skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They train DL models on labeled data without knowing anything about syntax trees, and allow NN do all the magic.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that knowing about syntax won't improve the result. If you're training a translation model on a huge database of labeled examples, it might discover syntactic relationships from scratch. But if you don't have so much data, you're probably better off using all the auxiliary information you can get.
Yes, it is what I am using. It is called TenFourFox http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ . New functionality allows you to create "FoxBoxes" which are like separate containers for a single site; this allows you to both keep some sites separate, and, ensure that when you close the site, all the RAM is reclaimed immediately by the OS.
Yeah but it seems so artificial tho. What about doing things just for the sake of doing them and because they're intrinsically cool and interesting? All the nationalistic stuff is just made up and we've gotta let go of it eventually. Why not now?
wow you’re really cool
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It's shut down online dating almost completely.

Hmmm... I shave my head and my experience with online dating is that it actually attracted women that love shaved heads.
Thank you, I'll definitely give that a good look.

I still don't get why Apple didn't even consider keyboard based users whilst developing Split View. It's like the silly full screen animation you have to wait for every time or having to use the mouse to get a spelling suggestion because there's no keyboard shortcut for that either.
Vapor looks like the best so far but it's still early days. In theory it has the potential to be extremely fast and memory efficient, but for example they only just got a couple TechEmpower benchmarks up a couple days ago and they ranked very low (#162 on the json test).[1]

It goes without saying simplistic benchmarks like this are flawed but at the same time, you have to start somewhere.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...
The Future of Data-Driven E-Commerce
Well, also web browser developers, authors of A/V software, etc.

Do you want Safari to be the only web browser on macOS, Quicktime to be the only video player, etc? Not saying that it will happen, but with the disappearance of OpenGL and if sockets eventually disappear, too, it will become more difficult for independent web browsers (e.g. Firefox, Servo), independent video players (e.g. VLC, MPlayer), etc. to create or maintain a macOS version.
I'm sure "economists" generally as a field can not accurately predict recessions, however certain individuals have used sound logic to predict certain downturns in the past. There is a general logic to the market, the debt cycle for instance, the natural hot/cold phases the USA and the world in general go through. So, while your comment is witty and I agree generally, I also think there is a possibility of a major downturn in the near future.
Google & Amazon also aren't reporting their computer fleet as well. However its likely Google is #1 on that list on raw compute available to R&D efforts.
I agree. After using OSX for about a decade, then Ubuntu for about 18 months, I now use Windows 10 with an Ubuntu VM running inside. It's currently the best of all worlds IMO.

I think ultimately Chromebooks with Crostini may emerge as the ultimate dev boxes.
Facebook privacy goof makes posts by 14M users readable to anyone
>> A blockchain-based solution to what, though?

To the declining popularity of Jabber, to put it short.

As an additional benefit, blockchain is indeed more secure to run than an ejabberd instance.

I understand your irony with "Hype Juice" etc. But in the end, good software is that which people use, right?
oh look, an add pushing a book thinly veiled as an informative blog post.

how original. Saw this on reddit earlier this week, and didn't read it then, either.
> 80% of all machine learning engineers work at Google or Facebook

there is no authority that says whether or not someone is a machine learning engineer

there is no way to verify or reject this assertion

in reality this is voter intimidation

this is an attempt to suggest that the left and Democrat-leaning companies Google and Facebook have access to intelligent people

in reality, Google and Facebook employees are loud jerks who help filthy rotten Democrats get elected

Google and Facebook are internal enemies of the people of the USA.

To pretend that Google and Facebook have an army of nerds is to suggest that Google and Facebook are little more than the American Communist Party, a group of big egos who have nothing but disdain for American law and who treat Americans as the raw material for an operant conditioning machine.

Sick, twisted, and fucked up. That is what Google and Facebook sell to the American people, twisted, sick, and fucked up shit that it shoved in the face of the Americans 24/7 365 days a year.
What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed
That seems utterly nonsensical and dehumanizing. If you have a human greeter/operator, why not expose that to the customer? You are already paying for the human to be in the loop, why not benefit from the impression of a friendly human touch as well?

I'd love to know more about these operations, thanks for mentioning this.
I think it's more noticeable on non-Retina, I guess there is more anti-aliasing going on.
Started balding in my early twenties (male pattern). Did the Minoxidil thing for a while. I perceived bald men as mostly brutes or thugs. And I didn't see myself that way. After some time I just started accepting it as part of who I am. Now in my thirties I would never go back, it's very easy to maintain, my head is cooler and I don't have to think about hair styles.
What was bad about arc4random?
> When people first start having these sorts of thoughts and even hint at it to other people, the whole "What are you depressed about? Your life is good" response so many people give only makes it worse, and hopefully it's beginning to go away. Depression has nothing to do with how "good" your life is on paper.

Personally, I don't really feel the "here's the suicide prevention hotline's number", "you should talk to someone", or "you should see a doctor" lines, which seem to be replacing that, are any better.
Dependency Injection: http://www.phptherightway.com/#dependency_injection
Not today.

We'll see in 4 years.
Apple designed the MacBook to make a good first impression with the tablet crowd (shiny touch new touch bar, big battery, light-weight...) while ignoring a market segment that uses laptops as productivity workhorses. Maybe they feel MacBooks aren't really suited as workstation replacements the way most software developers use them. They defiantly convinced me that that I'm better off not owning one.
Norman seems like a ad-lib thing my 13 year old niece would make while listening to My Chemical Romance.
If you have 3 children, you have to rent two hotel rooms.
Also when your kids bedtime is 7:30, having 1 room with two beds just sucks.
Humans are bad interfaces too. That’s why we have computers. People only like humans because they are also human. Nobody will miss the long lines at McD, but they might miss the smile. If a robot smiles at me, I won’t be happy, I’ll be scared.
Airplane is not a bird
Ship not a fish
Car not a horse
....
Computer is not a smarter human
AI will never have human intelligence
Chatbots will never be humans
...
These and many other inventions are useful. They extend human capabilities. But will never be humans, unless we create a human (as opposed to giving birth).
Isn't hair relatively low SPF? So wouldn't applying sunscreen solve that problem?
It's baked into evolution and sexual selection.

Primates can go bald. My understanding is that it is a positive for sexual selection.

And if humans being bald actually affected sexual selection, we wouldn't have bald men any more.
The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field outside Seattle also has a Concorde you can walk through, it is so tight inside
> yet another manner in which my next application won't be cross-platform

I skimmed the video and it really looks like sockets++: once you have the connection the rest is up to you. It doesn't seem to break anything on the wire. Unless you're referring to compilation - but we can assume that Libuv will soon abstract this platform away (just like it does with Windows IOCP).
I did not know that, any good rendition of that story available online?
Sorry to hear that.

I’ve been told people literally do not believe me because of my looks.

FWIW I've been told the same thing when I wore a beard, and have heard the same of other people for other physical traits.
No, it's not. Google's data centers would probably perform like crap on the kind of workloads run on supercomputers.
Given the current state of politics everywhere, right now might be the least possible time for the decline of nationalism.
If you have no service level requirements, you definitionally have 100% uptime.
That placement of comma is apocalyptically stupid, one.

(If I am wrong and that's actually acceptable, please convince me otherwise.)
The dimly lit walkway adjacent the track gives assurance an escape is available.
How to easily automate Drone-based monitoring using Deep Learning
Seems like this is even less thought out than SOPA and ACTA.

It's only a pity there is not a comparable banner and outage campaign for this as there was for those. Made them impossible to miss and just about everyone knew of them. Ensured all the politicians were getting dozens of calls. Above all it worked. Dozens of non-US sites joined in.

This time around? A few news pieces on tech sites have cropped up otherwise a lot of silence. That's surprising as it seems like this will affect everyone too. Yet it's barely rated a mention in the mainstream media, here in the UK at least. Admittedly most of our EU news has been the idiocy of Brexit for the last year.

Would probably be helpful not to lose the topic in yet another discussion of GDPR too.
It’s a fascinating time in the markets. You’ve got all these different forces pulling in different directions. Quantitative tightening, fear of trade war, tax cuts, continuing buybacks, lots of accumulated debt, the rise of high-frequency traders and their tendency to remove liquidity at the hint of any change in fundamentals, strong earnings, low employment, high asset prices. It doesn’t surprise me that ^SPX is swinging between 2600 and 2800 with all of these conflicting signals.
There's still quantum computing.
You Exec is a scam
Avoid You Exec (https://youexec.com/) because it's a scam. It's run by Omid (calls himself "Owen"), a trickster of Iranian descent. He solicits work product from independent contractors, then fails to pay them. Be careful.
Bees May Understand Zero, a Concept That Took Humans Millennia to Grasp
I think there's a lot of hate in this thread for the bot concept. Yeah, most of these text-based bots are bad and useless. Expecting to chat with a computer over text and get meaningful results is a big request, and without the best of the best NLP researchers, you're not going to get anywhere.

However, I do think there's some truth to this article - the rise of digital assistants in Google Home, Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, is, in a sense, the rise of the chat bot. You can text them and they'll do things. You can talk to them and they'll do things. You can even get them to schedule a haircut for you[0], as Google recently demonstrated. I think these bots are semantically identical to what we think of chat bots as doing. If you would've told me 3 or 4 years ago, that people would willingly let a "bot" into their home that listens to everything they say and talks back, I would've been skeptical, to say the least. Now, even my hippie roommate has one of these things. I still don't get it, but to claim that "bots are dead, long live humans" misses the mark about how fast speech to computer/computer to speech tech is evolving. Watch the video and be... amazed:

[0]https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332070/google-assistant-...

So yeah, the idiot VCs missed the mark - this isn't going to be a consumer revolution, led by a few scrappy start ups, one-man teams, and dreamers. It's a revolution in data collection, human-computer interaction, and AI that's already been taking place behind the scenes at Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon for years, and will continue to as long as they hold the tech world's best AI talent.
Because it wouldn't be "news" otherwise?
Disclaimer I bought and supported Elementary OS last year. It's definitely got potential. Then you run straight into the braindead lack of UI decisions or "opinionated design" and are just kind of like ugh.. Ok.
And the democrats fought tooth and nail to prevent corrections for that decade because those policies, in the short term, appeared to help their constituents. They wanted to get lots of new homeowners homes, but those homeowners often found they couldn't afford the mortgages in the long run, which is exactly why the banks hadn't been making those loans prior to government meddling. Those mortgage problems were, naturally, exacerbated by the fact that lots of additional demand drove up home prices.

For the exact same story, see the ongoing student loan debacle.
> whole UI/UX thing on Linux just can't be compared to macOS and Cocoa.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I much prefer the look and feel of my i3/polybar setup. As a professional developer, I am not the target audience for Apple's UI.
Ok good point.
Scrolling in React
Why does apple like money?
> higher-end Android have basically more ports than a MacBook "Pro" at this point

The base model MacBook Pro has three ports; the higher-end model has five. Are there actually Android handsets with more than three ports, and if so...why?
i'm sure there is a big measure of truth to what you're saying, but, OTOH, the iMac Pro and Mac Pro have Xeon chips and ECC memory. so there is at least that HW difference.

also there are some recent concerns out there about the quality of the service and support available to owners of Apple "pro" products. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_NRcy5mxU
It kind of reads like the prologue to a dystopian novel, doesn't it? If I were to write a novel about a future where a sociopathic AI runs out of control and takes over the world, this is how it would begin. ;-)
Quite probably.

Since I was a kid I've hated sunscreen so I do my best to find other solutions. Or pretend it's not a problem.
Against community governance
Well, I can definitely give you a long list of ones that don't...
Yeah but who mentioned the usb drive?

illuminati in play
Hm, I'd rather have a intimidating set of dragon horns. Maybe something modular for the way I feel atm. Ooo RGB mood horns? They would less to clean and take care of. A way to head butt morons, and keeps the sun off my head and out of my eyes as well as a cool way to do sunglasses. It might be hell on the car roof upholstery. It would also be cheaper than all of the fake products they sell for 'healthy hair'. Also relieve 'Crack cures' on the internet and medical burden as well.
People steal technology because someone else’s is better and it’s cheaper than doing the R&D yourself. If the US just quietly made better computers and there was no ranking, I’m certain China and Russia would still be stealing IP.
My biggest gripe with MacOS by far is that I can't hibernate. There is only this "sleep" mode that makes whatever it wants, with the promise that it will Just Work. I frequently find my laptop with an empty battery because who knows what. And a laptop that does not power up when you expect is the second worst kind of laptop (at least you don't lose the data, which would be the worst case).

When searching for solutions, internet delivers hypertechnical answers that are reminiscent of when I was dealing with a Linux laptop (pmset -g assertions browsing). To me, apple as a "Unix that Just Works" is a failure.

The hardware is high quality, but the brand-and-software premium price has stopped being a good deal for me.
There's a bit of stigma about a woman commenting on a bald man's head to him.
> What about doing things just for the sake of doing them and because they're intrinsically cool and interesting?

This is how you get your budget cut. Competition forces tough decisions and turns long-term strategic aims into near-term threats.
This is exactly the impression I got. Some of the details seemed like they added that people were shot or killed to make the description more intense.
Link to publication: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1124
Used Gentoo and FreeBSD for years. I knew what i was up to with Arch. I’ve used it in high school for few years with different desktop env. So I think I was more than prepared for Linux experience. Operating systems are my fetish if I may say so. :P
I keep forgetting that MITM attacks can work both ways. I need to keep it in the list on "why you should use HTTPS"
Under the Sun – where the sun is exactly overhead right now
CDNs are great in general.

I find myself putting CloudFront in front of pretty much everything to unlock speed, security and now even functionality like auth thanks to Lambda@Edge.

I have a CloudFront add-on for Heroku that, in some cases, can double performance without any application changes.

https://www.mixable.net/blog/making-heroku-fast/
https://elements.heroku.com/addons/edge
I am against indiscriminately awarding H1B visas and shipping American jobs overseas or using cheap foreign tech labor to undercut American workers. American workers need jobs, to pay bills, to live, fair enough! Then force your American companies to stop hiring foreign workers, stop undercutting and outsourcing. But don't use racism, supposed Indian incompetence in tech work, stereotyping brown people as somehow stupid and not good workers and so on to create your fight.
The TCL 6-Series Roku TV is the best TV deal we’ve ever seen
This could be... potentially disastrous for innovation.

Patented work includes:

* 2018/048934, "Generating Audio using neural networks", Priority date: 6 Sep 2016

* 2018/048945, "Processing sequences using convolutional neural networks", Priority date: 6 Sep 2016

* 2018064591, "Generating video frames using neural networks", Priority date: 6 Sep 2016

* 2018071392, "Neural networks for selecting actions to be performed by a robotic agent", Priority date: 10 Oct 2016

* 2018/081089, "Processing text sequences using neural networks", Priority date: 26 Oct 2016

* 2018/083532, "Training action selection using neural networks", Priority date: 3 Nov 2016

* 2018/083667, "Reinforcement learning systems", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

* 2018/083668, "Scene understanding and generation using neural networks", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

* 2018/083669, "Recurrent neural networks", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

* 2018083670, "Sequence transduction neural networks", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

* 2018083671, "Reinforcement learning with auxiliary tasks", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

* 2018/083672, "Environment navigation using reinforcement learning", Priority date: 4 Nov 2016

...

Is there anyone from DeepMind on HN who could comment on this?
One of the best benefits I can think of favoring Core Data and iCloud/CloudKit is the very public stance Apple has taken on privacy.

One largest downsides I can think of is vendor lock-in. If you intend to expand beyond iOS, there will be some friction and a great deal of re-implementation once you select another platform to build on.

If you do intend to move on to other platforms, I'm impressed by Realm's offerings [1]. The support local data storage, as well as syncing to their cloud platform (with a monthly fee, of course).

EDIT: Forgot to include the [1] link.

[1] https://realm.io/
I Need Your Input: I'm Giving Away Free Samples of My Material
Hello HN,

In the approximately six (6) humble years of my walking-up the ladder of Online Entrepreneurship and running my Software as a Service (SaaS) Startup (Open e-Mark), I made a few interesting discoveries I'd love to share with you guys:

Number One: I figured that absolutely anyone can make a living online from off their web-property (whether that's a blog/website; like Bobby Hoyt's millennialmoneyman.com, which pulls-in at least $59,407 on a monthly basis; or a web-application) if they are willing to give it a shot.

Secondly: I discovered that a huge number of those who took the plunge to start a web-based business, soon got frustrated and quit after the first few months of trying, because they "failed to gain traction among users"; which (in my opinion) is the aftermath of not giving users what they want; which yet again (in my opinion) is the aftermath of not really understanding those users and how they interact with one's web-property.

So, I'm giving-away free-samples of a work I'm producing. It's a down-to-earth and practical material which touches on a number of areas, including:

1.For those who currently (or are planning to) monetize their property via Advertising, exposure to the most common Online Ad Jargons; plus how to easily calculate the eCPM of any Ad Campaign (CPA, CPC, or CPM) they allow to run on those properties.

2.Beyond Google Analytics, how to easily identify those portions of a web-property that resonate with your visitors, so you can optimize accordingly to skyrocket your Conversion Rate.

3.How to easily create Funnels on a web-app, blog/website, and guide users into and through such Funnels, in order to achieve marketing-goals; monitoring them as they proceed in the process…and more.

Here's a link to the material: http://selz.co/NyVKK5glB

I’d really love to get your inputs on this. And feel free to ask me any questions.
Which ones would be in the top 3?
Unfortunately Apple hardware is not particularly well supported by Linux.
But these will be on planes, meaning they will probably be engineered to hell and back. I'm sure they will almost never fail.

It's not like the software world, where we slap on a feature, do some mild testing, and maybe do a little bit more debugging when the user complains about it.
This is a nice high-level API for (more) reliably handling networking, taking a fair amount of load off developers having to implement it themselves. Of course it would be nice to have an API like that available as cross-platform library.
Cost of Free Shipping: Pilots Claim Amazon Is Driving Down Air Cargo Standards
Do you ever get the feeling no one in government wanted the issue corrected?
Likewise. I'm devastated about the news, and it's brought back my demons to the fore.
But this aligns precisely with what I said. I didn't say it was easy. In fact, I said that the industry vastly underestimates the technical challenge of the problem. My point in mentioning customer service calls was that when we finally are able to generate viable AI (which seems like a long ways out), short and limited interactions will likely be the first inroads. I stand by what I originally said, which was that in comparison to all other human interactions, these are likely the lowest hanging fruit. Not that they are, in absolute terms, low hanging fruit.
Remember the Maine!
Is it "new life" or "new civilizations"? I think you will find it is not. Outside our mandate!
It seems that we are not that far away from exascale supercomputers.
So, does P=NP?

There's a lot of great unsolved problems in most fields, including CS.