skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't stop thinking about the centralization going on here, even if you avoid using Google apps now any app could be feeding back your information to Google.
Now that there are actually investigators on the ground, we can begin to answer those questions. Until the OPCW releases their report, we don't know that their was any gas released there at all. If there was, we won't know who released it.

If one were to ignore political biases, I think they would admit that there was more motive for the rebels to stage a gas attack to create international pressure for a cease-fire that allows them to escape a surrounded and hopeless position, than for Assad to bring the wrath of the world down upon himself to gas a completely surrounded and hopeless enemy. If you don't at least admit that such a thing warrants investigation, you are not being honest.

Were you troubled at how quickly the "political mainstream" came to consensus on what happened there, before any investigation had occurred?
That's a totally different issue. There are multiple products on Amazon that develop a "following" (either because the product is ridiculous on its face, or because it's so ordinary ), and manage to accumulate all sorts of reviews, from funny to poetic. See https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-amazon-reviews/ and https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Dairy-Whole-Vitamin-Gallon/dp/... as examples.
The issue at hand seems to be about suppression of information (information that happens to be about abortion), not pro-abortion.
What is a few? That is the in the range of infrastructure projects for many nations. China could create it for example.
I think it's useful to put this into perspective, if you're designing a format for your backend and frontend you don't need semantic data. If you're one party providing API to others you don't need it too. But if there is an ecosystem of independent parties providing and consuming data there is a need for a way of describing meaning of your fields. By meaning I don't mean "field X is ISO time" (that would be JSON schema) but rather "field X is date of birth".

As for practical uses JSON-LD is used by Google to scrape things from the internet, and check if they got a Place here, Person or maybe a Business. Activitypub that powers Mastodon is also JSON-LD.
The lifestyle that having such a lucrative skill set has created for me.

While I'm currently living off savings on a beach, I'll have to find a job again in the next twelve months and it's not something I'm stressed out about because I know I can find remote work again.

Building stuff is one of my hobbies, and this hobby is marketable. But I am more than someone who can write code. I have other hobbies too that my programming hobby pays for.

Also, university is a grind. I recommend finishing it rather than being tempted to let your emotions drive it. But, just like in the rest of life, remember to have fun and take the opportunity to meet people.
Okay. I'm looking forward to every blog covering vaccination giving equal time to anti-vaccination viewpoints.
This would be an interesting way to launch a denial of service attack on a restaurant in the real world.
Just read Week 1 of this course - very easy to follow.
Although with a different instructor, there are later versions - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/ seems the most recent, with plenty of updates since the spring13 course. I'll be reading more!
My projects, by and large, serve a greater purpose than "neat code". I do a lot of modeling and basic research, so that's pretty motivating. It's not without its own grind, of course, but it's easier to convince myself that it's worth pulling long hours when the payoff is finding out something new about the world versus writing a slightly better ad-seller algorithm or something.
That's true. People do not take psychological effects of technology seriously. The reason being most of us are already addicts.
Who knows if this comment is by a bot or a real person.
There is an entire world of straight-up fabricated "journalism" disguised as reputable reporting which gets immense circulation on social media networks. It is very easy to not experience this sort of thing, using fairly basic but overall uncommon steps. For instance, I don't use Twitter and I've filtered all my random acquaintances (e.g. random people I knew in high school) from my FB feed years ago. But there are patently false links being passed around at an enormous rate on these sites, and people that don't personally invest themselves into that sort of social media, or simply don't discriminate between who they see stuff from, get exposed to it a lot.
False dichotomy. It obviously isn't like either one; not a purely public forum, and not an intimate private gathering.

The notion of semi-public space (shopping malls, sidewalks, right of way) has been around for a long time and is continuing to evolve. The laws and precedent on this are not fixed in place, nor should they be, especially as more of our public participation moves online.
I use it almost daily to recommand coffee shops or places to go to. It's not always the best at this task but it's quite good.
This is my biggest take away after almost a decade working in this industry.

"Love your job" has been sold to me thousands of times. Yet, I think that people that say they love their job lie to themselves. It is also very unhealthy.

Let's do a quick game. If you had all the money in the world, would you still do your job? Probably not.

I highly advocate for balance in your life. A job needs to be done properly, and once in a while there is nothing wrong about doing a 80 hours work week, but don't drink the koolaid and work away for a dream that is not yours.
I think that the official name normally comes out very close to the GA release.
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I get a local newspaper that shows restaurant openings and closings; it seems like a much better fit for that kind of information than something global like google maps.

Google maps should be answering two questions: Where is it, and how do I get there. "What's cool and new in my city" seems like a feature that's being shoehorned on because it's a possible revenue channel.

>asking locals

I like that for hippie reasons like building community and a sense of connection to other people, but I'm also a little disappointed I didn't instantly recognize that the objectively best way to know "what the locals are doing in their neighborhood" is to "ask them"
Whoa, really? I noticed Google Maps being slow as shit on my Galaxy S5 and thought it was just because it was an old phone. I guess getting a new phone isn't going to help then?

(I've been meaning to upgrade to a newer phone, maybe an LG V10 or V20, soon for several reasons; the S5 has been great but it's now 4 years old. But I guess Google Maps being slow isn't a valid reason any more.)
This is a reversed appeal to authority, and the fact that you keep attacking “credentials” rather than anything solid is telling. As Vkou said, they cite their sources. I’ll take that over vague hand-waving around credentials any day. Like people who dismiss Wikipedia, the issue is that you need a case-by-case basis to dismiss cited works.
WordPress. Matt Mullenweg has given frequent interviews about how their "remote-first" culture works. Here's a starting point of articles and interviews he's given: https://www.google.com/search?q=matt+mullenweg+wordpress+rem...
I'm really impressed this year. I haven't thought that ML made the advances so much faster than it does already.

On one side it is not very impressive that it calls someone but on the other side its tremendous.

2018 we are able to synthesize voice so well and understand already such a small domain. 2018 a system calls a human.

We are going so fast already and we should use this google io as something as a social milestone otherwise we wake up tomorrow and totally misses when the future became now.

This is just one additional stone to a future where digital becomes a second reality. The advances in voice will not stop. How long will it take, that there is a speech model who can simulate everyone by listing to someone only for seconds or minutes?

With this voice etc. computer are able to teach humans. We will be able to scale teaching and a shit tone of other things.

I'm impressed.
Most of those reviews are satirical, as are the Q&As. The product is a grotesque parody of a bicycle, so some scallywags have reviewed it appropriately.

It has clearly been designed by someone who has seen a few photos of fast road bikes, but doesn't know or care about any aspect of what makes a bike fast. It's the bicycle equivalent of a cheap Honda that some teenager has absolutely ruined with tacky "upgrades". It might not be obviously apparent to a novice, but the product images genuinely made me laugh out loud.

The reviews are an embarrassment to Amazon, but so is the fact that this product is even for sale. It's an atrocious bicycle that should have never been built in the first place, designed with the sole intention of deceiving naive customers. A quick browse of the bicycles category on Amazon suggests that this is an endemic problem - the customer reviews suggest that many are dangerously defective.
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RDF solves very real problems, see my other comment in this thread for a list of a few of them. A graph database does not solve those problems in any way.

I also find it strange to call it dead when companies like google and facebook are using it for metadata on content to power their core products. Again, a graph database does not solve that.
I'd say ignore most advice from people you do know too. Especially anyone who doesn't have kids, or only has one kid. There are definitely good tips to take from parents or books -- the stuff from happiest baby on the block (swaddling, shushing, etc), which baby carrier doesn't hurt your friend's back, etc. But kids are so different, what works for one won't work for another. So anyone who listens to your tale of why your particular baby is difficult and then tells you why you're doing something wrong is just full of shit. They can tell you things to try, and who knows if they'll work, it's always worth a shot. But please don't let yourself feel bad because some random friend of yours had an easy baby and you're having a hard time. Kids are different and it's incredibly unfair how big a delta there is between easy babies and hard babies.

[EDIT: I went back and realized the original ask wasn't just about newborns, but about parenting all different age levels. I'm not sure that changes much of my opinion, but I do think it makes a collaborative project more interesting/useful]
My previous employer eventually decided to limit hiring to North American time zones so there's a good amount of working hours overlap between team members for actual synchronous collaboration. Without that, we've found it's really hard for a remote team to match to the level of productivity of a fully-in-office team.
The mental model of "pace layers"[1] is a really insightful one. I've found it extremely useful to think about problems from a systems perspective - eg. what layer am I operating in and what layers may I encounter in the future? What might I expect from this layer (eg. dynamic, spontaneous vs. cautious, calculating), and how does that inform the decisions I should make?

[1] https://alexpetralia.github.io/2018/02/19/NL-2018-02-19.html
Yeah and I had your view before the last 2 years and the 2016 election. All we've seen is this kind of technology will be abused to the gills to create fake propaganda, robocalls, and phishing scams.

I too want to absolutely, without a doubt, regulate or slow this stuff down until we can better understand how it can be abused. And WHEN it is abused, we have ways to address it and aren't constantly playing catchup to how people are badly using these things.
This matched my anecdotal experience. I find a Chipotle burrito bowl, the way I "construct" it (1), to be fairly healthy and a relative bargain. I order it with a glass of water (into which I can squeeze a "free" lime wedge, if I choose).

I guess I'm being subsidized particularly by all the families whose kids insist on sodas.

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1) And as I understand it, this is another popular aspect of modern dining: The ability to "construct" the order you "want". I think I've read that, although I don't know all of the financial ramifications, from the industry's perspective.
Like everyone else, I'm curious how you recover your forgotten pass code after 7 days.

Also, what happens if you don't use a passcode?
>…the edit controls behaviour could be changed in which case it could cause existing programs to behave differently…

You just add a new mode to the control that enables the new behaviour. Existing programs using it would work fine.
Most Linux programs don't remove their files from /etc/, ~/.local, ~/.config on uninstall either.
No, certainly not! They were obviously referring to cheap frozen pizzas and brown cheese on cold waffles :)
Are there any good reasons why a developer would buy a Chromebook over some other laptop, unless they are developing for the Chromebook itself?
Ask HN: What are your personal goals?
1. Making automated, unsolicited robocalls is unethical.

2. This is an automated, unsolicited robocall.
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Just tested on my iPhons 6S+. Maps took about 2.5 seconds to boot, 1 second to load search predictions, then showed exacty results instantly after I chose the search term.

Yelp took about a second longer on each step, with worse search predictions with partial string input, making me spend more time typing. Also the text is harder to read and the search box is harder to activate. So UX seems to also be a factor adding human lag time to the equation.

Maps isn't instant but it's the better of two nonideal options.
It’s the fast-food salad option, or McDonald’s apple slices of tech. If they cared about their impact they’d address their role in it, not seek to marketeer their way out of it with empty gestures.
I think it's a trained behavior for a lot of users to default to wanting a mobile app instead of going to a mobile site because, at least in my experience, 9 out of 10 times the mobile web experience is flaming garbage and just infuriates me. I'm not including the sites that create specific pop-ups to use their mobile app either, like ignoring those I still find most sites just don't feel good on mobile compared to if they have an app version available.
Disagree. Respect is given and removed if proven undeserving.
> The odds of that are remote because my workstation never leaves my office and I have the reflexes of a highly trained ninja.

Does HE ever leave his office?
Or they can just start hanging up when this stupid thing calls them.
... a nut butter?

<I'll see myself out.>
This is simply because Google Duplex's TTS engine is using Tacotron and WaveNet which are not ready for general use yet.
> Culture is in shambles and recovery from the magnificent impact of the Internet

Some of us see the destruction of this culture thingy as a good thing and are truly rejoycing now, ya know!
As was witchcraft.

Social scapegoating as an American institution.
This is awesome, awesome tech. I just showed it to a bunch of people in my office.

But at the same time, the last two years have shown us that a lot of technology is being very effectively abused to misinform at a geopolitical level, and we as a society need to better understand or regulate this stuff for sure. Lives are at stake.

That said, I'd never say that Google shouldn't work on this. It's amazing. We just need to better understand not just how it can be used, but also how it can be abused.
I'm almost tempted to try out the beta on my daily driver Pixel.
Seems like a stupid decision though.

Is there an easy way to manage this from a worktation? Completely backup my current state and restore it afterwords?
Hysterical laughter of historic proportion.
OPs is Operations. Kinda like DevOps for development, they keep the wheels turning.

OPs are usually everything after the GM (General Manager) so the area manager (would have multiple stores), then regional manager (would have several areas) and above.

Operations also include anything that has to deal with getting product into the store like Research & Development, supply chain, or commissary.

Hope this helps.
Neither of those problems (lost key, compromised key) are anything new. Why wouldn't sites just handle them the same way they currently handle revoking/resetting passwords?
Oh, I'm with you there, but I'm skeptical that the lessons of the Enlightenment mean very much in a context where powerful business interests have actual control of public psychology to such an extent that they can convince people that they came to those conclusions of their own free will.
> I just think we should be open to modifying any part of the Constitution. Many people refuse to consider this and think of parts of it as sacred doctrine. The first and second amendments, in particular.

The Constitution is hard to change precisely because it's hard to get widespread consensus on changes to such fundamental precepts of our society. Especially in a country as big and diverse in viewpoints as the U.S.

Given the current level of division in our society, I'm not open to modifying any part of the Constitution right now.
The technology is really awesome but I'm not convinced it will fly:

* How much time do people really save, the call in the example is less than a minute. Maybe if you need to call like 10 places it becomes more helpful, but as companies get a bigger online presence (and they are) this technology becomes less useful. You can already make reservations/book appointments, find contracts pretty easily online.

* You can't be 100% sure that the AI won't make a mistake or sound like a total jerk on your behalf. Ok sure, the tech will improve but it will be a long time before humans will fully trust AI to represent you.

* If people find out you're calling them via some automated bot they're going to think you're a tool. Everyone remember Google Glass?

* What the hell is wrong with human interaction anyway?

edit: formatting
Would you happen to remember where the interview was published ?
Chromebooks are cheap.
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Every place that I use my key gives you a set of one-time-use recovery codes. To log into your account, you can use either the key or a code. (You still need your password.) Codes can be regenerated at any time. To revoke a key, you simply remove it from your account.
"Make sure to consume technology responsibly but make sure to make sure your tech is Google. ;)"

I agree with other posters saying this is akin to a cigarette manufacturer branding a "smoke responsibly" ad with their logo.

The problem isn't tech. The problem is the industry's rampant need to take over our lives with their own silos.
Again, you're doing everything but addressing the claims.

Again, if I was to link to WashPo or NYTimes, you'd dismiss them as well.

Again, you're just covering for the liars of the world.
And only using Tensorflow.
Absolutely correct. And so-called general AI may never happen. Regardless, this is shocking. It immediately needs to be factored into any speculation about what the world will look like in 20 years. Innumerable questions.
Disclosure: I am a Nate Silver fan. Nate's expert opinion is only valuable if you accept the premise, which is that prediction science involves a range of possible outcomes. If you accept that premise, which I do, his opinion on the 2016 election, in which he stated several times that the odds of a Trump presidency were actually higher than most of the polls suggested, was arguably a more valuable opinion than either a coin toss, or most of the individual polls.
Showing apartment listings and houses on desktop and mobile web.
it's a blessing and a curse.... when solving bugs it helps to have lots of different pairs of eyes on it. it's a natural tendency of people to want to warn others about a danger they've experienced.

but yeah, sometimes that does turn into a kind of contest where someone tries hard to find the detail that will mark them as an expert. That can be very tiring. If people try too hard, it shows and makes others tired.
I have been working at GitHub for almost a year, which is a remote first company. I would say challenges include:

- Solitude (at first it's not an issue)
- Asynchronous communication. Learning to read and write effectively.
- Team collaboration work (designing/brainstorming). It's very difficult to explain ideas through <insert name of video conference product>. To solve for this, GitHub allows employees to meet each other as long as there is a business need. On top of this, we hold summits very often, where the team gets to meet each other in a location for a week.
- Internet and great conferencing hardware (GitHub provides a great budget for both Internet costs and hardware).

But I would say the most challenging part is Trust. Trust in your manager, trust in your organization, trust in your company, and trust in your peers. Without Trust, there is no way to build a remote friendly company. How are you going to micro manage someone who is working in EU while you are sleeping in the US? Obviously GitHub is not a perfect place, but I would say that there is a mutual understanding among employees to trust each other and to communicate effectively.
Maybe Peppermint?
Basically, your sources would need to be “made available” in the same way witnesses are made available during a trial: there to be interrogated by interested parties who want to dispute their story, even if also safe from harm (by e.g. witness protection.)

Which is quite unrealistic unless you're talking about blowing a story about the local bakery or something like that. If any journalist can access the witness, they have no real security. Journalists are not all incorruptible angels, and a whistleblower is already in danger by trusting just one or two.

Witness protection works by essentially making the witness and their immediately family cut off everyone they know and restart their lives with new identities. It's a tremendous cost to pay, and the only reason most do it is because they're also implicated, and want to cut a deal. Who in their right mind would completely ruin their good, law-abiding life just to report some corrupt politician?
Would be interesting if this would become popular one downside I see to this is that if law enforcement get their hands on your token they can unlock the device.
Also as the token can be regarded as a key rather than a password a court would be able to legally compel you to surrender it without invoking much debate regarding laws against self incrimination (e.g. the fifth).
Eh, more likely the AI phone reservation system will also plug into something like OpenTable or it's descendants and Duplex and it's descendant will just check there first.
FTA: "Organizations will soon have the option to enable employees and customers to sign in to an Azure AD joined device with no password, by simply using a Security Key to get single sign-on to all Azure AD based applications and services."

Emphasis added. Device needs to be paired with Company's AD first.

I also imagine that there are options for making e.g. the device unlock only require yubikey, but login to SSO require 2nd factor.
It is up to you to define where your peremiter is, and put your protections there.

I generally recommend having the WAF live in front of of apps, but with a small gap that allows your scanners to still access the app. It is important to still be identifying vulnerabilities that your WAF might block, because they aren't perfect.
I wonder why they are using a VM running Debian for Linux applications, as Chrome OS is already Linux (Gentoo) based itself.
That is your choice.

To force it on society is to remove freedom from society.

That is not a choice. That is a consequence and it has consequences.
not quite true,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library#History