skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really rubs me the wrong way that you seemingly refer to the previous test related death of 3 people as a "small" incident. I'm sure that's not what you intended to write. Maybe what you say is that it's unrelated, therefore "has a small relevance" now. Even then I would argue that evidence of blatant disregard of safety protocols in the past is a relevant piece of the puzzle.

But declaring it a small incident? I would not.
Now give me some
Do you have data for these claims?

Here in Germany most women prefer career paths that are paid worse than IT modulo medicine. Also, IT is not considered low-class, maybe because there are many academics in IT.
To me the age of the software sounds a bit like channel-stuffing. Often manufacturers will report on devices as being sold once they've left the factory for the retail store, not when they are in a consumer's hands. Because there is great incentive to report good sales, manufacturers will often negotiate around inventory so that a warehouse somewhere gets filled with devices.

These devices then sometimes sit in the channel waiting to be sold (sometimes for quite some time, depreciating in value) but if the device flops then the seller writes it off as a loss and they go to the clearance rack.

That's why you can have amazing numbers for 'sales' and then 3 months later the thing is a well-known dud. Device manufacturers that sell directly to consumers tend to report sales when it's been shipped to the final buyer.
If you don't mind sharing, what tablet did you buy and from where?
It is not illegal in India.
I would say that the NN learns to recognize what the training photos of this person have in common, so if the drawing is similar in the respects that you have trained for, it might be recognized.
> It works.

For a certain definition of "works".

> MS is probably bound by some partnership agreements so it cannot refuse

Who cares? It's in MS store sold as MS "signature device".
Long shot – Looking for an apartment in Paris (long term rent)
Hey,

I know this is a long shot and wouldn't probably work, but I decided to try it out and see what it gives, maybe the right eye catches it.

I am a hacker, living in Paris for some years now, recently broke up with my GF and found myself in need of a new apartment.

I work for a well known company in the developers community. I can't give more details because I value my privacy, but I'll happily engage with you by email or phone if you happen to catch and respond to this long shot.

Thank you.
The switch to tabs for me came after I started using vimperator/pentadactyl in my web browser, which I find glorious. (Sorry no links, on mobile)

I used "lusty juggler" before but 'gt' is a very natural way for me to "go tab" now and I like it better. Macvim makes it trivial for me to arrange tabs in a consistent order, for example html file to the left of its js file. The tabs also give me a kind of quick view of what my current "project space" is.

Two tab-y things that I find useful are:

* alias "vi -p" (to open files in tabs)

* "vi --remote-tab" (to add a file to an existing session in a new tab from the command line)

Part of why I like tabs may be because I don't do split windows often in vim. When I want to have two files side-by-side I use my os window manager (CMD+right to move current window to right side of screen, etc).
I assumed it is because the amount of output neurons is small compared to the amount of inputs. For example a digit OCR network takes maybe 10.000 pixels as input, but has only 10 possible outputs. I'm no expert either, any confirmation or refutation would be very welcome :)
If this method worked (which I doubt, but let's assume it did), hackers could probly simply build a very effective search engine for pirated content simply by reverting the authenticity metric.
Real wages for almost all Americans have not risen over the past few decades except for the rich. Quantitative easing should have been distributed to the populace not banks. Point is the economy has not improved for most Americans and Keynesian throry is wrong
> So to put you in jail I just need to find any project you work on, find your name and ask for donations on your behalf?

No, you would not be able to put me in jail. At worst, the penalty would be a fine. But that would not happen in practice.

What would happen is that I receive a letter from the local authorities, demanding me to explain why there are donations being asked for under my name. Responding might need me to get legal advice and perhaps contacting the hosting behind the service to find out who is asking for donations and why.

In other words, that would mean a lengthy paperwork process and perhaps some fees for legal advice. That would be a nuisance.
The Crypto Wars Are Back, and This Time Big Brother Aims to Win
They both seem to produce a new version about once a year, so there's not much difference there.
I didn't say the model and maker of the thing on purpose, because I wasn't advertising/advocating for it, and also because when it comes to cheap devices like this, all you can get is pretty much anecdotal evidence (e.g., the touchscreen on mine works fine, but a few have come out with broken digitizers/too noisy power adapters). The general opinion on the tablet seems good, though, and the thing in question is a Voyo A1 Mini. Mine is the newer, slightly cheaper/less powerful 5V-powered Z3735F variant (vs. 9V Z3735D), bought on Amazon.de - but you can get it cheaper from Chinese-device-focused sites, just watch out for import taxes and the like.
Most people in the programming business are quite okay un-unionized and with capitalist corporations employing them, because while said corporations are quite willing to push down wages to save money, there are also plenty willing to push up wages if that's what it takes to hire someone decent. That's why talented senior people in New York and San Francisco can make $150,000/yr. It works both ways.

The problem with the H1-B slave is that he doesn't properly have the option of employers competing on any level, because of Immigration Regime Legal Shenanigans.
Great point - the editors still can't process code as well as compilers. This should be hapenning already.
Yeah, deadlines definitely help. Additionally, the synchronization helps in terms of discussing the material.
Dual-mode Avalanche and RF Random Number Generator
Bletchley Park Google Knowledge Graph Entry scrambles on Load
Sorry, I didn't really get that single-sign-on and federated authentication is the same thing.

Couldn't you just install Kerberos from ports/package? Most Linux distribution don't come with Kerberos in their base system. I honestly don't believe that a winning argument for pick OpenBSD over Linux would be: "Kerberos is in the base install".

I would agree that is't a bit odd that login_krb5 seems to have just gone away, delete from CVS, but not moved to the ports three. It might be that so few people actually used it that there's no one to maintain it.
Year after year I keep reading pretty much the same complaints from the Windows ecosystem I've been hearing since the 90's.

It comes with the territory: OS and hardware may not always play nice, and how well they play nice out-of-the-box or after upgrade depends on a lot of factors.

This is not an incident, this is business as usual.

You like Windows, you should be prepared to deal with. You don't want to deal with this kind of thing, don't use Windows.

The only way to avoid this is to use "official" devices. Nexus for Android, Surface for Windows, everything Apple for OSX. Some niche products for certain Linux distro's even.

Everything else is rolling the dice, if not at your initial purchase then definitely when you want to upgrade.

After so many decades, bitching about it is like bitching about the weather.
Sure, and then you get judges who try to give a guy 3 months for raping a 14-year-old.

Mandatory minimums are also intended to make justice less arbitrary.
> If poor people were given preference in terms of going
> on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms
> about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?

From the NY Times:

> What if the first doses of the drug — which had never
> been used in people and had not even finished the
> typical animal safety testing — had been given to
> African patients instead?

> “It would have been the front-page screaming headline:
> ‘Africans used as guinea pigs for American drug
> company’s medicine,’ ” said Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim,
> director of Caprisa, an AIDS research center in South
> Africa.

And also, while trying to refind this article:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=ebola+"Guinea+pigs"&...
Ah - that was a simplification. If it costs $1000 to mine and sells for $2000 then short term the miners will make a profit but long term people will build more mines. This is a slow process - 10 or 20 years but eventually supply exceeds demand, the price drops to $700 or some such, the miners go bust and the cycle repeats. But generally the price stays within a factor of two or so of the production cost.
How obviously innocent would you like? How about playing in a youth league basketball game at the time of a murder, with the game on video provided by the team coach, and still ending up on death row at the age of 16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareef_Cousin

edit - there is also Krishna Maharaj, who it seems was completely fitted up by the Florida police and who still has a life sentence despite 6 separate witnesses putting him 30 miles away from the murder he was originally sentenced to death for. http://www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/krishnamaharaj/

Or there is Dan Taylor, who's seemingly watertight alibi is that he was already in jail when the murder he was convicted for happened. Still didn't help him any despite police records confirming this - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0112190353de...

Or Jonathan Fleming, holidaying in Florida with family during a murder in Brooklyn. Police withhold the evidence proving his alibi. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/08/justice/new-york-wrongful-...
Debt bond in a country where that's not dischargeable or otherwise evadable is indeed such a legal foundation. From the way fadzlan portrayed Malaysia I didn't get the impression it was so dire there.

All I'm saying is that it's a debatable point, to which I'll add the caveat of your slavery point. Per the article some US courts agree, even the win described at the end of it meant the case wasn't struck down as a matter of law, a jury was required for fact finding.

Having worked with an brilliant exploited H-1B holder before at Lucent, earning 60% what I was for a job he was arguably as qualified for, you can guess on which side of the debate I'm on.
And it is a good thing that the privileged people (to not keep using the stereotype of white men) are the early adopters.
It would be irresponsible to make people whose time is much more essential to their survival to experiment new tech. A tech that might not deliver the expected value yet. A lot of non-profit do this and it is cruel when the experiment fail to deliver the value, which is often that case, as in any innovation process.
Also, it is a great thing that the same tech might affect both the lives of privileged and unprivileged people. This a technology (in the broader sense of the word) that really reduces inequality. If both the son of a Harvard alumni and the son of a brazilian street-sweeper learn how to learn through the computer and internet, then it is a true uniting technology.
I own a Mac, but I recognize that Apple hardware is often grossly overpriced. For example, a 2014 Mac mini with a laptop-grade 3Ghz dual-core CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and an integrated GPU costs $1,699. That's ridiculous.
What does adding surface blur really fix? Why could you not add similarly subtle network-breaking noise to a blurred image? If you think of blurring as downsampling, it is obvious that you also need downsampled noise to trick the NN.
If you can slightly distort an image to make NN produce any classification you want that opens many interesting options for steganography.

Funniest application would be distorting individual characters of the printed text so that OCR engine and human would "see" two totally different but meaningful messages.
There's likely not enough complexity in the OCR NN to do that, but who knows.
No. its still shit. having to reboot constantly is not device grade platform
> If poor people were given preference in terms of going on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?

That's already how most drugs are currently tested. We used to test new drugs on prisoners and conscientious objectors, now we just test them on the poor and indigent.
Honestly, I've bought some ASUS gear before, like the EEE PC netbooks as loaners at events and classes. They often have ghost in the machine problems like this. One has, for years, frozen for 1 second ever 15 seconds, no matter what software updates and drivers are applied. I mentioned the issues to some other OEMs in the same country and they just said it is well known ASUS build quality and consistency is generally terrible. I suppose that is why they manage such low prices.
OK, this is a cool idea and I really like the pitch. My one criticism is that featuring several shots of a "Made in Palm Springs" site that features the Brooklyn Bridge seems like a non-sequiter.
Hilariously effective education. It's also a great display of the Cantonese' history, culture, and (wise) humor. Wonderful!
Nobody pointed this out yet. It would be very interesting to keep finding such perturbations that mess up learning and repeatedly add the new-found examples to the training set, retraining the model in the process. I wonder if after a finite number of iterations the resulting model would be near-optimal (impossible to perturb without losing its human recognizability) -- or, if this is impossible, if we could derive some proofs for why precisely this is impossible.
Yes, but then good luck with finding C, J, K, B or similar :) BTW, I'm not sure, but I think all the single letter language names are taken already?
By my experience on cheap chinese Android smartphones, I don't think it is surprising at all to see a lack of OEM bloatware.
I've been using F# on Mono for all of my startup back-end work over several startup attempts.
I don't know why people care, but I can tell you why I care. I believe that becoming a multi-planetary specie is a worthy goal. I don't see if making rich people fly high for bragging points is a good step towards that goal. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. But it is similar enough goal that laypeople might confound them.

So what I see is that they have a less ambitious goal. Even if they are 100% successful it won't give us a fundamentally new capability. The project is seemingly mismanaged, and they have a terrible safety record. Further more events like this might alter the perception of 'space tourism', affecting the business prospects of other respectable organizations.
I've thought that guard pages referred to the practice of having a page or a couple allocated before and after an accessible region and set to PROT_NONE (any access causes a trap) to prevent any new allocation from making those pages accessible. This way reads/writes at most a page past the beginning/end of our allocation will always fault. I don't see how is this "SSP with a different name" (the goals are similar but the method is very different). Did you mean some other kind of guard pages or am I missing something?
Neither interesting, nor surprising really. Curtis requires people to pay attention and think before they comprehend what he is saying. The Cook piece merely required them to click "like".
The question was a little ambiguous. "Microsoft Stack" could mean everything from MS, but it could also mean you just pick and choose.

I've found the best value/growth combination to be Linux, Mono, and F#. If I need a database I'll use something free or open source.

Right now I think folks are making a mistake if they decide to go "all Microsoft" or "no Microsoft". It's much more nuanced than that.
> ..most companies..
> ..unlikely..

Yes all is well and there is no reason why foreign workers could ever feel pressued to stay in a crappy situation.
In 1989, Arthur van Hoff was quite the celebrity in the NeWS community (Sun's PostScript based window system written by James Gosling, who later went on to make Java with Arthur).

At the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Arthur and his colleagues created a groundbreaking HyperCard-like PostScript-based networked user interface creation tool called GoodNeWS, later renamed HyperNeWS and then HyperLook, which was the most amazing thing anyone ever did with NeWS.

I moved to Glasgow in 1992 to work at the Turing Institute with Arthur, making HyperLook into a product and porting SimCity to the Sun, and we released HyperLook and SimCity for HyperLook simultaneously!

HyperLook was so far ahead of its time in 1989, that there still isn't anything quite like it for modern technology. Since we developed HyperLook and SimCity at the same time, that forced us to eat our own dog food, and ensure that HyperLook supported everything you needed to develop real world applications. (Not to imply that SimCity is a real world! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_van_Hoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook.README

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/hyperlook-demo.html

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/SimCity.README
http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook-SimCity.gif
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77164708/HyperLook-SimCity-Manual

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77192848/HyperNeWS-Brochure
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77192884/HyperLook-Product-Info
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77199792/HyperLook-Manual-Part-1-...
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77194415/HyperLook-Manual-Part-2-...
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77199691/HyperLook-Manual-Part-3-...
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77194936/HyperLook-Manual-Part-4-...
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77195777/HyperLook-Manual-Part-5-...
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77193909/HyperLook-Manual-Part-6-...
AI is such an abused word that no one really knows what it is supposed to mean. Probably "automation" or "soft computing" are more accurate, but lack the cool factor.
Teaching Kids to Code – Roman Numerals in Python
Yeh, they really twisted what he said. Here is a direct quote from Branson in the same article:

“And once we find out what went wrong, if we can overcome it, we will make absolutely certain that the dream lives on.”

In other words unless there is a flaw in the design that makes it financially unviable to continue they will solve the problem and push on.
There is a almost simultaneous thread: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542898 (85 points, by whoishiring, 1 day ago, 107 comments)
Find dead URLs and fragment identifiers
Alan Kay's Tribute to Ted Nelson at “Intertwingled” Fest [video]
I've switched to a macbook many years ago because of the drivers and software of my windows machine.

Hardware is worthless without the software driving it, and in my experience the hunt/hacking of the problematic drivers comes back at every new major version of windows/linux you'll install on the box. In this respect, superb value hardware with crappy software is only worth it if you are willing to be tinkering on a regular basis.
The interesting thing is that it gets misclassified across networks.

According to the blog post, I can build two NN with different structures and train them on a random subset of a collection of dog and cat pictures. Distort a random picture until network A misclassifys it, then according to the article network B will also misclassify it, despite it having a different structure and a different training set.

I don't think it's obvious that network B will fail as well.
They probably manufactured all the computers with the W8 stickers on them and then hastily dumped a W7 disk image on the hard disk of each one of them to stop users from complaining. But yes, the fact that the computer has no DVD drive to upgrade to W8 from the DVDs is a bit wrong.
They are not expecting to start working early and work through the night. They just want you to adapt to the client's work schedule. So if the client's workday starts at 7 pm in your timezone, you start working at 7 pm, and work normal work-hours (8 hours) through the night.

And they properly compensate for the availability, they pay top money for their developers.

I'm not affiliated with them in any war, nor worked for them, but only heard good things from developers working for them.
US University offers 'wasting time on the internet' course
Nice! I bought Surface Pro, thanks to Penny Arcade. I have 17" laptop with intuos 5 for heavy painting, but surface with manga studio is my go to for sketching and drawing. Manga studio with its brush engine really simulates real life drawing way better than PS. Specially on Surface Pro.

I decided to go with surface 1, because of the price and how next ones have not evolved so much. Around 400 euros gets you a decent, quite comparable with the latest ones. I would prefer bigger screen, but it is not 500 euro difference need.
couple of things that still annoy me:

-border accuracy with the pen is awful

-touch keyboard is useless rubbish. Even on-screen is better, I didn't know it doesn't have real buttons before I purchased it.

-original pen has only one button(would not be problem without the next one)

-no intuitive way of using modifier keys while drawing/missing modifier keys and this slows everything way down. Maybe there is way to remap volume buttons, haven't tried it yet.

If you are thinking of getting one, take get surface 1 off from the ebay. It is cheap, if you don't like it, you don't lose money when reselling. It is not a tablet, it is a laptop, with tablet capabilities.