skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective.

From the Google's blog post:

> our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy
Uber emails you a map with your route on it and a final price after each trip. If you are unhappy with the route, you can complain and uber will refund whatever you overpaid compared to optimal trip. They can also easily implement algorithm that checks if driver uses optimal route and fire/warn drivers that don't.

Biggest difference between Uber and any taxi authority is that Uber is interested in providing good service while taxi authority does not.
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I've used both. I like Django better. I don't think Rails is bad or Ruby is bad. Just that I personally prefer Django and Python.

They're very similar. Most of what you know about Python/Django is still applicable with Ruby/Rails and vice versa. If you learn one, it won't be wasted effort if you decide to switch to the other.

I would say just try them both out with a tutorial or practice project and see which one feels nicer to you.
We were taught this stuff in school, although I didn't think of that application then :-) I mean that current running through a coil induces a magnetic field.

Maybe just start with a physics school book?

Edit: in fact current running through a wire induces a magnetic field (actually, just electrons moving, with or without a wire), I guess the coil just gives it direction and kind of amplifies it (it's been a while).
Honestly if you are talking about considerable amount of money you should seek out to first and accountant (He will save you more money that he will charge) he will figure those things out cause even if you research on that a lot, my personal feeling is that you might do mistake that will catch up to you in the future.

For the were to invest it, well no one can answer that for you it depends on your attitude towards risk and where you are in your life. If you 25 no family and looking to risk more to (hopefully) earn more then invest back in yourself and start your own but if you have a family and looking to work in o a more steady environment, wait a bit because with over 100K in your bank account, you will get calls from portfolio managers! : ) Those guys will know who to invest your $$ better and at a risk level your will be comfortable with.

An personal opinion, fix everything with an accountant an then relaxe a take the time to answer those questions they will affect a lot how you will live your futur!
I'm generally not a fan of income tax, since I think it creates a bunch of problems and economic inefficiencies, like the middle class cleaning their own houses while there is a sizeable unemployed section of the economy, but the huge difference between corporate profit and personal income is that a person has citizenship (generally), has to live somewhere, cannot expense the majority of his or her purchases, and cannot be financially controlled by a foreign entity with differing laws.

Yes it does create problems like "is driving to work a work expense?" but those problems are generally solved.
Could it have something to do with the increase in quality and quantity of pleasant distractions? It's in our pockets, at our desks, in our living rooms, everywhere. What if technological, political, and social progress has slowed down because it's so easy to escape? Soma in the form of apps, games, and screens. Surely it is harder now for most people to concentrate on something hard and HUGE in scope when there's something easy and fun in their pocket, ready whenever they are. This seems to be the case for me, anyway.
Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos
The wealthy don't personally drive in Manhattan. People pay good money not to have to drive in Manhattan.
Show HN: Voronoi Diagram of London Tubemap in D3.js
(1) That's beside the point. Even if a phone has a 4k display, they still don't need a camera of more than about 8MP to display it on screen.

(2) Yeah, I get this use case, and I understand why there are DSLRs that big. But how many cameraphone users are actually cropping their images so extremely that they need 41 megapixels? Phone makers don't put 41 MP sensors for the niche market of users who need cameras that good but don't have a DSLR; they do it because the majority of their customer base thinks "the more pixels the better".
> complaining that a school does what it does best, stifling the creative and curious mind, is silly.

This is exactly the opposite of what a school is supposed to do. Spreading awareness that the system is so badly broken ("complaining") is anything but silly.
How do you not notice an extra 100 TB worth of traffic on your network?
> What's SBT offer over maven? Lack of XML, with more trendy markup and new bugs? Like I said, immature.

Maybe you should do some research and figure out the answer for yourself, then you wouldn't jump to weird conclusions.
>It's ridiculous in a world of 5K retina screens that people can't see the value in higher resolution audio.

Not if they can't hear the value in higher resolution audio. For many people the only difference in HD audio over 16-bit 44.1 Khz is that the files are bigger. If someone can't hear the difference, it's no surprise that they don't care to move to a new format.

The screen analogy isn't perfect as most people can still readily tell the difference between an HD image and a significantly lower resolution one. (Though yeah, we're getting closer to pixel densities surpassing people's ability to resolve pixels as well, provided they're not putting their nose to the screen. It won't be too long now.)
> you could effectively steal from any account for which you knew the email

If you succeed in CSRF attack him, that is.
I did a similar thing a few years ago. Anti snoring mouthpieces like this [0] cost $1-3 on alibaba for 500 moq. They sell for $60-70 branded (just search "anti snoring mouthpiece" and look at adwords results), but every product is the exact same piece of moldable rubber. On ebay, generic versions sell for $10-15. If you buy a branded version, you are getting ripped off in exchange for a nice package, an expensive advertising campaign, and a fancy stick to hold the mouthpiece in the boiling water.

I bought a bunch on alibaba, sold on ebay with a nice template, made a profit ($15 > $3). Easy $1k in a few months. Issue was slow velocity on ebay (~1 sale per day).

I imagine this could be replicated in a lot of verticals. The only work it required was printing out instructions, buying envelopes, and stuffing the mouthpieces into the envelopes when I got a new order.

Here's a great forum thread on doing this. [1]

[0] http://goo.gl/QiUgIA

[1] http://www.wickedfire.com/products-and-merchants/86310-guide...
If you define killing people with cars to be out of scope then you're just drawing the system boundaries incorrectly. Let me ask you this: if it's not a crime to kill someone with a car, as long as you're sober and you don't flee the scene, why does anyone murder someone else in New York with a knife or a gun? Wouldn't running them down with a car be the rational choice? After all, they aren't prosecuting the guy who ran over and killed a 3-year-old in a crosswalk, even though there's a video recording of the act. You can be captured on video running down and killing someone and not be prosecuted. Only a fool would choose another weapon.
You have failed to understand the point I was making. Instead, you have created some kind of dumb straw man viewpoint to argue against.
If you're motivated to wade this far down the thread, but can't be bothered to explain one concrete benefit in one sentence, I've gotta assume it's pretty difficult to come up with one.
How Spoil (YC W15) avoided paying for the word 'gift' during the holidays
As a startup that curates and delivers gifts we wanted to avoid bidding and paying for clicks on the word gift. That competition would be way to expensive this time of year, and we need to be as frugal as possible.
What we did was approach a bunch of companies here in Montreal and offered to be their official secret santa provider. This allowed us to get free exposure, orders and even if companies said no, people still found out about us and ordered gifts individually.
If you guys want to send out some awesome gifts this holiday season, check us out at https://spoil.io!
Any feedback on the experience would be super appreciated.
Glasswire for Windows or Little Snitch for Mac?
How Top Founders Juggle Term Sheets
One major piece of news is that this new spec fixes the broken key exchange during the pairing process, which made Bluetooth devices vulnerable to passive snooping. [1] It now uses ECDH for key exchange. [2] This is big because one of the main proposed use cases for BLE is medical devices, and now they can be secured.

[1] http://lacklustre.net/bluetooth

[2] BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 4.2 [Vol 2, Part H] p. 1342
Transaction taxes are inefficient because they punish market makers that build books across active, volatile markets with low average yields.
Security is hard. I think the more important thing here is that Paypal fixed it quickly and honored the bug bounty. I'd be more worried if they tried to shove it under the rug.
http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/logic-of-buddhist-philoso... found this on hn a while ago. You might find this relevant to the logical paradox you are exposing
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Motor vehicle deaths, especially when corrected for miles driven or total population, have dropped precipitously:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

Murder, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, etc. are all down across the board, in some cases by more than 50% in 20 years:

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/c...

There are always some subjective decisions on data reporting, but that's much more prevalent in data comparisons between countries rather than over time within a single country. The FBI has been very consistent in their reporting.
IANA expert but: http://australiangovernmentbonds.gov.au/etbs/list-of-etbs/
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That's an idealistic view of education. In today's "industrial education system", where each teacher/professor teaches classes of 30-100, I don't think each student gets the attention/discussion time they need. You still wind up doing most of the work yourself (at least I did).
Loooove the service. You actually deliver the experience you promise. Props.
That power would still be there, it would just be checked by the possibility that they might one day lose it.
I skipped out on making my own oven back in the day; results seemed spotty. I'm glad to hear they are more feasible now. I stuck with the reflow station I had access to. Nice to see those have come down in price too.

I still remember trying to do 0201 with the reflow station, accidentally blowing caps right off the board :)
There is no reason why a session can only be created after login. Think about using Amazon.com anonymously. You can add books and things to your cart without logging in. Those are stored in an anonymous session that is unique to you.

Furthermore, CSRF mitigation does not have to depend on a session existing. The CSRF token value can written to a separate cookie unrelated to the session, which value can be randomly modified with every page load. For every page view, the CSRF token on the form would be different, and would be matching an ever-changing CSRF cookie value.
There's no formal government approval of higher education in the U.S., but there's a quasi-official system of accreditation that effectively puts a stamp of approval on some programs. It's still legal to offer unaccredited programs, but they aren't eligible for some kinds of funding, and some kinds of legal recognition might also be tied to that status (varies by field). My guess is that they are not seeking accreditation, since they don't seem to be aiming to provide something similar to a traditional university curriculum. In that case, the space is basically unregulated. Some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation...

An online-only school can be accredited at least since the '90s, though, in cases where it does seek to provide education equivalent to a traditional physical-classrooms university, and wants equal recognition. I believe the first online-only university in the U.S. to receive accreditation was Western Governors University (founded 1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University. They charge about $5500/yr, fwiw.
Graphite Project – A Scalable Real-Time Graphing System
Congrats to them all!

I've known Ilya as a friend for a few years now and current/future YC startups are going to be very lucky to have him around. He's an extremely intelligent and humble guy.
Hi Anjin, a few differences from BM:

1- We are bringing the denim from one of the top denim mills in the world.
2- Our home try-on is for sizing on the same item (you get two different sizes of the same style), not trying to cross sell items.
“bridge hits ship”
An implementation of the no-click mouse thought experiment
This, absolutely. The single most important thing in the audio chain from the electrical plug at the wall to your ears is the room...

An actual live musician can still sound poor in an acoustically-terrible room.
many thanks! ya we are always trying to improve the experience people have with us. Started off pretty rough lol, but as of late people are loving what they are getting
Most highly accomplished EEs can't answer most questions about fields, let alone antennae design detail.
There are many ways to answer. To start with, "why wouldn't they take up the jobs, even if the wages are low?" There aren't the jobs. There are twice as many workers with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs, and there are people working STEM jobs without degrees.

The most classical economic response is that it's collective action: if no one takes a lower wage position then the wage will stay high. Remember,

> the goal of many employers is to keep wages in check by using immigration to increase the supply of workers. Alan Greenspan certainly has made this point. Speaking at a U.S. Treasury conference on U.S. Capital Markets Competitiveness in 2007, Greenspan argued that, "Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled guest workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income." Greenspan believes that reducing wages for skilled workers, including those in STEM fields, has a number of desirable policy outcomes. Given how active many STEM employers have been in pushing for increases in immigration, they appear to agree with the former Federal Reserve chairman that immigration limits wage growth. - http://cis.org/no-stem-shortage

It is the goal of most businesses to pay low wages. It is the goal of employees to earn high wages. Idealistically, the government is supposed to balance these factors for the benefit of the nation as whole.

Or I can answer psychologically: from the ultimatum game we know that people will reject offers which are seen as 'unfair', and we also know that people tend to rank more highly those like themselves. Hence, giving smaller amount of money to foreign workers, instead of more money to local workers, seems unfair.

You could see it as class-ist: people who went to college expect to have a middle or upper-middle class job, so won't take a job which pays lower. I know one marriage which broke up partially because of this factor.

Or a debt fatigue issue: paying off high student loans on a $30K/year is much harder than on $60K/year, and being in major debt for decades can wear one down and make one irritated over the situation.

Or bait-and-switch: we were told that a computer engineering degree would be worthwhile, and spent years working to get the degree, only to find out we were told a lie, and now we want to take the anger out.

Or a control one: a company may prefer to hire a foreign worker, whose employment and residency both depends in part on the whim of the employer, vs. a local worker who is more free to speak out about illegal or improper working conditions. (This is an aspect of keeping wages low, but I think it's important to point out in its own right.)

Or a loss-of-passion issue: you implied the only tradeoff was between employment or low-paying job and that money was the key issue. If the STEM job pays too low, people will work in other fields, even if they would rather be working in the career they were trained for and love. If you need the money for your family you'll take a boring, soul sucking job for the extra $10,000/year. The exchange rate between money and happiness is not so clear cut as you suggest.
VMs should be available in runtime (no matter if an AOT is present or not) in order to allow an efficient run-time code generation. And VMs should also be available during compilation to make it possible to efficiently implement reflective compile-time meta-languages (e.g., like Common Lisp).

And the difference between abstract machines, intermediate representations and virtual machines is very elusive (see all the confusion around LLVM for example).
The Free Software/Culture stuff is also about DRY, in a sense. Say I need a picture of a stream for a project. I get my camera and drive a couple hours to the woods. Batch process the set and finally decide on one picture to use. At the end of this, fairly expensive process, I actually have 10-15 pretty good, usable pictures that I no longer am going to use (at least not in the near future). The (modern) traditional ideology is to lock those away just in case I may need a picture like that in the future.

Makeing them free to others means they don't have to repeat the same process for basically the exact same thing. Now multiply this by the 100's or thousand's of other assets that could be used in a small project.
> The paternalistic/maternalistic attitude of Paul and Jessica is more than a little cloying. Frankly, it seems like they enjoyed the position of power granted them by the cash in their wallets.

In a setting where ideas change rapidly and companies start overnight, having a hunch about people even through failure might be completely justified. "You've produced garbage so far, but I'm confident that you'll make something good" is much more reasonable in the startup world than it is in, say, large-scale retail. The investment that PG makes in a prospect is really, really low; if "Muffin" doesn't produce, it doesn't really matter to him.

If this paternalistic attitude didn't work, Y Combinator wouldn't be doing it. To use a sports metaphor, they're drafting a football team rather than a baseball team. Baseball players can be studied statistically because the college game is similar enough to the professional game that you can study prior data. In contrast, football is a crapshoot; the college game is so different from the pro game that there's barely a correlation at all between good college players and good pro players. So is choosing startups to fund.

If the Muffins end up making money, that's a great indication that PG & Friends having an "in crowd" is producing results.

If they're incorrect, they're opening the door for a more rational company to do the exact same job as them without Muffins and beat them.
Play, Cognition, and Learning
Here's a demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LWpx5TRWjg

Note: I've decided to change what graphical feedback corresponds to which operations since then.
Walking around Northern British towns on a Friday evening can provide a glimpse of those early hominoid alcohol consuming ancestors.
Yeah, but if you are trying to automate thousands of simultaneous requests, you'll have to use a lot of servers, which is costly even in the cloud.

Right now google and bing will run sites with JS enabled to see the DOM after any JS changes take hold. Usually these crawls aren't nearly as often as the general crawling, because there is quite a lot more CPU/Memory overhead to such utilities. I can't speak for splinter, but similar tools in node or phantomjs have a lot over overhead to them.
It's pretty easy to come up with multiple ones.

Just one, to not prevent you from doing your own research:

Type-checked build definitions.

I lost days to debugging broken Maven setups were some tags were misspelled or placed at the wrong position, and Maven just gave a shit about it.

SBT immediately tells you what's the issue.

Another one: It's completely painless to introduce new settings/keys/commands/tasks. Want to have a deployment step which moves some files to the right place after compilation?
3 lines of code. 3 lines, not a god damn Maven plugin.
84% of Vegetarians and Vegans Return to Meat. Why? – Psychology Today
I wouldn't call Xmonad a window manager, but just a thin wrapper around X11 (C?) that happens to be written in haskell.
View Documents with Google Docs – Chrome Extension
Ah, perfect, that's the part I was missing. Just sat down and watched the video demonstration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoFFayw58ZQ#t=200) – at 3:20 he navigates the victim's browser to a site controlled by an attacker. Thanks!
Civilized countries have long since settled this question with a simple formula: if you are in a car and you hurt or kill someone, it's your fault.
Speedlancer: Making Crowdsourcing Fair, Fast and Formidable
the system which you seek exists and it's called Thumbtack.
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Reduce expenses first, cover cash flow requirements then increase revenues without more risk than you can accept.

Begin by paying off highest interest debt and continue until you run out of money or have paid off all your debt. You always get rid of debt because debt costs you money on an ongoing basis. Better is to make money - which is not just a little better, it's double better. You get to keep cash you would have lost due to interest PLUS you get to make more money by investing.

Next you need to try and make sure you have enough cash flow to continue meeting recurring expenses, or make purchases that eliminate or reduce recurring debt. Buy a house instead of renting, that sort of thing.

After that the general rule of thumb is to invest in the highest-return investments you can find that provide an acceptable level of risk. If you are 40 years from retirement and can accept a very large amount of risk, then you might want to invest part of it in another startup that you think has a good chance of a very high rate of return. You might put part of it in stocks (high to medium risk), bonds (medium to low risk) or money market items like certificates of deposit (low risk, but some of these tie up your money for longer periods of time than others).
People learn and create different ways to handle emotions. People experience differences and similarities in life experience. People resolve and analyze their histories, present and future evaluations differently, similarly, if at all. People have different temperaments, or similar. People can track their data independently to attempt to control their reactions internally to the external world, but life does things that make handling response not always controllable.

I can't say anything about your state anymore than I both simultaneously understand and do not understand my own.
The P-3C Orion is fitted with a retractable sextant. Pre-GPS it was a primary navigation aid, but has been maintained post-GPS as an emergency system in case GPS fails. I don't know offhand of its replacement, the P-8 Poseidon, has any kind of celestial navigation system as a backup, but I would not be surprised if it did.