skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For background, I have a PhD in applied/computational math, and am working in academia, though at an earlier point in my life I did contemplate going into the (software) industry.

For whatever it's worth, I'm mostly happy with the choices I made, including getting a PhD in math. That said, I agree with the sentiment that a traditional PhD is not quite what many (I'm not sure about "most") people need. It makes sense to me to have a parallel system for providing training beyond a master's but isn't a traditional PhD. But working out what such a program would entail requires figuring out a lot of practical details, and it may be some time before such things become commonplace, if ever.
You can also serve the font files with the `Cache-Control: immutable` HTTP response header so the client never needs to revalidate with the server (even when the user forces a page reload). Use versioned filenames for immutable resources if you need to change them later.

http://bitsup.blogspot.de/2016/05/cache-control-immutable.ht...
I have hearing aids, and I seem to recall reading at one point that lip-reading provides about a 10 dB improvement in speech comprehension.
potentially related, Marlinspike's Google Sharing:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/googlesharing-a...
Nix is very cool tech. Thanks for sharing this exciting news!
I should hope this comes as no surprise to anyone. Every single psychiatrist I've ever visited had the same policy, only their lock was medicine rather than a door (outpatient vs inpatient). I feel bad for the lady because she didn't know any better and joked about suicide, but shouldn't it be common sense you don't tell anyone about that--you don't even joke about it--especially to a doctor with the power to commit you? I'm pretty sure you can't have decent therapy if you're not truthful with your therapist, but that's the catch-22 of needing mental help in America. Fucked if you don't seek it out and really fucked if you do.
There are different aspects - I have good hearing (measured by quiet tones in an audiogram test) but a worse masking threshold than other people (so sounds are swamped by other, typically lower frequency sounds) but you are unlikely to find an audiologist who will test you for this, and anyway there is not much you can do about it.
Alphabet donates its employees' holiday gifts to charity
Have you tried Quandl? They solve some of those problems for financial data.
> All microscopic creates are kosher.

That seems like an after-the-fact retcon, given folks thousands of years ago being unaware of a microscopic world's existence.
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Doesn't your burglar alarm already do that? Or is it an unmonitored alarm?
That's more straightforward than it is easy. Easy would be:

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That's why I think basic income supporters should also be advocating for a land value tax to fund the basic income, which should really be rebranded as a "citizen's dividend". This shifts the source of funding from coming off "the backs of hard workers", to compensation for allowing others the privilege of denying you monopoly ownership over our collective land and natural resources. Rather than an "us vs. them" mentality, we're all collective shareholders of our land, and basic income then become's the dividend.

Regarding "hard work", we need to start seeing work as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. We need to focus more on what it is that's actually being accomplished rather than whether or not somebody's working hard. If society can operate without you needing to work hard, then hard work should be a choice.
Samsung Galaxy S6 catches fire on plane
The primary motivation for adding the SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE flag is to not disrupt the behavior of existing code.

Because of pre-existing behavior, existing apps are likely to be built to assume that symlinks cannot be created when the app is running without admin rights. If the behavior changed such that the app could now create symlinks but not have admin rights, the app and/or its dependent scripts etc. will likely misbehave.

Therefore, we added a new flag - SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE - which allows developers to expressly indicate that their code is specifically built to handle the ability to create symlinks should their code be running on a supporting platform (i.e. Win10 Creators Update, or later) even if the app does not have admin rights.

HTH.
I am not quite sure how they got to running JS on victim's browser in the first place? I would guess any JS being loaded is from ad network. I know IE had this vulnerability where it would ignore MIME type and would guess file type from content (so attacker could server a specially crafted image which would be interpreted as JS), but that should be long patched... Or did they act as an ad network themselves?
Refugees face a growing backlash in a liberal Australian city
Right, but the simple truth is: people do it. They don't mind doing it.

Especially when the alternative is terrible user experience. The vast majority of tools named when these conversations come up are demonstrably worse from a UX perspective.

Free software does not get a pass on UX because it is free. There are many reasons why that is, but we have to recognize it is true.
American Airlines not itching for uniform recall
Maybe it's a minor security feature. Unzipping something in the background might be something they want to always call attention to.
These seem to me, at least, to be a clever, premium re-branding of hearing aids. I found myself wanting some despite having only moderate (if detectable) hearing loss, especially for the ability to focus in on a conversation in a loud environment. That is a very draining situation for me to find myself in.
I have a hard time hearing only my wife.

It's like an fine-tuned harmonic anti-sound barrier that turns on automatically after 4 secs.. Wifephones please.
Ek Ajnabee Haseena Se – Kishore Kumar – Korean MIX Love Song
Nothing is for free. And you should know it
Indeed.

> If each day 73 million websites serve the Font Awesome WOFF to an average of a thousand visitors who don’t have these fonts in the browser’s cache...

This assumption that they don't have the fonts cached is only sensible if each user is unique. But that means that we have 73 BILLION unique users.
That explains why the search/filtering for products on Target's site was so terrible when I recently had to buy an item from there.
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I don't want to think or speculate. I want to see people do better and then we can congratulate people.

Not before.

Do better and people will recognize it. That's the best part of this industry.
Not sure about them in particular but usually those initiatives also glorify open standards and the fact that even if the company disapear in 10 years, they will allow you to walk away with all your data in standard formats allowing you to continue your journey with another provider that uses this standard. Which is not obvious with some major companies using their own data models. (although I've heard of some bankrupting companies that made efforts to let users backup their datas before the end).
If Alphabet wants to do goodwill marketing, so be it. But doing so at the expense of their employees is kinda shitty. Did employees at least have the option to select which charity to donate to?
'Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy
What You Need to Know About the U.K. Investigatory Powers Bill
Why would Google create a high barrier of entry to get you on their platform? Their entire business model is based on tracking and advertising, so they have every incentive to lower this barrier to the greatest degree possible.
I think you can do that with BuiltWith/Datanyze/NerdyData. Sales people use it to see when someone is trialing with a competitor.
I love the reasons for doing something like this, and I'm personally really glad that people are investing time in trying to solve this problem.

That said, I think that one of the big mistakes that these initiatives make is trying to solve all of the problems that Google solves, under one roof. It's impossible. The only way Google is able to manage it is that they are an absolutely huge software organization. No free, or even smaller-but-still-not-open-source, alternative is going to be able to match the sheer number of services.

But I also don't think they have to. Instead it should be tackled in a decentralized way, which is much easier—one company or organization focusing on beating Google (or whichever monopoly) at exactly one of their products, by offering a better experience, or an equivalent experience with more freedom.

It makes me wonder whether a viable alternative approach as a consumer might be to use "best in class, but not necessarily FOSS" solutions from many different providers. For example, you could use...

- DuckDuckGo for search, an easy enough switch.

- Fastmail for email, which is very similar and an easy enough switch as well.

- Dropbox Paper for documents and notes, which is arguably a better, simple experience for most peoples's simple use cases.

- Microsoft Office365 for spreadsheets, since it's very hard for FOSS alternatives to be good and interoperable.

- Facebook for social messaging and events.

- Spotify for music.

- etc.

You end up with lots of different closed-source, for-profit companies in the list, but none of your data is concentrated in any one large player. At most you'd have to "rebalance" your portfolio when big acquisitions or shutdowns occur.

I'd be curious: If anyone is much more aware of privacy issues , could you weigh in on whether this approach would help? It might not help with government-actor spying, but it might help with lots of the other monopolistic issues?
(at least most) Ad networks deliver JS provided by the advertiser as well.
The biggest issue is user perception. Google does not want people to believe that their services are not private and secure. So offering a private and secure option does not work for the story they are trying to market.

Only a niche crowd would select this option, so the revenue they'd potentially gain is much less than what they put at risk with the change in messaging.
The military already uses similar tech to be able to shoot and hear voice at the same time.
> http://hearphones.bose.com/

total - overwhelmingMajority == too many
> Lauren Singer, who worked for six months at the front desk of Colorado’s Highlands Behavioral, said people who were waiting in the lobby for an assessment would ask her what it would entail. “I would frequently get yelled at for overstepping my bounds and telling them too much about the evaluation process,” Singer said. A button behind the receptionist’s desk controlled the lock to the front door of the facility, and, she said, “If someone came in voluntarily, I wasn’t allowed to let them out of the door.”

That's terrifying. Earlier in the article they talked about people coming in for simple depression screening based the hospital's ads, but things like locking the doors behind people who choose to come in are probably keeping a lot of people from getting the help they need.

Medical care, especially medical care with an involuntary component, should never be for profit. The profit motive is just too corrupting.
Apologies everyone,I didn't mean to offend anyone. I was trying to imply that as these technologies become better (what will they look like in 10 years) being/finding a job as a web developer will only get more difficult. I'm very young and just starting out so when I was planning my career (very recently) I took things like these as warning signs
Bulgaria, France, UK, US support OGP free software policy
What happens if you apply this logic to others? The Philippines right now for example - that tough talk escalated. Or any of the historical examples available. Assuming someone won't do what they say they will do is not a good way to elect a leader.
This just as wrong as anything can be and you have nothing to back it up. Furthermore you seem to have missed why they are asked. The problems in many industries er hidden problems which can only be understood by those in the industry, but the solutions are often made by people outside the industries in partnership with insighters.

So they are imensly useful and many time more relevant than most other discussions about building companies.
I think you should also mention work queues and producer / consumer thread pools. These are very powerful concepts you don't mention here, and they are often the first tool I use. You very often don't need anything else.
G-Suite (their $5/mo/user Google Apps offering) fulfills some of these.

2. Email isn't scanned and ads aren't presented within Gmail (Search still has them)

3. Limited support

The rest can be self-fulfilled by running an ad blocker, and using Incognito/Privacy mode for searches. Granted, these are annoying .

All Google accounts can disable indexing for advertisement, and can opt out of using web history to "improve" ad placement.
That's pretty neat idea. The site's missing a cute calculator favicon though, which destroyed my UX.
The problem is the question "is the patent directed to some abstract matter?" Because every patent claim abstracts from a particular implementation to a broader category of covered subject matter. That's literally the entire point of a claim, to capture the new idea instead of just a particular device.

Then we get into questions about whether it's an "improper" type of abstractness, which is totally unworkable and hasn't been fleshed out by the courts.

The Supreme Court should have just said what they appear to have meant--that business methods are ineligible subject matter.
I believe AI is much more of a hardware problem than people realize. It's such a computationally difficult task. The energy efficiency and parallelism of brains is unbelievable. However, I think an improvement of even just two orders of magnitude would be sufficient to achieve something that many people would call rudimentary AGI.
I remember things I jot down; I forget things that I type. I'm done ignoring that insight, but most people do ignore it.
Rapid generation of high quality 3D models of existing objects. Process should be independent of object size eg. a coke can should use the same process as a car and process time should scale with object size.

Think somewhere on the order of 10,000 models per day throughput.

There's $BNs waiting for you. It's ridiculously hard.
What is this map? I tap minecraft, get a menu where I select minecraft again, and now there's a circle on the map. Hurray?
What other fields operate like that? Doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc all get CPD on the company's time and dime.
COBOL has its limitations for sure, but I am an oddball because I love it. I took it for two semesters as part of my master's degree and am keeping an eye out for COBOL jobs by me. I would love to work in COBOL day in and day out.

The hardest thing about COBOL is the mainframe it has to run on. Without that access, I haven't done much coding outside of class.
I mean, it's usually very very specific things. Yesterday I was looking at a summary query of earning records for a client by the IRS. The form had tons of abbreviations for columns with no explanation as to what they mean. I basically searched for multiple variations of the column names, and I eventually found what I needed, but often I'd open a result on the first page, ctrl-f one of my search terms, and find no results.
The point I'm trying to make is no one wants commercial desktop software on Linux. We want software we can fix and improve without requiring anyone's permission.
The average adult hunter-gatherer only worked about 22 hours [1]

We've advanced so much technologically, yet we're working more than hunter-gatherers were hundreds of thousands of years ago.

What are we working towards again?

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201611/in...
I'm a drummer. Fortunately before I destroyed my hearing my dad forced me to wear ear defenders.

since then it's been a habit. These look nice and all, but basically all you really need are ear plugs.

http://www.thesafetysupplycompany.co.uk/p/449062/howard-leig...

comfy, snug and 32db (depending on version) of attenuation. That means that you can go to a loud gigs (95db) without the risk of tinitus.

same goes for bars. Loud noises are draining, have your hearing shattered by someone shouting in your ears is a pain.

Yes, if you choose the colourful ones its obvious. there are natural colours.

Bose makes a lot of song and dance about how you can adjust for noise, your ears do that already. The advantage of normal ear plugs is that you still retain some of the dimensionality that earphones loose.

Sadly I've had a child, and all that shrill screaming has basically killed off 10db of sensitivity of my hearing. but I'm 10db up form most of my musician friends
I wish them good luck. I do use Google services and devices (written on a Pixel XL, and I use all the track my movements and usage options) because their AI suggestions and integrated features do make my life a tad easisr, but alternatives, especially open ones are never a bad thing.
This is not a start-up, this is a non-profit association.
They do not want to have hundred of thousands of users. They are only trying to show that alternatives exist. They let you try them for free. And if you want and have the aptitudes, you can host the application on your own server.
It doesn't talk out loud, which would strengthen the deterrent effect. It would also work even if our internet/phones were cut, which makes the alarm company unreachable.

But yes, it could also be used with unmonitored and very cheap solutions, like door-stoppers with built-in alarms. It might not fool every criminal, but compared to the cost of a full-blown, monitored system (thousands up-front and hundreds/year) it'd be a steal (pun intended).
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I'm new to this sort of thing - can you elaborate on some of the open-source options for those steps?
> Apple was never lacking in quality.

Sorry, but I'm calling bs on that.

From Wikipedia [1]:

"At the time, the media viewed the problems with the PowerBook 5300 series as yet another example of Apple's decline.[4][5]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300
Related topic: What software do theoretical physics use when developing theories? Mathematica? Or do they just use paper and pencil?
I agree, Google really needs their version of 'office' or to make their cloud offering competitive in order to survive long term. I see them trying to extract more and more revenue from Android as one of their strategies.
If you want the kernel devs to maintain your code, it has to be maintainable. If not, you have to fix it yourself every time the kernel changes. That's the cost NVIDIA pays for their abomination.
Every single recommendation on their list can be self-hosted. They are providing you the tools to take control of your online experience exactly so you don't have to rely on a single service provider.
not that i can recall. why do you ask?
Tekla Structures has dedicated reinforcement concrete design features. The licence cost is probably closer to 10k per seat.

You need computational geometry, computer graphics, and structural engineering expert level domain knowledge to implement anything. You need to create traditional 2D machine/construction design drawings from the 3D models. Then you need to sell it to corporations, whose work, most of all, must be dependable and free of guess work.

You need to know what sort of geometries you can use to model the reinforcements. Then you need to know how to design the system so it can handle very large amounts of geometry.

The worst of all is you need to deal with god awful industry standard formats- DWG, DGN, IFC, Step/Iges and so on. Maybe DWG import and export first.

To have any real chance you need a guy or two who are good with numerical code, someone who is familiar with e.g. Game engines, soemone who knows computer graphics, a structural engineer to tell how he does his job and what the thousand inconsistencies in the field are (this is not a trivial domain like housing or transport), a sales/marketing guy to connect and push the product.

And, like someone else estimated, the potential market is not gigantic - which is kinda funny because we all depend on reinforced concrete but don't need so many engineers for the design work...
I posted a similar question last year great discussion there too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

I would suggest we make a monthly of these as they provide important insight into industries.
Hah, I just finished a flat redesign from mid-2000s skeuomorphic interface. Redoing the logo / favicons is that last thing...
I have a friend who works in the cardiothoracic step down unit at a hospital. She constantly thinks she has developed some sort of heart condition to the point where she is for all intents and purposes is paranoid of this. It's a bias because she's around people with heart conditions day in day out, so it seems more common than reality.

Your friend has developed a bias because they're constantly around people who have been (or at least claim to be) wronged by the police. They see these people at a significantly higher rate than the people who have been saved by the police, or have otherwise been on the other side of the crime. There simply isn't a need to defend the other side of the fence.
Weird type conversion rules in JS, see the examples at the bottom of the page and the linked source.
> consciousness begins when a being (be it human or host) stops believing that the voice inside their own head is a message from the gods

Yep, let's define consciousness based on "gods" and "voices".

> People didn’t develop consciousness until about 3,000 years ago.

Consciousness is too flexible a word, it means whatever people want it to mean. It has moral, religious, philosophical, neurological and even physical definitions. It is almost as devoid of exact meaning as the concept of God. It includes the waking and dream state, experience, mental states, emotions, motor control and consciousness of consciousness. There is no commonly agreed upon definition of it in neurology, psychology or related fields - not only we can't explain it, we can't even define it. Let's not play ping-pong with inexact concepts.

Instead of consciousness, we should use the reinforcement learning paradigm - an agent, perceiving its state in the environment, selects an action as to maximize its reward. From time to time, a reward/cost signal might come, and that is used to learn better behavior rules.

That's it, all concrete and clear, no need for concepts that can't be defined. We can explain human, animal and artificial agents with the same paradigm. The three aspects of RL: perception, action selection and behavior learning (credit assignment) are all expressible in terms of neural networks and can be studied in biological and artificial systems.

Watching AI progress so much in the last 4 years, inventing mechanisms for perception, attention, memory, behavior - I have come to realize that consciousness really isn't magic, there's no ghost inside, no universal field, no special quantum entanglement. It's not inexplicable, "what it's like to be a bat?", "does the Chinese room have real understanding?", or "qualia is irreducible" and a "hard problem" - these are all armchair experiments.

The problem seems hard because brains are extremely complex in their minutia and there is no intuitional pump to help us make the leap. Yet brains are not really so complex in their general makeup, because the code for the brain + body can be stored in 800 Mb of DNA, of which probably a very small portion actually encodes the brain architecture.