skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When we launched Google+, we set out to help people discover, share and connect across Google like they do in real life. "

Why can't they for once be honest and say something like: "We wanted to get on the social network train, it did not work out".

Just without these corporate lies about "connecting people"
I wonder if the rate of these diseases that is can affect (Alzheimer's, epilepsy and depression)are lower in India where tumeric is widely used?
Simple procedure: take a large sample (1M pictures or so), tag them with the system and then show each picture with the label to a person (using Mechanical Turk or similar) and ask "is this label offensive?"

Use simple statistics to identify trouble spots.
Oh well. Such is war.

You send ten more drones on different missions to some daycare or something to "punish" the enemy for breaking the Geneva convention.

This is pretty much recorded history here. At some point, you are pulling the trigger. And yeah, you make mistakes.
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Don't get too excited, probably from 1916.
Lisense plate recognition
Is there a way to access the DMV database? There are a bunch of websites advertising they can give you information on car owners. I only know of one legitimate company offering access to an up to date database, Vigilant solutions. I'm trying to access an up to date database for my parking service, Fetch Park. Any idea if there is an actual database or if it's just from information compiled by these companies not the gov?
Thought I'd clarify generally a little bit. QR codes definitely have a lot of advantages over Meshtag - and they're perfect for what they do. I'm by no means suggesting this could "replace" QR codes.

Where Meshtag fits in is that it's aimed at users and not companies. I think a large reason most people don't scan QR codes is because they assume they're just trying to sell you something. But if you saw a meshtag that somebody drew on a wall somewhere, wouldn't you be curious?

Also, thanks for all the feedback! I have dreamed of being on hacker news since I started coming here. Any UI/UX designers in the Boston area, hit me up if you want to get involved!
What about video in browser? It seems like video is replacing gif everywhere and those autoplay. I've seen websites that have video as backgrounds. Wouldn't stagefright handle those videos also?
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I was brought in to "reboot" a business that had gone sideways due to some poor choices. The original owner had started a successful business and had run it for about 10 years. He wanted to "take it to the next level". So he got an investor who had some big money, some big ideas, and a big team. However, they didn't actually understand the business. Things began to fail spectacularly.

I was asked to come in on the same day that the rest of the development team quit (they left in mass out of anger). We quickly rebuilt the team and focused on delivering the product. I would call this a continuation of the previous business. We figured out what did and did not work and focused entirely on what did work. We also worked on getting the books in line and getting the company out of legal trouble. In the end, we turned the business around in about a year and sold it for a windfall profit.

My tips and suggestions are all around product. Figure out what your product is and DO NOT deviate from that product. If you have 20 products, figure out which one is actually making money and has the most market to grow in and focus on just that product. Get rid of everything else. Every time I have been involved with a business turn around and have focused on the single product, it worked wonders and made millions. Focus. Do not lose focus.
Unfortunately, the ambiguity of the English language strikes again.

If by "they", you meant the article writer, then the reasons for the downvotes are likely because the article writer explained how that number was achieved.

If by "they", you meant LinkedIn, then the downvotes are likely because people thought you meant the article writer.

This is just a case where the pronoun just doesn't give enough information to keep people from being confused.
The power of Moore's Law — which states that the power of computer chips doubles
roughly every two years — is such that the next five years' worth of digital
progress will involve bigger leaps in raw processor power than the previous
five years. It's at least possible that we really will have a massive leap
forward in productivity someday soon that starts substantially reducing the
amount of human labor needed to drive the economy forward.

I wonder how long it's going to take for word of Moore's Law's end to filter out into the wider public perception. Here, in the industry, we look at Intel's delays going to first 14nm and 10nm as clear signs that Moore's Law is sputtering out (as all exponential growth does, eventually). But out in the wider public, there seems to be a perception that chips will get "twice as good" every year into perpetuity. It's going to be interesting to see when (or if) people realize that their hardware isn't getting better at the same rate, year-over-year, that it used to.
"Hard work, perseverance and kindness are the qualities that define a human being" that's the lesson I learned from his autobiography "wings of fire", this was way back in high school. He was an inspiration for me during my formative years.

RIP Sir.
What I'm saying is that culturally, we need to shift away from thinking that sweets are something that should be consumed on a daily basis. Based on my personal experience, avoiding having sweet drinks on a daily basis can help you lose your sweet tooth; and thus be less compelled to consume more of other sweet things.

Having cut out soda, I find I have a lower tolerance for sweet food in general. I'm less likely to order sweet and sour chicken, or foods that are glazed, or things with barbecue sauce, or honey-mustard dressings or dips. I have desserts less often, and when I do, split them more ways.

As others have pointed out in this thread, most people have a sense that feeding caffeine or alcohol to kids is a bad idea; and even as adults, that they are things that should be consumed in moderation. They don't have coffee available in the school cafeteria. However, most people have no such sense about sugar, giving kids juice boxes, chocolate milks, and putting soda machines in schools for them to buy whenever they have a little extra allowance left over.

While sugar-free soda is probably an improvement over soda with sugar in it, it still leaves you with that sweet tooth, and you're more likely to subconsciously keep consuming sugars in other forms.
I stopped commenting/voting on YouTube since the mandatory G+ thing. I hope Google think it twice before playing that hard again.
From the article, it sounds like they only need to open the text message: they don't need to actually play the video, even in the stock MMS app.

In my experience, people will open a message just to clear the notification and that's all that it would take for them to be compromised.
You're probably aware of this, but the PC-Engine (TurboGrafx's Japanese counterpart) actually did very well in Japan, beating the Mega Drive for second place in that market.
Basically, yeah. A few sports games did as well, like some of the NHL Hockey games starting with NHL '95 I believe. (There was a "play a whole season" mode...)
RE "The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'"

I agree, semantically it's not a very accurate title. But actually, I'd say that in the long-run the chain of events that resulted from this hack (i.e. me moving to America and then my startup getting funded etc) has led to me personally benefiting much more than $120k. Essentially it was the main cause to making me millions of dollars. The $120k was just the most quantifiable from the initial hack.
This: http://opencontainers.org/ seems to be somewhat related, and also a good thing.
I don't disagree at all, but I'd add that at the point of "strong, general AI" everything is off the table. Never mind warfare.

At that point (and I agree it will be on us before we are ready) it's a whole new world in so many ways.
You should only have to disable MMS auto retrieval in the default SMS app.
Federal prosecutors also cherrypick slam dunk cases
Generally I start off with stable, add things via backports if possible, then build my own solution for the primary language runtime and any libraries I'm using.

The idea is to lean on stable for everything else that you don't care as much about, basically.
interesting... wild vs cultivated blueberries might be the strongest example of your original point.
Best Coffee Shops in San Francisco to Mingle with Other Founders?
One could also interpret it as an indictment. If a blockchain technology is really as exciting as Apollo 11, then that must reflect poorly on us.
Growth Hacking or Analyst Relations for Startups?
There is no general air defence these days. There are point installations protecting military targets, on military land, but there aren't batteries of missiles to defend large cities. If needed they launch intercept aircraft. (imho those military point defence installations are turned off most all of the time. See below.)

Recently in Vancouver we hosted the woman's world cup. Joe Biden was in town. And so was this (http://i.imgur.com/pvxYN49.jpg). That's the USS Stockdale entering Vancouver port to provide him cover. It left port the day after he left town. All very quiet. Local news didn't speak of this big thing coming in unescorted. I only noticed after one of our boats went screaming by the dog beach (http://i.imgur.com/G7lY9s4.jpg) about half an hour before. It was probably leaving to make room at the dock. When the Stockdale left it was followed by a tug and a rib from the local cops... they probably learned about it at the same time I did.

Stockdale's itinerary listing it docking in North Vancouver.
http://www.uscarriers.net/ddg106history.htm

The lack of air defence is probably a good thing. The error rate, the risk of shooting down something by accident, would be unacceptable.
You forgot to mention how the comment system bubbles up the most controversial and divisive comments, giving them the spotlight while productive conversations get lost in the noise.
1. That connector size appears to be a DVI connector. How does TMDS affect data transmission via TEMPEST leakage?

2a. Would HDMI render this attack void, due to encryption on the data signal layer?

2b. Since the HDMI master keys are known, would it be possible to modify data with the now-known key and pass data using this method?

3. What card is shown on the desktop? That looks like a rather suspicious card (GSM card?).
Play lone ranger theme with glasses?  This guy did it
I'm still waiting for the day that somebody does a "super simple chat" with NO dependencies. Why do they all need REDIS or some kind of persistence? Why not just hold it in memory?

If you really have a use case where persistence & scaling is an issue you're likely not going to use any of those chat servers anyways.
I think that it was especially relevant in this case as the guy running the incubator was on LinkedIn checking the profiles of all the people that were applying.
>it very much changes the feel of the language, namely into one where you need to insert pointless casts to satisfy a whiney compiler

You could use the exact same argument against any type-safety feature: inserting "pointless" forward declarations, inserting "pointless" const qualifiers, etc., to "satisfy a whiney compiler."

The thing is, implicit conversion from void* is plainly unsound, type theoretically speaking. It has certain advantages, but is not necessary in order to have those advantages. For example, it makes use of malloc easier, but one could also make the vast majority of uses of malloc easier with something like

#define ALLOC(TYPE,N) ((TYPE*)malloc(N*sizeof(TYPE)))

Or at least, one could if C had a remotely regular type syntax and/or actual type genericity. In contrast, you actually can write

template <typename T>
T* alloc(std::size_t n) {
return static_cast <T*> (malloc (n * sizeof (T)));
}

in C++, and it's even straightforward to add additional logic like overflow detection. Mark it inline and stick it in a header, and it's effectively the same as the above ALLOC macro, except that it actually works. Now, contrast

int* array = malloc(256*sizeof(int));

with

int* array = alloc<int> (256);

The C++ expression is simpler. Now, if you change the type of the array, but forget to change the allocation expression (for whatever reason; maybe you're using the absurd convention of declaring all your variables before you start initializing and using them):

char* array = malloc(256*sizeof(int));
// vs
char* array = alloc<int> (256);

You get a type error with the C++ version, and the C version silently compiles. Not too much of an issue in this case -- you'll just waste a bunch of memory -- but go from char to int instead of int to char, and now you've got buffer overflows.

As for the argument made elsewhere in this thread that explicitly casting the result of malloc in C can mask the fact that malloc has been implicitly delcared, that's a language bug -- one that was fixed more than fifteen years ago.
Ditto, after reading several of the about pages, I'm still not sure what Ether is, or how it's used, or who the target audience is.

Something in there about a decentralized platform for running apps, but I don't want to guess too deeply about what this means.

Is it a cloud hosting platform that runs on Ether? Is the platform going to be used primarily for mining Ether? I'm not even sure, if anyone has a short description that will explain what this is, I'd love to read it!
Staff leave facilities to go home. I really don't want to write out the math on that one.
WhiteSave.me enables White people to help non-Whites to succeed in life
What are the chances that if the individuals could muster the same legal firepower that the bank has that the case against them would also fall apart?

The relevant sentence in the article is:

"Facing indictment and the threat of long prison sentences, eight Abacus loan department employees entered guilty pleas and agreed to cooperate with the district attorney’s investigation."

So according to the article it was the threat of long prison sentences that caused them to enter guilty pleas, not that they were in any way found guilty after a trial.

In short: there was no trial, so whether or not the case against them would fall apart if there had been remains to be seen.

But the article strongly suggests that the main culprit set up underlings to defer to his higher authority. That makes them a lot less culpable than the indictment would make you believe.
Does this mean privacy conscious people will be able to vote in the Android store?
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> The attack requires both the targeted computer and the mobile phone to have malware installed

> exploits components that are virtually guaranteed to be present on any desktop/server and cellular phone
Sorry for the late reply. The 19% power figure comes from the PUC. Here are some links:

http://www.kqed.org/news/science/climatewatch/waterandpower/...

This one goes into more detail and picks that 19% number apart. Also quotes the 10TWh number:

http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/06/10/19-percent-cal...
This is nothing more than a (pointlessly!) complex URL shortener... Meshtags are exactly equivalent to the following hypothetical service which I call "SuperNumericShortener":

1. Pick any random number, say 1234. This is your identifier.

2. Register this identifier and your URL at SuperNumericShortener.com

3. Write "SNS-1234" anywhere you want.

4. Install a fancy smartphone app that can take a picture of a writing and recognize "SNS-1234".

5. The app opens your browser to http://SuperNumericShortener.com/1234 which redirects to whatever URL you chose.

That's it. Oh and you can pay to reserve short identifiers (since they are likely to be claimed by other users of the service).

And for some reason meshtags use triangular shapes instead of numbers. Maybe it makes the concept look fancier than what it really is. Or maybe the author thought it would be easier to recognize a meshtag than detecting the shape "SNS" and do OCR to extract the following identifier? Either way, "SNS-1234" is easier to memorize, faster to draw, can be communicated in writing and speech. All advantages that meshtags lack.

Edit: here is something I would really want: in my Android Chrome address bar, next to the microphone icon, I want a camera icon that lets me snap a picture of a written URL, and opens it directly. No obscure QR code, meshtag, or whatever.
You're way overthinking my point.

A plane ticket and $500 can go a long way when your enemy's homeland is wantonly undefended by law & policy.
This could be useful for dead-drop style communications. Should be easier for two people to memorize how to draw a reasonably complex shape than an arbitrary string of bits, numbers, or letters. If you can do that there's no risk of leaking the drop location: just draw it, scan it to check the drop, then destroy the drawing.
I assume you're using MVC, so I have found the tutorials here extremely helpful:

http://www.asp.net/mvc

The tutorials will include a general intro to the Entity Framework.

Of course MSDN is the ultimate reference. So get comfortable referring to it. Just google the names of some of the classes you are using, for example "ActionResult MSDN."

I would also suggest keeping an open attitude (I'm referring to your use of the word "stuck"). I don't have a lot of experience developing outside of the MS framework, but I find reflexive distaste for MS to often be a case of "strong opinions, weakly held."
Ask HN: What are the best resources for becoming great at interviewing people?
One of my primary goals this year is to become excellent at interviewing. As an Engineering Manager, I do a number of interviews per week but I don't feel like I'm very good at it. I'm mapping out a plan to improve my skills and as a part of that I'm looking for some good resources (e.g. books) to consume. Googling around is tough for this because most of the books are from the interviewee's perspective.
Proud of these kids.
It would be great if a local representative could help with uploading some of the data.
I believe there can be a lot of restoration aid provided from many of us in helping with this process.
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Last time I was there it was more like 'what coffee shops in SF/SV will not be full of startup founders?'
Thanks - that makes sense. My understanding is that SML's libraries will never improve to a similar level, sadly.
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If only we could harness the computational power wasted on Bitcoin mining as heat, for useful distributed computing.
> > It is a gmail account.

> You're completely incorrect. You see how this actually is confusing!

This is historically inaccurate. I have never signed up for a Google Account and yet I have one.

Before Google+ and Google Apps existed as concepts, people had GMail accounts. Then along came other Google Apps, and GMail accounts were upgraded to Google Accounts which could do more than just GMail.

Fast forward a few years, and Google+ comes along, and confused the hell out of this even further.
> LinkedIn provides some of the most detailed targeting options of any ad-platform I’ve ever seen (though I’d say that Facebook has now eclipsed it)

Someone did something similar using FB to prank their friend:

http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8330931
You make a very good point.

:)
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When a vulnerability like this becomes public, I always wonder - how many people knew about it before it became public, for how long and how much has it been exploited.

And I also wonder how many more critical exploits are known and used by 'hackers' or agencies today while we have this puffy feeling that our data/communication is private and secure ?

The conclusion I can draw from this: never trust that your phone is secure. Or computer for that matter.
> Because it is "okay". Why do people think it's okay to tell others what is okay?

Culturally, we consider coffee and alcohol to be things that should generally only be consumed by adults, and in moderation. Alcohol we have serious laws about; coffee not as much, but I know very few parents who would feed their children coffee on a regular basis.

However, we have no such cultural taboo about sugary drinks, despite the increasing amount of research showing that they are actually much more problematic when consumed regularly than caffeine or alcohol consumed in moderation.
Decentralized computing secured by a blockchain! :D->-<
Terror targets are basically useless though in a real conflict. A determined foe will simply ignore them.

My point is that for some shipping fees, you have a real, realistic and effective way of substantially reducing your enemy's ability to fight the war you are engaged in.

That's a real vulnerability that can be exploited.
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>Why is it so terrible to be punished for exercising your right

Because rights shouldn't come with punishments for using them. This would be like the government being outright allowed to buy the votes from people by means of tax relief if they don't vote (which equates to a tax on those who do vote). Or imagine if the government instituted a tax of $300 per month for having any medium able to communicate (phone, computer with internet access, etc.) but then gave an equal amount tax relief to anyone who agreed to not communicate about certain topics. This would equate a tax on those forms of speech.
Something twitter is doing right is the ability to expand the convo right there in the timeline. I'll give them that.
fk the haters. its a cool idea.
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Is 90% of the market still speculation? Call me when it's not.
I've still yet to find a "basic" description, but their whitepaper is actually quite useful in describing what it is and possible uses:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
Wow. Integer overflows and underflows all over the place. It's almost like no-one's ever even taken a fuzzer to this before, which would surprise me given that Google is usually relatively security-concious.
And what would be the analog of leaving your doors wide open in this scenario?

Dismantling a standing army?

Not doing any cyberwarfare R&D?

I don't think either of those are included in the proposal of "ban offensive AI weapons."
Thanks for that comment.

I'm seeing a sales/marketing issue with this company. The sales pipeline has shriveled up and marketing is non-existent. The product is fairly decent, nothing spectacular, but they are possibly playing in the wrong space, given the amount of capital they have and the competition they face from the big enterprise players.

So from a re-build perspective, I am wondering if their owner can take on the risk of building a NEW product or are they better off doing what they are doing (except, do it better)?
I read the article, it seemed to be saying the RF was coming from the system bus.
For yourself, maybe, for your pets, absolutely not. Cats are strict carnivores[1], and dogs, while they can survive on a veg diet, it is not what they evolved to consume[2].

[1]: http://www.petmd.com/cat/nutrition/evr_ct_cat_nutritional_ne...

[2]: http://rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html

Your friends are literally killing their pets. Please either inform them and make sure they stop it, or inform the local humane society/animal shelter and get them taken away.

Noondip's now deleted comment was as follows:

Another excellent reason to go vegan, both for yourself and your pets. I'm not an authority on this, but my friends have bragged about their cats and dogs alike living a healthy, happy life on a plant-based diet.