skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the perturbations in the study were not random, they had to be crafted.

To the GP, noise is often added to training datasets for exactly the reason you're suggesting it. One of the novel things the paper cited discusses, however, is even if you feed the adversarial perturbations into additional training data, there are yet new ways to subtly perturb the inputs to get incorrect results.

Misclassification is a pretty fundamental consequence of dimensionality reduction, of course, but the surprise is how close those misclassifications are in input-space. This isn't mistaking a box for a square because it's looked at head on, it's mistaking a bus for an ostrich because some of the pixels in the image changed to a slightly different shade of yellow.
ZocDoc in NYC uses C#/.NET stack.
> #run can run anything, if you don't trust the codebase you have to check everything for malicious calls.

That weakness already exists today in any project that relies on a build system (GNU Make, Autoconf, Ant/Maven, whatever), which is pretty much most of them.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8535650
Yeah, I'm not shaking my pitchfork, I guess I'm thinking there is an interesting discussion to be had about how you make a system that is probably pretty good 10 or 100 or 1000 times better.
Devil's advocate: If you wish to tightly control everything related to your project then perhaps use a private CVS rather than a public repo on Github. By using Github's free and very social oriented service you are implicitly giving up some control over the project.
Congrats, you just decided that gold miners are the most altruistic people in the world, charging people only what it costs to mine the gold, not what the market would bear. I wish other companies could be so generous!

Also, I would recommend "Making Money" by Terry Prachet. Good book that actually explores a lot of the same ideas behind gold as the basis of a currency. In essence, the main character eventually realizes that the gold doesn't actually mean much, the true value of currency is that the society says x money gives you y goods.
I am not talking about the gateways. I am talking about the identity providers. If your identity provider goes out of business, revokes your access, or any number of other things, you lose your credentials to all sites.

For instance, here's a site with a guy trying to sell you on using IDPs from a big company rather than a small. One of his points though is that the IdP is a single point of failure, exactly my point:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/08/14/FC2-Singl...

Under the heading "Other Failures."
From what I've heard, 0% inflation would be best, but that risks getting into deflation (eg -5% 'inflation'). So 2% inflation is worse than 0%, but better than risking deflation.
>>EB5 investor visa: $1,000,000 or $500,000 depending on the area you 'invest' in. One of the easiest ways to get a green card, and from there, citizenship

I do want to take a moment to point out the ridiculousness of paying half a million dollars or more being one of the easiest ways to get a green card in America.
New Docker Engine
Mylio might be the solution to your problem. I don't just want to deliver the sales pitch, but I'm reading about your problems and I know that Mylio was designed to help address them.

To address the speed issue, Mylio converts 20+ MB raw images into 1 MB, 2048 px previews that are faster to load and can be automatically loaded on mobile devices or laptops with smaller hdds. Caveat, we use a proprietary compression technology to convert raw images into previews, so not all cameras are supported, but we are increasing camera support all the time.

A lot of the users of Mylio have terrabytes of photos, and Mylio will automatically provide you with different views of your photos (time, location, people, and customized albums) as well as metadata and rating based searches across your entire library of photos, on desktops or mobile devices.

Bonus features, Mylio will help you sync you automatically sync photos between your phone/table/desktop and external hard drives/nas all without going through the cloud.
Come on guys, think about it!

It is trivial to make your test routine log the error but return true so that the compiler doesn't stop.
Help me what i must do
I'm homeless, hungry, sick(tooth ace, chronic constipation, dehydration) and

have no money($0). My parents are ignore me. I live in Indonesia.

I don't have bank accounts. What should I do? I have plan to

do suicide but even do suicide require money.

I need 100$/month only drink water and eat rices and eggs. Please what I must do Thanks!

Can I work for you I write about how god exist without religion.
The stuff listed in this article are the places where Vim was trying to catch up with modern editors, not where Vim excels. Vim is an old editor, for modern features, Vim has been the one that's catching up, and luckily it did. But that has nothing do with why people love Vim.

Vim, in pure code editing sense, has two unique advantages that no other editors have or dare to have: modal editing and ubiquity.

Modal editing makes code editing absolutely DRY, as users can avoid any repetitive typing/clicking that they wish to avoid. It doesn't necessarily increase your code throughput much as a lot of the time you'll be thinking instead of typing, but it reduces the frustration of editing to almost zero when you do have to type, hence reducing distractions and cognitive load. Once you are familiar with Vim, its commands have close to one-to-one mapping to ANY ways you want to edit code.

For example, you want to change the html text two lines above? kkcit. Then come back to the place where you left? g;g;. Re-indent the lines? =ip. They look foreign and unintuitive to non-vim users, but are actually muscle memories for vim users. This is probably why vim users swear by it, but non-users find it hard to love.

Ubiquity is something you can only appreciate when you have to. If your work environment is Windows, this probably won't occur to you. But if you have to code in different OSes, or in SSH sessions, or in git commit, or in less/man commands, you'll find vim invaluable.

After all, Vim is just a tool, a very good one. But if your work doesn't have the need for it, you won't find it useful.
Would be nice to have the reverse edges,

* Influenced
* Designed
* Developed
* Dialect of
* Implementation of
* Implements
At http://www.listmax.ca we use .NET for our backend api and various other tasks. Plentyoffish ran .NET stack on one machine for a very long time.
I'm not a fan of the perspective from which this article is written. Where the author writes "X is affected by ADHD", I'm inclined toward "X has a short attention span", or "X is hyperactive".

The same perspective is taken by "victims" of ADHD, parents, and members of the media alike. I think we'd all be better off if we stopped speaking of these conditions as external forces acting upon the self, and instead, as mutable characteristics of the self.
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It's similar to standard HTML and less clunky than the equivalent JS expressions
I use the .net stack for every project.

http://pitsolutions.io/

All .net/sql server, jquery on the front end with websockets.
0% risks stagnation, which means investment isn't envouraged or discouraged. Even 1% inflation slightly encourages investment, and really the scale only needs to be tipped a bit to keep the economy moving forward toward growth.
We are using .Net MVC with C#/Typescript at Makemake.io (still in dev) on Azure. The biggest benefit for our project is Visual Studio and Resharper's Typescript support - it's really helpful for writing big Typescript apps (right now we have 400+ Typescript files in our SPA).

Bizspark is also great! $150 per month of free credit really helps - especially at the early stages.
What is a good sales target for a sales person in SaaS?
Gruber: “After same-sex marriage is legalized, start allowing emoji in names
Please comment with your models. This will help in collaborating and coming out with a good SaaS sales strategy
That may be, but then the prosecution would have to provide evidence such contact. They did not.

It was very clear that someone didn't take whatever threat (aka plea bargain) the government provided, and the government wanted to make an example of him.
Federal. Of the people on the jury, there were only 3 that activated brain cells. The rest were like "Well, the prosecution says he's guilty and he's a bad man and hangs out with bad men, so I guess he's guilty."

Um, NO.

He may be guilty as sin, but the government has to prove it's case. If it doesn't prove the case, he walks irrespective of whether he is a bad man because sometimes he ISN'T a bad man.
Xero is built on the .NET stack. Per Craig Walker (CTO):

https://www.xero.com/blog/2011/03/why-we-hire-any-kind-of-programmer/

"Xero is a .NET shop."
Thanks for that. It took me a while, but over time I finally figured out the myriad time changes in that tune, at least for informal clapping purposes anyway. That said, they implemented at least one variation of the rhythm in some of their live concerts (see youtube) that still eludes me.

Pretty amazing that this one tune can result in a 50+ page analysis - your linked PDF. The composition is a masterpiece, quite possibly the one that the PMG will be most remembered for.
I don't see how allowing prosecutors to strike jurors has anything at all to do with the problem. Prosecutors (and defense attorneys) only get a small number of peremptory strikes. They can strike more, but they have to give the judge an acceptable reason. A prosecutor cannot "stack the jury" via peremptory strikes.

You are essentially proposing that juries be selected by the defense. That would not result in impartial juries. It would result in juries that are prejudiced in favor of the defendant.

The real problem is mandatory minimum sentences.
Could you define it for me then?
Similar story here: early age, 0 or 100, high tests and little completion. The difference is I've been programming for most of my life (I'm not exaggerating; I started at 7y). It's likely because I started so young that I find that's my hyper focus outlet, though I still find that every time I try to learn Java it feels so painful I break something and run away (though I know C, C++, Obj-C, Swift, Python, PHP, Perl, shell, and even some Forth). Don't get me wrong, I know exactly two people that like Java and everyone else says it's painful, but they can do it anyway. I simply cannot. My mind shuts off and boycotts the information until the topic changes. It's infuriating.

Having anything at all near me that supplies instant gratification (electronics, mainly) puts me in what I call "hunted mode". That is, I'm itching for something to switch my attention to and very easily distracted. When I remove such things and engage with the world (and turn off or DND my devices -- important) then I seem to enter "hunter mode" where I can put my focus where it needs to be and hold it.

So, of course I become a professional software developer, right?

Adderall lets me work. Turning shit off when I get home lets me live. Paper books let me read (ebooks for reference, though; I'm not a Luddite).

Which is to say: I'm with ya, and you're right about environmental sensory stimulants. But you're kind of wrong about it being a matter of self control. It is, but the problem is that you (we) lack the control of self-control. That's the nasty thing the article doesn't go into. This is an Executive Function disorder, a "cousin" disorder to things on the Autism scale (ever read a list of those symptoms and check off an uncomfortable few?). That's why we wind up medicated. We do need that dopamine to hang around to push through the daily administrivia.

Yet, the article was right that outside of city life this would be great. But I'm a city guy, so ... yeah.
Fair enough. I obviously didn't intend to speak on the case at large, or even necessarily defend the guy who very likely was the lout you portrayed him as, just wanted to pick that one nit.
Ask HN: Are Bootstrap templates useful for AngularJS apps?
Hey all,

I was looking to do a straw poll of Angular developers - how many of you find using templates for Twitter Bootstrap useful? Are they something you've used for a client/professional project, or do they fall more into the realm of any of the numerous "website creator" tools often found with most hosting plans?
> It would result in juries that are prejudiced in favor of the defendant.

Um, yes, exactly. As opposed to now where the jury is prejudiced against the defense. Most jurors believe that you are guilty by virtue of being in the defendant chair; that needs some counteraction.

The government already has all the advantages--reports, police, enormous resources, and the charging authority.

Giving the defense a prejudiced jury would be a good starting point for counterbalance.

And, I don't think you would find the juries being that prejudiced at the end of the day, anyway. Most people are far too docile and believe the prosecution without any level of skepticism.
People seeing faces in all kinds of things is a vary common mistake which is probably analogous.
In fairness, software runs on hardware and a faulty instruction would send electrons to the wrong place and cause an imbalance... /melvin

That said, this has been proven many times over to be rooted in an atypical response to normal levels of neurotransmitters which then results in the appearance of an imbalance or, depending on your perspective, a real imbalance as that specific set of neurons requires higher baseline levels for normal functioning.

This isn't Big Pharma vs The People for most of us. Just soccer moms in LA. The rest of us are helped by low doses of magic pills and are happy that solution is out there and infuriated at cases of abuse and overprescription.
Clearly Crossfit solves everything.
In other news, a lot of recent effort in cryptography has gone toward the study of so-called "indistinguishability obfuscation." The idea is much what you'd think from the word obfuscation: you want a scheme that garbles a program in such a way that you can still run it but can't read the source code.

The technical conditions are a bit more specific (that an attacker can't distinguish between the encryptions of two functionally equivalent programs), but the study of indistinguishability obfuscation (abbreviated iO), has been called a "watershed" in cryptography.
What are you trying to say? Whatever it was, you kind of failed at it.

Are you trying to toe the now-trite line that ADHD isn't a thing or something?
http://iactionable.com is a .NET/C# start-up. We're completely hosted in Windows Azure as well. We also went through the Microsoft BizSpark program which is amazing and I highly recommend it.
Your grandiose sense of self-worth has retarded your capacity for understanding to such a degree that it compels you to criticise someone else's decision to sacrifice themselves for other beings they love, yes, even non human ones. Have you ever loved? But yes, I forgive you.
> Nor am I saying we that should not use stimulant medications like Adderall and Ritalin, which are safe and effective and very helpful to many kids with A.D.H.D.

are they really safe and effective? I've taken these after being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and although I believe they are quite effective, I am really surprised they give these drugs to young children. I would not.
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I think everyone's case is kind of unique, but my first impression is that they're used for time-constrained / resource-limited / beginner level projects. I'm inheriting a codebase where there were some templates used, and there's an 18,000+ line css file in one template. That's one example that can begin to explain why I don't prefer them. I know if I did it myself, things would be more organized. At the same time, if I have to choose between a nice outsourced UI or a terrible UI developed by a rushed coder who hates design, I will choose the former.
Exactly. Reading the paper, I have to say I disagree. Human minds are stable, for a very simple reason : they randomize inputs, they implicitly haar-cascade inputs simply because the sensors are inaccurate (they add time-variant noise like any real-world sensor), and they're mounted on a moving platform that constantly shifts position. The observation here should be that brains don't filter out noise, they use it to their advantage, to improve their performance.

So it's simple : both problems referred in the text don't exist for noisy data, and it's easy to improve ANN's classifications performance through things akin to adding random noise and haar-cascade like approaches (shifting the input image slightly, in x, y, rotation, white balance, ...), then taking the prediction that you saw most often. You can even make neural nets that do this implicitly (though it's even more expensive).

Anecdotally, I do think my own mind has this "problem". There are a large number of things I recognize immediately, but there are also quite a few things I have to look at for a few seconds to even a minute or two (usually geometrical stuff, network plans, or the like) before it "clicks" in my mind and I know what it is. Sometimes that is because I have to wait for the noise level to go down (e.g. exit a tunnel or a building into full sunlight), but usually it's not. I think it's very possible that at such times my mind is simply waiting until the noise in the input kicks it over some decision boundary.

Also, I find people often reclassify things after looking at them a little while longer.
"Web Sites not flexible enough for us"

Would you care to share any specifics? I'm curious to know what you're trying to do that doesn't work on Azure.
I am curious, what does your app do? Can you give more details if you don't mind?
This is pretty much the same approach I took to largely overcome ADHD-like symptoms. I happen to believe that, if you've fallen into a routine, it's time to re-evaluate, anyway - so the tactic of engineering a more stimulating environment seems like a great idea regardless.
I watched a talk by Dr. Barkley a while back and he had a wonderful way of phrasing it (paraphrased): "Suppose you had a person in a wheelchair who needed in your building. Would you build a ramp and then after 30 days take it down, saying 'Well, by now they should have figured out how to get into the building.' NO! It's a remedy for a handicap. Neither should you deny medication to someone with another kind of handicap when they need it."

After I let that sink in I suddenly didn't give a crap about the anti-pharma crowd. I have what I need and it helps me, so fuck 'em.

And yes, without it the daily routine isn't one. Completely there.
> You can announce the timing of the patch availability in advance.

They did. https://groups.drupal.org/node/445893

> You can tell everyone to take their site down between the release of the patch and the application.

Do you honestly believe businesses relying on Drupal for core parts of their business will do this? You are seriously naive.

> Depending on the vulnerability there may be a way of blocking it without specifically advertising the vulnerability (e.g. block it in unrelated code).

If there's a patch it's trivial to find out what it affects.

> I can't quite think of a worst approach; even never patching at all might be preferable to that.

No, that's just stupid talk because it assumes that no one else has known about the vulnerability before the announcement.
Might as well just hang out a sign that says "we only hire single men in their 20s".
Kudos to Microsoft for going out of their way to support and improve an important product after launch. Microsoft certainly has a history of doing this with their larger initiatives like XBox, but in the PC industry, this kind of post product improvement isn't so common.

When was the last time you saw Dell really iterate on a product post launch in a meaningful way.

To revive the PC market, Microsoft needs to do what Apple did for the last 15 or so years - stop treating PC like a commodity market where you ship beige boxes to customers without much care to differentiation or a delightful end user experience.

Surface is easily the most interesting PC I've seen in probably 10 years in Windows' ecosystem. I hope Microsoft sticks with it.
Until my daughter was born, I didn't care about much. I didn't see it that way at the time, but it's painfully clear now. I didn't care about the self-assessed "unnecessary details" of my own life (trivial matters like insurance, savings, my health), much less broader systemic concerns like healthcare, politics and the future. I didn't _fear_ these things.

Having my daughter has made me fear, well, everything.

How our healthcare, political, and national security systems are failing us, and in fact compounding each other's shortcomings (I'm a U.S. Citizen). How we constantly fail each other as neighbors, citizens, and fellow humans in exchange for greed, or power, or whatever, with a veneer of naïveté.

I don't know what needs to be done to arrive at a system where all manner of people, no matter the challenges they face, can get constructive, effective help. And some days it feels like we're moving in the right direction. But that day can't come soon enough.

The HN community wields an astronomical amount of power and leverage in today's world. And the community is realizing too that this influence can affect more than vacation rentals. We have the tools, knowledge, and relationships to help our fellow people in bigger ways than we've yet realized. To eat this elephant one bite at a time is the only way to make situations like this man's a relic of the past.
We do view ADHD as a mutable characteristic. It is just that some people do not like the idea of changing ourselves through use of chemicals.
Really great article that summarizes modern cryptography. I'm excited about the potential of fully homomorphic encryption and it's applications in search and health care. Or pretty much anything where sensitive data is involved. Whomever figures that out is going to be very wealthy.
I suppose there's a suggestion that due to some horrible infrastructure or mismanagement they've been left unpaid. As in, the nature of national debts and the these countries deal with debt is irresponsible or unfair or impractical or all three at once.

Or that the scale of the war can be appraised form its cost to society, just as a matter of perspective.

The reality it seems, is much more mundane, as you point out. That suggestion though, is what maybe the piece is suggesting by its headline. That kind of controversial commentary is why I'd clicked on it to begin with, but if I'd known that it was just being literal about the topic, it wouldn't be nearly as appealing.

Still, it's kind of crazy that these old debts are still lingering around. Just in a broader, historical sense.
This really needs a video or something. As it is, I can't tell whether the service even actually exists at the moment.
RCN claims it will offer 330 Mbs download speeds in NYC
It's actually pretty easy once you realize that you have to pay for the licences on all Microsoft technologies once BizSpark ends. It gives just enough time to be too locked in to easily adopt a different technology stack.
That's a great idea; never thought of it before. The only worry is that it is not going to work on remote systems out of the box, confusing my muscle memory.
Surface (and other high quality windows tabs i might not be aware of) are the only tablet is suitable for traditional PC work.

Other tablets are thinner, sleeker, lighter, or easier to use for CONSUMING content, but they're a poor substitute for creating content.
the new portal tile UI is extremely confusing to navigate.

Seriously. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't mind the current portal. It does take seem sluggish with all the ajax/loading but at least I know where everything is. The new portal needs to be completely redone.