skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of Mozilla’s aim with the Sprint is to help people/projects outside of engineering apply “open” principles -- to educational resources, to civic projects, etc. That’s why you see some light-weight, non-technical issues. But there are plenty of more typical coding projects to work on! You can try searching by project or language to find those.
It's unethical I'm forced to filter junk mail from my important mail, but here we are.
I'm unable to extract anything specific from your comments. Are you still talking about the registry or about something else? Its cathartic to vent, but the registry is not the source of your frustration.
Let's not get over dramatic here. To sound natural of course the computer system has to copy natural behavior, which includes manners. The experimental version of this system happens to include behavior modeling of phone conversations of people that live where the developers work and live, seems logical. It doesn't mean that the same model will be used in other cultural contexts. An ideal model would copy your behavior (and/or voice), so it would be like you calling.

Just have to let Google listen and analyze all your conversations :)
Sigh, guess it won't be long before we're all asked to jump through some ludicrous human challenge to confirm we are not a robot every time we call someone
Java support on oni (neovim)
Here ya go:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdxg9/fbi-hackin...

This is not the CIA hacking into Kim Un Iphone in North Korea, this is local cops using these advance surveillance tools on US civilians.
Facebook is undergoing a huge executive reshuffle
A bot to get your Comcast bill lowered already exists: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/17/13656264/comcast-bill-ne...

I assume the same is possible for navigating Tier 1 support, though you are really setting a bar for describing people as subhuman at this point. I'm concerned.
The agenda is the garbage article you just posted. I've never seen such a severe case of ad hominem.
The older I get, the more true I suspect this is.
They're incredibly sturdy. I don't know what a proper stress test is, but i hung my keys from my usb socket with it, countless times, it's been on my keyring for years, bent and scratched every which way.
Ask HN: Has anyone moved to Canada?
Hi, my girlfriend is a Canadian citizen and eventually wants to move back. I work as a data scientist manager in tech and make good money. How have people found the move to Canada in terms of salary, opportunity, and interesting companies to work for compared to American non-Bay Area tech cities like NYC, Seattle etc.

My initial searches have found it to be relatively barren, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places? Thinking primarily Vancouver but potentially open to other cities.

Thank you.
It's implied by the I (isolation).
Never thought the movie Her would come true in my lifetime. And here we are.
Costs to compete in the silicon business have inflated massively since that era, its perhaps 100 or even 1000 times more expensive to build stuff like fabs (although NVIDIA dosent own fabs), and design chips.
> Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

(Almost) everyone agrees.

> Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

Google then goes on to offer something superficial.

> Learn more about your time spent in apps.

What about going outside or spending time with your family and people you love? What about inventing something new?
What about offering something that will actually save some of your time, by the way?

Nope. This is an ad about a stupid mobile phone app.

> Learn more about your time spent in apps.

No negativity intended here. Sure, it could help to know you are wasting your time with apps—as if you didn't know that.
Some apps are indeed useful and improving lives. But offering people to waste their time tracking their own habits on Android comes off as rather patronizing.

> Learn more about your time spent in apps.

I can't help but picture this ad with the missing clock ticking icon or with the inevitable skeleton in a hoodie carrying a scythe...
Actually, they have. If you follow the link on OP, you'll see 93 selected issues, not the 941 noisy ones you linked.

They're actually putting some effort into this as well. Not just creating a place for a ton of random junk, pat on the back, "good luck, go figure".

EDIT: Your filter is just "label:mozsprint" across all of GitHub. That's pretty likely to include noise that Mozilla cannot do anything about.
There is another angle - healthier user's are more productive and spend more of their money on google's and its advertiser's products. Why would they NOT care about the well being of their users?
My understanding is API integration is what wechat is in china -- every hair salon and equivalent-of-corner-pizza shop has some wechat integration, payment and all.

Meanwhile in NYC, good luck getting the bodega on the corner to even take your debit card.
The whole context of Google introducing this functionality was for the 60% of businesses that don't yet have an online presence at all.
All the responses are talking about finding places to eat but I think Google still has a little ways to go in their recommendation / AI engine that they keep toting out in marketing events.

Take for instance my silly effort to get the assistant to help me out while I was driving on the highway a few weeks ago and had an emergency suddenly crawl up on me: https://imgur.com/v2Y1hsC

I didn't really expect that to work, but it would've been nice if it could've pulled up the closest business with a public washroom... I know Google maps is always asking me questions on that type of stuff.

Or the time where I hit the road towards a blizzard last winter and I asked Google to tell me what the highway conditions were like and I got some search recommendation for road conditions in a different country.

Maybe improvements to "recommendations" in general can solve these other problems that I figure are very navigation-centric in nature.
Instead of a high frequency tone, just watermark the background noise or the speech pattern. You could watermark the background static, the voice samples, or even the speech patterns. All you really need is something like 30 bits of data to identify a call as a Duplex call with very high probability, and I’m certain you can find a way to imprint that many bits into the frequency spectrum of your background noise.
It’s fast on my iPhone X. There’s probably other factors in play
To anyone with apps on two or more stores, MS included: is it worth it?

I considered registering so I could publish my browser extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpepefy-making-tw...) for Edge or IE, but having to pay to register was a turnoff for publishing what should be a free extension.
Cool! Are you considering Vulkan?
Are they really interchangeable? Moving the print head from the right side to the left could easily take two character times, and a teletype didn't have any buffering.
Auto Industry Faces Chaos as California, EPA Battle – Design News
Note: this is the former PayPal president, not Carol Marcus' son.
I don't understand all the negativity in this thread.

Is this Microsoft's crowning achievement? No, it's just a stupid little historic decision that someone remembered and decided to fix. They even took the time to enable admins and power users to use the old behavior. I too don't see who'd want it, but who knows? People do unexpected things sometimes.

Why bash them for that? There are enough good reasons to bash Microsoft... There are Microsoft products that fill me with a fiery rage of a thousand suns. But they did something cute here, someone there deserves a good word.
they call "frequently used" machine learning now? I expected something fancier...
> The US had a deal with Iran where they wouldn't pursue nuclear weapons, and we would ease back on the sanctions that were hurting their economy.

Note that we did not agree to remove direct sanctions, only secondary sanctions (sanctions on non-Iranian entities doing business with Iran.)
It has been an inexpensive and reliable crouton linux box.

The hardware support has been really nice, as a lot of the usual linux fiddling required to support monitors, etcetera has been much easier with the intermediate chromeOS layer.
Go back further and "noon" is "whenever the sun is at its zenith" so we've definitely made strides.
Or you could say it's an opportunity to improve mission critical code that tons of high valuation companies use every day for free ;)
Neat! So now you can run JavaScript "IDE" inside a browser inside a Linux VM inside a browser on Linux!
> to shift responsibility and give more management power to some emerging leaders at the company while getting some seasoned veterans at the company to tackle more emerging technologies

Sounds more like FB allowing them to continue to vest rather than firing them outright.
Memes that Kill
I'm looking forward to the momentum this will give OpenStreetMap through the sheer annoyance at Google.

But I sure wish Google would stop trying to read my mind and just do what I tell it to. Guess the descent is inevitable, since we're the commodity we have to fight with the service, explicitly or implicitly. But oh how I yearn for the days of old when they pretended to be nice.
You guessed it. I based it on the Google search results.

I did go back dozens upon dozens of pages (just skipping around) to spot check it and there were a ton of pages.

It's a lot less results now because I wrote this article 6 days before I published it. At this point the A record has been removed for almost a week.
That's actually a brilliant idea.
> The citizenry is required to have a level of sophistication and erudition and they will be forced to make nuanced and complicated judgements about the state of their world.

This is a fantasy in good company with, "free markets will always sort everything out fairly", "we don't need governments or regulations, just property rights", "unrestricted gun ownership will make everyone safer", and "the solution to clickbait is for people to just start reading the articles."

It depends on everyone suddenly becoming some kind of imagined ideal, just so that the world doesn't have to be so fuzzy and messy and can be reduced to simplistic mantras that any child can memorize.

> It may help to read about twentieth century dictatorships and the history of modern, repressive regimes in general.

It may also help to realize that the early 21st century has some issues that the early 20th century didn't. The power of business interests has now risen to compete on an equal footing with the largest governments, and in many cases is subverting or corrupting it. With so many people now being plugged in to some form of media or another, and so much of that media being controlled by a small number of powerful oligopolies, people are being influenced in ways that Hearst never could've imagined.

I'm ambivalent about legislating media, but there are a few incontrovertible facts IMO: this is a new problem for society, it's a serious problem, and people aren't going to magically become resilient to it overnight.

I think the people who are aghast at Trump sitting in the White House have already got some sense of the scope of this problem. For the people who are happy to see him there, I'd point out that a lot of leftists seriously floated the idea of Oprah running for president, and that only stopped because she wasn't interested. Imagine the amount of political influence she would have had through the media she controls, though.

As is so often the case, probably all that's needed to get right-leaning people on board with tightening regulations on media is for the left to find their Trump.
Admirable, what type of stack did you use for the back-end?

I remember there was a movement to be completely JS free in late 90s/early 2000s.
Yes! It feels.. very polished. The new notifications and settings area are just awesome. Also the app drawer is pretty great. And the animations... smooth as butter!
Yep and unless you spend hours researching the sellers, 100% of those NiMH batteries and servo motors will be absolute crap. The batteries will have fake UL logos, fake Samsung or whomever logos, etc. etc.

At this point, I would rather order my socks from Target and my electronics from Mouser. At least i know they have long standing relationships with distributors and I wont be getting fake products.
What keeps me going? Obsession and passion.
I got my first computer in December 1994. I was 43 then. The first night I did not sleep. Not the next either. Got hooked, immediately. I was in a full time job as a mechanic. In a workshop, wrenches, oil, welding, repairing, cars, machines, etc. Taught myself programming, besides the the normal job. In 1997 I got headhunted by a software company, having won 1. prize in a programmer's competition a Magazine ran.
Now I am retired, and am programming more than ever. Will sell my own products, I have what they call an ISV, my own one-man company.
Programming is as fun as ever. I do everything, Web, Desktop apps, plug-ins for the large multi media applications. Several languages, all is very fun :)
The combined time is equal, why would it matter what the order is?

http://hans.presto.tripod.com/scan/teletype/28_02.html

"Dependable carriage returns with only one carriage return and one linefeed signal" at 100 wpm.

Now I'm curious :)

I don't have a teletype handy though, I'm sure other HN'ers do.
I'm pretty sure Fakespot has no idea what they're doing. They provide very little detail on methodology and I've found a lot of their letter grades highly suspect. It's easy enough to assess their accuracy by looking at some items that have few enough reviews that you can tell yourself whether they're real or not. More often than not, I've found that Fakespot's grades are terrible.
Technically Congress is not needed to propose an amendment but I see your distinction and agree that I would only support changes ratified by 3/4 of the states.
Yes, https://chromeunboxed.com/news/chromebook-crostini-container...
> There's been a lot of research into teaching strategies that shows that this is often a more effective approach for many people than the bottom up approach widely used in math and CS.

I seriously doubt that anyone can effectively learn linear algebra, multivariate calculus, optimization and regression models from an onlone tutorial on deep learning. These are subjects whose basics alone take multiple semester-long courses. If a bottom-down approach was remotely effective, no one would bother teaching the basics.
Do you know if pacman is available on Chrome OS? My understanding is that it's based on Gentoo but it's heavily modified. So adding a different binary-based package manager isn't that crazy of an idea, especially for Google.
Tech journalists, especially, almost always fail to do even a tiny bit of research or due diligence. I mean... Crostini is not "new", it's been on dev channel for months[1]! But this article ending... hilarious icing on the cake.

> "Now, it’s probably only a matter of hours before somebody starts running Windows apps in Chrome OS with the help of the Wine emulator."

Someone should also tell them about running Crossover on Chrome OS via Android[2], which has already been possible for months!

[1] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/87...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codeweaver...
Yes. The kind of recommendations I want are things like: "Go for a walk in this park you've never been to. There are benches to read on." and "Go for a bike ride on this route. You'll see parts of the city you'd normally never see."
The problem with storing data locally is that users expect data to sync when using a web app. You could solve the syncing by storing the users data in the server but encrypted so that only the user can read it. The simplest scheme would be to let users enter a pass phrase. This passphdase is used to encrypt all data sent to the server and decrypt data from the server. The user would never share the passphrase with the server. The server can thus never read the encrypted data. ProtonMail uses roughly this kind of scheme but with public-private keys. https://protonmail.com/security-details

I think this solution could fit you, but crypto can be difficult to get right and the devil is in the details. And for heaven’s sake don’t use my comment as a starting point for your implementation.
This will hopefully make you laugh, but I know quite a bit about Manchester. Unfortunately, my knowledge comes from being a post-punk fan/artist with an unhealthy obsession with Factory Records. So, while I know quite a bit about Manchester, it all tends to be knowledge that would have been useful in the mid-late 70s.

Specifically, I have a great pitch that would work on Tony Wilson. Unfortunately, he's no longer among the living and I fear that pitching a dead journalist would bring the wrong kinds of attention. :)

I've done some googling and I've noticed a fellow named Simon Binns tends to write some articles on Manchester's food scene. I like him for you as he seems to be an unabashed fan of Manchester. Consider this article:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-...

If you research him, you'll find other similar articles where the man's love of your city seems to shine through. Like I said, I like him.

This article has a shit byline (by I Love MCR) that won't help you craft a specific pitch. But, it follows the trend set by Simon Binns.

https://ilovemanchester.com/2018/01/08/formidable-food-criti...

I'm honestly quite happy to see the cheerleading!

I watched a couple of interviews with Manchester restaurateurs and, fashion wise, I noticed a couple of cats who would not look out of place at a Buzzcocks show in the late 70s. Fashion is fashion so it's hard to judge personalities based on clothing, but honestly, they look like DIY'ers.

From a marketing point of view, the do it yourself ethos works wonderfully in pitches, especially if your genesis story aligns. Based on the Binns article I linked to and other articles I've read on him, I have a good pitch in mind. But, we've got to be honest as journalists can spot bullshitters from miles away.

What is your genesis story??

PS - my email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out - I used to be something of a journalist and I've read tons of pitches.
Scrapping the Iran deal when Iran was widely viewed as being in compliance would be a very good way to make North Korea less inclined to deal.
It's really strange to me, that Apple Maps is so smooth in comparison to iOS Google Maps. (Whether or not it is helpful is another question that I'm disregarding here.)

In a technical sense, both apps are displaying all the same kinds of things: satellite tiles, scalable road vectors, rotated outlined text for street names, 3D buildings if you like, etc. But Google Maps is dog-slow compared to Apple Maps at doing it.

Is efficient painting logic for a maps app on mobile a genuinely-hard problem that Apple Maps is being really clever at solving? Or is it an easy problem that Google Maps is being really stupid at solving?
No static ip or dyndns needed if you use autossh.
I guess "web apps" are not as successful as Google hoped. There are some great web apps, but they are electron apps ... Maybe bake in "elevated" mode in Chrome so it basically becomes Electron, but with some kernel hooks to limit an apps abilities and let users pick what the app is able to access, network, hdd, etc.
Maybe this will cause us to think less about we write, or maybe it will allow us to quickly write the things that don't require much thought so we can think more about the things that are important.
remember that you are always choosing to do what you do. look around at other stuff if you are bored. i haven't been too unhappy with my work (which has varied) because i always feel like im doing what i want to do. just try to convince yourself that you are doing the best thing given your circumstances.
I work in medicine, specifically genetics, and virtually all code that I write is serving that purpose. A few near-death experiences in life is what keeps me going, each and every day.

Losing everything is the most motivating loss function. If only my life had a more stochastic optimizer that didn't get stuck in local minima.
I don't think it's irrelevant. Composing text deliberately by hand forces a more measured pace of thought and development of ideas. I've even heard educators say that it's not worth teaching arithmetic anymore because everyone has a computer, or a phone with a calculator. But if you don't grasp the concepts of addition and multiplication that are developed by actually doing it over and over you're never going to be able to handle the level of abstraction needed to progress to algebra, geometry, trig and calculus. Spelling is also not given much importance these days, with "creative" spelling being acceptable at least through the elementary grades. Even in high school it isn't given a lot of weight.

If you don't learn the meaning of words and how to spell them, and how to construct a grammatically correct sentence without the assistance of a computer, you become mentally weak just as you become physically weak if you never exercise your muscles.

Students are losing the ability to think. The ability to think is what is being fundamentally eroded by this sort of automation. Nobody tries to solve problems. They just reflexively google the question, or ask Siri or Alexa, and accept the first answer without giving a lot of thought to whether it even makes sense. I've caught myself doing it.

More and more we are having our worldview formed not by critical thinking and development of our own opinions, but by what Google and other big media companies tell us.
Well that sounds exactly like humanity. We all know how that turned out.
My hope is that eventually they will build in app limits into an AI system that will learn what kind of prompts work on the user and which don't. For example, is "Hey, you used YouTube 3 hours, 5 minutes already today, would you like to take a break for a while?" more or less effective than "You used YouTube more than 99.9% other people today. Maybe time to take a break?". There is so much potential here for smart behaviour nudges here that actually work. Hopefully Apple and Google will compete in this area to be the most effective.
Because the current way sucks.

99% of the websites (I have accounts on) rely on my email for recovery and revocation. But my inbox is not an impenetrable fortress, it's a communication channel; every device I own has access to it, and could be used as a backdoor to my entire digital life.

Then there's the risk of the third-party (Google banning me, being hacked, subpoena'd, etc), the privacy factor (see the Ashley Madison leaks), the often custom code implemented by each website...
I have made no claims other that Snopes itself is not a reliable source, and I have given my reasoning behind why I am of that mind. Kindly piss off with your assumptions of anything beyond that claim.
The problem is, when the Google Alert hit my inbox it didn't show the ssl.nickjanetakis.com subdomain in the alert snippet. It just showed "Nick Janetakis".

Still, I should have clicked through to see what was up, but then again, the links looked very suspicious. I don't make a habit of clicking a bunch of unknown links sent via email, especially not when running Windows.
A providers outage can also be named a price hike, a change in license or a security breach. In that case you might want your data out of the provider asap.
My workstations are on 24/7 (the one at home runs some other services like a media server) with static IP addresses.