skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That attack is more useful against a mosaic than a straight blur. In this case, to attack successfully, the attacker would have to lay out every possible passport with the letters in the exact position as they'd be printed, because there is a pretty strong blur applied. You have an F and the line of < characters to work with, you know about how long her given and surnames are, and you have a frame of reference for the rest based on how much of the bottom line the author had to blur. Not much else. You also don't have a guarantee that the blur is straight out of Photoshop and contains what you are trying to reverse; looking at it, I don't think it is the actual passport data. I think it was modified then blurred.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I think this one is impractical.
Show HN: Mowish, movie reminder.
Some worked on gmail and were in the right place at the right time for personal mail. You keep it after you leave.
plus, I think you don't take the "getting the idea checked if it really could fly" part of a kickstarter campaign in account.
Yes

I believe most of the people, especially the most poverty stricken ones, would stay put

How would they move if they can't support themselves? Food is the priority

Of course, this may lead to a different balance of people in countries, so it may work from that side.

Well as a citizen of two countries (one in the EU) I am quite mobile myself, but sometimes the language is a bigger barrier than the 'official' borders.

On the other hand, some people go out of their way to cross borders illegally exactly because it's illegal.
TL;DR: Social engineering attacks work. I was able to reset my Ameritrade account password by giving the support person the name of one of the stocks in my portfolio (along with some other basic identifying info).
It will email you, when the match is found.

Yep, we are also thinking of adding some filters to the matching.
How to get bloggers to write about you? 
Hi,

I told my recently launched side project's early traction story here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600281

To move to next level, I need support from blogger community. People are loving my product but none of the big or even small blogs are writing about it. I have mailed some bloggers about what Pinwoot does and traction info, but I dont get replies. Any tips that you can help me and other fellow first time entrepreneurs, will be really helpful. Looking forward to your comments.
Only in a very simplistic model. Otherwise, the answer is no.
Master degree in Decision engineering. Where?
This is something http://www.swarmly.co/ should get into. It doesn't have much users but imagine you announce that you're going to a park. Only those that arrived plus or minus 5 minutes, that may or may not have the same interest, are shown; it shows up with a pop up. Great for central park and people with a certain type of dog you want to see.
Great! We'd be happy for Mark to get you back on Facebook :-))))
Ah, that explains a lot!

Great work under the time constraints; it might be a good idea to throw some text on there indicating it was a hackathon project (for HNers who may not go to the comments first).
It is a fallacy to assume that everyone who disagrees with you on a position is part of a unified front. All that the e-cig situation proves is that some people who are anti-tobacco are irrational. Not exactly shocking news, considering how few people are rational in general.
> It is impossible to predict the murders and overdose deaths that a drug kingpin ultimately causes. Also we have robberies, scams, shoplifting, assaults, Law enforcent and legal system costs, ...

These are problems with drug prohibition, not drug use. This is like blaming whiskey for Al Capone.

Children follow the vicious drug cycle because of genetics. Most personality traits are fixed at the time of conception.
You can always drop the few dollars a year for a vanity domain. No one has ever accidentally typed/used tk@tkte.ch!
Google Maps is already "flat" in the sense that it doesn't use gradients or shadows. (The exception would be the controls in the corner which have a shadow, but that still exists in this example). The only thing someone did was switch up the color scheme and remove all the text, i.e. everything that actually makes a map useful. I fail to see the point of this. Could someone explain?
That is a facile analysis. The lottery is a massively distributed brute force attack against a fairly weak hashing algorithm. The odds of you winning the lottery are astronomically small. The odds of someone winning the lottery are not.
You can also use + suffixes, which allows you to label.the address.

Scott+newslettername@Gmail.com for example.
I tried Chantix and had horrible night terrors. This isn't a rare side effect.
It used to be popular to make buttons 3D with gradient effects, gloss, and borders, both windows and buttons to have drop shadows, and also to use real world textures like leather and paper, and text labels and calls to action. This stems from a lot of research into user efficiency that showed users completed tasks easier and quicker and with higher satisfaction if the buttons looked like they stuck out and were pressable, had good labeling, etc..

Flat design basically gets rid of all this. It hasn't fared well in my own user studies. Users tend not to hit a button if it is just a flat icon tucked in a corner with nothing to clue them in that they should be hitting it or what it does. You are generally stuck in the first revision to put a tutorial overlay with a big arrow and text the first time the user comes to the screen.

The lack of text in this so you can't tell what any street is? That's very flat UI style. They hate text that clutters up their designs and tells people what things actually do. Proponents of flat design generally base their decision on the fact that it looks better to graphics designers looking at the app (instead of using it).
Well - if that social lie is nessescary for that teacher to keep her job, it seems pretty harsh to sit on your high horse and say 'lies are the reason - not unintended sharing'.

The customary examples in this discussion are battered wives hiding from their abusive husbands, and homosexuals in the UaE.
Although I suppose the complications of things like benefits and medical care make it probably un-implementable in practice.

There's a case to be made that welfare states are immoral for this reason. If national social guarantees force you to restrict third-world economic mobility, it's not progressive: it's the opposite. Internally it's egalitarian, but globally, it's a group of rich people using force to preserve inequality. It's not just failing to help the poor: it's actively repressing their attempts to help themselves.
No need to verify, it works.
Trust me, trust this stranger from the Internet.
In LA (Burbank, actually) we had one manager, two devs (me and a slightly more junior person), and two video editors who transcoded stuff almost on-the-fly and kept our online video library humming along. In New York (at 30 Rock) we had about four content and social media people, two designers, and a photographer.

This was about five years ago, so the set-up is a little more robust now. For example, they now have a CMS to manage web content, whereas we used to code and manage all our assets by hand. And back then they were too stingy to buy an extra server to automate a lot of the processes, so I actually had to stay late every week to literally "push the button" to make things go live in sync with the on-air broadcasts. All kinds of crazy stuff, on a shoestring budget.

But yeah, if you're talking about code stuff alone, we only had two actual coders/devs, me and another girl. Fun times!
Android's matryoshka problem
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Nearly 1500 concurrent visitors on a blog post that got to the top of HN quite a while ago.
I would see friend requests from people you don't like on linked in as a downside. You don't want them to know you don't like them, yet you don't want to be 'linked' with them on linked in.
Plant ten and you have a forest.
sorry, I did a whole talk inspired by the term "leaky abstraction" and thought it was relevant.
And similarly anti-terrorism laws only apply to terrorists. So we shouldn't care that they can be held for 3 days without charge.

http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-...

Regarding hate speech laws in Canada:

> "Although it's true that they have nailed some genuine hatemongers with it, it has nevertheless been used or threatened to be used against a wide variety of constituencies who don't bear the slightest resemblance to the kind of hatemongers that were originally envisioned: anti-American protesters, French-Canadian nationalists, a film sympathetic to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a pro-Zionist book, a Jewish community leader, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and even a couple years ago, a pro-Israeli speaker was briefed about the anti-hate law by a police detective before he went in to make a speech."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissio...
Is it graphics design site?
This has been known for over a month[1].

I’d say it’s good change. Within 2 months of when the iPhone 5 was released, about half of the apps I use most had received updates that optmized for the larger screen. After 7 months though, the remaining apps still haven’t been optimized, even though many of those apps did receive updates in the meantime. As of May 1st, a developer can’t just post a bugfix without also optimizing for all the different iPhone screens.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/21/apple-will-no-longer-app...
This video, although speaking only about allowing unrestricted immigration to the US, is worth watching for perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

Unrestricted immigration would make the West's social safety nets and healthcare impossible to maintain. There would be corresponding civil unrest as a reaction.

The obvious first thing to do about world poverty is provide free birth control and related education.
About 20 on average and 30 in rare occasions. It's a media player app for chrome with about 5k active weekly users.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/achshar-player/fdd...
If this is true, I'm glad it reached the front page of HN. Given all the popular services out there which we use with just enough trust to put our privacy in jeopardy, I'm glad a hole is being exposed in such a big service. Hopefully Skype changes their verification practices.
Key fob car thefts
Here is how it works:

1. Login with Facebook.

2. Choose the movies you want to watch.

3. Choose whom do you want to watch it with (friends/friends+strangers) and where (San Francisco).

4. We'll shoot an intro email to you when there is a match.

Important thing is that it posts movies you want to watch on your wall, so friends do know this site exists. So, please do not block it, the posts are nice and clean. You are essentially asking friends who wants to watch movies with you.
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Exactly, that's why it helps to have multiple tests with different sensitivities and specificities for ruling people out and in, respectively. Whorls and a grip circumference of 14cm, say
The computer revolution hasnt happened yet - Alan Kay
Random versus Encrypted Data
I'm not sure if Bayes theorem is relevant here, (maybe behind the scenes) but you would go probably for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing
The recent Via rail plotters as well as the Toronto 18. Both fake in that anyone involved with real capability works for the government. Just like so many in the US. And the busts happen conveniently before voting on security legislation. I write on a cell phone sorry for no links. google Canadian terror bust bill 7 or toronto 18.
I wish I could - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5621245
You moved from Redis to CouchDB? That sounds odd.
The mobility of labor will never offset the negative externalities of globalized mercantilism.
Congratulations on the BBC Click feature!

Around 2500 on www.kayako.com after a particular newsletter went out to our customers.
Of course a lot of recruiters suck and are annoying, but when you translate that into "all recruiters suck, fuck them, I'm not talking to them", frankly you're hurting yourself.

If and only if the benefit you receive from the good recruiters outweighs the hassle of talking to and vetting all the bad recruiters in order to find the good ones.

This isn't always the case. I get that you're frustrated by the demonization of your industry, but I suspect you don't really appreciate just how much of a useless time-suck a bad recruiter can be, and just how small the ratio of good to bad recruiters is.
Yea, if I flipped a coin 10,000 times and 55% of them were heads then the coin is definitely biased toward heads, not a 55% chance that it's biased.
Let's not hand-wave; the numbers actually matter here. One-in-a-million chances happen every day. One-in-2^128 chances do not. If you're exclusively using a hash for identifying someone, then you'll make sure it's big enough to prevent accidental collisions. This is not expensive.
.. and here is us, destroying millions of years life, in what is a split of a second in comparison. We are undertaking the greatest mass extinction of all times.
Can I send a URL to the API and it will return a PDF? That is something I would use for sure.
I'm really curious in what legit situation this kind of "account recovery" would be needed.

Like you forgot your email address and/or password so you can't recover you skype account via that way?
I actually prefer watching films alone. I find it much easier to concentrate on the film, and it also means it's a lot easier to stop watching and do something else if the film is boring.
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They've gone over well with other smokers I know too. My wife quit for a year, then was back to smoking, saying it helped with work stress, but she is fine with e-cigs since we tried those. Hell, even I take a few puffs nowadays if I'm exhausted from working all day and need to hit a club with her or something. It's basically transformed it into the same as getting a cup of coffee, but easier.
Would you like an Egg Roll with that?
That’s kind of melodramatic. The universe will be just fine without humans, or even our tiny planet Earth.
One issue is that the line between "fraud" and "creatively working around rules to make sure the doors stay open" is thin and porous.

I'm part of a grant writing consulting firm, and we've worked for many Community Health Centers (CHCs, also known as "Section 330 providers"). Most rely on some combination of Medicare / Medicaid funding, donations, and grants to keep their doors open. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates are basically too low to pay for some combination of doctors, PAs, and NPs to provide care. Consequently, some combination of things happen:

* Care is so awful that it doesn't effectively exist. A patient sees a provider for one to two minutes and then gets hustled out the door with their problems put off until the next visit, since CHCs can bill by the visit, not by the time spent.

* Care is somewhat better but creatively accounted for. What if someone sees a provider for two, fifteen minute visits instead of one half hour visit?

* Some number of phantom patients receive services.

You may now call out that number three is FRAUD and THEFT and STEALING. But the virtuous organizations that don't use some form of creative accounting can't exist because they can't pay the rent, for supplies, and for providers. So there are game-theory-style incentives built in for working the system in such a way that the organization can survive. The feds know this, which is why they offer programs like the New Access Points (NAP), to throw a bone to CHCs (see here: http://blog.seliger.com/2010/08/11/the-health-resources-and-... for one place we've written about it).

Given this, what counts as "fraud?" The answer is, "It depends."

(A tangential note: we've worked for CHC clients in MSAs with a million or more people who are the only PCPs that accept Medicare / Medicaid. Specialists? Forget about it.)
Sometimes overpopulation and a lack of education is an important reason for poverty. If a lot of the more well-off people in underdeveloped countries freely travelled to the more developed ones, a percentage of them would make efforts to improve the lot of people in their native countries, since they wouldn't have to jump through a ton of hoops to go back to living in the more developed countries.
Robert Scoble - Why Google Glass isn't a Segway
Curious: what sites are alternatives to LinkedIn? Who is LinkedIn's competition?
To be fair, Google is not saying it's impossible. They're saying "these things" are most often a result of a user error and that they'll look into it.
Was he supposed to use half a pixel?
That's a nice point about points.
Freedom of peaceful assembly is protected under section 2 of the Charter. I am unsure of whether or not Bill 78 would hold up to a charter challenge, but it is already on its way through the courts.

It kind of bothers me that Canada as a whole gets crapped on for one province's shady law. It is kind of like condemning the whole of the USA for Texas allowing capital punishment.
Why not use a well tested, fast, off the shelf summary api? https://www.mashape.com/stremor/

We do all the hard work. Even do the Content extraction from the page.

And yes I have ties to this product, I'm the CTO of Stremor.

No. that doesn't bias me against you building your own. I just know that we have 7.5 Million words in our code and I need more to get it perfect. Most people don't have time to assign traits to that many words. (Wordnet has about 350k)

Edit:

Also you have to deal with sentence disambiguation. That is hard. Which is why NLTK and Core NLP suck at it.

Polyword Nouns and pronouns mean that you can't just use tokens, because "the President", "President Obama" and "He" are all the same "token". you have to rectify that when summarizing.
Immigration has nothing whatsoever to do with relieving world poverty and could never fulfill such a goal.

The primary effect, and perhaps purpose of immigration (excluding asylum), is to keep labor costs down. One could even convincingly claim that wages, in general, are controlled by immigration and certainly not the "free market".

A useful side effect is that it maintains a healthier demographic profile.
Cocaine isn't that bad - I've watched it being administered to patients in hospitals prior to pituitary surgery. It does good him this situation. It's not that dangerous a drug. What it's bulked out with might be bad, but the real damage comes from it being (mostly) illegal.
Bryan Caplan's essay (http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-...) doesn't mention immigrant crime. Or, if you like, the extra crimes that will be committed by those whom Caplan is happy to penalize: the poor folks living next to you who pay higher taxes, are ineligible for benefits, don't have the right to vote, etc. What would be the Caplanian response here?
> they want to commit violent acts against gays, blacks, and other minorities with minimal reprecussions

Actually this is incorrect. The hate speechs laws were recently tested in the Supreme court [1] and they are not simply based on threats of violence in speech against discriminated groups (that is already covered by many federal laws)

The provincial level speech laws are intended to criminalize (via fines) speech containing prejudice in order to promote social equality. For example, the intended objective in Saskatchewan hate speech laws:

> “tackling causes of discriminatory activity to reduce the harmful effects and social costs of discrimination.”

> “appropriately balances the fundamental values underlying freedom of expression with competing Charter rights and other values essential to a free and democratic society, in this case a commitment to equality and respect for group identity and the inherent dignity owed to all human beings,” wrote Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein for the court.

[1] http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/27/supreme-court-uphold...

So it's not a simple as just targeting people who promote genocide or deny the holocaust.

These broad hate speech laws have the potential of causing "chilling effects":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_(law)

But what's worse is that they are trialed in special tribunals and the defendants don't have access to the standard legal defence rights.

> Mary Agnes Welch, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists stated that Human rights commissions "were never meant to act as language nannies. The current system allows complainants to chill the speech of those they disagree with by entangling targets in a human rights bureaucracy that doesn't have to operate under the same strict rules of defence as a court."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissio...
There's xing.com (formerly OpenBC), which is very popular in Germany.
The reason this is an issue at all is that in order to support te iPhone 5 screen you must drop support for everything before iOS 4.3. Many of the apps you see holding out are doing so because they have (or believe they have) a significant >4.3 user base.

This got better when iOS 6 got jailbroken, but it's still an annoying forced obsolescence. The reason they did it this way is unclear as well.
More importantly, I think the assumption is that the kickstarter is the only funding for the project, though Braff has also stated publicly that he is kicking in a lot of his own personal funds.

Bear in mind that there's also a signaling mechanism at work here. Lots of people on Internet forums will say, "I want to see Garden State II or Season 3 of popular TV show X" or whatever. But talk is cheap.

Kickstarter, however, lets people put their money where their mouths are: instead of saying, "I want to see or read X," you can say, "I want to see or read X so bad that I'm willing to pay $10 to make it happen." That $10 is much louder than 10,000 posts on the Internet.
4500+ on a small "4 hour venture" project of mine. could ahve climbed to 5 or 6k, but the server crashed before. http://imgur.com/ossUOZR
You are correct. But the reality is even worse.

I don't know the particular DNA test used in this case, but lets assume it gave a certainty of 92% that the DNA isolated was from AK. This means that the particular sequences of DNA identified could have come from another person with a probably of 0.08 (i.e. a one-in-12.5 chance, which is not particularly low in a case like this). It does not mean that the DNA is correctly characterized with a probability of 92%.

For a repeated test to give a different probability, the identity of one or more of the sequences isolated from the sample would have to have been incorrect in one of the assays, i.e. there is a procedural error.

It is not at all like tossing coins. An analogy would be getting someone's eye color as blue the first time and brown the second.
What I find funny, is how the visualization of scale on a pixel based screen is inherently limiting.

At a certain point, you want to represent today as a scale of everything else...but at certain point, the line for today would definitely be smaller than a single pixel.

Just a thought, obviously this is not practical by any measure.
slight mistranslation: "...sak som Google ikke kan forklare" means "...that Google can't explain", not "...that I can't explain". (my Norwegian isn't that good, but this kind of sticks out...)
The FreeBSD Foundation is taking part in Google's Summer of Code
Funnily enough I blindly clicked the site and immediately knew what it did and what it was for. I don't see the UX fail here. it's actually very good (to me)
More importantly avoid fats :)
As a lover of Inconsolata I never felt the 1/l was all that similar (re: Inconsolata-g).
This is one reason I put my email on my own domain. But yeah, you can't really expect most users to do that.