skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ID expiry cycle is partially so that new anti-forgery techniques can be employed.
waiting for new awesome stuff)
Thanks for being here. Why do you think the results improved so much this year?
they should but in my recent experience, no one informed me :)
That's more a case of changed expectations due to shifts in demographics. Cricket used to be a sport for upper and middle-upper classes: people with a lot of spare time for whom filling whole days (or weeks) was actually a very attractive proposition. Now it's a spectator sport for masses of TV viewers who work for a living and only have a few hours of free time every day.
I lost my DL while visiting family a while ago. I was told that without a suitable photo ID, I'd have to do the "enhanced patdown". It was just like every other patdown I've ever been in, except the person took a little more time instead of rushing me through.
Theft involves taking something against the owners will. It is disturbing that someone would consider a voluntary informed transaction theft.
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Could the iWatch act as a kind of password / second-factor authentication? I could see Apple taking this tack, but they would have to be very careful if they discussed this in the keynote, since at least a few celebrities tweeted pretty nasty things about Apple / iCloud.
As a member of the Backblaze marketing team, that post was mostly us poking fun at ourselves. The team was spread pretty thin and had a lot of balls in the air, so that newsletter came out a bit goofy and with some typos. That won't be happening again :)
My solution: charge for password recovery and refund the money.
Procrastinator that I am, I learned that you can use a driver's license for US airport boarding up to 1 year after the expiry date.
If you reinvest all profits, you're still turning a profit.

To say otherwise is to confuse the issue, even if technically correct in some contexts.
I think it enables adding new anti-counterfeiting features.

Let's say you add new anti-counterfeiting features for all IDs after a certain date. IDs before that date eventually expire. If they remained valid, then you could bypass the new features by counterfeiting an old expired ID. If they become invalid, the best you can do is counterfeit an old ID with an expiration date in the future and hope they don't realize that the old design can't possibly have an expiration date that's so late.
If they don't want a profit, what's their motivation for existing?
I feel like security questions are supposed to be part of the third pole of the "what you know, what you have, what you are" triangle. You lost the thing you have, or you forgot the thing you knew. The way to get it back is to prove that you are the things you are.

Because of this, memories (mother's maiden name, high school you went to, etc.) are meaningless for security questions. These are effectively more passwords.

The effective kind of security questions look something more like "how many moles do you have on your entire body" or "what is the position (in dental notation) of the tooth you cracked when you were 23". These are pieces of information you can derive by examining yourself, which you took the time to derive once (when you set up the question) and could, at any point, take the time to derive again--but which anyone else, to impersonate you, would basically have to have you tied up, naked, and incapacitated to figure out.

Fingerprints, DNA samples, etc. also work for a 3FA, but only if taken interactively (that is, with a tester standing there watching you provide them.)

Combining the two methods--having a battery of little assays, some self-derived, some assisted--works better, though, since any one of these dimensions might drift over time (you might get a new mole!) but together they should form a reasonable "profile" of you.

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A tangent: it'd be neat if there was a company that let you register a set of these tests to enable the release of something like a one-time private signing key held in escrow. You could just give these other third-parties that want 3FA questions the public-key fingerprint (never actually having had possession of the private key yet), and then if they ever need it, contact the challenge company to get your key unlocked and "re-notarize" your profiles with it.
"forced"
Can't people use "Isn't perfect" instead of "Isn't the solution"? Or does that highlight too much why the title of this article is stupid?

Not that it's not a good article - it is. But damn do I hate when people go about yelling "This isn't the solution! You're doing it wrong!". Urgh.
They aren't really that easy to weaponize, at least not any more. The earliest kinds of Lithium cells actually contained elemental lithium, and could easily cause fire or explosion under certain conditions. Think the Dell laptop fire batteries.

Lithium _Ion_ batteries produced today are newer designs which use an intercalated Lithium compound (usually with Cobalt, Iron or Manganese) which greatly improves the stability of the battery while under stress. Further to that, pressure venting is almost always incorporated into the canister enclosing the cell, allowing it to depressurize in a safe manner similar to capacitors.

That's not to say they are totally safe - all batteries require a great deal of care and not all Lithium batteries incorporate these safety features. The pouch cells used in RC aircraft, for example can catch fire fairly easily due to their lack of a strong outer shell, their extreme power density and lack of any protection circuitry. These are heavily regulated and you would not be allowed to take them in your carry-on, and all Lithium Ion batteries over a certain Wh rating are similarly controlled.
Maybe pro-rata would be more palatable if it was not assignable? It makes sense to me that early investors get a shot in later rounds. Whether they should be able to maintain percentages is a different topic. Without ability to assign, I suspect many might not maintain percentage anyway.
The official TSA blog...did not look anything like I expected it to be.
I have known (that I can be sure) two high-school valedictorians, one from my own HS class, one much younger. Neither in any way resembled the profile you seem to have in mind. I have no memory of where my HS classmate went, but suspect it was a state school. The younger one got wait-listed for the one Ivy she applied for, and went to a perfectly good school even so.
I think one of the main reasons is that the improvements have been drastically significant and very recent; There hasn't been enough time to convert the research code into open source code and libraries, but you can confidently expect these models to become pervasive over the next few years not just in robotics, but in all perception systems.

A few good open source libraries out there that have the building blocks for putting together similar models:
- Caffe (C++) http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/
- cudaconvnet2 (C++) https://code.google.com/p/cuda-convnet2/
- DeepBeliefSDK (iOS,Android,OS X, Raspberry Pi, JS) https://github.com/jetpacapp/DeepBeliefSDK
Personally worked on a few tech books (150+) and everyone wants to do an introduction chapter but how many people buy a book without knowing the history or Wikipedia level info of the tech?

Jump in faster I say.

Site is extremely well done. Is that something advocated by Manning or a personal thing?
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I've been using the Moto G on T-Mobile for roughly 1 month and have nothing but great things to say about it. Fast, no bloatware, screen is brilliant, right size, available on all carriers (I believe). Best sub-$200 phone I've come across that feels state of the art.
Adverse selection and old technology
Yep.

It seems to me that homogeneity amongst nodes in a distributed consensus mechanism is of utmost importance; once you implement a hierarchical power structure dishonesty becomes difficult to deal with... especially when "voting" for a "leader" is involved in mapping the node landscape.

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Decision fatigue. Generally you want to reduce sign-up friction as much as possible. The less forms one has to fill-in the better. Asking people to come up with a question and explaining why they should care is just too much friction. If you have a narrow set of questions the decision-making overhead is much lower.
Because he didn't invent it and therefore cannot capitalize on taking the X percentage off the top of all sales, as opposed to just the Y percentage of his own sales.

The web is basically one big not-invented-here enabler.

With lawyers, marketers and social media managers, oh my.
We have robots that pick fruits:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RCBQqEGp8Go

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fUGVBTxheHo
>That only makes sense if you consider the different songs on an album as completely unrelated items.

Not at all. It also makes sense if you merely want one particular song and do not want the others, because they are not the song you want to hear.

> it's not extortion or 'force' because you happen not to like most of it.

If you look above, I defined the precise way the word 'force' was being used in order to avoid this kind of overly pedantic argument. If you can't roll with the term as it was defined directly above, feel free to disregard it entirely or substitute any word that matches the clarification following it, which is the point :)

Finally, remember that singles have been central to the recorded industry from the days of the 45 straight on through the LP era to the present. A good friend of mine is a studio owner that records many major acts everybody has heard of, and the idea that albums are cohesive collections meant to be listened to together is anathema to how the single-driven business works in many cases. In fact, that's been one of the major complaints against the industry for decades :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
Investing in themselves is the right thing to do from a finance perspective as long as they continue to have an overall internal rate of return greater than their cost of capital (IRR > WACC)

according to thatswacc.com, AMZNs Weighted avg Cost of Capital is 10.05%

So until their overall growth slows down to less than 10% per year they will have less pressure to return dividends.

AMZN (WACC 10.05%) net sales growth: 22% (2011-2012) vs 18% (2012-2013)

AAPL (WACC 9.45%) net sales growth: 31% (2011-2012) vs 8% (2012-2013)

From Wikipedia:
"The WACC is the minimum return that a company must earn on an existing asset base to satisfy its creditors, owners, and other providers of capital, or they will invest elsewhere"

"a corporation will evaluate an investment in a new [x] versus an extension of an existing [y] based on the IRR of each project. In such a case, each new capital project must produce an IRR that is higher than the company's cost of capital"

For more info, see sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_average_cost_of_capita...
http://thatswacc.com/
http://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/corporate-finance/4/...
Defending against last man advantage here. The more they self invest the more their competitors will have to invest to compete or enter one of their markets.
That's the same one I have - currently $339 on Amazon. I've been very happy with mine, especially for the price.

What video card are you using with it?
The way to handle that is to stop automatically giving the police officer's statements more weight than the accused. If there was a camera present at the scene and for whatever reason there's no footage to back up the officer's statement, then there should be dismissal due to lack of evidence.
"Deis is the best thing I've seen come out of Docker's DevOps gold rush."

I have to agree - Deis fills a lot of holes, although it still has some way to go.
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I had inconsistent experience with this. I am also a procrastinator, I found that one leg of the trip they didn't care or ask, but on the way back they made a fuss over it. Possibly I could have spent more of my time arguing with them, but luckily I also had my not-expired passport so just moved along.
They do want the profit, they just keep reinvesting it to capex.
Great idea superasn, right now if the misspell result in an invalid address it will let you know, but you can make a mistake that result in a valid address anyway.
A search platform that allows users to find stores that specialize in whatever it is they're looking for. For example, here in Austin we have a store that sells upholstery fabric, specifically, and another that sells just bookcases. I've also seen a disc golf store. If I were looking for any of the above, I wouldn't remember that those specialty stores existed and so would probably go to Michael's for fabric or Ikea for a bookcase or Dick's for a disc. If there were a way to show stores that could give me a better selection to suit my particular need/want, I'd much rather shop there. Maybe if I search "fabric" it would pull up a location-specific list of fabric stores further categorized?
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A few years ago I lost my ID on the way to visit a friend in Oakland. I did have a extremely old drivers license that was basically faded to nothing. On my trip home, I presented this to the TSA agent. He proceeded to pull a jewelers monocle out of nowhere, examined the ID, and let me through. That was a weird experience. I hadn't even considered that I might not need an ID at all.
If the pro-rata rights exist, it's seems obvious that trying to void them is at least unethical.

But pro-rata rights make perfect sense to me. I don't see it as "the right to dilute founders" but more "thanks for taking a risk on us when it was far from clear that things might work out...I know your economics necessitate a follow on like this".
Same goes when using a passport for domestic travel.
If one really feel like that one can simply turn 10 singles into one song.
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If all the profit goes back into the company to expand the company, is it somehow not "profit"?

Saying that Amazon doesn't make a profit depends on a misleading definition of the word "profit". Amazon's individual operations do generate a profit, except for the new bleeding-edge expansions into new businesses. Those things run at a loss, fed by the profitable wings of the company. And when they become profitable, they become a part of the other side of the machine and Amazon expands further.

Amazon simply chooses to invest every penny of profit into growth. Somehow we don't consider that "profit".
"Amazon" isn't a thing that has wants or feelings. You can not make a profit and still pay your executives a bundle of money.
You're conflating two very different sources of moral outrage. One is that, prior to investors and founders memorializing their agreement on pro-rata rights in a contract, some investors feel like they're entitled to them because they're a standard term. One reason why they're standard is detailed below.

The present controversy is that after investors/founders committed to pro-rata rights, later investors convinced founders to not honor those pre-existing commitments.

Yes you're investing early, but that's priced into the valuation.

Many investors would say "If you're investing and not getting pro-rata rights, the valuation you've negotiated is not a meaningful number, because it can be retroactively renegotiated by parties who do not necessarily have to include you in that conversation. It is thus not conveniently possible to award investors with, nor desirable for investors to seek, an attractive valuation for taking on extra risk by investing early unless that attractive valuation comes with pro-rata rights."
The angel has little power against later VC rounds besides the protections he negotiated for upfront. Since it's purely in the VC's interest to screw the angel, the angels make it a standard to negotiate this protection. And of course people get upset when a negotiated protection is tossed aside.
I must say, that is an exceptional price for this phone.
> the whole game is about subjective calls from the ref

No it's not. The referee is just the shortest practical path to enforce a set of rules, which are the real essence of the sport. This is why people play just fine in parks without referees.

Refs are there to enforce the rules; if the same set of rules can be better enforced by other means, referees should be replaced. Subjective referee calls are a plague on the sport, and they are a prime cause for the dismal amount of corruption in it. The sooner we can get rid of them (or at least reduce their role), the better.
They allow radio stations to play one track at a time individually, so I call bullshit on the "this needs to be heard together" line

If the other songs on the album are good, letting someone buy individual tracks means more potential customers for that other track.
I used MobileOrg for a while but couldn't figure out a seamless workflow to eliminate manually pushing and pulling on the desktop. Automatic HTML export to dropbox works fine for mobile viewing, though.

How do you do the indexing part?
I doubt it. The easy parts of laundry and dishes are already done by simple robots sold in every white goods department. The remaining parts are very demanding indeed.

Research labs are not robustly demonstrating these capabilities yet, even with very expensive robots.
Is it only 3g?
Security features improve. At this point, the rate of convincing fakes of DLs in the Real ID program is miniscule. If you buy a fake, it will most likely be an older model. Assuming a 10 year cycle, 10 years after Real ID went into effect, no ID can be valid without the new, much-more-difficult-to-imitate security features.

Some of these are physical (laser etching instead of dye printing) and some are internal controls. IDs are now printed at central facilities per state which meet stringent physical security standards and apply the 2-man rule, rigorous auditing, and other controls to prevent the aribtrary printing of IDs by employess. A "friend" in a local office used to be the best way of getting fakes made. That loophole is now closed. Equipment for serious laser etching is too expensive to buy without serious capital and much more difficult to explain away than more innocuous-seeming pigment printing tech. It is also harder to fraudulently aquire the documents necessary to get a DMV to issue you an ID for someone else. Etc.

If IDs didn't expire, none of this would matter because fakes would continue to be printed with issue dates of runs with less stringent security features, and fakes made before those features went into effect would be valid forever.
How would you get hundreds of thousands of pounds???
The solution is to lower the pitcher's mound... this is a variable that has been tweaked a number of times in baseball already! It has been shown that a higher pitcher's mound favors the pitcher. A lower mound would shift the balance a bit to the batter, leading to more hits, and thus a more exciting game.
It's been stated here already. You can write whatever you want into it. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the compiler realizes there's a dead store going into it, i.e. that the data is thrown away after it's written. So it can optimize out any write, since no conforming program can read that data after it's thrown away.
No, but you can refill your Metrocard with coins.
Because it's not obvious:

"Availability: Pre-Order"

I've been trying to see if it supports LTE or HSDPA, but I can't see it on their specs page...
Let us give the super angels the benefit of the doubt. They probably know that their pro-rata rights are not always enforceable and price this into the valuation. Good for them if they can keep them but they are probably at all surprised if they don't. It is a numbers game for investors.
I can get a replacement ID at little cost (≈$30) [1]. I don't know that they do anything to invalidate the ID being replaced. In the case of the TSA where they're just looking at the ID and not running it through a database both would work just as good.

http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/replace-license.php
Well, yes, you can buy your insurance and then the company refuses to pay out because ... arcane reasons. Savings goes into a mega-bank that goes bankrupt in a scandal of home mortgages or something like. Securities ... run by sharks who would sell you your own mother given half a chance.

Seriously, if you're not paranoid, you haven't been paying attention for the last decade.

The grim truth is that there is no alternative.
Google hasn't released details about their model yet, but the VGG team in close 2nd place had a very simple and beautiful "vanilla" CovnNet model, but with more careful hyperparameter settings and training/testing protocol. In other words, the source of improvement are tweaks on the original Krizhevsky architecture from 2012, not completely new and unexpected ideas. That is not to belittle the contribution - these experiments take forever to run and require very good practices and intuitions for what to try next. Karen released the details of the model only yesterday on arXiv (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.1556v1.pdf)

More specifically, as can be seen in the paper, it seems that very deep stacks of conv/conv/pool modules with tiny 3x3 filters work well (which is satisfying because it's really simple and beautiful), and from being more thorough with the training and testing protocol (data augmentations, averaging, multiscale approaches in both train/test time, etc).

Google will release details of their method on Sept 12 so we'll know more. From their abstract, it seems they have a more significant departure from a basic convnet architecture.
Yes indeed. In the discussion following that thread, I pointed out people don't need money as much as they need land on which to grow, fish, hunt, etc.

This is a decent example of this, although the style that it's being implemented is more for bourgeous effect than helping everyday families.
I disagree. This presentation was fantastic. I was going to post how much I loved it, so instead I'll come to its defense.
I am very happy with my Moto G on PTEL. I don't know why PTEL isn't more popular. The coverage as far as I know is the same as t-mobile. Not the best, but it works for my location.
4. Pretty sure people have made the argument that objectification is misogyny (you did so yourself), and that calling a woman "hot" is very arguably an example of objectification.
It isn't that they don't want a profit, it's just that as long as they feel they can reinvest the profit relatively safely to make even more profit in the future, they will continue doing so.
Then why not use a rule like "expired licenses prior to this date are unacceptable" rather than "even if it expired yesterday, and there are no new security features, it's still unacceptable."
Recklessly doing so is probably abhorrent, but people don't think speeding
is reckless.
Society as a whole (in the US at least) believes it can safely traverse roads at higher rates than the speed limit.
Society as a whole is likely wrong, but that's irrelevant :)

Society also thinks it can safely multitask, and is good at being on a cell phone and driving at the same time.
It is wrong about that too, but it still makes the behavior not abhorrent :)

At the same time, the same Society seems happy to excoriate anyone who causes a problem (death, accident, whatever) while doing either of the above. Go figure.
> The protocol to replace TCP/IP will be patent encumbered

If it will be patent encumbered, it will have zero changes of adoption.
Yes, this variant is, according to the various articles online. (max speed over HSPA+, or "4G not-LTE" for AT&T / T-Mobile users)

I'm guessing a LTE variant is in the works, since last years Moto G got an LTE variant.