Teslas are standout EVs (but at standout prices). The steady sales of the Leaf and Bolt suggest to me that more people are inclined to choose them as budget EVs with "good enough" range.
I would assume because of the short timeline, the novelty of the technique, a lot of paperwork being involved, and possibly a whole different police department that would have to do it.
This is exactly how I feel. I've owned my Prius for 4 years at this point and I love it. I think I'm just going to ride it until it dies. Then I'll consider getting a Tesla.
It seems it would put the state in a better position to negotiate if they forced equipment providers to use open standards. Of course, that assumes the state cares about the prisoner's best interest.

Jpay sounds like an extremely scummy company. I wonder what it's like working in that IT department.
> You have to root your device to run it, allow third party code.

Most likely one of those, yes. Though on Android 8+ you can only give that allow-install from unknown soures permission to F-Droid.

Also both Copperhead and Fairphone Open ship with the F-Droid priviledged extension by default allowing you to kee that setting entirely disabled.
Think of it like an ad slogan.

"A man, a plan, a canal-- [you should book a trip to] Panama[, a country whose history is summed up by this witty list of things]!"

What I'd like to see is a version where instead of optimizing just for length, the palindrome is optimized for noun-phrases that genuinely have legit connections to Panama (as the brilliant original, "a plan, a man, a canal", does).
Yep, will do!
Given your analogy, perhaps you mean to say, "negative emotion"? Because I think a better match for removing emotion altogether would be arguing that removing the ability to walk is healthy because you might trip and fall.

I should say as well, "negative emotion, for some definition of negative".
Why You Should Get an Engineering Degree Over a Business Degree
Honestly it loads fast, looks clean and has all the info I would need from them. I can't complain. Source says it was built using Trellix Site Builder.

I'd rather have sites like this than stuff full of bloated JS frameworks and trackers.
You don't want to eliminate all blue from your life. Decreasing it is good enough. What's the point of making your computer screen red if the minute you step outside in the sun you lose any benefit?
It was a video on him talking to students and asked about security in the kernel IIRC. I'm on my phone now but if you find it please post the link :)
In FAQ, "What's an query?" should be "What's a query?"
Thanks! I found WebAssembly to be a joy to use. I mainly interacted with Emscripten and it worked great. One thing is that by default it produces a bundle with more JS that you probably need if you just expect the code to run in the browser. You can see what build flags I used to make the built JS super small: https://github.com/feross/timidity/blob/master/tools/build.s...

Hope this helps!
I think the newspaper endorsements line was meant to be evidence, but I'll flesh it out a little.

Of the 100 largest-circulation newspapers in the US, 57 endorsed Clinton while only 2 endorsed Trump. Of the top 50 papers, five gave no endorsement, three endorsed "not Trump", and one endorsed Johnson. The rest directly endorsed Clinton, with zero endorsing Trump. So: when traditional journalists and editors at major newspapers took explicit positions on the election, they almost all opposed Trump.

This is obviously a different question than "is the media conservative or liberal?", "is the non-editorial coverage at major news organizations generally anti-Trump?", or "are news organizations employing a partisan agenda in their decisions about how to cover Trump?

The first one of those questions is relatively easy to answer: according to an Indiana University survey of 1080 journalists in broadly 'traditional' roles, 7% identify as Republicans, compared to 28% who identify as Democrats. The number identifying as Republicans has also been falling faster than the number identifying as Democrats in equivalent prior surveys.

The second one is more open ended, but I think we can at least sketch the outlines of an answer.

Intuitively, I would propose that cable television leans left with one obvious exception, while local news and television stations are much more scattered - and less dependent on the views of their journalists, since they often have purchased content and partisan owners like Sinclair.

Factually, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard finds that in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, news coverage of Trump was 80% negative. They find that CNN and NBC were most negative, while even Fox was 52% negative.

The third is so open-ended that I can't imagine discussing it without agreeing on a bunch of specific standards for evidence and discussion, because it requires deciding where objective coverage of badness stops and partisanship starts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...

http://archive.news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/05/2013-ame...

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-fi...