skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, but I’m wondering if there is some sort of “secure drop box” equivalent. Basically I generate a set of GPG keys, anyone can post to a web form which encrypts the uploaded data, in browser, using my public key, and uploads it somewhere (my server, s3, Dropbox, doesn’t matter as the private is local on my computer). I could then download the files, decrypt them locally and use them.

We get a lot of customers who want to send us secure data (customer info, etc...) and I’d love a way to make it easy for the customer but still secure.

Does something like this exist, or is this still a pipe dream? Basically FF send, except I provide a known public key to use, rather than it being generated on the fly, requiring the user to find a way to send it to me out-of-band.
It really just depends. In the case of one retail client, we have carte blanche access to all of their data, from marketing systems to POS data to app location data. It makes it incredibly easy to "lazy load" a lift study after the fact, by looking for anomalies in behavior that are correlated with the creative. Rather than a standard test and control, we can essentially tailor the model to a per-store or per-region level and rollup lift from there. It's less about the spend level and data volume, and more about the data completeness.

For CPG clients, it's more of a pain. Those usually involve really complex interagency relationships, with discontinuity in both processes and data access. And in a lot of cases, they may have access to a retail partners POS or loyalty data, but can't share it directly with us as a third party agency, and there's a game of telephone where we have to coach them on what to ask for and provide to us (in whatever form they're allowed), while being blind to the data and data/system structures. So a lot gets lost in translation, with the spend level having to be large enough to compensate for however dysfunction that process is for that program and client.

That said, I'm lucky enough to be a passive observe to that most of the time. Another manager under my boss is responsible for those more traditional lift studies. I have an unusual background in that I've done a lot of process development work, web analytics, and data engineering/management. So I'm only brought into those projects when we have more technically sophisticated needs.
DeepSpeech 3 from Baidu also uses transducers. http://research.baidu.com/Blog/index-view?id=90.
They also do really well in casual conversation, because of their skill in the rhetoric of their profession.
I think a greater amount of legacy candidates typically apply early acceptance, which throws off the pure percentages. Presumably, candidates with large donor backing apply early, but schools typically give these applicants a bump for the inherent commitment.

I've recently thought another interesting study would be to look at admittance rates for NYC prep schools. I have friends right now paying crazy amounts of money for even pre-school. Part of the argument is the acceptance rates into elite colleges. I recently wondered how many of these kids are going because of large donations, which artificially inflates the stats for prospective parents who plan to get their kids into college on merit.
Snake Game Using Python Curses
Heck, I'm not colorblind and I had trouble seeing the difference between "service disruption" and "service outage" at first in the legend at the bottom of the page.

It wasn't until I zoomed in on them that I could see that one was orange and the other red. Once I saw them zoomed, I could then identify which was which at normal size on the status part of the page.

BTW, the orange circle is actually a span whose class is "aad-yellow-circle", and whose CSS loads the colored circle from the file yellow_circle.png.

This suggests that at one time they intended it to be a yellow circle, not an orange circle [1]. I wonder why they switched from yellow to orange?

[1] Actually, RGB to name sites suggest that it is neon carrot.
Exactly my reaction.

I'm appalled at Boeing's response, and I agree with the Europeans, other countries, and Senator Cruz and others that the planes should probably be grounded, at least very briefly.

But the news reporting that an unknown-relative-to-other-planes percentage of complaints were filed by pilots, especially when those reports could theoretically be merely annoyed pilots responding to a perceived lack of training, or piling on after Lion Air, doesn't tell me a whole lot I didn't already know.
What is the "incomprehensible and impersonal" thing that the OP is facing? I skimmed the post and I have no idea what you are talking about. If I was feeling adventurous, I might claim you are projecting a tad :)
Is Gmail onto kubernetes?
Just wondering why they needed a new modelling technique with a fancy name, when if you're going to do it numerically anyway (despite the simplifying concentric circles assumption), it's just a double integral:

import numpy as np
from scipy.integrate import dblquad

pi = np.pi

def av_distance(r1, r2):
def distance(theta1, theta2):
z1 = r1 * np.exp(1j * theta1)
z2 = r2 * np.exp(1j * theta2)
return abs(z2 - z1)
integral, err = dblquad(distance, 0, 2*pi, 0, 2*pi)
return 1 / (4 * pi ** 2) * integral

print(av_distance(1, 0.723332))
print(av_distance(1, 0.387098))

...

1.063544409973366
1.0156870128527526

Edit: Oh I see - they did it analytically, and reduced it to a 1D integral even by symmetry. That's cool, but I was thrown out when skimming because they said "we devised the point-circle method" instead of "we did the integral".
Living for the postmortem on this one.
The "preferred parties" is a bit of a sleight of hand here. Why not delegate the choice what party you should prefer to experts, too? Works for China!
> For instance, Apple Music, which has gotten over 50 million paying users not by being the best music app but by being pushed heavily by Apple as the platform owner.

Apple Music has more music, a longer free trial and integration with iTunes which lets you upload your own music and sync it to all your devices among other features. By one estimate it converts free users into subscribers at 3X the rate of Spotify.[1] That’s a sign of happier customers, not just being pushed by the platform. Worth mentioning they pay artists more too.

And what are you saying, Warren would let Apple run the store but would have to break off Music into a separate entity? All their other bundled apps too like Maps? I didn’t get that from the proposal.. and it doesn’t strike me as consumer friendly.

[1] https://bgr.com/2018/09/25/apple-music-vs-spotify-paid-subsc...
Unfortunately, I can't read the article on my phone (characters too small, and not expandable)
You have said a bunch of useful stuff in HN comments that people end up pointing to, but in those comment rants you also have a tendency to leave things hanging or allude to things without further explanation (I think for fear of being boring), or to assume people understand the context of a long-running debate.

I think you should consider hoisting more of this stuff out into standalone blog posts that you can flesh out and also update as circumstances warrant. I don't think I'm the only one who has learned a lot from reading you, but often felt myself wishing it had been dumbed down a shade for beginners.

Maybe the best argument for it is that blog posts remain mutable and you can add and expand as necessary, unlike these HN posts that are frozen in amber.
Arithmetic Operations for Image Enhancement
Would you believe I have over 10GB of old emails sitting around?
Agreed. Calculators in general, yes. The Calculator app on my PC, not so much. I’d also assume people using calculators that much would buy a physical one, it’s much more convinient.
> put each service in its own network

cgroups and network namespaces.

> run multiple versions of a software

https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/index...
Here's what I see:

https://imgur.com/IrL5JBo.png
Well that's why I asked which one, otherwise it would've obviously been Gmail...
There are good alternatives:

runbox.com *kudos for runbox.my account is 5 years old

https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-email/
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Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures (1975) [pdf]
In CA.

Colaboratory Research is experiencing issues loading and saving notebooks in Google Drive.

Sad :(.
Presumably SAP's models encode information about past supply chain behaviors/events, along with any actual data that the customer may have already input.

At least that's what their documentation claims: https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7...

But as the old saying goes, "There's lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics". But I'm sure that this an area where good neural nets could be put to enormous advantage.

The question the author raises with good reason is "Do we want to optimize only for supply chain efficiency?"

BTW, the author is a 'she', Miriam Posner.
Sure, but now you're enforcing types manually instead of with a type system. What have you gained over not having a type system? In this case, nothing.
Those with money can always find a way to gain advantage.

So if you have Private universities, those with means will find ways to game the system. And they will gain opportunity inequality over those that do not have the means.

Stated differently, having unequal education institutions means that those that are richer will always be at an advantage to getting in the better institutions and long term contribute to opportunity inequality.
It's hard to tell without having physical access to the device whether it's compromised or not (it's hard to tell even when you do have physical access).

I recommended Signal ease your paranoia. If you want to be extra sure and have the means to do it: never hurts to switch to a brand new phone either.
That's not a fair assessment and I'm surprised this is the top comment. In this case, the huge advantage to a containerized setup is that everything is now easily portable. If his server goes down, or he just decides to move, OP can now deploy all of his websites onto another server instantly. He also quotes the ability to build (and test) locally before shipping images to production, which is a really neat workflow. Improved security comes as an added bonus.

As for the "s3 costs of docker image", it's a few cents per month.
It’s not a Visa thing we need to solve, we need to set up infrastructure (economic and legal) in each country.

But hopefully soon.
Paralytics primarily effect voluntary muscles (and spontaneous respiration), but GA impacts the autonomic system to varying degrees. The blockade will keep you from moving (or breathing), the GA will depress your autonomic functioning. Now it’s true that the anesthesiologist will monitor your heart, but they have to interpret the cause of any change. If they don’t realize that the change in heart rate is due to awareness, you’re screwed.
Certainly, people do at least some times give money to universities thinking they will get something out of it, like a kid being admitted. You know in closed doors it is discussed explicitly, and the fund raisers at the universities must be trying to skirt the legal limits. A bunch of them must be wandering if they are next or were wiretapped talking to the guilty ones here.
Title makes it sound like a bug is discovered. The 'trapdoor' is in the protocol by design. A lot of zero knowledge proof protocols have an initial setup phase in which values are created that need to be forgotten for the system to be secure. These values are sometimes know as 'toxic waste'.

ZCash has a good write up on how this went in their zero-knowledge proof based system: https://z.cash/technology/paramgen

The main criticism by the researchers seems to be that the process around this setup was insufficient to demonstrate security.
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Who knows what the future would bring?

A $32 million (1985 dollars) Cray 2 super computer could do 1.9GFlops.

You can now get over 50x that performance for less than a grand in a device that fits in your pocket. I bet those engineers didn't expect that in half a lifetime.
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It should.

Email me the details and I’ll pass on to the admissions team. austen@lambdaschool.com.
Perhaps check if this could work for you?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/340108/how-to...
> They never are, because if this did happen it would have massive implications for our understanding of the human body. It would require us to be wrong about a lot of things.

Yeah, welcome to medicine. If you've ever encountered these things in a non-theoretic perspective (i.e., having some condition), you quickly see that doctors don't know shit.

Perhaps not surprising, given that human experimentation is taboo.

Anyways, how does what you're saying mesh with the fact that extra glucose is stored in your body's reserves while ketones are secreted with urine and breath?
It doesn't seem fare that it's okay to donate millions of dollars to the university without a hope you get something like you kid in and it's not a crime (I don't care that it's an institution and not a person, you can get something).

Most programmers think we are in a meritocratic society and we all got to our positions based solely on raw ability, including me. Probably we are full of it. :-) I'm from a small town in the south, but my dad worked as an engineer at IBM. No doubt I was helped because I was around engineers, we talked about the world, and I knew I could probably make it there too. And he had money to help me in college.
I think Lambda school is great, and applaud what you are doing. College needs some.seroous rethinking, so I applaud basically all the ideas we are trying.

I wonder what you make of the argument that most of what colleges/boot camps/etc are providing is largely just signaling, rather than education?

Obviously there is some education component, but I'm wondering how you think about the nature of the value you are providing.
That wasn’t my intention, I just meant that I didn’t understand the reasoning, not to infer something sinister.
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Yeah that whole section on suspicious comparison looks like false positives by someone who didn't even bother to look at the code or doesn't understand it. Right after there is also the flagging of strod(rounded string) = 0.0 which I'm pretty sure is correct. They are checking whether the rounded string is exactly zero. Automated tooling is really only useful if you actually know what you are doing and can properly triage the output. "Look I ran this tool and it spit out some things" isn't very helpful.
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Ahhh, got it now, thanks!
He told you already, Hungry.
Are you saying there were no concerns in the black community about crack? And no requests to “put those dealers in jail?”

I doubt that’s true.
He mentions that this way he can more easily upload his docker-compose file to AWS ECR when it's ready for production.
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> The author is nitpicking

You are being charitable to the author. Usually Stratechery articles are decent, but on this one, the author has many ignorant remarks.

> Bing

Microsoft, if not checked with antitrust investigations, could have shoved Bing (or Live, or MSN Search) down everyone's throat. Just like Google tried to do with Google+. So to credit Warren's point, without antitrust case, we could be living with Bing (or Live or MSN Search).

> of course a browser should be bundled with an operating system; a new computer without a browser would be practically useless (for one, how do you install a browser?).

Hasn't the author heard of floppy disks or CDs with software, which was the popular way to install softwares in 90's? In fact, without Microsoft's free offering, browsers could have remained a software worth paying for and we wouldn't be living with an almost monoculture.

> Google would have emerged with or without antitrust action against Microsoft.

I read a wonderful article a while back, which stated that the real effect of antitrust on Microsoft was that every minor decision was heavily scrutinized internally, with lawyers vetting the major decisions, thus dampening the velocity of the company. So it is debatable whether Google could have emerged without the antitrust lawsuit.
I’d go as far as saying that this kind of posts worsen the situation. In general, if you find bugs in open source code, it’s better to quietly file bugs to the author instead of writing a full post listing errors people made. It’s like your high school teacher calling you out in front of class for mistakes you made in a test. Not cool.
It’s called moral panic and happens quite often. See violence in video games and the every common trope about razor blades in Halloween candy.
Happy 30th birthday, Internet. Enjoy your consolidated cloud infrastructure.
I think it may be a touch beyond Kubernetes.
I can't help think that the people who say that were younger and more social then.

First half is definitely true :)
May I ask - why the downvote? I know it was a blip, but still, a reminder for a moment that most of life relies on them. And some of my data is not replicated else ware... that is changing.
This sounds really interesting. Is this work available publicly? Could you comment on how you did this and what the pros and cons were (surely a compromise had to be made somewhere)?
Of course the official accident report is a better source, but I’m not arguing linked controls would have helped. Just that it took the captain a few minutes to grasp the situation.
haven’t encountered many crackheads, eh? crack did plenty of damage itself
> I can’t think of a single skill more stupid to learn in university.

I can (for an aspiring software engineer) - real analysis, differential equations, number theory
As well as the link to his gist "Python module for downloading planetary data for More or Less": https://gist.github.com/olihawkins/90f53659d9a9d22384a3c1dba...
I don’t think anyone believes in any sort of a “signal” from Lambda School yet. That’s something you can coast on after years of success.
YouTube seems to be in this amazing degraded state for me where videos play just fine, but it isn't showing me ads.
huh, didn't know there was another collison brother. you guys are like the weasleys.
in my experience these types tend to paper over any hard feelings with teammates with expensive gifts/trips
Man I didn't even remember that AIM is gone for good until now. I kind of got a pang of regret I didn't watch it go offline.
It sounds like you're going for a "innocent until proven guilty" approach to the Max's airworthiness, if I'm understanding your comment correctly. That seems opposite to the culture of air safety, where planes are certified airworthy because the data prove them to be so.

I don't think the data prove airworthiness of the Max anymore.
Or any software engineering experience for that matter.
One professor was blown away when I showed him you could change change the query parameters of his custom submittance application to see other student's submitted work.
> If they were actually interested in education the scenario would have been completely different.

Seriously, I was staying at the Trump hotel in Chicago (before Trump ran for president -- before I ever gave much thought about Donald Trump). Anyway, there was a looping video on the TV and she was inviting guests to stay at any one of their other Trump hotels around "North America and Canada." It was at that moment I realized that she thought North America was some kind of Northern area of America. I no longer wonder how she got into Wharton.
When I was young (I think I was 18 years old), me and my dad traveled across all the length of Amazon river (from Belém to Manaus) in a crowded boat sleeping on hammocks, it was a 6 days trip. https://goo.gl/maps/BFkCPx1HR1n

In some places the river was really narrow and almost could be crossed by swimming, but there where times that I couldn't see any of the two margins because of its enormous width.

Is was a really great experience, got to talk to indigenous people, saw a lot of botos cor-de-rosa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_river_dolphin) and got to eat amazing local dishes.
no one is going to care in a month, these people are super rich. i doubt anything more than fines and a slap on the wrist
These end-to-end speech recognition systems are very intriguing. One major limitation is that since they don't model phonetics, they have no great way to deal with highly irregular orthography that doesn't show up in the training data. For example, there is no great way for the system to learn that the pronunciation "black" can be spelled "6LACK" sometimes.

The paper on arXiv goes into how they deal with this. Basically they run a traditional WFST decoder over the output of the RNN-T to take spelling context into account. Still, it's impressive how far the neural system can get with no explicit lexicon or acoustic modeling in general.
VP8 is power hungry and GPUs don't have hardware support for decoding it.

Do you really want way worse battery life just so you can have VP8? That seems to be prioritizing the wrong things.
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What are you doing professionally that your math heavy and theoretical classes are a force multiplier and what classes were they?
Is this a JAVA application?

For JAVA applications you need to add WebTools certificate to JAVA root certificates store.

You can find WebTools certificate here:
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\WebTools\Cert\SSL

Please check this article for more information:
https://www.httpdebugger.com/help/java.html
Gmail is down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19375141

Maybe Google is overpaying their engineers?
> CICO is the default position

CICO is demonstrably bullshit. Vodka and Coca-Cola have the same number of calories, but vastly different effects on a person's metabolism. Just compare a vodka binge drinker with a coke binge drinker.
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>> cinnamon is good for blood sugar levels

Medical errors are the third most common cause of death in the US. Let's just say this is strong evidence that not all doctors know how to do all that doctor-related stuff. Some of them just charge you through the nose and hope that you won't die.
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Ya, it's not as much of a problem at the office because you maybe hear one leaf blower all week. At home, it's 1-2 per day. When they come do my lawn, it's always while I'm on the phone.
Or if you end up with them as your brain surgeon.
why is this downvoted? actually relevant comment
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Still, the comparison ratio == threshold has very little chance to turn out true.

When you want to check whether A >= B (where A and B are numbers represented as floats), you would probably want to use the check A >= B - epsilon.
> Containers don't use any init, right? They just execute the binary in the host environment (but containerised).

It depends on the container runtime. LXC/LXD run an actual init system and can be treated like lightweight VMs running multiple processes.
It's fine to spend time learning with personal projects that aren't measured by forward progress on features. Many people rebuild their blogs every year just to try out new things.