skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And based on Google's prioritization of AMP results in search, I wonder if they'll offer some sort of benefit to emails supporting AMP? If so, spammers will be the first ones on board.

Want to see some examples of the most fully configured SPF, DKIM, etc records? Look at spam. The big boys take advantage of it all.
It would still fit on an LS-120 3.5″ floppy, although I suspect they’re even harder to get hold of these days.
"We heard you like our browser, so we put another browser inside our browser."

And you thought email phishing was bad now. Wait until this thing goes live.
I get paid for it.

Edit: For a slightly less sardonic answer, I prep an innumerable number of different items every day, and they all have to look near perfect. I decided that while programming was a passion of mine, I wanted to do it on my own terms. I wanted to create projects that I found interesting.

Baking though? If I want to make something at work that I find interesting, I can experiment and do that, and my boss encourages me.

So I still code, but I stopped doing it for money and started doing it to contribute to society. Baking I do for fun and money. It was a later in life career change, but I'm much happier for it.
They can’t, and don’t. The secret is that experienced PhDs (mostly) dominate the high end of “AI” hiring, but don’t have much title or departmental differentiation from people who are “only” specialized software engineers in top tech companies. But this isn’t very well known, large companies want to recruit as much talent as they can regardless of role, and startups want to compete on paper - therefore, you have the following effects:

1. Startups give whatever sexy title they want to the people they can afford, which makes titles fairly useless, because they almost never can afford the talent commanding “sky-high” salaries.

2. Within large tech companies like Google and Facebook, it’s hard to immediately tell which of the many data sciencey, machine learning-y titles correspond to the truly stratospheric salaries versus the engineers that work with those roles. For some teams, like DeepMind, Google Brain or FAIR, it’s easier to tell. But for others it’s a mixed bag.

For comparison, see the fashionable term of art “quant” in the financial industry, which has similarly devolved into marketing and a bimodal distribution. As a rule of thumb, you generally can’t trust AI titles or salaries at startups unless those startups are really known for their talent; further, you can safely assume that, at companies capable of paying for top talent, the very impressive salaries belong to titles which seem the most exotic and out of reach for general engineers in the job description.

Fortunately startups don’t really need to compete for top talent as a genuine technological differentiator, they just need to engage in signaling, so this is mostly a non-problem. Startups almost never have problems usefully improved by the cutting edge of machine learning research, and can instead use off the shelf tools and existing software to accomplish the same things. Frankly, it’s exceptionally rare for a startup to even have the massive data, pipeline and munging infrastructure requisite for actual research.
It is, but I won't try to sell it to Ruby devs. :P
Your labor costs are very low. Are your clients local, or are you bringing in a lot of business due to a price differential between where you are and more expensive places? If it's the later then it won't work for readers in the more expensive places.
You brought up the PhD silliness.

I quoted the author's about page, which says nothing about block chain research. That quote happened to mention a PhD, which I could not care less about. Much more important is the fact that the bio page says nothing about block chain research.

It is you who seems intent on discussing the author's PhD, which you demonstrated in your first response - and your second.

I brought up the author's about page because the author implicitly appeals to authority in the title of the piece by claiming to be a "professional" "blockchain researcher." The article itself says nothing about this research other than it supposedly happened. Nor does it contain anything that I found novel or insightful.

The second part of my original comment speaks to the substance of the article.

A PhD is neither required nor implied in this post.

I never said this, nor do I care what letters appear after a person's name. But when that person tries to claim the mantle of authority in the title of an essay, looking into the author's background is fair game.

Neither the article nor the bio provide evidence that that the author is a "professional" blockchain researcher. The content of the article is mediocre at best, suggesting the author has a weak understanding of the topic at hand. I provided a specific example in my first response.
This matches my experience as well. I rarely if ever get sent to a spam folder. And afaik, I've never been blacklisted after ~5 years.
lovely people details in those photos - always people going this way and that but then there's a guy carrying a kids bike, a guy riding a lawnmower etc....
Or you could take upwork to small claims court.
Technically the advertising industry is behind this move. Whether or not that will hold in court, it remains to be seen.
Mods need to change the title -- this is deliberately dishonest reporting as it stands.
In my experience with AI start-ups, if you have a rockstar CV in your deck you get funded. If you don't, you don't. It is very difficult for non-experts to evaluate the competence of budding AI teams. The best heuristic, track record, thus prevails, which in turn attaches a lot of value--from the company's perspective--to that single CV.
Fanta – A Koa/Express inspired framework in Rust
Show HN: CongressCash
Doesn't Docker with with VMs on Windows and Mac? (At least I know it does on the Mac).

Maybe it's still possible to mount an X11 socket from Windows/Mac to the VM (and then to Docker?)??

It's still trickery, but if you can get that to work on the Mac and Windows Docker clients, then you could distribute the Linux version of the custom apps and everyone is happy :)
There is some work going on to remove Javascript, but it is slow going. Most publishers won't trade off revenue for performance and security so there is no incentive for the buyers to change their ways.
Unless your IP address is deemed being in a bad block. Then all of the above is not even checked (on outlook.com, that is).
Notes on paper airplanes. I guess that’s the UDP way.

Actually I suppose the post office is the UDP way too.
Necurs #botnet is behind seasonal campaigns of #Valentine’s Day-themed spam
Charlotte, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

Seriously though, It's unlikely to be powered by 'trains' but the thermal differences between tunnel endpoints causing the airflow.

Sure there's airflow that's generated by trains but harvesting that doesn't seem to make sense as the air needs to be moved out of the path of the train so would end up as a net loss if significant energy was recaptured?
More of a lemma, really. You know when you're on the right track when you can make materialists' blood boil.
At Berkeley, AI/ML/Stats are mostly electives if you want to specialize rather than mandatory
Thanks for the feed, I just added it to QuiteRSS.

However, it seems the appropriate headers are not set in the HTML pages. So there is no indication in the browser that your site has a feed, let alone where to find it.

I propose to add something like the following line to the <head> section of every site (or at least your main site):

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/atom.xml" title="Feed">
> Apple could go as far as they want in making PWAs and native apps feel completely identical. They could even go as far as enforcing style, performance, and accessibility rules for PWAs.

But they have gone as far as they want, you should be happy then, or do you mean as far as you want? And isn't one of the points of web apps to not be enforceable by any single entity?

> The benefit of moving to PWAs are many and the downsides are all solvable.

Solvable only with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and many many years of development. On second thought, they've had all that and are still not even close.
Yeah, that's definitely it. Thank you! Very interesting.
How often do you send alerts? Are you ever going to start charging for this?
What Are the Best SEO Resources for Startups?
I had tried it out too. It was really fast, a lot more than the Linuxes I was using then - Red Hat and Mandrake. (Not comparable, I know.) I think they had a UI / desktop environment called Photon.
Beer Finder – Brewery Dashboard
and it seems to be limited to windows only, imho not a detail to leave out
Case Study-I used media buying to connect with 1K prospective clients in 28 days
Yeh we have it hooked up to Mixpanel so we know exactly where people drop off.

As for its effectiveness, this is always a bit tricky for SaaS, not least because the consideration stage tends to be quite long and people flick between devices, which makes attribution a bit of a nightmare. We’ve done some pretty obvious stuff, like comparing our sign up rates before and after adding the demo / recording whether people who sign up have done it etc, which is useful to know - though not always accurate.

More anecdotally, we spend a lot of time speaking with users and visitors and the demo comes up surprisingly frequently (including how we made it, which is why we wrote the post!) - it’s been a pretty quick, straight forward way of showcase Trevor’s interface.

Shortly, we’ll be adding several new steps that demo features that are commonly used by our existing customers.

Any thoughts about what else we might do / how others measure success?
They have: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections...
A Guide to TensorFlow: Linear Regression (Part 5)
> such unspeakable things that all the good stuff instantly fades

Well, in 50-100 years noone would really care about atrocities of ww2, just like almost noone cares about ww1 now, and literary noone about the atrocities of the wars before ww1.

But "the world-changing things" will stay, and the people who created these things will be remembered
It seems making a project into a product is 80% of the work, when factoring in marketing, support, sign up, billing, and all of the other necessary evils, while the initial product can often shrink to 20% of the work during launch.

There's also a benefit to integrating as many off the shelf systems to handle the product launch (stripe, paddle, etc), and slowly refactoring the ones away that may be beneficial.
Ask HN: Ethnics of a customer testimonial?
I'm using a throw away to get a 2nd opinion (ie, sanity check).

The 10 person financial company I work at decided to use a customer testimonial of a user who is personally connected to the biz development employee (the customer's daughter is engaged to the biz dev employee).

The testimonial is 1-2 sentences stating the user is happy with our product.

I'm believe this is unethical. My issue is that we're using a testimonial from a user who is, I believe, incapable of being unbiased towards our product offering.

Questions,

1) am I being too uptight in my belief that the user cannot be unbiased?

2) is it above ethical reproach to use the testimonial?

2) another employee stated that this is fine because all customer testimonials statements written by the business writes and then affirmed by users. We are doing nothing different. Since the statement has been affirmed by a user (whoever it may be), it's all ok.
Wonder how this would look like if it was vanilla JS? More performant to boot.
Ask HN: What's the best email service?
I'm ready to leave gmail even though I've had the same address for the last 12 years. What's the next best option, Can I Import my contacts and indexed emails? Privacy is a plus.
Senior here. At the University of Denver, you're required to get a minor in math which includes a year of Calculus and 2 classes of either Stats, Linear, of Differential or any other high-level math class.
The UI of site is total crap full of dickbars.
This kind of move is unlikely, nearly no one is running "legit" ad business. No one would like to to be under a microscope either.
I gave up reading that page with all the animations going on.
Smoke signals here, can't trust the postman either.
Can you cite some sources on the voice recognition part? I seem to remember that Google(https://research.googleblog.com/2015/08/the-neural-networks-...), and Baidu(http://research.baidu.com/deep-speech-3%EF%BC%9Aexploring-ne...) both use neural networks for speech transcription.

I don't really believe that the implementations out of the startups are meaningfully/significantly better than the implementations out of Google/Facebook. If they were seriously better they'd be acquired (as we've seen over and over again).
I usually buy HumbleBumble's programming bundles without much hesitation. There is always at least one book that is worth the whole deal. And the money is going to a good cause.
A lot of the comments here are skeptical of the claims in the article. (This is how comments should, and do, function).

However, for all the reasons that the article may be wrong

- the shortage is temporary

- the shortage is overblown

- the shortage is illusory

- the shortage doesn't apply etc

Please compare with the situation for other high earners (CEOs, Entertainers and Bankers). Can the same arguments be made for them? (Conan O'Brien is funny, but he isn't 30x funnier than the person at my local comedy club?)

The work of an AI researcher is mechanically reproduced so a 1% benefit can be enormous. It could be the case that the competition isn't for more of them, but for the best of them.
Huh. With the current transfer system, you input their account number and name to confirm you're sending it to the right place (at least for NAB and ANZ).

That does sound like a bit of an information leak. I mean the big advantage is that you can make pretty big purchases, like pay for a bicycle or car, in real time without having to wait to see the transfer the next day.
That's another simplistic approach. You can place praise or blame without saying that they were literally indispensable for its existence. Making it happen a few months or years sooner is praiseworthy in itself.
You're delirious if you think: Scotland will actually secede from the UK, and that the EU would accept another member with such a small economic base.
> Why is Skype loading random DLLs from user accessible folders?

Good question. Almost every time I want to use some new security tool - like say AppLocker - Skype craps out on me, because it seems to be so badly programmed, and it's all over the place in Windows. It's why I stopped using the native app completely, and only use the web version whenever I still need to use Skype.
It's Time for Commodity Hardware Mining
Docker’s Head of Security David Lawrence: On TUF, Notary, and Software Security
It's not that hard. Do what you would do with a large amount of cash or gold coins: put it in a safe deposit box. Or a private vault, if you're ideologically opposed to banks.

Unlike gold, you can also add redundancy and cryptographic protection, but even without that you can at least be as secure as you are with gold, which plenty of rich people store in vaults without issues.
I knew of TinyCore but I hadn't heard of dCore, which apprently has Debian/Ubuntu package support. According to http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:welcome

"minimal live Linux system based on Micro Core (Tiny Core Linux) that uses scripts to download select packages directly from vast Debian or Ubuntu repositories and convert them into useable SCEs (self-contained extensions). "
I’m curious, what you all think the future of email is?

I am finding that I use it less and less each year. How much are you using it compared to previous years?

- My friend communication is done almost strictly through messaging services

- work communication is done through Slack and Jira (yuck)

I feel like email for me has become this awkward auth-proxy.

It’s how I magic link in, “confirm” who I am, reset my password, or get spammed by marketers.
Davido – Flora My Flawa (Official Video) – REACTION
how about caching the default entry (static url instead) + attribs, to ease demoing. at the moment it's been analyzing for more than >5mins
Wow, I didn't know it was that bad! Thanks for the tips.
Google’s custom TPU machine learning accelerators are now available in beta
Does anyone else see glitches in the GIF of booking.com (specifically the Arc de Triomphe)
#1 Songs IN 3,000 Cities Around the World (2017)
At UChicago CS didn't have a mandatory core of statistics or math classes, but all the AI/ML classes had higher level statistics or math prerequisites.
We were open and honest about it being too much. The pattern that emerged is that it allowed us to see the candidates' strengths. Some didn't tackle the backend part: that was not their forte (and we hired them and sent them off on a course).
Also, in any IT job I've worked there's generally more business requirements/wishes/etc than can be finished. That's a fact of life. It helps to have team players that have are independent and give some push back where needed, as well as realistic deadlines. There were some that handled the deadline badly, that didn't help their case.
(but apparently, many believe giving someone a task to do is not done)
Also: if your coworkers care enough about quality to add and maintain a linter, they're the kind of coworkers that care to do good code-reviews and maintain a high quality bar.
Show HN: Procedur.al – Unique, procedurally made-to-order wall art
This is why I started using Firefox on Android. I need uBlock to browse the web safely.
One of the problems with coming up with a good theory is that, at the end of day, we're building a system that's particularly suited for a certain kind of patterns. If you're building a facial-recognition convnet, there is something about the dataset of faces that is going to influence what works and what doesn't.

When you're building digital circuits, they're expected not to care about what the bits mean, which patterns are more likely. It works for all possible inputs, with equal quality.

There are things in common with how you would process faces and how you would recognize other visual objects, and that's why there are design patterns such as "convolutional layers come before fully-connected layers".

In a way, the "no free lunch" theorem says that you are always paying a price when you specialize to a certain kind of patterns. It comes at the detriment to other patterns. So, any kind of stack of theories on ML/DL is going to be incomplete unless you say something about the nature of your data/patterns.

(That doesn't mean that we can't anything useful about DL, but it just puts a certain damper on those efforts.)
American is so far behind the rest of the world. Even before this, in Australia and New Zealand, I could pay anyone, direct bank-to-bank, with just their name and account number, within 24 hours.
I'd recommend installing Firefox instead. The default version is a little slow, but Firefox Quantum is fast.
My phone is currently throttled to 8kB/s. The only thing I can read is Hackernews; this is a well-built site.
Cool. I didn't want to criticize you but just wanted to figure out how such a thing can work and learn from it. Thanks!
You're correct, I was able to write a file without privilege escalation, and then I verified it was there by escalating. Thanks.

If anyone is wondering, it's a little bit tricky to check because without the read permission, Windows Explorer can't see what the permissions are.
Is this similar to the Zelle push US banks are, well, pushing for?
Tech lead is dictator. You should have a tech lead who is at least 50% hands-on coding and is enforcing the code review system and participating in as many as possible.
It would be nice if there was an "easy" way of proving this, and regulations making void TOS the company does not enforce in a majority of cases.
And now, in VBA:

Sub Main()

Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To 100
Dim f As Integer
f = IIf(i Mod 3, 0, 1) Or IIf(i Mod 5, 0, 2)
Dim buf As String
If f = 0 Then
buf = Format(i)
Else
buf = IIf(f And 1, "fizz", "") + IIf(f And 2, "buzz", "")
End If
Debug.Print buf
Next i

End Sub
Vuetify v1.0 has released
You can use https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/ for that
But Bing has.
Some start up somewhere has pneumatic tubes and some little beautiful nerd is hacking them into something cool and/or funny.

I’m a little jealous.
Testing with Doubles
I don't recall a GIF like this ever appearing in any prior Ars Technica review of OS X: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23...
Prodigy – Radically efficient machine teaching
Here's a technology aid: a smartphone / smartwatch app that lets you add reminders by voice command with phrases like "remember to call your mother" or "remember that your locker combination is 98-7-65": http://bit.do/Treycent
For all the criticism of Google/Gmail/AMP at least the spec is open. AMP allows me to browse with minimal data.
Is it worth reading if one already knows basics of rust and has read ”the book”.
I'll one-up you: can we crowdfund a botnet to flag all ads, from everyone?
Given that one of the reasons GitHub is so popular is that it's a common toolchain, I wonder if it is indeed obvious that replacing the code-review tool with a different one (not to mention one that is often considered much less intuitive, if not usable) will result in more contributions. I hope the Go team posts some results in a few months.
I like idea of using images for this and not trying to wrangle the actual app, much cleaner!
> At UChicago CS didn't have a mandatory core of statistics or math classes

Not even Calculus or Linear Algebra? Do they take Discrete Math?
IANAL, but I don't think this is how the law works today.
I think it is okay to think somewhat in groups, that is, when it comes to examining some of the psychology behind warfare. Ultimately, a lot of that side of human warfare has a lot to do IMHO with human's inherit tribalistic nature.

The part about getting people to not care about the people who die is, I think, very important as far as understanding how warfare can happen on the scale it does. Most wars are characterized by strong propaganda denigrating the opposing side in negative stereotypical terms. In many cases, I think that the leaders who push for war actually share similar beliefs as a nationalism-driven populace -- it's more than mere exploitative.

Such explains why how, say, conflict over scarce resources can turn into something like violent conflict, which often (ironically) has a negative impact on the scarce resources itself.

Nationalism (and some things which are tangentially related like imperialism) was by many historical accounts one of the major forces that led to WWI. (As well as many other wars, I might add.)
Oh, common on, every time freelancing topics comes up on HN there are at least few comments: "just do networking, it's so easy, and gigs just starts falling from the sky". No, this advice doesn't work well outside of tech hubs or good existing network (from university etc.) In some places developers are few and far between, especially if you are into more specialized, niche areas. Of course, you can try participate in online communities, but it's hard (i.e. good luck getting your first patch into Linux kernel mainline) and time consuming, especially if English is not your first language. Typical Upwork and similar services user is someone from rural Bangladesh, not well-connected MIT graduate working in sexy startup in Silicon Valley.
"Google will continue along the road of censorship and policing websites to further their path to complete web dominance and control."?