skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure I'm part of the problem. I can't say that I've been some kind of angel. I have reacted quite badly and at times immaturely. I did not however intend to portray myself as a victim. It's a situation of my own making. I did choose him as a co-founder after all.

It has been a very difficult few years though. I've taken a lot on board from what I've read today and I think it's made a positive difference. We finished the day feeling like we were on the same team for the first time in a long while.
Why 7 days though. It's should disable within 2 hours at most, and users should have the option to disable USB when ever the phone is locked.
Facebook will buy Coinbase within the next 18 months.
I'm sure you also agree that corporate defined truth is equally as dangerous, right?
Yup, just took the online RL class and the average grade for the final exam was 45 out of 100, high score of 76. The format was true/false with a short explanation for your answer. I never thought I'd be proud about getting a 53 on a true/false exam, but it was an extremely challenging and rewarding class.
I've heard of folks gaming at least some of these points by offering refunds (through a different channel, e.g. paypal) to buyers to leave a positive review. I don't know if it's true, but it definitely seems plausible and an easy way to buy reviews from 'legit' buyers.

Amazon could counter this by offering a big bounty on turning in sellers that do this, and/or financially penalizing them (the sellers) if sufficient evidence is produced.
Long experience with major libraries teaches that the twain are not incompatible statements. (-:
Yeah its talk to your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, neighbours. Which is why there are many different cultures that do things different ways and most people turn out great.
If you ever needed proof of the negativity in the tech community, this thread is it.

Google actually delivers a real world product incorporating the most advanced AI we've had the chance to experience, and half the HackerNews comments are "Wow, this is so dumb, can't wait for it to become technical debt in 10 years".
OpenGL already works via llvmpipe, but of course that's software. It's enough to run some applications, though.

And yes, virtio-gpu is coming.
yeah, if you are paying for meditation then you are doing it wrong
And you think Google will be the only ones using this technology for the foreseeable future?
I don’t think that Google has plans to train that system on individual’s voice. I’m not sure what the scale for doing that reliably would be.
I once worked for a company where the accountants had written a massive and convoluted VBA application that had gradually become mission critical to the company.

The IT department allocated a number of people (half a dozen?) for some time (8-12 months?) trying to turn it into a maintainable software product.

They failed.
A lot of the original capital investment costs for the Concorde were effectively subsidized by the British government, that would not be the case with a new Concorde most likely so the math on profitability would be substantially altered.
But all you need is that one person to side load something malicious and everyone in their contacts may be compromised.
Just because you don't have to explicitly give your lightning headphones permission to receive audio from your phone does not mean that there isn't some sort of authorization going on.

In 11.04, if you leave a phone locked for greater than 7 days, you would need the unlock PIN in order to connect any headphones.

Obviously, Apple would recognize the device as an audio device, and it would be automatically added, but the connection wouldn't even be established until you entered your PIN.
crostini does not need developer mode to run.
what happens is that it is still in chrome os developer channel, which means is still in beta and can have bugs, but is something diferent then developer mode, just to make things clear.
Laws are regulations, the courts you’re praising didn’t pull the laws they enforced out of their asses. If you remove government agencies specialised in regulating specific domains, then that responsibility will just fall on general law enforcement or just go unenforced.

Of course there are costs to any system of regulation, but most consumer regulation is there to prevent companies doing things some of them absolutely did. Busses in London used to have “no spitting” signs. Now they don’t. Why the change?

In general you regulate because hard earned experience shows you have to, not because you just feel like it. If regulations become unnecessary, ok it’s time to revisit it, but managing this stuff is what we elect people for.
Flip a coin 100 times. The odds of getting the exact sequence of heads and tails that you got are about 0.00000000000000000000000000001% (give or take a zero). And yet, it happened!
"Ba weep granna weep ninny bong"

It is the universal greeting for cybernetic organisms, after all.
If you still have it, and it is/was bootlooping, you can probably still recover your pictures by applying some heat to the chips. I think the problem is bad solder connections. Some people were successful using their oven, I was successful using a heat gun. It worked just long enough to recover my pictures. The second time I tried it, it started sizzling :-)
I find it disturbing that an otherwise intelligent sounding person regresses to the reading level of an 8 year old when confronted with dissonant information.

Let me explain again, and do try to read this time.

We have two events both of which the general public would find distasteful: one advocated treating women like objects, the other advocated tweens should undergo irreversible medical procedures that have at best dubious health outcomes.

One was banned, one wasn't. This is a problem.

Further the climate of the university is one that until recently was used as used as a straw-man to make fun of conservatives, "no one calls it lgbtqia+, you're just being disingenuous" was a reply I have received on reddit as little as 6 months ago.

You're welcome to slander me again if the above is too difficult to wrap your head around though.
I'm the kind of person this is directly aimed at, finance background, Excel officionado begging for a better scripting language. I can tell you that I am not interested in js for Excel one bit. Python for Excel however...
> but it's also fairly simple to address.

Don't do business in those restrictive jurisdictions?
1. I haven't used Google news until today, but I believe that's what the "Headlines" tab at the bottom bar is for. It seems to just show you the major headlines from everywhere, no personalization or AI involved.

2. Every news story has a "Full Coverage" button on the bottom-right that pulls up that same story from a variety of stories, so you can get different perspectives.

I agree that injecting AI and personalization into news is an easy way to put yourself in a bubble, but it seems that Google has at least tried to give users the tools to minimize that.
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If they wait 18 months, it will be Coinbase buying Facebook.
The nutrition space is filled with this shit too. I've had so many friends go "Gluten Free" with nothing at all to show for it, besides vague claims of feeling better.

There's a 65 year old guy that just finished his 30,000th big mac [1] and meanwhile people are trying to tell me that the piece of toast I had for breakfast is causing systemic inflammation and killing me.

SMH.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wisconsin-man-eats-...
Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, and cabbage come from single plant species
>[Sam Harris] has defended the work of the social scientist Charles Murray, who argues that genetic differences may explain differences in average IQ across racial groups — while insisting that this does not make one group inferior to another.

No, that is not what Charles Murray is arguing. Murray is arguing that some differences in average IQ are explained by genetics, and that does not make any particular individual inferior to another, because the distributions have a huge overlap. People should always be evaluated as individuals.

It is endlessly horrifying that one is not allowed to make the banal statement that "identified populations have different medians on virtually every factor we can measure". Such statements about any other living creature are unremarkable, but making such statements about human beings? Heresy. Just ask Larry Summers.
No kidding. Dealt with pitches for 'mindfulness' as a practicing stoic for years.

"Dude, you should check out mindfulness. You'd really be into it."

Nope. As best I could ever tell, mindfulness was a pop-psych pastiche of various bits of Buddhism, Daoism, and Stoicism designed to sell self-help books and consulting hours.

I can't speak for Buddhism and I've heard that the Daodejing appears cryptic now because the body of contemporary Chinese literature it frequently alludes to has been largely lost to history. But the surviving late stoic works are surprisingly accessible, even in stilted translations, making it much easier to see through attempts to repackage old ideas and make a quick buck.
It actually has a whole other half to the sentence, following the semi-colon.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/legality-of-void-main.html
No, it's on a different scale. I'm talking about things like an anthill or a tuna shoal kind of emergence -- a collective animal.
Nobody said anything about "owing." Simply that we've been "compensated" via tremendous value hence as programmers there's no need to feel exploited for providing "free" labor.
That’s unlikely. If they had claimed their business and had an active Google Maps account, the request would come to their email for now, and Google will probably develop an integration to their Point-of-Sale software, or surface their OpenTable link.
can you start over? write the app that does 1 simple stupid thing that adds a lot of value or unique value. then go all out marketing that thing like its the latest iPhone release. embed your marketing in your target market's daily lives. get lucky, often. good luck!
> 4. Use BC to combat fake news
> 5. AI platforms
> 6. Streaming services

I fail to see how any of those has anything to do with the blockchain.
so basically to defend against password hacking they want to use FIDO/yubikeys.

Too bad if something like twitter happens your yubikey is probably useless after it would've prolly logged anything to their servers.

P.S.: it's possible to change passwords, but hardware keys need to be destroyed and changed.
Also Yubikeys can also have bugs. https://www.yubico.com/2017/10/infineon-rsa-key-generation-i...
So basically it's not more secure. even worse the more code you throw at a problem the more likely it is to be unsecure.
> But they should have.

Well, sure, but you need to invent time travel before that.
You should separate trendy goal-oriented mindfulness from the thousands year old concept so you aren't throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

A mindfulness consultant forced onto a workforce sounds about as effective as forcing all your employees to run five miles every week. But that doesn't mean that running is bad for you.
It's a cheap more portable 2nd laptop. I much prefer it over a tablet. While the screen resolution on mine is pretty bad (768p 11"), I actually bring it around with me and am able to do elixir development with Termux.
There is a lot of confusion about what emulation means, and the name shifted to reflect that it will not, in fact, allow you to run your x86 Windows EXEs on a SPARC or PowerPC.
>Others have mentioned this to some extent, but what I've found the most challenging is when a company tries to do both local and remote, but was not remote-first.

I'm interested in this, as a person who does remote work, and has experienced some of these issues.

So, what are some good remote-first companies? I know of a few that may be: Automattic, Scrapinghub. What others? Asking all here, not just the parent commenter.

Maybe this should become a separate thread. Note: Obvious, but: "remote-first companies" is not necessarily the same as "companies that are hiring for remote positions".
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or until you reach turtles
I travel all over the Us (Texas, NYC, and Cali mostly) and I've literally never had to put down any kind of deposit or anything of the sort when making dinner reservations, and I frequently make reservations at plenty of nice, upscale places.
Which in turn is based on Apple and KDE software.
Not exactly, it's more like

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| Linux kernel + Android kernel bits |
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| Various and sundry |
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| Wayland compositor -----------------------------+ |
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| Wayland browser windows Wayland surfaces proxied from Qemu-KVM |
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I can tell it’s a billion dollar business, I launched a Meditation app two months ago, we had good retention and users were loving the app. Then the guy we hired to do the voice over disappeared with no explanation so we couldn’t fulfill our promise of “daily meditation” because the voice was not the same. 15 days later I understood why: We received a Cease and Desist from one of the companies behind the top meditation and mindfulness apps in the AppStore. They certainly don’t want anybody to enter that niche.
is chrome OS still considered a browser if it's providing a VM for non-javascript applications?
good point, i forgot about that
Hi HN,

I made a simple job board for the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning jobs, that updates every day.
A path tracer in 300 lines of C++
Please forgive me if off topic. I feel EDN deserves some love. Unsure if it’s lack of awareness or what. Defrecord with type hints is enough for most projects, esp. the data models. The collection types are complete and there are also comments, namespaces, and tags. The grammar is also short, simple and easy.

Spec: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/blob/master/README.md

Grammar:
https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/clojure/Clo... (EDN is a subset of Clojure).

Sorry if this is too fanboy, I just need to assume people aren’t aware when I see this big pile of mud that is JSON.
Here's a version https://github.com/michaelgg/cidb -- Just some of the raw integer k-v storage part. It assumes you already have the hashed entries (you truncate them and the compression takes it from there). It is really what you should expect more from a college course IR project but since I never went to school... oh well.

I used this same library to encode telephone porting (LNP) instructions. That is a database of about 600M entries, mapping one phone number to another. With a bit of manipulation when creating the file, you go from 12GB+ naive encoding as strings (one client was using nearly 50GB after expanding it to a hashtable) to under a GB. Still better than any RMDBS can do and small enough to easily toss this in-RAM on every routing box.

Some day I'd like to write it in Rust and implement vectorized encoding and more compression schemes. Like an optimized SSTable just for integers.
Security questions are often worthless anyways, especially if the victim is active on Facebook.
NIMBYism comes even to Boise, Idaho
There are both cheap and expensive Chromebooks available. So the main change is that now you have mid- and high-range Chromebooks _alongside_ the cheap ones, depending what you prefer
And I'm not mad at all. I'm glad that both iOS and Android are implementing one of WebOS' best feature. Using the Android P beta now and it seems to be most of the way there.
> I'm curious how you recover your forgotten pass code after 7 days

You don't. If you've lost your passcode, you can't get it back.
I am really only familiar with webkit and webcore, so I just assumed most others followed that pattern!

CoreML always sounded wrong to me because of that.
>a brilliant way to force businesses to move to using online reservation systems //

For micro businesses this can be a substantial administrative cost. A paper diary is still the best solution for some IMO.
Unless I managed to completely miss something, I see no mention of the copyright issues that likely ensare a good percentage of those who would otherwise be their prime audience.

This sounds interesting to me, but having already waded through the issues once on my own, without some serious help resolving the legal aspect of this, the cost of entry is too high for impulse-based participation.
Big Macs aren’t particularly unhealthy. Bread, lettuce, tomato, “cheese”, beef... the sauce is the worst offender but there isn’t much of it.

Fries and sodas are much worse for you.
> Effective monopolies should not be able to shut down free speech.

You avoided my question, but one of those companies are effective monopolies anyway.

But again: Do you think we should pass a law forcing every online community to not have content guidelines?
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What, exactly, are the side effects you allude to?
It's not that simple, firstly some Google and Facebook services are E2E encrypted which means that they cannot comply.

This also goes well beyond just Facebook and Google and if you use it to lock a physical device like a phone or a laptop that isn't something Google or Facebook would be able to help law enforcement with.

Also while I don't want to make a statement or start a debate on the level of compliance and attitude that Google and the rest have towards search warrants (because it's not relevant and I don't have sufficient knowledge to actually form an informed opinion on the matter).
Google and Facebook's legal departments have more funding than most state attorneys yet alone local DA's if they want to fight on your behalf (or on the behalf of their business model) in court they would be able to do so much more effectively than you ever could.

Google and Facebook also require a full and lengthy process with FIDO tokens they can do it on the spot, heck they are legally able to do so if you either agree to a search or law enforcement has an alternative sufficient basis to invoke a lawful warrantless search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrantless_searches_in_the_Un...

TLDR;
Officer: May I search your vehicle
You: Yes

At that point they are legally are allowed to take the FIDO token from your keychain and unlock your laptop.
"How to Talk so Kids Will Listen. And Listen So Kids Will Talk" is a fantastic book. It's clearly (and compassionately) written and has cartoons which depict exchanges between parent and child.
Will I be able to find an exe download and fix my old PC?
"Security from the people directly around you and security from everyone on the internet." Are the people around you not on the internet? They are just a subset of that larger group, aren't they? Sorry if I'm not understanding your point there.

And like I said in my edit, I really hope that Yubikey is not the one and only one way to store private keys. I personally would be perfectly happy, for most websites and apps, to manage keys just like I do for ssh. On my hard drive, backed up to another hard drive or two of mine, protected by a passphrase. I imagine most people would be pretty comfortable letting a service like lastpass manage most of their private keys for them, with multiple copies synced between devices and encrypted with a strong passphrase.
The Chinese government made Apple hand over control ofiCloud infrastructure in China to a Chinese company. So those encryption keys stored in iCloud are now in the hands of aChinese company subject to Chinese government control.

Not exactly an ideal arrangement, but it was likely that or switch off iCloud in China, or pull out of China completely. Which to be fair Google actually did.
One side effect ironically being that you don't buy into this whole cultural fixation on mindfulness.
> Fine grained control of what information is shared with apps.

No, they won't willingly destroy a major revenue source.
Let me share with you an anecdote from a friend of mine:

Lost my YubiKey around the start of the year and couldn't understand how it could have disappeared so I deregistered it everywhere and went back to Google Authenticator. Found it today [July] embedded in my gravel driveway where it must have been since January and been stepped on/run over since then. Popped it into the computer mostly for fun, and it works like a charm. :P Hardy stuff! :)
I chose my words carefully to make sure this remains totally anonymous. I was not trying to frame public opinion, just genuinely feeling low and desperate.
Choosing walking directions comes pretty close to meeting this use case.
If you don't like it, then ignore it. Your cynism brings literally nothing to the table.

As a student, and someone who wants to become a strong engineer over the next ten years... this kind of opportunity is fantastic. You can see it as "uncompensated labor", I see it as a way to learn, get my code "out there", and get better at my trade.
That sounds more like the communist option to me.
This reminds me of "lets do x, except in THE CLOUD" all over again. fight censorship by putting things in THE CLOUD where it can't easily be blocked, stream video from THE CLOUD

wasn't "the cloud" supposed to do decentralization too? hmm
Or a TitanV for $3000 because Tesla is more branding than anything else.
What if, as the demonstration showed, English is not your first language and you struggle on the phone?

What about foreigners on holiday, could their ask for a reservation in one language to Google Assistant and have it handled properly?
Great comic on this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3576
Thanks for the feedback! Agreed - for us using Google stars or tripadvisor ratings was useless in finding new places, as it's an average of thousands of people's opinions, who have different tastes and priorities.

Our stab at making finding places easier is to let people share their favourite places with friends (via lists) - you might not trust Google's bar recommendations, but you would trust your friend who goes out a lot and has a similar taste.
Sure, and all of those spaces are free to set usage policies. So there is plenty of precedent for kicking someone out.

What are you proposing? It seems that everyone comes shy of actually proposing something.

Are you saying that online communities/forums should not be allowed to have and enforce a content/behavior policy?
"Or it may not have. We don't really know anything."

I find these articles very frustrating.

"Maybe it's good, sounds like of good, right? But studies are inconclusive!"

So what are you saying? And why so many stock photos?
> Google news was especially great for international events in the early 2010s because you'd get international sources listed back then

I still get international sources (sometimes as the first source on a story , as on the Iran deal right now) on both the Google News & Weather app and the Google News desktop page. Strangely, the new Google News mobile page doesn't as much (and doesn't seem to expand to provide multiple sources for the same story the way it used and the other interfaces still do), and there's little consistency in sources, or even stories selected, between the three interfaces.
I have a Dell Chromebook 13 and the build quality is fantastic. It's my favorite laptop out of last gen Macbook Air, Dell XPS 13, Thinkpad, and Razer Blade. The keyboard on it is the only one that doesn't hurt my fingers to type on.
That was the first thing that popped into my mind. Now you could subsitute "The Russians" or "Paedophiles" or "Terrorists" for that part in the narrative.
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