skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In literal terms, humans are "natural" actors. When we have an effect on nature, it is a "natural" process. I don't disagree with that. But just because what we do is "natural", doesn't mean it is "good". "Good" and "natural" are not the same.

As for the line between human actors vs. non-human actors... when it comes to players in the ecosystem, humans are simply overpowered. That is the root of the problem. Nature has struck a balance in most places, and the ecosystem shifts slowly because everything is close to balance. This gives the other players in the system time to react. Humans are very, very good at destroying balance, so we often warrant special consideration.

Think about your history. The only other actors that brought about the destruction of habitats, ecosystems, and species in as short a time and as great of numbers as humans are natural disasters.
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Thanks for hijacking my thread! ;)

Seriously, though, how would your library work for twitter?

It seems that the encoding process creates texts much, much larger than the original message.
You're allowed to reuse the same sample for multiple variables, pollsters do it all the time, they'll phone one person and ask them 10 different questions.

The fact that you're measuring faces as opposed to political leanings does not affect the underlying statistical methods. Confounding variables only come into play when you're doing regressions, and/or trying to prove causation. Since they aren't attempting to explain why the faces look like this there aren't any confounding variables.
On iOS 7 you have to explicitly trust a computer from the device before data is allowed over USB; before that it is in a charge only mode. To trust a computer you must unlock the device.
Nope. But I don't have facebook, so that may be why.
im going to sweden and south africa.
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In a June 2007 interview, again with Businessweek,
Christensen reiterated that the iPod was doomed,
and further predicted that the iPhone would not
be successful

The iPod was doomed, and it was the iPhone that killed it.

Also, Apple has demonstrated time and again that they're willing to 'disrupt' themselves by introducing hugely popular new products that erode their own margins. See, for instance, the iPod nano, the iPad mini, and, now, the iPhone 5c[1].

I think Christensen got it exactly right. He's just incorrectly applying his own research.

[1] Yes, yes. Apple hasn't released any numbers on the 5c yet. But, just wait. It's going to be huge.
Again, different meanings of "average": median attractiveness vs. balanced, symmetrical facial features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averageness

Also, if you believe OKCupid Trends, "2/3 of male messages go to the top 1/3 of women" and "women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium": http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati... (Says nothing about what they think about the people they eventually end up with, of course.)
i saw the same thing happening to me, and i really didn't like it. the best way i found around this was identification and practice.

the first thing is to look at how you think and act. you said, "I hate it". that's a very strong emotion, and a very strong idea. and it indicates you've already become negative. try turning it around ... realize that you've already identified a problem, and now have an opportunity to work on changing it.

once i started doing this, my next reaction was that this is positive thinking bullshit. which it seems like. but i'm using it to change myself, which works ... not effect change in the external world through positive thinking, which doesn't necesarily work all that well.

etc, etc.

if you start softening your words, your thoughts follow (and vice versa). you can regain an objective and thoughtful outlook on life and experiences, instead of short-circuiting your through process by relying on pre-disgested, ready-made thought patterns.
Actually, their campaigns (BadVista, Windows 7 Sins and whatever the newest one is) do outline valid issues and try to offer more reasonable alternatives.

Yes, they are blunt and provocative, but that's how you incite debate and bring about more attention to your cause. The main problem is that they aren't getting much traction for various reasons. One is that end users aren't aware of free software and major vendors aim to keep it that way, and another is that the benefits of free software aren't immediately obvious to the end user.
Looking on the video is very unsettling. I think the person needs some medication or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ
I sometimes look here for ideas: http://www.futuretimeline.net/
Hopefully as computer graphics improve and get cheaper and easier to make, film makers can bypass this whole issue and just do it on a computer.
Biometric passports don't necessarily include fingerprint data. For example, current US passports are considered biometric but do not include fingerprint data since fingerprinting is not required to obtain a US passport.
It could also be that they are from low income family group.
I unfortunately had to edit the program after I took the measurements because HN cut off my program horizontally. So I removed one or two letters from the list.
Very impressive stuff, sir. Will check out your work in depth this weekend!
I'll ignore the needless snark.

> The timeout between passcode entries increases with the number of consecutive failures. Get 10 wrong in a row, and the device is wiped (if the user has chosen that option).

Only if you're typing in pass codes to the lock screen, which isn't how its done. An attacker would instead image the flash, grab the Dkey from effaceable storage, and decrypt the filesystem. Indeed this is exactly how professional iOS forensic analysis kits work. This will get you access to SMS, photos, and anything else that doesn't fall under Data Protection.

Data Protection, a second level of encryption that uses your passcode to generate keys, is only used on the keychain block and emails by default. To crack Data Protection, use brute force on the copied data, not on the iDevice itself.

>This no longer works on iOS 7. The user has to manually choose to trust the computer they're attached to prior to any communication going across the wire.

Cool, I didn't know that.

EDIT:

Here's a good overview: http://mobappsectriathlon.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-do-you-pr...
Isn't that what app.net is supposed to be?
Which "wire" allows you to brute force the passcode? Have you tried this, or are you repeating claims of others? Because I have a feeling that doesn't work like you think it does.

Your latter attack is an entirely different threat model, and can't be used on a stolen device.
While I don't have data to back it up, I believe most Android users use the draw pattern to unlock method. This feature is absolutely trivial to defeat - you can simply hold the phone up to the light, see the trails of oil left on the phone, and follow that trail. People have done this to my own phone with just a few tries.

TouchID represents a massive increase in security over draw pattern to unlock, and it's easier to use at the same time.

It probably also represents an increase in security over 4 digit PIN codes, though that's shakier.
It seems like any inaccurate portrayal of somebodies life would be slander. How do people get around this? If I wanted to make a movie about Barrack Obama and say he was apart of terrorists groups would that be legal? Isn't this the reason movies have to say "Any characters in this movie were purely fictional etc."
Guys from IsTouchIDHackedYet.com crowdfunded reward for hacking TouchID. I guess CCC won bounty worth over $10k.
http://istouchidhackedyet.com/
I'd forgotten that there's so little RAM to work with. It might be doable; the blocks I'm talking about are mostly very primitive operations.

Do you think the benefits are valuable enough to be worth all the trouble of figuring out how to program this architecture, or is it more just a fun puzzle?
That is literally the startup I'm working on right now.

http://driveless.co

Originally was going to start working on the nightlife vertical of this market (i.e. we all live in an apartment complex or dorm together and want a shuttle to the bar district so we don't have to drive drunk) and the messaging on the site now is to that effect.

But as I've been around the country researching I'm seeing there is probably a bigger opportunity around commuters and other activities like shuttles around festivals.

If you have any feedback or suggestions feel free to contact me (info is in my profile) and also sign up on the site. I'm launching mvp in 2 - 3 weeks.
Forum software has been using the term "avatar" this way for at least the past decade.
I think people here are making this out to be a considerably bigger deal than it actually is.

Studios that make war films like having DoD support. It is a useful benefit. However, it's not required. Indeed, if you're shooting your film in Canada or Australia (which is fairly common) you're not going to really be able to make much use of the platoon of extras the US army is willing to lend you.

Similarly, the DoD doesn't have to spend money 'buying' the support of movie studios because the American public already want pro-US military films. Studios want to make films that will bring in buckets of money. Audiences in the US are far more willing to go and watch patriotic films than those that question the actions of the military or government.

You'd have lots of pro-US war/military films with or without DoD support. What's interesting is that we're starting to see films being edited - and entirely new scenes being added - for non US markets that are not quite so American-centric. A good example of this would be Iron Man 3, which had several minutes of additional footage added in for the Chinese market.
Being smart is very subjective.

I know someone who is very skilled at retaining large amounts of detailed information and he works as a high profile lawyer. However, he wasn't capable of figuring out how to change the battery in his remote control, let alone set up the TV channels on his newly bought TV. He reminds me of a lot of politicians I see on television; perceived as smart but actually quite dumb.

Then I know plenty of people who aren't highly educated at all but they are some of the most creative thinkers I have come across in my life.

I'm sure that reading a lot of books will broaden your horizon and awareness of one's "lack" of knowledge will put you into a good position since you're willing to learn and you're not assuming you know it all. That's good.
I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Given their main job, playing podcasts, most existing apps seem good enough. I use Downcast, and generally like it. There are some things I would prefer worked differently, but 10 people might have 10 different sets of minor annoyances, so I wonder if Overcast will be better for me.

The thing is, I'll probably buy it just to see anyway, and so will many others. For Marco, a customer that buys his app to try it out gives him the same (or more) profit as someone who uses it regularly. As long as it's good enough to suit some people best, he'll have a steady stream of people buying it to see if it suits them best.
Even $500 is too much for a homeschooled child. In today's world a superior education costs probably around $0.
Sleep another couple of hours each night - stop when you get to nine consistent hours of sleep a night. Melatonin can help tremendously. It makes everything and anything else much easier.
I'm very impressed by your brother's ability, and I believe that if he exercised it to its full extent, he would not be "just a welder" as you describe.
Depend how you define being smarter. Being aware of your bias is a possible initial approach. For a list try start reading from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases (some of them have nicer explanation in i.e. http://youarenotsosmart.com/ )
A whole lot of their resources are spent on dealing with iPhone theft. It's a huge nuisance for them.
So long as the power doesn't go out and the price is reasonable, why do I care if my utility company has a nice website?
> The average applicant can't code, but that's true across the board.

That's exactly what I said, and was the point I was making. Combine this with confirmation bias and you're likely to see the result we do.

> Why? Isn't this just a gentle way of saying that you have a bias?

Academic research and production code have different, conflicting, requirements. That there are people good at one rather than the other is not surprising. I know people who are fantastic researchers, but their code should never go into a production system. I know people who write beautiful code, but they'd never have something good enough for academia.

> There's no fundamental reason that you should expect that a PhD (especially in CS) would be less able to write code than any other randomly selected applicant.

A PhD versus a coder straight out of university, or a PhD versus someone who has 3 years experience writing production code?
It's already been hacked (current 1st item on HN)
http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
Just wanted to say, kudos! I think it is essential for a language to have a good C interface otherwise it will be insulated. However some more example would be nice. Furthermore I think you mean "infix" in your documentation and not "inline".
Outcome of the elections. Merkel won. The CDU (Christian Democratic Union) isn't very Internet and hacker friendly.
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Anybody who remembers Iron Eagle I-III and Red Dawn knows Hollywood is full of propaganda. Goebbels found that it was difficult to change the movie viewers’ beliefs, but easy to reinforce their prejudices. He preferred entertainment that propped up these preconceptions instead of blatant political messages. Assange has been advocating for nobody to watch this flim after he read the Iranian prejudice in the script and dismissed this as Goebbellian manipulation.
The actual artist's methodology:

http://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/world-of-averages-eur...

> I used this site: http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average

> I used no one I thought was under 20 and no one I thought was over 50. I used any internet source I could to get about 15-20 pictures each composite. The hardest thing is finding that many pictures of good frontal shots. Most people take pictures at an angle.

> It is also not always easy to find pictures of every nationality. At times I would use Google Image and type in the 10 most common last names for a nationality. For Latin America, where names are shared, I would use the most common last names for that country and put the country name in the search. I would try to verify that the person is at least in that country or from it (not easy). That was especially tricky with the UK (English, Welsh, etc) and Irish.

> Strangely for some nationalities it was easier to find men than women or vice versa. For example, very easy to find pictures of Italian men, but not women. It is very easy to find pictures of French women, but not men, etc.

> Anyway, for every composite I think I viewed at least a couple of thousand photos. :-(
I'd like to see the data correlated against religious adherence.

In my experience there is a strong bimodal distribution: one group does it because they don't want their kids exposed to the secular world until they are adults, and the other group is dissatisfied with the quality of the educational facilities available in their area.
The author's own "wishlist" and bullet points are very reasonable for almost any of us to do. In such an environment, one has the freedom without sacrificing too much convenience. Esp. the cloud backup using encrypted archives on periodic basis.
even ignoring the middle dot, just picking a more suitable corpus for that person isn't necessarily going to make this technique look innocuous - it's still a collection of excerpts taken from what looks like random positions within a document. it looks suspicious.

you could imagine a system which uses entirely normal and habitual tweets, but encodes information in choices of synonyms used in the text, or whether or not punctuation was used in certain places, or the timing of the tweet's publication. lower bitrates, but plausibly deniable as to the message's existence.
I have received bogus friend requests from bogus fb accounts about 10 times since i've been on facebook. (8 years). Some even go as far as friending people I am friends with and liking things that I'm liking or being from my home town. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a fake account and just a really bizarre person. Usually you can spot a fake from lack of interaction with other people on their timeline. That is not to say that elaborate fakes haven't been creating bogus friend networks. It would be an interesting project to collect the fb_ids from all these potentially bogus accounts, though it would be best to get the info that is surely private, like login times/locations. I'm sure the people in quality assurance at facebook are all over this.
yup. vacation or a 2 week hiatus is good. go play your favorite video game or sport 1x or 2x a week. workout. stop drinking booze.
Yes, that's the simplest way to make the encoded tweets look natural, i.e., truly steganographic, but it's a fine balancing act between that and not making the corpus obvious.
It assumes that they need to trade right now and sell right now which is a false assumption. As to what network engenders do, if you want to really stretch thinks Starbucks barista's aid price discovery by keeping people awake but that's a meaningless definition.

PS: There was a while that I accepted the idea, but consider what happens if bill gates wanted to sell 10 billion in Microsoft stock HFT will be willing to pick up quite a bit, but vary seen there will try and get rid of the stock and the net effect is they don't hold the stock for long enough to matter. Because, really what they do is time shifting not price discovery. Further the reason it works is buy and sell orders without attached prices which makes selling 1/10th of a second sooner cost you money.
TweetFS uses the SeqTweet library, which takes care of sequencing the tweets for you. Specifically, see the _list_to_twitter method: https://github.com/workmajj/seqtweet/blob/master/seqtweet/se...

One of the use cases of TweetFS is to use Twitter as a 'dead drop'. You'll generate a lot of tweets by doing that, but there's no harm done.

I don't think I hijacked your thread. The other comments also discuss textual steganography.
Typical Marco: "I respect you too much to put up an email solicitation box or fake queue."

It's not enough to have good taste, you have to point out to people what good taste you have, in case they miss it. Which, ironically, is in poor taste.
The last time I did a wire, it was to send a 6-figure amount to Washington Mutual (RIP) to pay off a mortgage.

I logged into WAMU's web site to find out the amount and procedure, printed off the reply, and took it to the bank. The nice lady in the banking lobby took my printout and did the transfer. The fee was $15, IIRC, in 2007.

Wire transfers do entail some extra work, because the transaction is cleared in real time, whereas ACHs and bill-pays and paper checks are cleared (or bounced) in large batches that are processed daily.†

†http://www.depositaccounts.com/blog/difference-between-wire-...
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There are a few, but they seem to be in verticals, and still trying to gain traction.

Particularly in the creative arena, their is Behance.

theloop.com.au started in Australia a few years ago, and is focused on more the creative/digital side of the business. They are spreading internationally (though, strangely, don't seem to have theloop.com domain yet).
The cliche phrase "software is eating the world" doesn't quite do the future justice. "Startups in industries that didn't previously have them" does it much better: that's agriculture (Sourcerly), payments (WePay, Stripe, Balanced, Slidepay, Square), lending (LendUp, Lending Club), startup investing (Anglelist, WeFunder), banking (Palintir, Standard Treasury), insurance (Oscar) fashion (La Tote, Crowdery), and more. So many industries can still be improved with the startup ethos of disruption, growth, efficiency, data, etc.
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Most people in South India are mostly Dravidian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_peoples
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I don't think it's reasonable to expect a movie about Wikileaks to be any more accurate than, say, a movie about Facebook. Yeah, they took some liberties and made a nice, tidy narrative. It's a movie.

And whose fault is it that the journalist apparently didn't know a password he was given for files for his own use was being reused to secure a public insurance file? It does not speak well to their stewardship of sensitive documents that they were giving out that password to people who are "careless and clueless."
What's "facebook"?
>I’d rather drink a Coke and eat pork rinds

That would be an even worse way to get electrolytes than Gatorade. Less hydration for the same amount of sugar, and to get the same amount of potassium, you'd have to eat enough pork rinds that you'd hit 30% of your sodium and fat RDA in one shot. You'd probably need to sit down from your workout for a while until the nausea passed. And all that salt is not going to leave you in a mood to exercise any more.
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Free class for under-appreciated creatives, to learn how to invent. Not so much about IP as about a skill in seeing innovation.
Are you saying that this opportunity cost somehow offsets the difference between the $500 and $9,963 It really does not make up much of a difference. An average homeschooling parent does is homeschooling two kids. Average class size it 24. Divide your $20k by 12 = 1,600. There is still a large deficit difference.

If you want more of a comparison of how wasteful (non efficient) and ineffective public schools are - just compare them to equivalent private schools. They turn out better test scores and spend around 25% that of public schools per student.
Writer is thoroughly confused between "pleasure" and "unconscious detection of carbohydrates".
You should try reading the whole article.

The OP's point is that Christensen has two theories of disruption, one of which is invalid. The first, new market disruption, to which you are referring with your comment, is not controversial. The OP would likely agree with you.

The second, low-end disruption, holds in business-to-business markets but fails in consumers markets.

Thus, the iPod was not killed by a low-cost and standardized competitor (which is the incorrect prediction of low-cost disruption), but by a vertically integrated highly differentiated competitor (a possibility under new market disruption).
Agreed. LI has become far too intrusive as of late, and I really hate that some folks in different industries, specifically tech, value this as the end-all, be-all. If I have to miss out on certain opportunities due to my lack visibility on LNKD, then so be it. Just not a fan of what they're doing over there-at all.
What is the Iranian prejudice?
I would posit that a stream of non-sequitir tweets is not necessarily suspicious (depending on the person/account in question, of course).

The classic steganography methods you're describing may appear less obvious (for lack of a better term), but they're also easier to break once the pattern is discovered.