skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what saddens me is that when facebook was getting popular I thought "oh cool a nerd like me might get laid thanks to a social network".

Wrong.

I can't remember the year I stopped using it, but I hope it dies, and quick.
The way I read it was that "both versions" refers to the two tellings of the problem, one in terms of deaths the other in terms of survivors, not the two different medicines.
>>> Now let's compare that to, say, a Linux desktop (where similar zero days are extremely rare):

Two fatal flaws in your assumption.

1) Linux desktops in enterprise settings are incredibly rare. Linux servers? Way more common, but I can't remember any large corporation or enterprise using Linux desktops - it just doesn't happen.

2) Zero-day exploits DO happen to Linux. Would you be surprised if I told you:

"Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel fixed in 2012 went unpatched for more than two years on average, more than twice as long as it took to fix unpatched flaws in current Windows OSes, according security firm Trustwave.

Zero-day flaws — software vulnerabilities for which no patch is available — in the Linux kernel that were patched last year took an average of 857 days to be closed, Trustwave found. In comparison zero-day flaws in current Windows OSes patched last year were fixed in 375 days."

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-trailed-windows-in-patching-zero-...

>>>> .and if you don't like how it works you can actually change it! The source code for the kernel, the shells, the desktops, etc is there for you to do with as you please.

I actually surprised you made this point, considering its been shown multiple times where malware and rootkits have been introduced into various Linux kernels. Just because something is open source, doesn't mean everybody is going to take the time to examine the source code and make sure its clean.

From 2009: http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/attack-sneaks-rootk...

"The attack attack exploits an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into the operating system kernel as a way to hide malware processes, hijack system calls, and open remote backdoors into the machine, for instance"

"But Linux experts point out that the technique Lineberry is demonstrating at Black Hat indeed been has been deployed before with the so-called SuckIT rootkit, and as far back as the late 1990s with direct kernel-object modification (DKOM) rootkits]."
If you know all the answers though, you won't skip any or get any wrong. I didn't get a perfect score by guessing on the hard questions.
[Tl;dr on the below: the changes we make to Checkout are designed to increase our merchants' revenue. If a change doesn't do that, it will be reverted.]

The confusion point you cite was our biggest concern in building the "Remember me" functionality. On the one hand, it's clearly good for our merchants* if customers don't have to constantly retype their card details. On the other hand, it'd be bad if we were scaring them away with something confusing.

So we've been testing Checkout for months. After tons of testing across different sites, types of business, and devices, we're confident that "Remember me" does not harm conversion rate. On the contrary -- all the evidence we have shows that it increases it. If a business has a lot of returning customers, this effect can be very big. For example: we ran an experiment that simply removed the "Remember me" option on Humble Bundle, and determined that they would make less money without it.

To your point about being focused on customers: our rule is to always do what's best for the merchant. I want to really emphasize this point, because I believe it very strongly. The strategy tax example you cite is precisely what we insist we can't do, and where we believe other companies and products have gone wrong.

We've discussed the possibility of allowing users to hide the "Remember me" checkbox, and our belief is that having that option is probably not the best thing for the merchant. We consider it our job to optimize the Checkout in order to maximize our users' revenue. If we add more options, we can easily end up with something confusing and inconsistent. Having a ton of configuration options would also make it harder to pursue other ideas and avenues. The whole point of Checkout is to enable ongoing iteration and improvement. As a result, we'd much rather make the macro guarantee ("we'll work on increasing your revenue"), and build the infrastructure that enables us to do that, rather than forcing merchants to guess what particular tweaks might work best.

Still, even though we've leaned against doing so thus far, we're by no means strongly opposed to removing it. Perhaps, for example, we should have an option that doesn't show "Remember me" but will pre-fill the details if they've been entered elsewhere. Again -- our goal is just to do what's best for the merchant.

* We generally don't like the term merchant, but I'll use it here for clarity.
If you don't want to quit Facebook, using it on desktop only in a separate Chrome profile seems like a reasonable way to isolate it.
What if it said "Remember payment details" or "Remember your payment info"?

Although, I agree with the core complaint. It should be a simple parameter to turn that section off and hide it. Or possibly a parameter to change the text next to the checkbox.
What's the solution from SAT's perspective? Normalize scores with each student's family income? Give easier questions to poorer students?
What about WebP? Isn't that intended to be a eventual replacement to JPEG?
R.I.P. SAT Vocab Flashcards [& every App dedicated to them]
They're great the first time you charge someone. But there are things that can be really hard when you try to add seats to an account or do renewals. E.g. one thing that I know has been really frustrating to our engineers is that they don't support applying a discount amount per seat.
babushka is a word for an older woman. what are you trying to say?
In high school my calculus teacher was part of an experiment where they gave teachers the SAT. They gave the teachers the regular version of the SAT as a baseline and then gave the teachers a special version that contained only the answers choices in the multiple choice without the questions. Teachers essentially had to use their intuition about the types of answers the SAT looks for to take the test. The teachers each scored in the same approximate percentile as when they all received both the questions and answers. That is to say, the teachers that knew how to analyze the test itself (not the questions) scored better than those who didn't.
The principle of "pick from among the most common" still holds, though, of which drafting your own license is the most extreme violation.
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The checkout on mobile app looks great. Too bad this cannot be used to unlock functionality in the app after payment, it will be rejected by Apple.
Actually Microsoft's earlier and very successful development tools were all dynamically typed versions of Basic.

Visual Basic, Access, Excel and ASP were all dynamically typed, and were very responsible for exploding Windows' market share from Windows 3.0 onwards as it encouraged many to start programming who never would have considered it before.

Unfortunately they created an ecosystem of novice developers that many within MS I think despised and looked down on and which gave their platform a bit of an unprofessional reputation.

Then along came Java and showed them that a relatively sophisticated and strongly typed language could raise the entry bar just a bit, but result in generally much higher quality of end product, so along came C# and out went VB and COM.

'Classic' ASP has also been responsible for much hair loss in early webmins.
Or have a small (?) next to it explaining in more detail what "remember me" actually does for anyone interested.

-Provides enough detail to answer anyone's questions about what it does
-Doesn't clutter the overall UI
Love the design and simple integration.

Would be exciting to see a shopping cart / coupon features some time in the future.
Most software was pretty painful in 1994...
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines well-known enough?
yes! And at least in my phone it's faster than the mobile app.
What's funny is that they're concerned by the additional permissions Facebook is asking for. Facebook's app already has full access to contact info, which they 'accidentally' used to wipe out everyone's email contacts. I think after that debacle Facebook would have to literally wiretap the mic/camera to actually sink any lower.

Personally, I still use Facebook, but I use a dedicated private browsing window on my computer and Tinfoil on my phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
Listen, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to fork it, tell noone, do a years worth of work in secrecy, release it. palm it off to another FOSS community, then abandon it, then refork it, do another 2 years of work in secrecy and then release it again under a new name. Got it?

You'll never get to play alongside big boys like Apple and Facebook with this 'talk to upstream' attitude of yours. That's just not how the game is played.
> making Firefox a better browser

I said it many times before and I will repeat this again there: this goal was dropped as soon as Blake Ross left the project. And I am starting to suspect that even if Mozilla wanted to make Firefox a better browser they no longer know how.
If you chop off the essay score, you'll still be related to everybody ever (with respect to test revisions).
> I don't think many realize what they've sacrificed because they value it so little.

Exactly. Also, most people don't tend to question authority figures. That's what facebook has become for web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, it's the thing that got most people to use internet actively as a part of their everyday lives.
I agree. I recently used OpenCV to process some photos of some documents, and it was very awesome. I particularly liked the python 'cv2' bindings. Not bad. It was my first time really using NumPy, in a deep way, and it actually performed decently.

But, that said, after reading all the OpenCV posts on Stack Overflow and also going through a ton of OpenCV tutorials, I found that the library couldn't meet my needs, in a lot of ways. (Apparently, processing text documents from camera images is a lot harder than I thought!) So, now I'm off reading research papers on image processing, like I don't have anything better to do.
Maybe it's just been too long, but I don't remember any gotchas. Do you have any examples?

Obviously you want to know what types of problems will be included, but familiarizing yourself with the types of problems seems so basic that it would hardly take multiple practice tests.

Again, it's been a long time since I've taken the SAT, and I only took it once, so I'll be the first to admit I could be wrong. I'm just trying to understand a comment I've heard many times and never understood.
JPEG-2000 exists, but decoding is still too slow to be useful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
It doesn't help that (on Android at least) the control of permissions is so granular. I understand the desire to give users very fine control over their privacy, but the end result is that updates present you with a loooong list of permissions changes, and we all know that the longer a list gets the more likely it becomes that the user's eyes will just glaze over and they'll reflexively hit OK.

This is exacerbated by the fact that all the permissions requests are presented in the same way -- same font, same size, same color -- despite the fact that not all permissions requests are created equal. If an app wants to be able to talk to the network, that's a minor privacy concern. If an app wants to be able to read my address book, say, or my emails or SMSes, those are major privacy concerns. Those are the ones you want the user paying attention to and thinking about. The way the requests are presented should reflect that.
I think we'll see a lot more automation on the product development side before it starts to cut into software jobs themselves. With so many automation frameworks popping up and big movements towards open API's and IPaaS systems which make a huge range of "cloud" components available
out of the box, attacking the taxonomies of product abstraction and sticking an AI layer ontop of it
seems fairly plausible if not natural. I'd love to see a time in the industry where you just go 'hey computer build me an MVP which does X-Y-Z I want to test some crazy market' or 'hey augment this existing product with some new interaction' and then figure out if a product is worthy to live. Until machines have real sophistication, we're going to need humans to keep adding their creative 'secret sauce', anyhow, and software people to code along the edges until whatever else can take over.
It's the same thing with foreign units of measurement (in, ft, F, stones, etc.).

Although I know there is a one-to-one mapping between meters and feet, I only grok a measurement given in meters.

There's probably some conditioning behind this: every day you are reminded that a pack of salami is 200g, while a pack of flour is 1kg, and so on ... so that for each measurement you just access your library of memories that relate the number to some previous experience.

Since a similar dictionary does not exist for the foreign units you learned in an artificial setting, and since your brain does not auto-update all your past memories based on the new info that 1m=3+3/8ft, you are left with words that are all understanding and no emotion.
Humans ... are easily manipulated via their emotions.

Definitely agree, probably easier to shorten it to that. We all have our blindspots where we're easily influenced, there's just too much daily data and information we vacuum up to even consciously process it all. Hopefully I didn't make myself out as somehow excluded from that aforementioned "society"

Our own personal "McDonald's of the Soul" as Jim Gaffigan says in his stand up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDTfEhChgw
Yup, we do that.
In my experience, you should know most of those skills before high school anyway.
Nope, we sat ready at the gate for a half hour past departure time. Clear skies in Houston as well.
It seems like they expected Persona to get substantial adoption before it was even finalized and then declared it a failure when that didn't happen.
I have proof: https://www.google.com/search?q=dark+side+has+cookies
I honestly can't tell if you agree or disagree. My sentiment on the subject was that CV libraries are good swiss army knives, but to continue the analogy - you wouldn't tell someone that all you need to survive in the wilderness is said swiss army knife.
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The potential with saving payment information and tying it to a phone number is really, really exciting. Imagine having a customer come in and buy something without having to enter their credit card. I just donated to Watsi without having to take out my wallet.
That sounds pretty inaccurate to me. Firefox seems as fast or faster than Chrome these days.
Privacy isn't a 2014 specific goal. It's in the Manifesto itself.
The irony is actually that GnuTLS is panned for 'not doing it right' in the article, and here you are panning Debian for 'doing it right' when it comes to licensing. Debian is following licenses as they should be followed and not cutting corners.
I'm actually disapointed. I hoped they developed a still image format from Daala. Daala has sigificant improments such as overlapping blocks, differently sized blocks and a predictor that works not only for luma or chroma, but for both.
Seems Facebook is drawing inward to what they are really good at: letting people communicate. They tried to be everything to everybody and suprise! they alienated and aggravated their users with spam. If Facebook doesn't focus on doing at least one thing well, the bubble will burst.
The only change is that Mozilla isn't funding new feature development in Persona this year since Firefox OS has slightly more time-sensitive / urgent needs. Persona is still actively supported by Mozilla, and is a critical part of our own infrastructure.

Persona ain't going away so long as we're still relying on it.
Yeah, but Stevens was the smartest one on the court on tech issues into his 90's because he cared. That overcomes age. But Stevens is gone. I hope his retirement is healthy and happy.

Aside from Breyer, I don't think anyone on the current court cares at all.
I'm looking to measure dimensions of objects using computer vision libraries. I think it is impossible to do this without a reference scale in the same image.

What is the unit of measure for line.length()?
I buy new/used CPG, electronics, medicine, and food on eBay. On average 5% cheaper than Amazon. Business wise, eBay/PayPal makes 15% off transactions without having to spend on COGS or warehousing.

It's incredible. Jeff Bezos lost. No one gets it yet.
It's also available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=tinfoil&fdid...
i think you meant to type "Mozilla Corporation is FOR profit"

Mozilla Foundation is NOT for profit. :-) And Mozilla Foundation owns the corporation.

Also, AFAIK, the foundation can only use money from donations 'n all. The corp is used to pay employees, but can't pay the foundation much.
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I stuck with lynx for the longest time. Somewhere around 2007 the web became COMPLETELY unusable, even on the subset of sites I would visit. Sad times we're living in. :)
I'm not sure what the long-term plan will end up being. I personally hope it can find a new direction to grow eventually. (Note: I'm a Mozilla developer but I don't work on Persona or Firefox Accounts.) We use Persona extensively for our own sites and tools, so I'm sure there would be some sort of migration process if Persona were ever shut down in favor of some replacement.

For a more informed answer, you can ask the team directly in the mailing list or IRC channels listed at the bottom of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona#Join_the_Identit...

[Edit: Or see callahad's reply in this thread.]
lachyg you are hellbanned.
i'm not quite sure to comprehend your point. Mozilla isn't going anywhere. Firefox Desktop isn't going anywhere.
Am I reading you right? Are you saying teachers scored the same whether they were able to read the questions before answering or not? If so, do you have a link to this study? I feel like this is an extraordinary claim that would require extraordinary evidence.
Analogies are legitimate tests of reasoning ability. As I recall, however, the analogies of the "old" old test often relied on obscure words. This turned them into de facto vocabulary tests, defeating their purpose as pure assessments of reasoning. At the very least, vocabulary became a confounding variable in assessing the specific aptitude that analogies were meant to assess.

One could make a strong argument for plain-English analogies, absent the $10 words. If every test taker understood most of the words, then we could test for reasoning ability on a more normalized basis.

That's not to say testing vocabulary is totally invalid. Opinions vary. But if we assume vocabulary is worth testing, then we should test it independently.
If he has root? I thought the selling point of Android is that it is open. Certainly people don't still have to jump through hoops to root their devices?
I think I would want to find an existing sparse autoencoder implementation, ideally a project already setup for encoding audio, and start from there. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/sparseAutoencoder.pdf
That's too bad, I was really excited about Persona. I didn't really grok Firefox Accounts from the announcement, but reading above helped, then I found https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox_Accounts#What.27s_... which explains more.
Since when is there a .sexy tld?
Have you played much with legos? If there is a point of diminishing returns, it is far after the 4th or 5th set. Every set linearly increases the number of things you can have built at one time (and yes, that matters), and generally introduces some unique pieces that increase the space of possible models. If it's true that newer models have dramatically less composable pieces, then my argument is weakened, but when I was a kid the only way my sister and I could have had too many legos was if they didn't fit in my room anymore.

As for creating wants ex nihilo, well, yeah, but only to the extent that it's true of any company that advertises at all. Entertainment and creation come right after food on a child's list of priorities, sometimes before; generally this is not a synthetic want. I'd rather know about good products like lego than take whatever dreck I stumble upon.
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t1.micro instance at EC2 with no caching configured I guess.
I too was blown away by the presentation. Top notch development.
While we're on the topic of "every quadrotor should ____", how about the improved efficiency of this design?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/ir...

See also:

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/bme/pounds

... and, if you have IEEE privileges, the paper is here:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6...
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I'm not easily impressed, but this blew me away.
You can have very good understanding of the text and still read blazingly fast.
This has existed for a while, and I'm using it on my site. Didn't know it was "beta." Works great. (Still in test mode though, have not yet exited beta so I'm not taking anyone's money yet.)
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In hindsight we did indeed spend too much time experimenting and tweaking, and not enough time saying "it's good enough" and driving it to completion.

But it's open source :) we're still working on getting it there. The next release will dramatically scale back the API complexity, lock in the APIs and data formats, and pave the way for native browser extensions, self-hosted polyfills, etc.
If only JPEG supported transparency.
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