skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My big problem with Siri is that I have to time when I start talking.

What do you mean? You can just say "Hey Siri, blah blah blah" and Siri will pick up the "blah blah blah" just fine.

If you're adding an artificial delay after "Hey Siri", waiting for her to respond before continuing, then you're just making it harder. Just speak conversationally.
In countries that are signatories to the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) it is _sacred_, given it enshrines a right to privacy in Article 8 for some 800 million people. The Court is pretty judicially active in enforcing the rule as well, even in member states that have governments with crappy human rights records like Russia.

America and a few others are arguably outliers in the western world for failing to recognize privacy, and the right to private family life, as a fundamental right in some form of constitutional legislation.
If you blatantly told the consumer, yes. However, most of the privacy-risking utility barely reminds us of what we're giving up, so really it feels like we're losing nothing and gaining utility.

The lack of privacy has to feel tangible in consequence for consumers to care, IMO. Right now it doesn't.
One good place to look for that is <http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary>, previously discussed at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=942684>.
Should we add github to that list?
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Edam! Stilton surely.
* W3C Social Web Working Group - https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg

* ActivityStreams 2.0 - https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

* ActivityPub - https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

* https://distbin.com - My implementation of the above. Who wants to federate?
Well, japanese peasants and samurai did have a history of being disarmed regularly by ruling shogun, whereas US is quite proud of their history of possessing arms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_hunt
I think that 97% number is misleading.

Sure, maybe 97% fail, but most have already failed before taking on an employee on equity.

A more appropriate number would be the number of startups that fail after that milestone.

For instance, I calculated the numbers for my country, 40% of startups that get accepted into an incubator succeed, 40% fail and close, and 20% stagnate (mine is currently in the 20%).

So, you're buying a 40% ticket, not a 3% ticket. Still losing odds, but not so much so, and if you're an early employee, you can really help tilt the odds (5%? 10%? I don't know).
How did 4GB of stored pictures cripple his machine?
How do you engage politically?
I assume you're trying to say that Google's answer is better, right? Google's certainly being more authoritative, but the answer to your question is actually fairly subjective, there's more answers than just "Edam", so IMO surfacing search results is better than just having Google pick one answer.

Google's also been known to produce completely incorrect "authoritative" answers.
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"Who you are" is not simply a function of what you want.

And really, Alexa is not really that much more powerful by knowing what your favorite beer is; you already know that information. Until you consider Alexa to be an actual friend, any personal details about you that it keeps are marginally useless if it cannot function autonomously - by ordering your favorite beer without even asking. This is not an 'intelligent' behavior, it's just maintaining a list of preferences. To be honest, it sounds like you are conflating voice commands with AI proper. You can certainly have one without the other, and the former seems to be the thing you're valuing here.

I'm all for the concept of powerful AIs that know everything about me - so long as they know me as an actual person to care about rather than merely as a consumer to squeeze money out of. Which means understanding my boundaries and knowing what I consider offensive and acceptable behaviors.

What we have today are AIs that only learn about you what they find useful to their owners, not what I find useful for them to know.
Same here, I started to use them very early on and I keep doing it now. They are great everytime search or auto completion is needed, wherever it is.
You can embed images with it. You can not host HTML because Dropbox sets content-disposition: attachment;
> Lastly, “DOM-based XSS” attacks occur purely in the browser when client-side JavaScript echoes back a portion of the URL onto the page.

This Google Doc has tracked almost all "sinks" and "sources" for DOM-based XSS[1]. They aren't by any means limited to the URL (usually accessed by the `document.location` object).

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mnuqkbs9L-s3QpQtUrOk...
My understanding is that this is not the case when you get up to the research level, where they use altogether different signaling (citation count, impact factor, etc) to disqualify applicants.
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> they don't publish

Your info is outdated. At a conference last December, Apple's director of AI research announced that their AI researchers will be free to publish their findings.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/06/apple-ai-researchers-can-publ...
Where can you find these details on the decisions they made and the effects on their survival? Would be an interesting read.
Cisco provides a fully licensed encoder, OpenH264, that you can download for free (Firefox uses it). That loophole was removed for H.265, though. I would have rather had only VP8 mandatory to implement in the standard, but at least this situation is better than the reverse.
Firefox is just as bloated but at least it's extensible (for now.) Web "extensions" are Firefox' suicide.
Can't threaten something that does not exist and never has. On the other hand if elected oligarchy is under threat that's good news.
Brings to mind the series of tubes that powered the information system in 1984's Oceania, and how antiquated the mindset that envisioned that system, with its memory holes that could eradicate past information forever.

That said, even if today's distributed system prevents a gatekeeper from having sole veto on information, today's filter bubbles and chaos of viral disinformation campaigns can be such a barrier against truth that perhaps they can be considered, for all practical purposes, a type of modern day memory hole.
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Headless Chrome is here, but Windows support does not appear to be available yet. Please correct me where I am wrong.

To run it as a service you can add this alias to your .bash_profile file:

alias headless="/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --headless --disable-gpu --remote-debugging-port=9222 chrome://version"

This does not come with any kind of API, at least none that I can find. I didn't read the source code though.

You can check the status of things in a browser window by going to the service, which in this case would be: http://localhost:9222/

Since there is no API I am still learning how to move around a site without destroying a session.

Instead of running it as a service you can tell it to respond with HTML by replacing the --remote-debugging-port flag with a --dump-dom flag. Please note both of these flags cannot be run together. There seems to be a --screenshot to capture a screenshot of a page.

Here is more information - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
Scurrilous and nakedly partisan, then.
What a closed source development team provides over OSS is some control over the quality and training of the developers allowed to commit to the codebase (e.g. the company can mandate that all developers have had training in how to avoid common XSS issues), control over the processes to be followed when commiting code, and control over the security tests to be carried out.

Of course as a consumer of software that doesn't help too much 'cause you don't know which companies do a good job and which ones just say they do a good job...

Open source is better in that you can audit it easily. However lets be honest, how many users of open source software actually are able to audit the libraries they use...

So neither option is particularly great at the moment(IMO)
Do you know any visual (dare I say wysiwyg) HTML authoring tools that adhere and emphasize semantically sensible markup and working efficiently with styles, especially in the context of using some predefined corporate templates? Something that captures the few good bits from Word and applies those to HTML based document model?
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Optimising for sexual selection is an adaptive trait as far as fitness goes.
Why is beauty then non-adaptive?
In the past, Apple has marketed certain products towards enthusiasts and power-users, which gave those products a certain "prestige" that elevated Apple's image more generally. (I'm thinking about Pro products here, as they were marketed towards arts professionals). Perhaps Apple seeks to take a similar marketing angle here -- by appeal to computer enthusiasts' desire to privacy, maybe they gain some prestige more generally? I'm not sure.
I did, and concluded it was sustainable for my use case. Apparently I was off by a factor of 4. Each time a consumer cloud service has burnt me, it has been for a different reason (security, privacy, and reliability were some other reasons in the past)
I believe Level Frames will both print and frame.
Some quick observations:

* for synchronous model-based distributed training to scale linearly, the time required to broadcast the model must be much larger than the time required for a worker (GPU) to process a batch

* there are very large batch sizes (8196)

* it's a low latency network
Algolia is awesome, but as others pointed out, the market is tough. I wish them all the success they deserve nonetheless.

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Yes, it is. Generics are universals and impl Trait is extisentials. For more, the RFC gets into it https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1951-expa...
Siri is still frustratingly hard to activate though. Once activated, it does a pretty reasonable job for what I need it to do. Alexa is much easier to activate (but the echo has the hardware specifically for it).
A lack of choices can be liberating
If it were up to me, they'd remove that ability altogether. Websites that screw with the keyboard are a huge pet peeve of mine.
They don't care and that is the root much of the rising costs of health care.
I didn't try any. I drink very little wine. I did show the list around and no one was surprised. It wasn't Kendall-Jackson that was under priced. It was smaller wineries that had been getting solid reviews. There must have been some surprises, but I knew very little of wine back then. I also knew very little about machine learning, R or anything else. I knew enough to use Random Forests, R for graphing and the opinion of others to judge the results.

I tried finding the file with the list of all the wines and the predicted prices. I didn't even know enough to name the file correctly.

I think the large companies are very consistent with their product. They have many sources for their juice and because of that their product will be more average. The small companies can have years where they do everything right and create a great product, but it's not like they can just change their price to reflect the better quality.
That's certainly true; I just don't think it's a major factor in high healthcare costs. Many other aspects of modern life (mobile phones for just one example) have also seen an explosion in capability, yet costs have decreased because the marketplace was competitive.
Doesn't matter if its a nickel delivered from space, or timber or diamonds or gold. What matters is that it's a resource based economy that has been sold and sold resold to different companies

Anecdotal evidence of money issues is my buddy who does repo's and is baliff. Just before the economy goes into the tank as a whole, he's called it each time because repo's and defaults shoot way up just before.

Unfortunately, he's very busy at the moment.
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Building matrix.org as a decentralised & e2e encrypted comms alternative.

The filter bubble problem is particularly relevant for us because it's critical for an open network to let users filter out abusive content (whether that's spam, stuff they find offensive, or just a topic they don't care about)... but doing that in a way which doesn't result in creating a profiling db or creating bubbles and echo chambers. The problem is one of letting users curate their own filters (including blending in others' filters), whilst keeping the data as privacy protecting as possible. It's a fun problem, but on our medium-term radar.
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Apple talked last year about their approach here, which IIRC is basically to introduce random noise into the data they collect. This way, data at the individual level may be wildly inaccurate (and therefore not suitable for actually identifying specific people), but in the aggregate it still produces the same results.

Of course I may be completely misrepresenting this. I encourage you to go look up the relevant info from WWDC 2016 (I believe that's where they talked about it).
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Forth is probably the smallest true high level language there is. It is entirely self-contained, needs just about nothing in terms of hardware support and can run in as little as 2K of memory.

It is well suited to things like real-time control, you'll probably have a hard time getting used to stack manipulation (especially in the beginning) and it tends to keep you up all night (not sure if that is a strength or a weakness ;) ).

It will also be the most fun you've had with a computer in a long time and it will likely make you look at the rest of what we do with computers as clunky in the extreme.

What Forth is not really suitable for is large projects and things built with a team. It is more of an artisanal thing, something closer to watchmaking or jewelery than major construction.

If you want to know more about why Forth is the way it is you could do worse than to start with studying the life of Chuck Moore for a bit, the language and its author are roughly equally interesting and for want of a better word peculiar.

One thing Forth is not: wasteful.
Good on you for this. I firmly believe that behavior makes you more open-minded. We as a society should encourage this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Does anyone know their tech stack? I assume it's just a giant elasticsearch cluster.
I agree. My point is that it doesn't make sense to say "I'm not really concerned with privacy issues, I give lots of personal data to several services and it improves my life." Because that's effectively saying "I'm not concerned with privacy issues as long as my privacy is really good."
At least Siri acknowledges that it doesn't have the information necessary. Google Assistant comes up with an answer, but it might as well have picked a cheese at random. It's not like there's a universal cheese that pairs with all fruit.

Would you have felt satisfied if you asked, "What wine goes well with dinner?" and heard "Zinfandel" in response?

An actually useful AI would ask you what kind of fruit(s) you want to pair it with. Not throw out an answer at random.
If you are speaking to your device for this kind of question, the authoritative answer is what you want. You expect me, after taking to my device, to go over and pick it up and search through web results? If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have asked the question by voice in the first place!
CSV is pretty poorly standardized, but if you're going by RFC-4180, Numbers is definitely right, due to the interaction of two rules:

* double quotes aren't allowed inside a field that isn't double-quoted

* double-quotes that do appear in a field have to be escaped by preceding them with another double quote.

So by RFC-4180, I'm pretty sure ""hehe"" shouldn't be possible, and the way to represent "hehe" with the quotes is """hehe""".
You are simply dead wrong. There is nothing I can say further, and have no wish to expend efforts to convince you otherwise.
I found this wholly inadequate to explain the potential usefulness of this library.
Eh, people have lots of friends that hold different beliefs than them. The problem with Facebook is it offers no way of registering your disagreement beyond commenting and starting a conversation which will have no depth because the lack of real comment threading renders any real dialogue impossible.

Since most people don't feel like repeatedly getting involved in pointless debates with their friends, and are frustrated seeing posts they disagree with without any simple way of voicing their disapproval, they either use Facebook's tools to filter out those posts or just unfollow that friend entirely.

The most misguided consumer and propagator of fake news will still mostly just see likes of their friends who are also misguided. They might get a brave friend chiming in here or there to disagree, but their comments are easily dismissed because they will have no depth. The majority of their friends may disagree, but they'll never know because those who disagree (if they haven't filtered/unfollowed them already) have no good way to show that they disagree. Facebook as it is currently designed mostly just serves to affirm whatever the user wants to believe. That's where the bubble effect comes from.
Bribes may be the way to do business in country _____.

Despite that, if you are an American corporation, and your operation in country _____ involve bribes, you have broken the law. More specifically, you have broken American law.
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User-replaceable CPU and RAM, although both are incredibly difficult to access! Most of the computer has to be disassembled to reach it, but it is nevertheless possible! Same with the HDD although the Blade SSD pad is not soldered on there in this base model. Presumably, you could somehow get that part and solder one on if one wished... Can just replace the HDD, though.
DUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14499511
I'm very sorry to hear that. I spent 5 years in all in your beautiful country, have spent many days in and around Sudbury and the Timmins area.
Google will happily permit you to download trained models of <100MB to your phone via Google Translate, which permit not only offline vocabulary recognition of a remarkably wide range, but will also then translate that input into another language (also offline).

I believe the restrictions imposed by keyword-spotting have more to do with the always-listening and/or power-efficient nature of the task, rather than the restrictions on the legibility of offline speech recognition.
That's a really good scenario that shows the potential risks of a lack of privacy, without being susceptible to "just don't have anything to hide". Thanks for sharing, I'll have to remember that.
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While that's true, I could invest my own funds in Google or Facebook stock and reap similar growth (depending on my access to funds to invest).

Also, some companies will have target compensation bands (I know Yahoo did) where an increase in stock price will actually result in a smaller additional grant each year.
You really don't get it do you. Most of us aren't worried about Amazon and Google per se but rather what happens to our data when (a) they are compromised and (b) government surveillance increases in scope.

There have been countless incidents (and these will only increase in frequency) where people's sensitive information have been stolen and used for blackmail and identity fraud. There is also the increasing use of private data by governments for example in deciding on visa entry or immigration cases. The use cases for criminals and governments are only going to increase in scope and sophistication and will be applied not just to future data collected but current data.

These are all legitimate situations which are completely unprecedented and only possible because of the increased data collection policies of site like Google or Facebook.
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We've already seen the problem with Google confidently giving answers that it got from searching the Web.

"Hey Google, is this batshit conspiracy theory I heard about true?"

Google: "Yeah, sounds right"
Well the linked page says:

It’s also not surprising that they could create a flat surface or angles that are exactly-ish 90 degrees. The Egyptians boast some of the earliest known texts on geometry, like the Rhind Papyrus (from around 1650 BCE) and the Moscow papyrus (from about 1850 BCE). The latter papyrus indicates that the Egyptians could approximate pi (as 3.16049) and find the volume of a truncated pyramid. It stands to reason that 500 years later, they would be able to carve a flat surface and make a corner of exactly-ish 90 degrees.
Someone with the talent and drive to create a billion dollar closed social network that eclipses Facebook.
As an aside, you should try checking airfares in incognito mode to ensure this is not happening. Even refreshing the page for the same fare can affect the pricing model.
He presented more of his work on last year's European Lisp Symposium, which I had a chance to see in person.

I actually asked him why he thinks "direct copying of protein-based mechanisms from nature will not work". He had a pretty smart answer for that, which I unfortunately don't remember anymore :(.
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Or an opaque overlay with ' click here to read article' that also triggers the video
>There is a much more dynamic use of tone and they generally speak more slowly.

From what I've read on social engineering[1] and communications theory a slower speaker is generally perceived as more calm, confident, and deliberate whereas fast talkers are often perceived as being more anxious.

Also, alteration of tones is a tactic often used to add subtle influence to the delivery of key words and concepts.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/...
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> Header versioning in the wild is primarily done via a customized Accept HTTP header.

Is this true? I haven't looked at very many web APIs, but I haven't run across anyone using Accept in this way, and it strikes me as a pretty bad mis-use of that header.
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Would any solution be tangible for the type of user who is attracted to Favebook? That is, would there be any solution which a non-technical user would flock to? Would it meet their needs and abilities in a meaningful way?
Great, I was wondering how to version my library once I reach 1.0.

> 3: RESTful. It should speak the language of HTTP verbs: GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, UPDATE, DELETE.

Oh, it was talking about web interfaces. Oh well.
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