skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's stupid and then there's "stupid" putting my tinfoil hat on here: maybe they were allowed to steal the data. I mean really? Oh WOOOPS we stored 613 GB of classified data on an unsecured network in the EXACT place hackers would look... aww that sucks, welp we'll try to do better next time.

I call BS, this level of incompetence smells more like treason disguised as stupidity.
The biggest is probably the new pcre jit:

. Implemented https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pcre2-migration (Anatol, Dmitry)

For me that's 40% faster on typical regex code.
I'm more used to the European and Global markets where there is competition, and people go with the lowest price time after time.

Lots of people say they'd rather pay more for those extras, but the evidence indicates otherwise. Lower prices wins custom.
Are there penalties written into contracts to address failures like this? ISTR when China got loads of F-35 data, Lockheed was "punished" by getting to spend another year and hundreds of millions more dollars "fixing" the plane.
Where I work, we have several dozen repos, on for each component, and are thinking about merging it into a monorepo soon. That will end up giving us a repo with several different root commits.

In fact, for at least one of our components, we've already done this. We had something that solved the same problem for a couple of different permutations of software versions and platforms. The person who had originally written it had used separate repos, with common code copied and pasted between them, and later on we merged the repos together and factored out the common code so that could be shared. So we already have at least one repo which has 4 root commits, I believe.

Actually, I just checked and it has 7 root commits. I'd forgotten that we had also had similar problems that needed to be solved for some other software, and had some interns who had done those in separate repos as well, which also eventually got merged in to share all of the common code:

$ git log --max-parents=0 --pretty="format:%h %cd %s" --date=short
666c0bf 2012-07-09 Initial tree.
528ca3a 2012-06-12 first commit
50f1b18 2012-06-12 first commit
86d66e0 2011-11-17 initial
76a7789 2011-03-21 initial commit
58f7afc 2010-05-20 initial
deb50b7 2009-10-29 initial commit
To me it was a way for engineers to make interfaces without having to worry about any are design. An engineer-turned-marketing-person would call it "CLI 2.0". The problem was the non-designers still don't know UX at all and natural language is hard so you end up with a sub par, poorly design interface that doesn't understand you.
You mean current methods will be replaced by more nuanced and accurate methods. Not that economics will be replaced. That'd be like physics being replaced instead of the methods changing.

Newtonian methods had known flaws before relativity replaced them and quantum mechanics expanded that. Current economic methods also have known flaws. We're just waiting for Einstein.
To me, chatbots were nice because:

- I could navigate them much faster than I could navigate a phone tree.

- They were very accessible in the sense that I wouldn't have to install a custom app but instead use a platform that I am very likely to be on already. As a developer, this also allowed me to set up an unlock-my-door app for my friends much easier.
Luckily no one needs to worry about Google ever creating advancements AI (they can't, they lack the required skillset). Google is the modern day IBM, and AlphaGo is just another DeepBlue. I wonder when Google will make a gimmick like Watson. I guess Duplex is the beginning of it. It's amazing to see how many people were impressed by that. Then again, the tech scene lacks the scientific rigour that is required for spotting breakthroughs.
It helps the business owner and the consumer. Let’s not forget the consumer here. It also helps those willing to engage in gig activities. If Uber wasn’t marginally beneficial to drivers, why do they do it? Acting like Uber drivers are all idiots and need “protecting” is idiotic. If the economics don’t work, they quit.
Uber has a low cost because it doesn't use monopoly power to gouge consumers like cities do when issuing medallions.
So Uber's secret sauce is the fact that it breaks the law, not VC money.

The medallion laws are unjust and should be broken, other laws like insurance, driver training and vehicle safety are not. This is what makes the debate so complex and passionate, with people taking one side or the other depending on their personal incentives and political bias.
The one case where chatbots were better than people was at a company I used to work for. We kept getting customers contacting us via facebook to ask the same questions over and over again. "How much does `x` cost?" "When are you open?" "Where is your location?" "Do you have `y`?"

I had to have an internet-connected phone on me at all times because people would send messages at any hour and response time was a factor in our discoverability on facebook.

Of course all of these questions were answered on our website (AND ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE) but simply responding with a URL resulted in attrition. So I found myself running through the same script several times, all day, all night, every day, every night.

The best solution would have been to set up some kind of text parser which would allow people to navigate the website through facebook messenger (oversimplifying) and then alert a human if it couldn't parse the input. We could even have hooked it into the comment feed because facebook was really bad at notifying us of comments. Taking it a step further, the Mero Mero's dream of offering facebook marketing to other companies as a service would actually be reasonable, because it wouldn't just be me sending out hundreds of copypastas 24-hours a day, forever. But I was never able to put a system together because of other time-consuming duties the company needed me to perform.
Why would anyone take a crap gig job if they can get a steady paycheck? There are people that like the flexibility

I think you're underestimating how important that flexibility is to a large contingent of people. I have talked a lot of Uber/Lyft drivers and have heard a ton of stories about how valuable that flexibility is. It's huge for students who are in school, for people who already work another job but want supplemental income, people who are mostly retired (or never worked) but have some new expense come up (one lady I spoke to recently started driving for Uber just to help pay for her daughter's upcoming wedding), people who are pursuing careers in music or other artistic endeavors, entrepreneurs who need a way to pay the rent while getting their business bootstrapped, etc.

For a lot of people in those situations, the control over their time really is a crucial aspect of what makes Uber/Lyft desirable.

Granted, that's just one aspect of the gig economy, but it seems to be a big one.
Researchers at MSR can't publish everything they work on, you know. In a sense, MSR is also a patent mill. Sure they fund research and a good deal of it is published, but it's not simply out of the goodness of their hearts.
If you look at Google's Faculty Research Award page (https://ai.google/research/outreach/faculty-research-awards/), the awards are described as "unrestricted gifts." I'm not sure how it gets more flexible than that.

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
Unfortunately Medicare is a big deal that prevents boomers from retiring abroad. If you are rich and can afford private healthcare (even according it at a discounted rate in India or Thailand can be tough), then it’s a great idea, but then you don’t really need to.
> Anyone who actually thought people gave a shit about chatbots was either deluded

People don't need to give a shit about chatbots. A large amount of people deal with them all the time. Every time you decide to use chat to get help from some site that provides s service for you, what do you think the odds are you're first connected to a human? By having chatbots do the initial contact and information gathering, you can streamline the actual process and seamlessly connect and hand off to a real support rep after the rote info gathering is done, and provide them with the account number, a generalized idea of what the problem is, etc. Some requests can probably be handled entirely by the bot (need to change your password? That's easy to script).

Chatbots are all around us, supplementing formal interactions.
Are you implying that the US are not actively doing the same against nations they see as a threat? It's basically how and why any intelligence service operates - know your enemy and keep up with their technological advances.
Just like when demonstrating object oriented programming with trivial examples, DI suffers the same problem. DI, or Inversion of Control (the thing you want to achieve "through" DI), works best at scale, not with Hello World examples. When you work on a large code base with a large team you need some philosophy and principles to guide you. Decoupling is one of those things. Since Java is often used to build large software projects you will see these techniques being used and we therefore associate these things with Java (i.e. the Java bloat). Over the past few years it seems that PHP has become an "easier" Java and it's therefore only natural that these techniques and approaches are then also applied.
And on which problem this approach achieved state of art results?
I think you are talking about Lyft not Uber.
I applied a year ago and you said you don’t have the means to sponsor visas. Is that still the case?
Real profanity and disease on the internet is untouched while you police decorum
> if liberals didn't outright mock them,

>Hillary bragged that she was going to put a lot of miners out of business.

Searching for "hillary coal jobs", it seems your statement is based on a misrepresentation of what she said. (if "politifact" is to be believed)

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/may/10/...
I wish I could drop my development job for a data entry job. Inventory counting was a really fun job
I have a few limitations/annoyances to contribute:

1. Try to dragndrop content from a child folder to the parent folder. There is a very VERY small area at the top of the window where you can drop your files. (got worse on 10.13)

2. Transfer of multiple files (multiple actions) is not managed successivly but simultaniously.

3. Constant loss of sidebar content, i.e. mounted drives.

4. Info about folder/s inconsistency: Open info for one folder 'Cmd+i', for multiple folders 'Cmd+Alt+i' if you want the overall size (and it doesnt' get highlighted) | Close info window for one folder 'Cmd+w', for multiple folders 'Cmd+Alt+i'.

5. No option to edit file/folder names in Save As... dialog

6. Save As... dialog again: click on a file by accident and your initial file name is gone.

7. I don't understand how people can use the columns sorting but that's personal taste I guess.

8. Missing native window snapping (half size, full size etc.).

MBP 2009 OS X 10.11 & Hackintosh macOS 10.13.4 and my background is years and years of M$.

There are things I love about the Finder, too. :)
A true believer would say the point was to suggest intentionally bad technology (e.g. screen doors!), to retard progress in Chinese submarine design...
Microsoft really nailed it with IOCPs. They added them on pretty seamlessly to existing APIs, from file ops to sockets, and made them fit into existing workflows without developers having to waste mental cycles. They've screwed up a lot of things, but man, they got that right.
Rental car companies as the new taxi fleet companies would be an interesting turn. They're probably missing an opportunity here.
I had a therapist that once suggested taking herbs for an non-treatable medical issue and another time antibiotics for a cold.

I can't believe I actually paid money to see her.
Ok for security reasons or the odd claustrophobic person keep two windows just in case and keep 99% of benefits .
Its worth about $332k now.
That's a good guess at the passphrase… but it's thirteen words not twelve :-)
Thanks. I'd missed that.
He did a lot in his life, wheelchair and all. He off to a great career in medicine (chief psychiatry resident at Massachussetts General) before he became a policy adviser to the Carter administration and then later a speechwriter for Mondale, which pushed him towards political commentary. A life well-lived.
Atlantic Media | Web Developer | Washington, DC | Onsite, Full-Time

Hey all, looking for a web developer to join my team. We're currently 3 devs and a PM reporting to the VP Digital Strategy.

National Journal is a brand owned by Atlantic Media. We build tools for analyzing DC politics, as well as platforms for journalists, marketers, network scientists, and researchers to get their insights out to a pool of members.

Most of our days are spent working in python/django on the backend, javascript on the frontend (we're in the process of building out a more capable FE stack with gulp, react, and a suite of other tools). Other things we work with on a weekly/semi-weekly basis include: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Neo4j, CentOS, Nginx, CDNs, and Selenium.

Some of my favorite things about being part of this team:
- Interesting problems to solve
- Work-life balance is great (no late nights, and a manageable number of fires at any given time)
- Reasonably generous education budget (~1 conference/year, and any tools you need at any time)
- Good relationship with the systems team
- Lunch outings and board game nights
- Smart people who like each other

We're currently looking to fill a more senior role, but also open to the right mid-level candidates. Apply and find out more here:
http://atlanticmedia.theresumator.com/apply/ZJ9Csc?
Tbf, 70k€ in Munich is like 50k€ nearly anywhere else in Germany.
Yes! 100% agreed. I got into computers because kinda didn't like talking to people. But learning to do good user interviews (which has a lot in common to a consultative sales process) has been amazingly helpful.

I coached for a long time at a weekend workshop called Lean Startup Machine and it was amazing how much teams would benefit from just talking with 5-10 potential users. They'd often come back in a few hours and say, "Ok, our previously brilliant idea turned out to be entirely dumb, because we didn't understand X, Y, and Z about our users. Let's try this again."
Thanks, that seems to be quite on collision course with the intent of the law (in my opinion).

>... WaPo and other companies with similar models will likely find it cost-prohibitive to allow EU citizens to have a free option and will paywall it entirely for them.

I think that would be preferable. We need more incentive to be able to create decent alternatives, as it is now it seems no one can be bothered.
I wonder, though, if the original iteration of Uber (now Uber Black?), their actual commercial car/driver version of the service, is the solution.

It didn't have the hyper-growth potential of the current model, but it didn't draw most of the ethical/moral objections, while still providing at least some "disruption" to the taxi monopolies.
This one is more focused on the weapon itself.
brb stealing the term "venom diagram" for future use
Where do they say their network stack is userspace?
I watched the video but the last 10 minutes and I missed it.
To explain: I've never been yelled at by an Uber driver. I have been cursed at by taxi drivers. Yes, more than one. They often don't like my destination and get mad at me for being in their cab.

"I've been waiting for two hours, and you're going to Chinatown!? Fuck you!" (Not far enough)

"Brooklyn?! Fuck you!" (Wants to stay in Manhattan)

One cabbie was so pissed he went 70 in a 35 zone to demonstrate how annoying my destination was.

Cabbies pretend to get lost so that the fare is longer. Uber will refund the difference. Etc. Etc.
(Or: Rejected patents, which will pile up some good defensive precedent...)
let's hope it will create a separate organ to let people work at lower pressure and yet not push up cost of service back to the old ways
> Also Windows play a role in emergencies: "that sides on fire, let's open the other escape door"

That seems extremely hypothetical and optimistic. If your large passenger plane is on fire you're probably already dead.
Maybe the optimistic timelines are flawed but I think its at least reasonable to believe we'll get there someday, in regards to both intelligent chatbot + self-driving tech
For typical workloads that doesn’t make a whole load of difference. 10% difference in API meh. 90% of the latency and load is what goes on behind that and that’s your party not theirs.
>moved the money to wallets under their control

reminded about that story recently when a Russian anti-corruption police officer was arrested with $123M found at his apartment (looks like he worked from home a lot :). Money were seized and moved to something like FSB storage (the arrest is part of the turf fight between FSB and Internal Affairs Ministry and that round went to FSB) and later the money were shipped to Savings Bank of Russia (controlled by government) - as a result $3M were lost somewhere.
From the universal lack of a response on this board of anyone excited to read the patent applications to learn how to get AI to make sounds and such, clearly the US patent system is no longer serving that purpose.
Reminds me of the Macalope.
Obligatory:

Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up. -- Fred Jelinek
I wonder if you're referring to what's described in the first section of this article: http://www.onestopenglish.com/grammar/grammar-reference/amer...

As a lifelong American, I don't think that this is 100% widespread, many of the supposed Americanisms sound borderline "wrong" to me, and the only one I would favor is "She just left" instead of "She's just left".

And, having a German family history myself, I have trouble seeing this as a particularly German phenomenon.
Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users’ Friends
Dependency Parsing [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.08075
His work will be missed.

I regularly scan opinion columns from people all over the political spectrum. I enjoy reading well-reasoned essays whether I agree with them or not.

Krauthammer always provided well-reasoned essays. Whatever the issue, if the public got too far out ahead of it, either for or against, Charles was quick with a "Harumpphh" and a clever one-liner to point out that we should be more circumspect.

I stopped watching cable TV news years ago. Charles Krauthammer is one of a few commentators that I missed watching on a regular basis. He was a grumpy old uncle who had been around the block a time or two and was going to set me clear on how to think about some issue. Most of the time I just ignored him, but it was fun having him around anyway. The world will be a poorer place without his work.
Except everyone just spams 0 or "Representative" until they hit a real person, so the actual effect of the chatbot is a lot of money and hype wasted, and irritation on the end-user side.
"Heck MS gets more per Android phone for royalities than Google."

Really? You got a citation for that?
Show HN: While teaching a class of kids, I made this programming game for them
I mean overtly responding by taking action against trade or something of the sort.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Text-only: https://pastebin.com/t4hBTAig
Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom (2016)
Up here in the PNW I've seen some spectacular views of Mt Rainer, Mt St Helens and Mt Hood on approach/departure. Being up in the air lends to a great sense of scale and if you catch them during golden hour very few views compare.

I happily took window seat on 13hr direct flights for the chance of seeing them back when I traveled more often.
Yes, it is the best OS for security, and the audits have gone on for the duration of the project.
So having 2 cables is worse than 4 components? (Using a TB cable (1), a Dock (2) a power cable for the dock (3) and another cable to connect to your display (4))
Malady mongers: How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases
It's really astonishing how many liberals in the west will defend the middle-east's version of Hitler. Go and tell an Iraqi Kurd it would have been better to leave Iraq under Saddam's rule. Also so convenient to absolve any of the half dozen other actors involved in the conflict of any blame. The deaths are all Bush, Wolfowitz's and so on fault (now also Krauthammer's according to you). Things are definitely not as simple as that.
Yes, the ratio is pretty low for DeepMind. Higher for Google Brain.
Still, DeepMind open-sourced two major frameworks: Sonnet (general DL) [0] and DeepMind Lab (RL environment) [1].

[0] https://deepmind.com/blog/open-sourcing-sonnet/
[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/open-sourcing-deepmind-lab/
Some of the meaning of the code is embedded in how commander is set up, which if one is unfamiliar with it means the code is less explicit. Explicit is good, and there is a sense in which explicitness leads to simplicity.
Since it’s a laptop, wouldn’t it make more sense to target more of a serious-casual type audience, and therefore use SD cards? The professionals who are more likely to use CF cards would be more likely to have a dedicated desktop for it.
Telling anybody associated with the government that you're thinking about suicide instantly triggers a type of panic. I think it's very similar to the situation with drug overdoses, where calling for help can often get you into additional trouble. It's very likely, IMO, that there are people who have suicidal ideation but won't talk about it because they don't want to get committed, or worse. Then they don't get any help or advice and feel even more alone and do something that may have been preventable if they'd not been too scared about the consequences of openly talking about it.
Flagged since this isn't really any important kind of story. It's pretty standard for this time of year.
Yes, I know about the DRD. But it was declared invalid in 2014. If any EU member attempted to enforce national law requiring general data retention, I presume that the target could appeal to the CJEU.

I looked into this fairly carefully some months ago, consulting with Nick Pestell, IVPN's CEO. In writing for their blog.[0] And I got from him that data retention requirements are now rare in the EU.

0) https://www.ivpn.net/blog/collection-of-user-data-by-isps-an...
Also the opinion and justification, at the time, of much of the U.S. Congress, both Democratic and Republican.
What are the benefits of using GraphQL visavis grpc?
The Work of Edward Tufte
> estimates the government left out 25 million to 30 million freelance or contract workers who do some part-time work.

Aren't those exactly the type of workers that the NY Times article is talking about? 25 million is about 16% of the total workforce.

So in reality the number of gig workers might have doubled to something around 20% (or higher)?
Trump is a useless negotiator, and Kim Jong-un will know that
> because joining some professions in certain states required you to pay agency fees whether or not you chose to be a member of the union at all.

You can't work at a private school or as a tutor or private instructor in Michigan without being part of the teacher's union? I dispute your characterization of the "profession" compelling union membership, at least in the case of teachers.

The Detroit Board of Education is a "shop", not a profession. Police officer would perhaps be a better illustration of your point, as one can't really be a "private police officer" but shrug the state has a total monopoly on that law-enforcement profession, so you've got more than unions to contend with there. (Why can't I start my own police department?)