skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get some context, FFS. These are seem close to "dystopian crud" because they are new technology.

I'm sure that people seeing a hypothetical AT&T I/O 1980 would think that automated telephone attendants were the end to human communication, commercial internet would ruin good letter writing and therefore society, and fax machines would be used as another form of government control. Imaginary dystopian futures never happen, but people keep imagining new ones.
probably the second one. at some point in the signup process it will offer a free trial and require a credit card. not sure what happens next because I've never proceeded, but I'm pretty sure they don't actually have the books they claim to have
I have graduated before this course existed, but I did take the Data Structures and Algorithms with Skiena, and trained for the ICPC using his Programming Challenges book.

Skiena's books and instruction are a delight, and our team went on to ACM ICPC Finals in Sweden.

I can highly recommend the course and the book it is based on. Note that the links to online judges appear to be broken. Use [1] and [2] for your practice.

[1] https://icpcarchive.ecs.baylor.edu/

[2] https://uva.onlinejudge.org/
That's not likely to be a good idea re the compensation. There are a lot of studies showing knowledge workers perform more poorly at the task with financial incentives.
The living standards of the average person is much better than it was 200 years ago. 75% of the world has a cell phone.

Yes the rich have it better, but the poor also have improved in ways that the rich of 200 years ago couldn't imagine.
The main benefit in my eyes is data integration. If you have multiple systems with data, and you want to merge the data together into a unified whole for some reason then RDF/JSON-LD make it easy and mostly automatic.

For example:
1. How do you distinguish IDs from one system with those of another? RDF solves this.
2. How do you distinguish property names across systems? RDF solves this.
3. What if a entity originates in system A which you don’t control but you want to add a property to it in your system? RDF solves this.

JSON-LD is simply one way to serialize RDF data that makes look like what you would typically expect from an API that returns JSON. I.e. it’s developer friendly

In addition to the above, RDF is also an extraordinarily flexible/schemaless data model if you store your data as triples rather than as documents. There is definitely a steep learning curve to linked data, and I’ve had a hard time explaining it’s value over the years, but I think it’s worth the time to learn, understand, and leverage.

All of these benefits exist before you get into things like ontologies, which allows you to add additional value on top of what I outlined above.
We don’t have a current offering, but if you want, please email me at luke@stadiamaps.com. We’re actively investigating ways to integrate more datasets (such as elevation) and we would be happy to learn more about what you need.

If we can’t offer something, we’ll at least be able to point you in the right direction!
Yes, and lots of sounds that the human ear can hear but are not used to decode speech. Also the audio is frequently recoded as calls pass from infrastructure to infrastructure.

Good times !
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I took this MOOC course, called Model thinking. One thing that blew me away was Cellular Automata. How complexity can arise from simple rules e.g Yes or No. From then I knew how simply evolution or 'creation' happened.
It's more like ai empowering individuals tremendously and some of these empowered people using their abilities to do harm
There was already a consens before he decided to contribute his own opinion to a triviality. By doing so he prolonged the discussion at least a bit. Forcing your opinion about a pointless and otherwise done issue on others seems like textbook bikeshedding to me.

At leaast now he can honestly say he is still actively involved with glibc.
> “An issue (as perceived by a user)” is not equivalent to a bug.

You've managed to encapsulate about 35 years of frustration with software in a single sentence.
> Google can scale out your requests, one to N. For example, 'Make me a reservation at a 4 star restaurant next Friday.' Google can immediately initiate calls against 15 restaurants and let you pick from the successes, then automatically cancel the reservations for the places you did not choose.

This sounds like a nightmare for businesses. This time commitment asymmetry will be the issue with these systems. Like email spam, it becomes much easier to waste others people's time when you automate time wasting. If people use it to flake a lot, I could see businesses just not responding to the assistant.
Apple have been using (name)core and (name)kit for a lot longer.

As an aside, how do you escape a star character on HN without dropping to a code block?
Indeed. The next 10 to 15 years in China will either further set an example that you don't need American/European democratic ideals in order for economic prosperity and a good life for your citizens, or it will go a long way to disproving the idea that those can be separated.

With several eastern European countries trending in an authoritarian direction (and Turkey pretty far along that path already) I am worried about the effect that Chinese prosperity without democratic ideals will have.
Yes, but it could be very subtle and low bandwidth at first, and once both sides were convinced the other was a machine switch to a full speed screeching 56k modem [1].

Or just communicate "hey actually connect to this HTTP/XMPP/whatever address on the internet and we'll continue this from there"

1. Probably a bit slower, I've heard modern VoIP lines don't work well with traditional modems?
Yes, a middleman. One of these services:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...
Microsoft was clearly upset at the number of SysAdmins installing Notepad++ onto their freshly-imaged Windows PC's.
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There was an ongoing discussion in a separate thread around LA's homeless problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17016427

For those still interested, at the bottom of this infographic is a helpful map that gives you an idea of how the homeless population gets distributed around Los Angeles.
The screenshot shows the blog author's name attached to all of the search results as a proper, spaced name. (As opposed to a domain substring) It looks like intended impersonation.
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Yep, the aura of statistics can blind us. It will most probably happen if enough numbers of people keep trying again and again for the next ten millions of years. Would be not much different as and asteroid falling on earth once an killing most animals.
The $50 price point being deliberately chosen seems to be a reference to Android Go, whose USP is that the max price of the phone, new, no subsidy, is $50. (Though in the US, ZTE actually sells them for $80.)

Of course, they're miserable little devices, but they are technically smartphones that technically run android.
As an end user, picking up the phone to hear a beep is not pleasant. I'm likely as not to immediately hang up, as I've come to associate beeps at the start of calls with scammers.
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Similar to how when designing a virtual face, it looks more natural if it has some slight asymmetries and "defects", and when designing a synthetic drumbeat, if it's "perfect" it sounds totally robotic.

Imperfection is natural and comfortable. Perfect corners and edges are artificial and weird to the distracting point.
Anyone still use Maps in the car? I use Waze.
http://fallibleideas.com/taking-children-seriously
Here's a 2010 Scientific American article, "Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbs-against-car...

Note the emphasis on refined carbohydrates. I would think that if you ate an unhealthy vegan diet which emphasized lots of junk food like high fructose corn syrup loaded sodas, etc, you'd be pretty unhealthy. Personally, I suspect that a vegan diet can be very healthy for you, but it could also be quite bad for you, depending on how you do it.

Regarding cholesterol: Humans make cholesterol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol

Also: http://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-eating/nutrition/art...

> Many people think that all the cholesterol in their blood (and elsewhere in the body) comes from the cholesterol they eat, which is called dietary or preformed cholesterol. In fact, most of it is made by our livers.
>Unix was strictly a server or esoteric workstation OS at the time.

And of course Mac OS wasn't Unix then, and used a different (third) line ending style.
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Can anyone actually give me an elevator summary of what this actually means without relying on tribal language or dog-whistles? Clicking link related doesn't actually explain why any of this matters to me outside of signaling and posturing; it just sends me to a timeline of various pundits and celebrities telling me how I should feel bad and angry about this.
The standard in high-assurance applications is to present a PIN to the hardware token before it can be used, ideally through an out-of-band keypad.

In this context, it would be reasonable to have the Yubikey require a PIN entry from the computer. You could use the same PIN for all sites because it stays local; the relying party never handles it, only the Yubikey.
> If there is an internal hardware clock that isn't synced to real time, just count relative to that clock.

There is. All modern operating systems, including iOS, have one. Without it, commonly used features like animations and media playback would misbehave during network time synchronization.
A double byte end-of-line sequence was a bug to begin with. Just like ending files on ctrl-Z (yes, it is End-Of-File, but filesystems know where the end of the file is already).

These are just holdovers from teletype days and with Notepad being solidly GUI based it could have simply had a backwards compatibility mode for 'DOS' style files.

Incidentally, CR-LF and LF-CR are interchangeable on a teletype, but various windows software would respond totally unpredictable to that alternative, including some spectacular crashes.
> “Today, our users aren’t just asking for the fastest route to a place but also what’s happening around them, what the new places are and what the locals are doing in their neighborhood,” Google VP for engineering and product management Jen Fitzpatrick noted in today’s keynote.

Are users really asking for this? I only ever use Google Maps for driving directions. I like that I can type the name of a place and it finds matches near me, but that's all the personalization I've ever wanted.
To clarify: keep generating landing pages and MVPs. You will likely find a more promising MVP.
> Anyone else think it's kind of silly that half the front page of HN is google press releases today?

I count exactly 1/3 that concern Google, most of which are not press releases (or other direct-from-Google stories), though the news articles may be heavily based on press releases.

But, no, it's not surprising we tend to get a lot of that on I/O keynote day. MS and Apple dev conferences also produce a lot, especially on the day of the keynote.
Feel free to hit me up if you want to talk, my email is in my profile and happy to jump on voice. I am happy to go into more detail on what I tried with my co-founder what worked. Over the last couple of years, I've talked to a lot of founders so I've got a good collection of what others tried too (slowly writing content for https://healthybusinesspartnerships.com/).

I went through something similar with my 50/50 business partner in 2014. Not quite the same, but close. My co-founder had a bit more of a mid-life crisis that he took out on me, although with your partner it might be similar under the surface. I tried meditation with someone who helps on this store of thing, time, some alternative work arrangement proposals, a coach to work with him, and so on. I was prepared to talk to our only investor and fire him at the time, but it would have created a lot of problems due to our structure. So I tried to buy him out... but in the end that didn't work out and I decided the best course of action for my stress was to sell. It sucked but happy to be out of it.

What would I recommend?
*With the caveat, I don't know more of the details.

1. You guys have hit a million run rate, that is impressive and a huge point to reach. Don't throw away the company so quick until you figure out if you can salvage this, or if you want to salvage this. I would stress that not many companies get to $1 million. I don't know how that first batch of customers is doing, or if you can be profitable without an investment round so there are two big questions I would ask myself.

2. Do you still like this business? Do you want to keep doing it even if you only own 50%?

If you want to continue on this project...

3. I'd recommend going to couples counseling. I kid you not. Tell him that you want to go to a weekly couples counselor and find someone who focuses on business partnerships, this could be a mentor, this could be a therapist. Find someone and have a place you guys can start talking to see if this is going to move forward. If you can't talk this isn't going anywhere.

If after that you still can't talk...
- Can you work with the investors and fire him from day to day and take over? I wasn't sure if there were any investors...
- Can you find an investor who will buy out a portion of his ownership or all of it?

PS. I'd love to hear more on the business and possibly buying him out as well. Always interested in that.
i have never used waze. google prefers to minimize distance rather than minimizing route complexity (for some minimal distance or time cost). my wife and i have an ongoing joke that google takes you on the most "scenic" drives through the most obscure neighborhoods.
The cynic in me thinks "What a great way to kill eyeballs to your competitors for advertising dollars"
GNOME provides a registry called gconf, now dconf (binary format). Many applications outside of the GNOME project use this registry.
They did denied selling older generation, so I would expect TPU 3 is not going to be available as well. The only way to use those is to use Google Cloud.
I also came close to pointing that out, and then I noticed that it only makes palindromes of this sequence more probable, rather than guaranteeing them (see my comment on Math SE).
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It provides a lot of benefits, see my other comment on this thread for a few specific benefits.
I hang up on robocalls now... I guarantee this service is going to get hung up on more than it will work. People don't like getting treated like crap at home, why do we need to treat them like crap at work.
I think you should elaborate on the specific threat model you're describing. Are you assuming a dumped database? Or are you talking about a brute force against an online service?
> with none of the benefits of a database (ACID)

This is not correct, Windows Registry updates are atomic and transactional. There may be other problems with the registry model, but it is a "real" database.
There has been a more complete pull request [1],[2] back to the main project repository which solves some of these problems, and should ultimately result in the (FreeBSD) port being fairly straightforward.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/309

[2]: https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/freebsd-support-for-founda...
This is the correct answer.

Most of those "automated" replies were copy-pasted from humans. This book inadvertently brushes up against something they want prohibited on their platform, but if they explain why it will give you a vital clue as to how to game their system. They can't get into detail, but want to stop you. It looks like the author is writing stories that could be mistaken for Steven Universe fan-fiction, so it may be a lot more straightforward than this writeup lets on: The writing may come off as being related to a franchise they're not a part of.
How much would it cost Microsoft to buy Notepad++ and Classic Shell, and remove two of the biggest annoyances in modern Windows?

Meaning, of course, that they would use them in Windows, so there would be a text editor and a start menu that work. Not buy and kill.
Why? Why would some random blog be held at the same standard at all as a newspaper?
It seems like they knew what they were doing, given that the search results have the author's name attached to them. (As a proper name, rather than cutting "nickjanetakis" out of "ssl.nickjanetakis.com")
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Should I be surprised that it happened to work in the example they decided to showcase in the release announcement?

I'm afraid I foresee this whole thing going quite hilariously wrong on the order of magnitude of Microsoft's Tay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
This also requires a datastore such as Postgres or Cassandra instead of just using the kubernetes api via a CRD or something else. Makes it a bit of a downer to use.
I created it a few days ago, with another name. But I really liked your proposal. Find it here: https://github.com/davidpelayo/awesome-parenting

Feel free to add stuff. Really, I'm just asking this to get different opinions from people worldwide.
Friends and family can also steal your credit card, but this is not where the majority of credit card theft comes from.

Your example of people leaving the key with the laptop is a good example of one of the potential flaws, but just like if your credit card gets lost or stolen, you report it and it becomes unusable.

I agree that there is room for 2FA, but this is also surely preferable to the current system.
>This sounds like a nightmare for businesses.

They pointed out during the presentation that the system could call once to a business and get the hours, then allow hundreds or thousands of users to see that without bothering the business again. Assuming it works, it could save a significant amount of time for some places.

>If people use it to flake a lot, I could see businesses just not responding to the assistant.

Then it sounds like incentives are aligned here. Google needs to not allow users to abuse this ability so that businesses will trust and not block them.

If they allow something like the parent commenter pointed out, they would sour relationships with businesses who would promptly seek out ways to block or decline calls from this system.
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I think you either enjoy programming and have a knack for it or you don't.

I love programming so I look forward to it everyday.

Learning new things, applying things you have learned, solving hard problems keep it interesting for me.

Having your own side projects are a good way to learn new things and look forward to the time you have to spend on them.

A CS degree and a job as a developer can lead to untold riches right now. So having a semi-relaxing job you enjoy that pays really really well (hopefully doing something you enjoy) is something to look forward to.

It's also amazing what one or two developers can create, as far as their own business. From a small SaaS app that brings in $200k/yr to a small team developing something that exits for $1B. Amazing times and knowing how to develop and create is the key to that kingdom.

Enjoy University while you are there, they are some of the best times.

Study and prepare for the real world, keep learning new things.
The windows registry is absolutely terrible at its job. The namespace is polluted from day #1 after installation and this only gets worse as a box gets older. The number of places the same key could appear are baffling and you never really knew when you had exterminated the last instance of HKEYsomethingorother to achieve the desired effect.
Not sure reading the article why would I need the computer. The way I read it, you enter the key to any computer and it logs in to the account of the key owner. Am I wrong?
If the line is busy I assume they call back as well? That's another time saver for the consumer.

And it's a great spin on the Future of Work. It's offloading the time from the consumer onto paid workers at the businesses.
Good! Thanks. I'll add it to the repo I just created to document all this stuff. Appreciated!
Lawyers are generally the last step, not much happens that is good once they are involved. I'd recommend couples counseling of some kind prior to that, and sitting down and laying things out and giving him/her time to think on it at the very least.
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I'm at still irrationally frustrated about my fledgling MailChimp account being flagged and locked months ago for no discernible reason and with no meaningful option for recourse. I am now a happy MailerLite customer and will not use or recommend MailChimp.
I had a great laugh along with another reviewer for this bike that seemingly hired a bunch of exaggerated writers to post unverified purchase reviews for it.
https://www.amazon.com/VTSP-Upgrade-Bicycle-Mechanical-Wareh...

Something about the language trying too hard that the reviews just came off fake. It's a real bummer having to add this to the mental wading through online junk.

On another front I definitely like the idea of Amazon's Choice, that's based on quantitative things like return rate and what not. I'd like to see more of that data trend in that direction.
When they were working on Windows 7, Microsoft tried to be more open about the development process in order to repair some of the damage Vista had done. So one day, I came across this video, an interview of a few Windows developers.

At one point, the person doing the interview asks, "So, what do you guys think of the Registry?". Awkward silence, followed by uncomfortable laughter. Finally, one of the programmers says, "I think it's fair to say it was far more [widely used] than any of its designers had anticipated."

(Quoting from memory from a video I saw once, ~10 years ago, so the wording might not be perfectly accurate, but that's how I remember it.)
Perhaps they should identify themselves upfront? "Hello, this is an automated call on behalf of..."
Wordpad is part of Windows Server, but it is a rich text editor not a plain text editor. Therefore there are some file formats that it will interpret and corrupt on save.
Well average wage is a poor metric. Hopefully it is median global household income that has doubled.

Taken to its logical extreme, there is no wage whatsoever if a majority of jobs are automated.
An asteroid wiping us out is vastly more likely than someone winning the Powerball 100 times in a row.
It's as ethical as companies unleashing chatbots and voice-synthesized phone "customer support" gatekeepers on us. Although, I would prefer to have conglomerates taste their own medicine rather than local shops.
Celebrite is actually the better of those out there, while they do sell their data acquisition terminals to LEO in bulk their "unlock services" are done in person by their staff with a court order for each case (including multiple court orders in some jurisdiction when different datasets on the phone are protected separately by law).
Why does fb give returning interns such a large (100k) signing bonus?
Give http://services.imagico.de/relief.php?lang=en a try.

Which zoom levels do you need? What coverage?
Cool! Thanks you!!
>They used the consumer travel market and Pan Am as an excuse to built bases and refueling networks all across the Pacific

Lol that's funny when you read about China building a cruise ship wharf in Vanuatu a few weeks back. No its not for military use at all. :) https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/asia/vanuatu-china-australia-...