skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem is that Stagefright is an over-privileged application with system access on some devices, which enables privileges similar to apps with root access. Stagefright is used to process a number of common media formats, and it’s implemented in native C++ code, making it simpler to exploit

This is huge.
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> There have been papers about scale/rotation invariant convnets (again at the structure level) and also Networks that learn invariances without encoding them into the structure.

The former I am very interested in! Do you have any links?
Where did I say that people should avoid pushing for social change? I pointed out the effect of a tool: shaming. It's bad for people and as the article says it can lead to violence.

Social change is good. Shaming is a bad tool.
how easy is it to get your photos off a stock nexus 5 and onto google photos?
Your assertion may or may not be true, but there's no way I am willing to accept that as "logic". Your assumption is that the profit margin on labor is 0% which logic would suggest is pretty universally false.

Here's my logic, maybe you can help me find the flaws in it: businesses are trying to maximize sales and minimize costs, which means they have the smallest possible workforce required to support their current sales. Less staff means less sales. They are also making some profit. As long as the wage increases are less than their profit margin, they have no reason to fire anyone. They lose revenue if they fire anyone, or they would've already done it.

So to me he relevant question is: what is the ratio between profit and minimum wages at most companies? I looked at Wal-Mart as an example and they make way more in profit than they spend on wages.
> The 27th of July should be a national day of recognition for his genius.

Might you want to chose 15 October since it was his birthday?
You can take it up to 11 like this: http://files.rya.nc/qr.png
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That wasn't Facebook's policy. Facebook removed fake name accounts when users complained, but "The Friendly Monster" was around my university for a good six months, and a friend with a less obvious fake name has kept her account to this day. Google+ aggressively and preemptively went after fake names, and even caught some real names by mistake.
Very nice read. I wish I could do the same...
I don't think Instacart is, or ever wanted to be an infrastructure. At least not as a transportation infrastructure. There is an argument to be made that it is becoming an infrastructure "within" a supermarket, mainly because of their pick & pack infrastructure (this is probably what Aaron is referring to) and understanding of inventory. Compare that to what we're doing at Postmates. We're in the process of creating a transportation layer by combining tens of thousands of people with cars and bikes or on foot into a "programmable layer" that can be accessed through our API and utilized by third parties. Both have huge potential.
> "and especially most AAA titles are DRM-ed"

How so?

If by DRM you mean the game won't boot up without an internet connection check, then no, most games do not require the internet to run. Even GTAV loads up fine in offline mode. As it should.

Even Ubisoft's Uplay and Origin clients have offline modes.

Games which require the internet to load up, even though they have single player modes, deserve a thumbs down. Steam has an offline mode, and game publishers should respect that.
Well, shareholder exits can be costly too. But this discussion and the one with golergka inspired the following idea (probably because the idea of political democracy came up in both threads).

Stay with me here. It's not fully fleshed out- just kind of a spark: What if, in some fair way I don't know yet, the employees of a public company had some (40%? 51%? I don't know but significant) power to force a shareholder to sell his or her share of the company in a short time frame (30 days?).

This would bring the analogy to political democracy a little closer because the "subjects" would have the direct power to throw out their "governors." We could argue that they have the indirect power now (especially in small companies), but this would make it explicit.

Batshit crazy?
I'm not even sure I have a G+ profile, things were so confusing during the Name Wars (at which point I all but abaonded my G+).
It was with such extreme frustration that I had deleted everything on my Google+ profile after trying for 30 minutes to get the G+ URL of either <my first name>, or my <last name>, <or may first + last name>, or <part of my first name>. I stopped using it, made everything private - what I couldn't remove (at that time).

All were available.

Close to 2, or at least more than 1 year later - all those URLs are still available.

But no, Google still thinks I must add a digit or two to that URL. I had forgotten that I have a G+ profile. I don't know anyone who uses this. I mean I don't know about others but why would I even want to use such a tool that is this effed up. While some might defend or even be kinder to G+ (well...) but I personally just can't accept a service this broken.
I've been working at home, with other people remotely for 15 years precisely because that's what I wanted to do. Sure, I go on the occasional trip, quarterly meeting or interview with a new client but most of the time, I work the way that I want to and make a good living.

Not doing what you really want to in life is a recipe for frustration.
Not sure why you're being down voted, this seems like a perfectly valid claim to me.
> There have been relatively successful bans on chemical and biological weapons, why do you suspect we can't successfully ban the proliferation of autonomous weapons?

What's relative? Chemical weapons have been long banned by the international community but they are still in use[0] in certain places.

Regardless, creating autonomous weapons is a very different beast. The systems that could be used for target could have been designed to locate all pedestrians, animals, cars, etc for autonomous driving / collision avoidance in. These advancements are going to happen and can easily be repurposed; chemical weapons many of the compounds are not easily re-usable for good things so they're not comparable in that regard.

> These things don't appear out of thin air, they still have to be manufactured, sold and stored. If you can find them you can remove them, and deal with those who created them.

This is too idealistic and isn't feasible. First, you're assuming you can't retrofit a computer system to any existing weapons (many of which require a small amount of control input from humans to move and fire). You can, very easily. In fact you can hook up computer systems to non-obvious weapons such as a handgun if you really wanted to. Second, who's going to remove them and deal with them? There is evidence Syria and other countries have used chemical weapons but the World Police (tm) are not exactly knocking down their doors to arrest them.

Chemicals can be hard to manufacture and difficult to distribute. AI? You should be able to download it anywhere and, when computing power gets good enough, possibly run it on anything which could then be hooked up to any type of vehicle or weapon controlled through electronics.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/08/27/216046393/c...
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I think Google were smart enough to know users would hate it. They just underestimated quite how much.
As many have already discussed that this is akin to a URL shortener, and not stand alone (like QR is ), I have a different question.

Your app has in-app-purchases. Please provide examples how you are monetizing this?

Also, I notice you use a G+ identity to tie all codes to, yet your pictures shows "Anonymous" as creator. Is that really anonymous, or fakenonymous?
Download google photos app click on upload and all photos will be in cloud. Use google photos app on desktop and download them back if needed. Or via photos.google.com
Your comment sounded more colloquial than uncivil to me, but thanks for responding so respectfully.
XenServer runs their version of qemu under a unique unused uid, in a empty chroot and with a separate network namespace. This is the default behavior under XenServer.
I've never in my life wanted to draw a bar code or QR.. Also I can hand-write a URL which both a human and OCR can read. So this all seems pointless.. outside of it possibly being a fun exercise to par take in.
Seeing some of the extremely stupid limitations they put on G+, right since the beginning, I doubt they were even thinking of beating or equalling Fb without actually have lost their faculties.
I have to say that latency is still my biggest concern
At least $4000 per kilogram, based a quick google.

I'm sure someone will put the cash together eventually if the dirtside experiments look promising, but there's no sense in risking the money until we're pretty sure.
This feels like a full-circle back to Internet Explorer (v4 or v5?) in the late 90's where you could specify CSS rules in your HTML to match your styling to the colours (panes, borders, scroll bars, headers, text, all of it) and fonts that users set in their Windows machine's control panel for the operating system window chrome.

We used those style rules extensively for our Intranet web apps (mod_perl y'all) to make them look more "native". And it worked, it was a big part of our wow factor when showing our stuff off.

I'm glad we're finally catching up to Microsoft on this. ;-)
> It is a gmail account.

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

A 'Google Account' is just a login that allows you to use a Google product. You can sign up with your own email address if you like. Go and try it:

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
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I'm launching my startup in 3 days. Site and product will be ready to go live. Where do I go from here? Where to promote it to get the word out?
OP here. What kinds of sources are you looking for? We built this based on some of the lectures in Stanford's statistical learning class (http://online.stanford.edu/course/statistical-learning-winte...) as well as just hanging out with the ML team at http://siftscience.com
Ask HN: How do you know if you have something patentable?
Hi,

Just curious but how would you know if you've stumbled upon something that is patentable? Is there a database where you can do a search?

Disclaimer: Been working on technology that looks like a step up on what was patented years before.

Cheers
I don't think that suppressing innovation is going to work, regardless of how many letters are written. People are working on these things. They will come, and at some point, yes, they will be misused. However, on the whole, they might be a good thing.

It would, for example, be awesome to have a system that could disable one or multiple active shooters in a public area within a few milliseconds of their first shot being fired. One of these should be in every classroom, movie theater, mall, and military base - anywhere that soft targets congregate. So you can't just say that we shouldn't have auto-targeted weapons, because they can do a tremendous amount of good and save countless lives.
If you're ever able to hunt down a copy of the project report on Nike/Spartan, do so. They're interesting reading. Those engineers were pretty awesome.
I think that this is a fantastic collection of approaches - http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-techniques-startups-use-t....
How can we help if we don't know what your startup does? A startup developing a product to help farmers is not gonna be promoted that same way a startup for electricians is.
Linux doesn't have a "system font" unless you mean:

* the console font

* one of the various "fixed" fonts that come with X11

* any of the default X11 fonts

None of which are likely to be used as the default for title bars, menus, etc.
My super hexagon score says otherwise.
Government is often quite efficient. For example, public health insurance has smaller overhead (like five fold less) than equivalent private products. In terms of R&D there is no contest. The entire NIH budget produces prodigious amounts of research, from the basic to the translational, for less than what the entire pharma industry spends just to refine their drug development. The private sector sucks at research spending.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to "block" people in real life using “reality filters”?
The idea is to create "reality filters" that block/transform individuals or entire groups of people in real life in real-time.

Is this feasible?
> we need a way for engineers and scientists to feel accountable for the outcomes of their work, and to straight out refuse working on such projects

This is one of the major reasons why I'm in favor of an unconditional basic income. We can't hold people responsible for doing their job if they're not realistically allowed to refuse it. Only by allowing them to say no, by providing an alternative, in this case an unconditional income to cover their basic needs, can we allow ourselves to hold them responsible for not saying no.
Besides that, the other most significant thing was the lack of open API for it.

They fail to understand that people at the time wanted to consume it in their own way (and still do, to some extent).

At the time G+ came to exist people loved it. They wanted the conversations like that. They liked the circles idea (at the time Twitter didn't have lists or any such concept), and it's still better than what the other social media services have.

But to use it you only had the choice of the G+ app, or the website, which wasn't how people were consuming social media. They were using things like TweetDeck to connect to multiple services so that they could consume their social media stream, especially businesses.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX (Steve Yegge's rant still seems to apply 3 years later)
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Yes, I like their interface, design and functionality much more than I like fb.

Now fb got little nicer, but a year ago it was a terrifying ugly mess. G+ is much nicer and more fun to use, in my opinion.

I love circles, and communities, and how it's post can be somewhere between a blog post and a tweet.
What about whole webpage?
A fire-and-forget missile is a single directional device with minor corrections for targeting. It can't hover, back up, select its own target, avoid return fire, etc. So, no we haven't had this tech for three decades.
"How safe is my tunnel?

Your tunnel remains safe until your password or our servers are not compromised."

uhhh...
This is one of those, I believe -- Eric Ligman is Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager (whatever that is) and he apparently posts large lists of free Microsoft-stack-related eBooks on his blog at MSDN, such as this list from a few weeks ago (which I think was mentioned on HN back then):

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2015/07/07/i-m-gi...

As far as your needs are concerned, while there are no ebooks about programming languages in this list (aside from PowerShell), there's a bunch about SQL Server in the second half of the list and perhaps other things of interest as well.
It will take them a fair bit to recover from the real name enforcement. People got sick of that.

I, for instance, after the second or third time Youtube tried to (literally) trick me into allowing it to display my real name, decided to log out permanently. Now I have another browser totally dedicated to GMail, and use my normal one for the rest of my surfing, Google Search and Youtube included. This raises the entry barrier to use many Google services quite a bit, since I'm logged out more often than not.
It's a background check for domain names. Full background checks to make sure the domain wasn't "churned and burned" in the past.
Without a real name, they cannot link you to your insurance, tax payments, investments etc.

The thing with tracking people, they ALWAYS want more data.
this is really cool. and I can see him recovering the $ just by airbnbing it
Out in the Marin Headlands they have a whole exhibit about the missile sites there and around the Bay. You can even interview and listen to presentations by people who were stationed around the Bay during the cold war watching for a Soviet attack. Apparently, the Soviets had a plan to repeatedly nuke the bay to generate huge clouds of radiation that would then spread across the country. http://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm
OS X and Windows have different “default” fonts too. Obviously in this case people mean the font used in the UI.
Ouch! Leave my mother out of it!
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Hand drawn alternative to QR codes? Writing the URL down in letters?
That would be excellent!
I think it was Microsoft that proposed an approach. They'd modify games to continually speculatively execute and render every user input. So that might be they render you beginning to run left/right/forward/back as well as jumping and shooting. When you actually change the input, a local device can switch streams and start speculatively executing all over again.

It probably works best if the game engine cooperates. But that's not necessary. You can just split processes on the OS and run each different bit of user input in a different process with no cooperation from the process. (Though I admit this might be tricky on current hardware and heavy games.) Given enough compute and bandwidth, you could do this continually.

In theory, with unlimited compute/bw this means you can have local latency (just the cost of input/stream switching) because you could speculatively execute every possible input to the game, all the time, out to the latency duration. In practise, it'll probably prune things based on the likely inputs and only speculate a bit out. This is probably enough to provide a smooth experience for most users that aren't playing competitively.

If you think about a game as a mapping from a limited set of user inputs to a 2D image, some optimizations start coming out, I suppose.
Thanks Brandon! We're certainly thinking about it. We'll work out way up there.
I have no idea why people are downvoting this, as it's pretty accurate. If anything it understates the difficulty. The original Xbox cost tons to develop, and Microsoft spent a lot more money getting games for the thing. In the process they created the canonical example of a console first-person shooter, the genre that now dominates game sales. (You could argue that Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 got there first, but Halo is the one that really moved the market to where it is now.) Then on top of that, they created Xbox Live, which has had at least as much impact on how we play games as Halo did. And you're absolutely right that they lost money in the process. So yeah, dumping an insane amount of money into creating two products that revolutionized the game industry and not recouping that investment until the the second-generation product launched is how they did it.
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I'm already wary of how much trust we put into programs without formal proofs; its a bit troubling that a formal proof it won't fire at kids with toy guns is essentially intractable.
That is pretty crazy. Similarly, imagine if X% of your SAAS vendors could vote to buy your shares - if Google and Amazon like your business, and if you use gmail + AWS, they can vote to buy you out and you've got no say in the matter.

Employees aren't "subjects" and their boss isn't their governor. Shareholders are owners, that's why they get a vote. Employees, SAAS vendors, janitorial service companies, etc, are just people selling stuff.
This certainly brings the (Russian or Chinese?) satellite killer to mind. I wonder what its purpose is?
Yes. This is exactly where I had kinda foresaw G+ was going down, either today or some other day in near future.
> This is something that I've always found odd about how the actual value in the economy is tracked. Specifically, how the stock markets continue to rise despite the decline in productivity.

I'm confused. Are you talking about the economy or the stock market? I don't see why the two should be related. Productivity is (unit of output / unit of input). The value of the stock market is the sum of the discounted cash flows from the market's member firms.

EDIT: marginal investor's estimation of
Anyone who has ever dealt with federal criminal law would know that the 35-50 years was BS.

There are federal sentencing guidelines, which are almost always used. It's a matrix and you can know pretty much what you face if you are found guilty.

It's also not correct to label a plea deal as what the prosecution thought they deserved. They factor in the cost of trial and probability of success. It's like any negotiation.
RIP.

Always enjoyed reading his books.
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"A meshtag is a "drawable barcode" that you can create
by drawing straight line segments at 6 different angles."

I count only three angles. The entire grid can be constructed via a series of parallel lines extending infinintely: one horizontal, one diagonal left, one diagonal right. There aren't any other angles.
It looks like a different mesh, because there's no redundancy built in. What did you expect?
I will forever connect 'California coast' to the Streisand effect! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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I was pointing out the irony that there was no political will to make Bharat Ratna (highest civilian award bestowed by Govt of India) APJ Abdul Kalam the President of India for a second term but get a dummy president instead. APJ is a gem of a person, an educationalist, an accomplished scientist and a person who can inspire generations of Indians.

When we are talking about his legacy as a President, it pains me that we didn't extend the Presidency platform to him for another term for the betterment of India.
Thanks for your suggestion. I will fix it in v0.0.5
Methinks you overestimate the ability of people to draw proportionally. Or at all. :)