skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is Gmail even their priority anymore? Didn't they come out with Inbox some time back?

They'd better not kill GMail without adding an Inbox option to not show attached image previews inline in the inbox. I had to stop using Inbox because not only are these annoying, but there's no way for me to control whether my contacts (or even complete strangers for that matter) send me emails with NSFW images attached.

I like Inbox, though there are some other features I'd like to see before I permanently make the switch from GMail, but the above is a deal breaker. <me>@gmail.com has been my primary email for over a decade, but I'd have to switch to something else.
And yet, it's still expensive.
What brought down the website?

The Greys.
I don't see how you can say millimetre wave radar "does the job many times better".

State-of-the art 79 GHz automotive radar: 0.2 m range uncertainty, 5 degree azimuth angular uncertainty, dozens of points per second.

Spinning lidar: <0.05 m range uncertainty, <0.1 degree azimuth angular uncertainty, a million points per second.

Radar definitely has its uses as it can see through weather conditions and tell velocity, but lidar is the vastly superior sensor otherwise.
The terrible truth about your tin of Italian tomatoes
Daptin is a "self hosted", "API first", headless CMS. Or what we would otherwise call a "Backend as a service".

Daptin works with JSONs and converts JSONs to live websites. Docs are here [2]

[1] https://github.com/daptin/daptin
[2] http://docs.dapt.in
Firebug enabled the Web 2.0 revolution. The impact it has had is immeasurable.

Joe Hewitt needs a huge fucking award. Huge.
Ask HN: Did anyone beat stomach bloating?
I have been suffering from bloating for years. Endoscopy, colonoscopy, and various tests were in vain.

Just want to check is someone got rid of it.
This is a great reminder to follow the advice of a previous article here about the blurring of sensitive data.

1) If you care about the data, don't blur. Black it out, entirely.
2) If you don't want to black it out for aesthetic reasons, then you don't care enough about the data being private.
3) Black out every pixel, every time.
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There's the Gary Bernhardt classic "The Birth & Death of Javascript"

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I wasn't aware of Tensor Cores in Volta.

I'll look into them, thanks!
Good memories and good times. Thanks Firebug for existing, it' hard to imagine web development without dom inspection, especially in the days of IE6.
Well maybe one day they will stop refusing to sell them in Denmark. Small market yeah, but Apple seems to have no problems selling expensive phones...always on the same day as US.
Not sure how up to date the algorithms are, but OpenCV has an implementation: https://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/modules/superres/doc/super_...
I took one of those online tests a while back that said if you get over 25 you need to see a specialist, I got 43.

Not sure I have Asperger's though, I'm just a programmer who likes his own company.
Thanks! I have definitely read the bitcoin white paper sir! I thought there was a whitepaper about Segwit2x or B2X. I read the original Bitcoin paper very shortly after it came out (!) and I am confident in my understanding of Bitcoin, the protocol, how it works, why it is excellent and unparalleled. However, I did not know that Core was a lot of people, and it makes sense that the most precarious link in the chain may be the human element. Happy to hear that the engineers / cypherpunks got it down pat (I was already rather confident in that) ... Question: why does Ethereum not work in the ultimate?
Leica Geosystems used to sell phase-based scanners. These units were actually rebadged Zoller+Frohlich scanners. But the partnership ended a few years ago when Leica introduced the Pxx series. Today the company only makes time-of-flight scanners.

source: I work at Leica Geosystems.
> If you don't have people in your family who went to college you are unlikely to be initiated into all this.

Absolutely. The number 1 reason I'm in tech is that my dad was a programmer. The reason he's in tech is that his dad was high enough up at an insurance company to swing my dad a job back when computers were new and nobody knew what to do with them. And that probably worked out because the generation before that was reasonably well off due to some lucky choices.

But I still grew up with little idea how to play the elite educational game. My family valued learning a great deal, but the jockeying for social advantage was never given much consideration. It's a very specific set of knowledge and skills.
You type it the wrong way. Do not worry, Cook will explain how to type correctly.
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CoinHive has automatic payouts. They could easily close the account, but they can't get Moneros back.
Wow, the sketch n sketch logo is almost identical to that of the software company TechSmith, makers of Camtasia and Snagit.
Try what exactly?

I've done 24 hour fasts several times and they basically just make me lose two days of productivity. One during the fast day because I'm completely worn down and another the next day as I'm still drained and takes a day of normal eating to get back to normal.
I'm not really sure what you're proposing here. Any system that requires location-based setup seems obviously inferior to a system that rides in your ear and just works wherever you go.
I suspect we (human) are very bad at hearing, computers already are doing are much better jobs than us. However, I suspect for most our communication, we do not actually hear the conversation -- we guess the conversation. Only when evidence such as facial response or out-of-context words is caught then we actually try to hear. Even then, we are still trying to second guess.

Computers cannot compete with our guessing ability, not until they are trained with our life experiences.
Superb write-up Andrew,
I would recommend you to read this awesome book called Traction, it has definitive ways to market any digital product.
Would love to read more about your journey as you progress, keep us posted.
Congratulations Andrew. Really great to hear about your journey thus far.

You're most welcome to come & visit us in Barcelona, Casablanca or London.

NB: your FB and linkedin links at the end of your post do not work.
> Can you really expect any different from a company founded from within the halls of Stanford, and then staffed primarily from there?

Yes, I can. The whole point of education is to rise above your biases and intuitions.
Understanding something as boring as door security
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Please add real Boustrophedon! I'm so interested in what it is like to read longer documents like this.
Celiac? Chron's Disease?

If they can identify a specific microbiome defect, fecal transplant may be the answer.
So we're hoping CloudFlare and Amazon don't have such bugs? (Ignoring the fact that it was already demonstrated at least once that they in fact do...)
I targeted a broad set of farming interests. My research told me that Facebook will optimize your interests based on which are performing better.

I would simply see which blog posts are getting the best organic reach and boost those. Grew my email list to 2,500 in six months.
Hey there, I have read Traction! Definitely a great way to brainstorm channels that might work for your product. Revolutionary when it came out.

Marketing is hard. I think we had a good day!
These camps the British deployed in Russia sound as brutal as the ones they had deployed the Natal not so long previously.

Not to defend the US actions in the slightest but their 1940s internment camps were similar to the "villages" they used in Viet Nam in the 1960s (a technique also used by the British during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s BTW). In a hierarchy of brutality: less than the ones in Russia and South Africa).

(You can be just as brutal without corralling people -- Andrew Jackson and the Cherokee, or Gengis Kahn come to mind as being as evil as, say, Guantanamo. But people have found many ways to be mean to others, and I agree with you that taking one step down that path doesn't automatically make you equivalent to those who have taken many).

But "camp" is like so many things more obvious in retrospect than at the time so be careful of accidental anachronistic bias. In part it exists thanks to technology: it used to be expensive to keep prisoners, so unless they could pay their way (i.e they were nobility) it was simpler just to kill them. The invention of barbed wire and practical guns, as well as, ironically, changing views of the moral worth of people (an increase in valuing life) lead to their development.

You can see the technological aspect in Russia itself: when the Tsars wanted to get rid of someone but not kill them, the victim was simply sent to Siberia. Getting back was so hard they were for all intents and purposes interned there. The Soviets, being more industrially minded, were the ones who set up the Gulag system. (And though it would be facile at this point to say "...and so clearly they got the idea thanks to the British counterrevolutionary efforts" I think that would be an unnecessary stretch).

Or, as one of the great chilling quotes of the 1960s put it: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it"
There's a paper dated 1962 entitled "Remote Maintenance of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment":

https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/4780507-remote-maintenan...

Another related reference is Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review from Fall 1968, which includes the piece "MSRE into MSBR? The Hopes for ORNL's Molten Salt Reactor",† which includes descriptions of remote maintenance aspects.

https://www.ornl.gov/sites/default/files/ORNL%20Review%20v2n...

† Early Betteridge?
> How do you expect _any_ platform to work? Self-host everything?

That's kind of how the Internet was supposed to work. As it is, we've inverted it, and with that we've also inverted the ownership of data.
Only when you're familiar with it. If someone says "150 cm" I know exactly and immediately how much that is. If someone says "5 feet" (which is equivalent) I have to convert it to metric manually.
I haven't published anything or sought to. I should look into that. I've been laser focused on the blog and email list. I need to broaden my reach though.
Thanks for the pun :)
dumb question but, but why was oscp stapling invented when it's the same as short lived certificates? have the certificate's expiration date set to a short period, have the CA renew it regularly, and place it on some http server. then you can have some cron job that downloads the certificate and reloads your server. and since the certificates are short lived, the CA/browser vendors can mark them as being excluded from OSCP checks. all the benefits of OSCP stapling, without the extra implementation complexity.
So it sounds like you are proposing a way of doing audiograms at home. I don't think this is the most significant cost of hearing aids. What is the average cost of an audiogram, maybe $100? You can already buy hearing aids online if you submit an audiogram. If you still need to visit an ENT office anyway, many larger ENT clinics (especially at hospitals) have audiologists in the clinic already.
maybe you shouldn't assume I want to talk to you and tell me to sign up for a phone call

Urgh, this a hundred times over. I get a form e-mail every six months or so from a Google recruiter that says something along the lines of "sorry we missed each other! Find a slot in the attached Google Calendar for us to set up a call"

...no. That attitude straight off the bat makes me not want to go anywhere near the process of applying for a job at Google.
No, the same thing can't be said about earthquakes. People have been predicting that we'd have a huge quake in the Northern California ever since the one in '89. But we've lived for more than a quarter century without one. We had a 68 year quiet period before that. They may be devastating when they happen, but the serious ones are rare. So rare, that we've spent the past 25 years upgrading our construction to anticipate a serious earthquake and we've yet to see that preparation tested.

Hurricanes, on the other hand, are so much more common. They happen every year and even have a season when you can expect them. It seems unfair to conflate a natural disaster that people may only experience once or twice in their lifetime to one that you can basically plan an annual vacation around.

I'd have more agreement if you talked about the kind of fires we saw in the North Bay recently. In addition to the earthquake in '89, I also remember the Oakland Hills firestorm in '91. Forrest fires are a natural part of the ecosystem in California and we do a lot to try to prevent them happening on a small scale. So when they do happen, they happen a lot larger than they normally would. And when they happen in populated areas, a lot of people get hurt. They're much more an expected part of life here than earthquakes are.
Vulcand: Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd
Pretty regular, I will say they haven't seemed to put forth a patch for WPA2 yet, but I'm also unsure how fully vulnerable it is mostly because Android can be such a customized beast.
... but fewer than 18% have a meaningful Github repository.
There's an advantage to the ships that a fixed location couldn't provide. With the ship, you can anchor the rocket and pull it into port without having to move the rocket itself after landing. On a fixed platform, you'd have to have infrastructure to relocate the rocket to bring it into port. Unless, of course, you're going to refurbish it and launch from the platform ... Now that would be impressive.
I think the problem is, fundamentally, lock-in is often a lucrative strategy, open isn't. The internet is "accidentally" open, when it comes to protocols like SMTP, HTTP, etc, I think primarily because it was more of an research/educational network. The commercial enterprises (AOL, CompuServe) were proprietary and walled off.
> Unfortunately, no, because all of the current owners of said vehicles are incredibly possessive and covetous of such objects

I think most of us can't afford to take out $10,000-$250,000 loans to replace working assets we already own that have 5-10 good years left on them.
Try not eating anything with wheat in it.

Go to a bakery and take a good look at everything in it, thats what you avoid eating, oh and pasta.

Eat LOTS of vegies and meat and eat short grain rice (low GI) for carbs, and some potatoes.

See if this works over a month or two.

If this doesnt work then cut out cows milk.

Both if these were my problem
You make a good point that it is the will of the majority. I just think it isn't fair to the children who attend overcrowded schools and the people who have to get to jobs and want better roads.
There seems to be a serious contraction going on right now with the mass media surrounding games, and I'm alright with it. We're heavily saturated right now with an echo chamber of websites that parrot each other endlessly about video games, game culture, streamers and their various screwups, etc.

I think this has been a long time coming, it sucks that we're probably going to lose some cool names in the process but overall I think it will be a good thing.
Absolutely, this is why I rarely use stack overflow anymore. This attitude exists in all programming languages, even many of the stack exchange sites, like mathematics. I wish there was a direct way of saying it: "Believe me, I am smarter than you think I am. These cop-out solutions you're proposing have all been considered, but if I could find any way of solving my direct problem, it would be better than any other alternative."
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I happened to chat recently with some people from the startup Handshake:

https://www.joinhandshake.com/

It's founded by 3 graduates of Michigan Tech University, a small but well-regarded school that even other Michiganders think is far north. Their goal is to level the playing field for internships and first jobs.

It was great to meet people so sincere about solving this problem.
Google should probably interview my preschool teacher, would be a good predictor of Googleyness.
Ask HN: What’s a reliable non-Twitter news source for web development?
Besides HN, I’ve received most of my web dev news from following Addy Osmani on Twitter.

Addy is a really good source of web dev news as he posts (and retweets) a lot of relevant web dev content such as new JS features, new CSS properties, PWA, react, webpack, and more.

Since I plan to quit Twitter, due to reasons irrelevant to post here, I’m curious to see if there’s a reliable blog (to RSS) which posts about latest web dev content.
Submitting this here, because the top comment on "The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant" [0] was about tinned Italian tomatoes.

Also submitted [1] back then, but didn't got so many upvotes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15162126

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164216
its difficult to point at another contemporary with a similar level of understanding
Original title: Twitter will now label political ads, including who bought them and how much they are spending

Techmeme summary: Michelle Castillo / CNBC: Twitter will now label political ads with sponsors, including spending and targeting disclosures, and establish a Transparency Center database with all ads
UB = undefined behaviour

RPI = Rob's Pairing Interview

I understanding wanting to avoid the former, but the latter is pretty good.
"We're looking for real ninjas."
Accused of Spying, Kaspersky Lab Will Show Its Code and Operations to Outsiders
Sorry this one: https://webflow.com/interactions-animations
"Local" must have been vaguely enforced at best for decades now. 97.7FM in the SF Bay Area (now KFOG's alternate South Bay channel) was a Los Altos registry clear back to when local jazz station KPEN on 97.7 had a studio in Mayfield Mall (demolished 30+ years ago).
Do you also avoid making friends in case they pass away?
Very curious to see if someone can solve this using this method. Would be as magical as ECC
The underlying assumption is that, if you average over a large enough population, there should be no underlying consistent difference between subsets selected on gender, race, or class, so a difference of outcome is presumed to be a result of difference of opportunity.

The underlying assumption is definitely an assumption, but it seems like a good zeroth-order assumption to me.
That's fair, I just expected there to be enough of a delay they would be caught first but maybe not.
Original title: Accused of Spying, Russian Security Firm Will Show Its Code and Operations to Outsiders

Techmeme summary: Kim Zetter / The Intercept: Kaspersky offers source code and business operations for review by independent third parties after Russian spying claims
Samsung note 8 hackathon nov 4-5 in Mountain View
> This is even ignoring the 'diversity' angle - a lot of really great people are missed because it's hard to break in without knowing someone or having the right credentials.

That is literally the diversity angle.
Hm? The UAE is absolutely part of the Saudi-led coalition, contributing troops and materiel.
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One, real convenience: a bottle in the fridge versus choosing, ordering, waiting, tipping. Two, takeaway WHAT? The common carry-out foods are not models of balanced nutrition. Often people who talk about Soylent say it saves them from a frequent round of pizza, hot wings, pre-made sandwiches, burger'n'fries.
> If you don't count the services that still exists today, _____ has killed almost all its products.

Is there a company for which that phrase isn't true?
You are confusing support from a few academics and socialist groups with foreign policy.

As it turns out, Noam Chomsky writing nasty op-eds that don't get published in the New York Times has less of an impact then what side of the bed the Secretary of State woke up on.
What's your definition?
They could do it sooner with dedicated lanes that run faster / more efficient, just like HOV lanes today.
Techmeme summary: Ben Thompson / Stratechery: FTC failed in allowing Facebook to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp; it should intervene on tbh, regardless of whether the purchase price is enough to mandate review
Separating acoustic model and decoding graph search makes sense since you would need a huge amount of (correctly!) transcribed speech for training. See, for example, this paper by Google [1], where they used 125,000 hours (after filtering out the badly transcribed ones from the original 500,000 hours of transcribed speech) for training an end-to-end acoustic-to-word model. Good "old-school" DNN acoustic models can already be trained with orders of magnitude less training data (hundreds to thousands of hours).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09975
I'll rewrite this comment:

"Users are idiots!"

Seems like an inappropriate contribution
I was looking at that. It's not available in my country but I requested an invite. Thanks!
Well, here's the whitepaper - http://www.discoverneom.com/content/pdfs/NEOM_FACT_SHEET_ENG...
Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development" is a great talk regarding just this, for anybody who hasn't seen it.

I personally find this is one of the most effective ways of cracking a difficult problem. It's amazing what your subconscious is capable of.
Shameless plug: I'm a founder of Alphasheets, a company seeking to solve problems like these! I couldn't resist replying after seeing these comments.

We make a collaborative (Google Sheets style) spreadsheet with Python and R running in the sheet. You can define functions, plot using ggplot, embed numpy dataframes, matrices and all that good stuff. We don't let people use macros, all the code runs in cells because we think macros are too brittle. You can check out the website at http://alphasheets.com .

We're seeing that many enterprises (for example, in finance) that have Excel power users are moving to Python because of limitations like these, and are running into adoption issues because people like spreadsheets so much. That's generally where we come in and provide a bridge from the Excel world to Python through a more friendly frontend.

We're also seeing that Alphasheets can help a lot with shortening feedback cycles on more sophisticated data analyses- Excel is the most popular self-serve analytics tool out there, but doesn't cover cases where you need Python/R/fresh data.
> To clarify, I meant that the person doing the tech interview shouldn't care what school you went to and definitely shouldn't be throwing shade since that just distorts the evaluation.

Of course they shouldn't. (I know plenty of people at Google, I've gone through the process a few times, I have an idea.) But...that doesn't mean it doesn't happen and that it isn't cultural.
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Holy hell. You need to get off Heroku right away. This is insane.
Depending on your image editor, be sure to collapse PNG layers between the black bars and underlying image as well.
>> It's a little strange to go back to map reduce when presumably YARN is available and tez or spark could be used.

YARN just refactored the scheduling / resource management out of MapReduce. Hadoop 2+ still uses the term "MapReduce" for that particular application, and that application runs on a YARN cluster, just like Tez (I think) and Spark can. I don't see anything to indicate they're NOT using YARN.
Is Inbox another abandoned Google product?
Does Outlook on mobile provide these?

Iirc desktop outlook could create events/reminders/tasks linked to emails in your inbox.
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I tried https://siftery.com/aws-lambda/alternatives
and it pulled up the serverless framework .

Why does it say that the serverless framework is something that runs on top of AWS lambda not a replacement? Or does it mean to use straight AWS lambda without a framework?

I like the idea of the site and I have used similar sites in the past.