skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which conveniently is so vague it could mean just about anything

That’s on purpose, because Jon Kabat-Zinn intended it to be a placeholder term. Also why I flagged the article, because epistemologically the idea of researching whether mindfulness works doesn’t even make sense. And there is no shortage of content on this topic that’s actually good, e.g. Willoughby Britton’s talks and interviews.
12pm is also commonly interpreted as midnight so "12 noon" or "12 midnight" is generally preferred when scheduling meetings or deadlines in order to avoid confusion.
A large part of introducing new tech is enabling the transition from existing tech. Maybe if we scrapped all old cars and allowed only autonomously vehicles we’d be be sleeping at 120 km/h next week. But some businesses still run on COBOL.
Um, if we use public key cryptography, the only thing websites can log or leak is your public key. Since it's public, that doesn't break anything.
And committed genocide against the original inhabitants and wiped out vast numbers of species. So, yeah, laws against Fake News as defined by a bunch of religious maniacs are great.
>Wonder why the above is being downvoted

I have fans that follow me around the internet and downvote everything I say. In this account I'm smart enough to not reveal any true personal information so I can't get doxxed again.

But to answer your question: he means anyone with the ability to speak. It is pretty shocking to the current generation of techies what was considered mainstream in the 70s [0], wherein every important French left wing intellectual of the period signed in support.

>Such a long time in remand to investigate a simple `vice’ affair, where the children have not been victims of the slightest violence, but have to the contrary testified before the examining magistrates that they consented — although the law at present denies them their right to consent — such a long time in remand we do consider scandalous in itself. Today they risk to be sentenced to a long prison term either for having had sexual relations with minors, boys as well as girls, or for having encouraged and taken photographs of their sexual plays. We believe that there is an incongruity between the designation as a `crime’ which serves to legitimize such a severity, and the facts themselves; even more so between the antiquated law and the reality of every day life in a society which tends to know about the sexuality of children and adolescents

[0] https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/00aug29b1_from_1977.ht...
> so that my logs don’t fill with a zillion pointless attempts

What about moving SSH to a different port?
I think it's much more secure, both for you as an individual user and for the service as a whole.

First of all, if an attacker has access to your email account, then you're doomed. The attacker can reset your password, lock you out, and acquire all privileges. Access to the email account is a fundamental assumption that every service does, and in fact that's how they let you even change your password.

For you as a user, it means not having to remember an extra password. The drawback is that email connectivity may slow down your login, and clicking the link could not work perfectly on mobile device.

For the service as a whole, it means not storing passwords, and thus not risking to leak passwords, and not being at risk of ATO due to reused and leaked credentials.

However this turns authentication from something the user knows (password) to something the user has (access to, their email account). Strictly speaking, this reduces the scope & security of 2FA solutions.
>so I'm sure it has increased to (gut feeling) probably like 10% these days

That's consistent with the algorithmic estimate quoted in the article:

'the ReviewMeta algorithm labeled 9.1%, or 5.3 million of the dataset's reviews, as “unnatural.”'

I would say that's far from tiny, especially considering how many other reviews (at least in my own experience) have inadequate information in their text. A 3-star review that has only the words "It worked just fine but nothing special" is just as useless to me as a fake 5-star or 1-star review, whatever the fake text.
Weight, battery life, fan usage
Part of the problem for Amazon introducing it is that it could be seen as vouching for reviews that were not detected as fake, even though they may still be fake. Unless the false negative rate is sufficiently low, it may give false confidence in products.

> but the seller doesn't accept returns! That should be a con, not a pro.

US? In the UK, the seller has to accept returns, so that removes one variable (and if the product is bad, you can just send it back).
It's common in San Francisco. Chubby Noodle is an example I booked today for a party of 8.
An accompanying explanation would've been nice. For future visitors [0]:

> Mozilla’s Global Sprint, a distributed work/collaboration sprint on open projects from around the world!

> Every issue in this repository represents a project seeking contribution.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues/299
> Now, google news is just mostly NYTimes and Washingtonpost stories.

What? This is certainly not my experience.

I just went to news.google.com in my desktop browser, and I clicked on the World section. On the Iran sanctions/deal story, there are several sources grouped together in one card. The top source is indeed Washington post but the same card also contains coverage from Mehr News Agency (which it highlights as "From Iran"), Reuters, The Hill, RollingStone.com, NYT (highlighted as "Opinion"), NEWS.com.au, and Associated Press.

If I click on "View full coverage", I get more sources, of course.
I do concede there is a passive aggressive element to my post, caused by a lot of internal resentment and frustration.

But no one will recognize our business or who we are. But I can't really go into detail on that topic without actually risking revealing something.

I genuinely reached for advice in a desperate moment.
Mindfulness brings no advantage except the realization that we are not our mind, that we exist as a being beyond it, that our thoughts are mostly response to stimulus. If you ignore stimulus, there are no thoughts. If you observe the mind intently, it inevitably struggles to do much thinking about anything. What is profound about this conclusion?

Nothing.

It does not lead to better memories. It does not lead to more satisfaction. It does not bring more joy. It does not make you more productive. Does it help you focus better? Maybe. But practicing to actually focus is much more efficient.
There was no correction to them, because the website never contacted the original source, they based their story on an email provided by a third party without confirming it.

But, sure, reckless disregard for basic journalistic norms and fact checking because the story fit their preconceived nsrrstive seems reasonably to warrant “pants on fire”.
I’ve set myself to drive down to Mozilla from SF and work on this:

https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues/307

Lots of Meetups happen at the pinned library in SF so it’s likely legit.

Shameless plug: Clojure Engs wanted, esp w Reagent or at least (atom) and UI experience. Streaming video, RSS, RasPi, oh my. Just me sofar, late reg.
Updated. Runs smoothly without any apparent bugs so far.

You have to enable the new gestures manually, it seems. Also, none of the new app features demonstrated in the conference seems to have made it to this beta. :(
Thats actually an interesting concept i've contemplated lately, but I didn't find a conclusive answer. Is there a questionnaire i can fill out that spits out the community my family would fit into with our belief-system?

It's not that its a healthy thing for society to form these monocultural blocks of opinions, but after thinking about what values I were taught in school and how long it took me to unlearn the most damaging ones, i'd favor having the option to go somewhere else more sensible to me.
Web scraping is so yesterday.

This is the beginning of robots scraping the real world.

Most of the examples Google showed were crafted to make this look like a friendly agent acting on behalf of users.

But the more powerful use of this, as illustrated by the deemphasized "holiday hours" example, would be for Google to use it to get any information they wanted out of anybody the robots can call and conduct social engineering on.

Imagine coupling this with the knowledge available to someone able to read your gmail inbox.

"Hey you sent us an email two days ago about A and B..."

(trust is established)

"Can you clear up whether you were interested more in A, or more in B?"

OK not the perfect script but you get the point.
I will second that the text is unreadably large on my large monitor: the characters are rendered in 41.9-point type. If I full-screen the window, it jumps up to 49-point type.
I think you're seeing liberals and conservatives being even-handedly "triggered". Or maybe people are telling themselve that they are sick of politics being discussed, yet they keep coming back to it and lapping it up.
Double opt-in should be always the etiquette for introductions! We built https://intrologic.com, connect your email metadata and linkedin connections file, invite your friends and connectors and we provide you a searchable interface to request for intros to potential investors or qualified leads. Sign up: https://intrologic.com/start. Founder here.
Whenever I see prime visualisations, I go down a rabbit hole of investigating prime numbers in search of a better factoring algorithm. I’m no great mathematician, so I always come up better educated but ultimately fruitless. :)

I have this nagging idea, though, that there must be a deep relationship among: 1. the polynomials on which the primes are clustered in the Ulam spiral, 2. algorithms to factor numbers, and 3. recovering information “destroyed” by addition. That is, if you ask me to find the factors of C = A × B, the information about which prime factors went into that product is preserved by multiplication, but if you ask me for the factors of C = A + B, I can’t say much about how the factors of A and B relate to those of C, can I? But if I could, I suspect I could factor numbers efficiently. Something something information theory something entropy…

Anyone have any pointers to reading materials along these lines?
I can see it going the other way:

Robo-booking being used by people who simple put an entry in their own diary - the robot doing the booking and interaction. The human potential client has used minimal resources and because of the ease of use and lack of interaction will not perceive a cost in the making of the booking. I anticipate they'll change, cancel, noshow at a far higher rate than in-person bookers.

Bookings made might then both block other customers and potentially increase the cost to the supplier of administrating the booking [particularly with a micro-business where the supplier end is an actual person].
I get "Connection problem or invalid MMI code" on an AndroidOne device when I dial that. Edit oh hidden asterisks.
The NEO and 4 series support U2F which can be used for FIDO2 2FA (emphasis on 2), but they do not support the passwordless (device PIN) or username-less login scenarios.
There is indeed a lot of good advice here and I'm touched that people have gone out of their way to give it. I couldn't respond right away since the post didn't get any responses for the first hour and I had already turned in for the night. I didn't see the responses until today.
Hello HN! Justin (the author) here. We launched our new Atrium blog as a resource to the startup community. Happy to answer any questions about VC intros here.
Lol imagine my phone talking with an automated customer service line. Two machines, talking to one another, not using any of the existing protocols. My phone would have a database of questions to ask, form it into an English sentence, run it through a text-to-speech, transmit this to the other phone. Their "phone" would run a speech-to-text, run NLP, match it with its own database, and do the whole thing again in the opposite direction.

This gives a whole new meaning to "all of UI/UX is basically prettifying database queries".
Life gives what one gives it. Pretty appalling attitude up above. I was never more rich than when I did everything in the open.
Just to play devil's advocate for a moment: I'm excited that there will finally be some viable competition for GPUs, but am disappointed that this isn't a general-purpose multiprocessor.

We're long overdue for a general-purpose CPU with say 1024 cores, that avoids a central main memory, where each core can be independently programmed just like any other CPU. Google's may count as a somewhat general-purpose DSP, which is definitely a step forward. But no matter how mature or mainstream a framework like TensorFlow gets, it can never replace full programmability.

Without seeing the internals, I'm going to have to give this a nay vote for now. There are many other rather exciting problems that need to be opened up to a new generation of tinkerers. Off that top of my head, it's things like: content-addressable memory to provide high data locality (evolving various interconnects instead of hardwiring them), exploring other types of general vector processing like the kind MATLAB/Octave uses, and exploring other hill-climbing algorithms than backpropagation/neural nets.

I picture something more like network topology-agnostic Docker containers programmed in Elixer/Erlang/Go that can act as semi-autonomous agents and switch into various modes in order to solve the problem at hand. I just find that a much simpler metaphor to work with than OpenCL/CUDA/TensorFlow. Yes it would take more silicon and would probably violate YAGNI, but only full programmability gives us the freedom to explore the problem space at the level that's going to be required to implement artificial general intelligence.
Here's a quick example. Put this in a Rails template:

<%= WebSite.new(
name: 'Texas Public Law',
url: 'https://texas.public.law',
)%>

...and you'll see this in the HTML:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"name": "Texas Public Law",
"url": "https://texas.public.law"
}
</script>

This DRY's up my code - I just encode the right way of forming JSON-LD and the correct objects and attributes in one place, the library. (That JSON-LD is from my live site, https://texas.public.law)

Details:

First I created a small library which wraps Rails ActiveModel Validations so they can be used in any Ruby object. And I supply a new validator, TypeValidator.

https://github.com/public-law/validated_object

With this building block, I can create classes for each Schema type I care about. And they strictly enforce their attributes:

class Organization < SchemaType
attr_accessor founding_date
validates founding_date, type: Date
end

That's a little redundant, but to a Rails developer, it's immediately clear what's going on. The full Organization code: https://github.com/public-law/schema-dot-org/blob/master/lib...

I'm not using Ruby-RDF at all. I looked into the current Ruby meta-data and strong typing work, and found it all too complex for my simpler use case:

I'm creating websites, and I want to embed correct JSON-LD-formatted schema.org in a rock-solid way: (1) Correct syntax, and (2) correct semantics. I've got the information as Rails models and objects, and I need to convert this to HTML/JSON-LD.

So all of these objects, like Organization above, recursively creates proper markup in response to #to_s:

<%= @an_organization %>

...instantiated from that class above, will result in this in the generated HTML page:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "Organization",

etc.

https://github.com/public-law/schema-dot-org#usage
If your just looking for routes/traffic, perhaps try "Waze" - also owned by Google. It has maps/routes without all the other bloat like recommendations.
We're a new b2b saas company. We just made this exact decision (to locate in sfbay) and the decision not to hire remotely. Reasons to be here are basically we have a deep engineering network for hires, we raised $300k from local angels, most VCs we want to work with are local, and most of our desired customers have their hqs here.

Reasons not to be here are the absolutely ludicrous cost of housing and what that does to salary requirements.

But as a tiny company, execution speed is our single most important attribute and we couldn't work out how to work remotely without damaging that. I'm glad github and others have managed, but you have to wonder if they succeeded despite being remote.

ps -- I've worked remotely before. It's really nice not to start every goddamn meeting screwing with hangouts doesn't connect / lifesize hardware works great but doesn't connect well to mixed hardware + laptop calls / multiple zoom invites with different meeting rooms / go2meeting clients are shitty / etc.
"Respect" seems to be a loaded word. How about we just try for courtesy?
>Uber and Tesla self-driving cars kill drivers and pedestrians

As opposed to the hundreds a day dying from conventional drivers? There are what, like 2 deaths attributable to self-driving cars so far? Some dystopia.

IMO the real dystopia is being unable to contextualize statistics and news reports, which have become a pervasive part of people's leisure consumption.
This is a common myth that comes down to "it has salad in it, how bad can it be?" The answer is pretty bad.

While there's only 540 calories in it that's really a function of the big Mac being quite small.

A burger isn't inherently bad but chain burgers are laced with oil and sugar.
A metal body is heavy, prone to dents and attenuates radio. Why are you so keen on having one? The X1 Carbon is lighter, tougher and more serviceable than a MacBook Pro, in part because of a better choice of materials.

As for trackpads, Apple keep making them larger and larger, so a ThinkPad trackpad is no smaller than a MacBook from a few years ago. The keyboard is surely the primary concern.
I agree

/s
Ask HN: Is superior position at an inferior company better than.?
Is a superior position at an inferior company better than an inferior position at a superior company? Why ?
Skill qualification and the more formal communication requirements.
Totally agree, a fantastic book.
Well for starters, they haven't ignored the correction. https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2018/04/05/parklathe-curiou...

It's a valid question: large events like this march require considerable coordination among public services and permits are necessary to make sure that police and EMS and public transport can react, and navigating the bureaucratic machine for getting a permit is, by official D.C. guidelines, estimated to take at least 6 months. This march took place only a bit more than a month after the Parkland shooting. If people are to believe that this large march was organically organized in just a month, it must be the case that some public officials pulled strings and made exceptions for them, and that is a story in its own right. Or, on the other hand, it must be the case that this march was planned in advance of the shooting, and was thus not organized organically by student groups, but was perhaps something that was intended to happen anyway, but was repurposed in light of the shooting in Florida, which would change a purportedly grassroots event into something with much less meaning and arguably paints the true organizers as opportunists.

Well, this someone sent an email in search of that question, and got a response, and this website reported on it: they heard that a permit application was received prior to the shooting. I don't see how it's their responsibility to continually check back with the officer that was consulted in order to be sure that he really meant what he said. But, as mentioned, the article contains mention of the fact that the officer has since rescinded his date, and another article is linked that pieces together the timeline.

I don't see how it's fair to label them as liars. They haven't lied. They reported on a response from a public official. They've even edited the article to make mention of the rescinding of the comment. What more should they do, remove the article outright?

(edit: for the record, I feel it is necessary to say that I do not regularly read this blog, I came across the fellowshipoftheminds.com post as a result of seeing the politifact article on reddit, I do not endorse the site in question)
A cease and desist based on what?
> The government cannot just say "hey that whole SSN thing yeah we're not doing that anymore" without a decade or more of lead time.

The government itself has done it, certain parts at least. It took fewer than 10 years. Do you think the private sector would be slower than the public sector?

[$_] http://dpcld.defense.gov/Portals/49/Documents/Privacy/SSNRed...
Because it won't be self-control anymore if someone else - be it a sentient algorithm or a person - is at the controls. Mankind also used intelligence to create self-propelled carriages which most certainly enhance our mobility. That does not mean we need to give up on walking or cycling under our own power as that is proven to be disastrous for our well-being. I think - no, I am convinced - that the same goes for giving up control over (ab)use of technology to that same technology.

It might work for that part of the population which lacks sufficient self control just like insulin pumps work for that part of the population which lacks functional thyroid glands.
Why your next open source project may only be an interface
Not being mindful to their god given right to make a profit?
Because the restaurant did not explicitly opt in to receiving robocalls?
How is it that the current implementation of Google Assistant can't even add stuff to my calendar in a natural way? I just tried the following: "OK Google, add an event to my work calendar for a meeting at Starbucks tomorrow morning at 11:30".

What was expected:
Title: "Meeting"
Calendar: "Work"
Location: "Starbucks"
Date: Tomorrow
Time: 11:30am

(Bonus points for associating an actual location, but possible ambiguity gives this a pass.)

What happened:
Title: "My work calendar for a meeting"
Calendar: Default
Location: None
Date: Tomorrow
Time: 11:30am
Isn't it more about pioneering and experimenting in order to inform and stabilize the standards? My understanding is that many new and upcoming protocols are the result of experimentation in the wild. SPDY/http2/quic/etc?
Honestly, handling a realistic voice is incredibly hard; being able to parse context, including from structured, partial information, even more so. I don’t know if the progress in training processors, LSTM structure in the next year, but I doubt many companies will have enough conversations to train their models -- other than the operator of, say, Google Voice.

I am willing to believe that any company who can offer that service as a service will know that they need to monitor for abuse, and have a very sophisticated team to catch those. That might include Apple, Amazon, Baidu (who probably won’t launch it in English). Facebook wasn’t able to see something like that working and they abandoned M four months ago.
For IPv4, clearly no, at this point.

For IPv6, clearly yes, at least so far. It's pretty typical to get at least a /64 aka LAN with a VPS. That's 18 x 10^18 addresses. ISP customers typically get a /56 (256 LANs) or a /48 (65536 LANs).
Xanadu basics 1b: indirect document delivery
I don't see how the cryptocurrencies make sense for (1). If you're going to trust FB anyway, might as well use Facebook Credits, which are much cheaper to run and are already partially integrated into the platform.
Alternatively: Six phases of a big project
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_phases_of_a_big_project