skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened to the semantic web?

Well... it happened.

1) We got schema data for Job Postings that companies like Google reads to build a job search engine.

2) We got schema for recipes. https://schema.org/Recipe

3) We got the Open Graph schema for showing headlines/preview images in social networks. http://ogp.me/

4) We got schema for reviews: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/review

5) We got schema for videos: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/video

6) We got schema for product listings.
Brilliant. I'm due for a kitchen renovation soon, care to share your final layout?
Simply stowing it away in a glove box like most people do prevents any reader from getting at it. I don't know anyone who physically displays their tag on the windshield all the time.
Pretty sure that goes back to Facebook's naming of React; Microsoft is just building atop Facebook's decision.
Interesting idea. We already sort of have a special-case MR (WIP) where merge is disabled until the work-in-progress status is removed. It could be interesting to have an RFC equivalent where no merge is clearly ever intended, but you still get the conversation flow, review app, and so on.
That app in particular got sidelined for now, but we've released two others since then:

http://instasaber.com
http://speakingpuppy.com
> This score is sent directly to Apple when you make a purchase.

1. So someone else is telling you whether they are trustworthy? Shouldn't it be on the servers?

2. If you establish trust on your device, and someone gains access to your device without your permission, what good is knowing this is a trusted phone? It's still fraud.
God, what a badly formatted article. Fonts, line spacing, paragraphs. Everything is wrong. It's unreadable...
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Mailspring looks nice. I would like the metadata to be under my control and not synced to their servers. The fact that I need to login to their machines turns me off. I'm open to running my own instance of their server. I do not like requiring "the cloud" to use my email client.
> Yep, not hiding that fact (I could have easily used a trace with minified code, but I didn't to point this out).

Kudos to you for your honesty here! I was a bit confused by your question "So what’s taking so long to run?" when it seemed pretty clear what was taking so long to run. If the goal were simply "speed up the pageload/FID", removing browser analytics (in favor of server e.g.) would seem to be at least an _option_ to immediately achieve that end.

Thanks for the article.
If you’re accepted, you will be early accepted into the Summer 2019 batch which begins in June. If you’re not accepted, you can apply again during the regular Summer 2019 application cycle which begins in March.

I assume that means you'll find out at the same time as everyone else - so yes, "Early Rejection"
My first freelance gig was a friend whose startup just came out of a YC co-hort and needed UI/front-end help (I had just left the company both of us had worked together at at one point).

He already knew what I was capable of so there wasn’t much marketing/selling involved. That came after, through local networking and finding odd projects on Dribbble and hiring websites that had a section for remote designers. I had kept my main site sparse—and still do—so I had an easier time to drive initial conversation towards business goals instead of pixels and colours.
Seems like a great idea. I would be interested to hear about the indicators used to show that students sometimes didn't bother applying in these cases. It seems intuitive that college students, having to plan in Fall of N for full-time employment or even internships in Summer of N+1, would have been adversely affected by the normal application schedule. Were there a large number of potential founders that raised the alarm about this?
With regard to the first example, lowering volume of playing media when you get a phone call, I had that set up on my Nokia N900 a decade ago (Dbus on the N900 would trigger a script to ssh into my computer and pause mpd). Naturally this was a nerdy thing and not something accessible for the general public, but I mention it here just to encourage my fellow nerds to realize how much power they might already have with existing tools.

The writer says that a business owner must add their office info to Google or Yelp and suggests there are no alternatives to such centralized repositories of information. However OpenStreetMap also has opening hours for businesses and medical practioners and that data is yours to process and play around with as you like.

In fact, there is just so much data present now in OSM, we simply lack convenient end-user tools to extract and process it automatically.
> ... Y4 does U2F along with the smard card RSA stuff.

PIV applet also supports P-256: https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Introduction/YubiKey_and_P...

> ... for every time I use the smart card RSA stuff (for instance, to SSH into something with a long-term RSA key), I use the U2F feature 10 times.

Does that mean you use SSH rarely, login to U2F sites frequently or use different keys for SSH (e.g. not on Yubikey)?
How long did it take you to complete each course?

Do you have a recommended 'schedule'?

I have tried twice, but have not finished.
Regarding Point 4: One recurring point in a lot those post-mortem articles is how hard it is to sell software, but how (relatively) easy it is to sell service (incl. consulting). Why is that?
You vastly underestimate the cost of investing in IP development - perhaps because you come from a background where research is trivial??

Developing drugs, building special fabs, etc can be hundreds of millions spent in research that needs to be incentivized. If the option to just copy the person that does all of the work is on the table, anyone who does the research investment will be immediately undercut in price and the whole system encouraging expensive R&D will collapse.

>If information flowed more freely people interested in making money would have to continue to innovate

If information flowed more freely without IP protection, the winning move is to not actually invent things and just copy whatever the current leading products do. Maybe that's what you call "innovation", but it's a pretty big regression from actual inventions and major leaps forward.
What about the privatization of prisons? It makes sense to lobby for setting the bar lower if you happen to run a prison. It also makes sense that you don't have any interest in helping your prisoners to have good chances of reintegrating, getting a job after release, but rather have them commit the next crime and come right back.

I think Germany is at the other end of the extreme; if it's your first conviction and it wasn't exactly cold blooded murder you almost always get away with probation, or a couple months tops. There were cases of people abusing children and only getting a year or two, which makes me furious.

And there have been cases in Germany where people were innocent too, of course. This is actually the most important argument for me against the death penalty. Since we know for sure that we make mistakes every now and then we should not carry out a sentence we cannot undo. Sure we cannot give the wrongfully imprisoned back their youth; but we can give them the rest of their life at least.
It's really too bad that XML+XSLT didn't take off as the "replacement" for HTML. Before you recoil in horror hear me out...

Web pages are a giant mess of content and presentation, and CSS doesn't really help much. XML is at least a way of describing data in a meaningful way. <book>, <author>, <chapter>, etc. XSLT provided a way of formatting XML in the browser. Sure the internet would still be full of inconsistent content structures, but it would still be way easier to machine read than the big mess of arbitrary <div>s and <p>s (most of which just display something blinky) that we have today.
> the definition of a particular offense (Grievous Bodily Harm, say) is a matter of law

This isn't strictly true - s.18 (GBH) requires intent, which is a question for the jury. Furthermore, what constitutes "really serious" injury is a question for the jury. You can break in down into questions of fact (e.g. Did the defendant have intent? Did the defendant cause these injuries? Are these injuries "really serious"?), but it's not as clear cut as did the defendant throw the punch (they must judge if they consider the injuries to be "really serious", which isn't quite a question of fact).

In addition, juries are entitled to make a decision based on their conscience, per Bushel's case.
Me too. I’ve been having a good experience with it so far.
Meanwhile, here's what the news looks like in a sane country..

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-03/iceland-grieves-after...
Arctic’s minimum sea ice extent 6th lowest on record
grep "gpg" - no results
grep "pgp" - no results

What in the what. Oh come on, how can you go through all this effort writing how share secrets with them, and there's zero mention of an actual public key?
Well, if you deploy them close to the targets, they don't need much flight time to deliver the charges.

The idea is that instead of packing a truck with explosives (which create a large but very localised detonation) you just deploy a swarm of these and let them take out whatever group of people you want to target.

Unlike in Black Mirror's Metalhead this isn't a scenario that requires long-lived machines. You just need them to be readily available at scale and to use facial recognition (or whatever -- the US already targets drone strikes based on cell phone signals I hear) to determine their targets.

Or hey, imagine a white supremacist group (not like the US has any of those) using them to just kill people of color. Terrorism doesn't need anything approximating a 100% success rate to achieve its goal.
> Part one is modern clients render everything on the client, instead of the original design of X where clients more or less sent geometric things down the wire

Ever since we've moved to the paradigm where window rendering and compositing happens on the GPU, I've been wondering whether the X11 protocol would make a comeback. After all, from the CPU's perspective, we're essentially doing what X11 does again: sending descriptions of geometry and texmaps to "somewhere else", where they're put together, and then referring to the elements we've sent by handles we got back from the "somewhere else." That somewhere else is the GPU.

In the case of combining GPU rendering with X11, we're doing a weird sort of dance (direct rendering) where—just in this one case—the X11 server allocates a GPU handle, and then we get an X11 handle wrapping the GPU handle, from which we can extract the GPU handle and reference it in GPU commands, with X11 being able to use the result as, essentially, an X11 texmap in the compositing process. (Wayland is the same, just with more efficient compositing and no other primitives than the DRI surface.)

But what if we went the other way: gave the X11 protocol primitives for all of the primitives that GPU drivers expose, such you X11 is essentially acting as a proxy for the GPU? So, instead of speaking to the GPU and getting GPU handles back, we'd be speaking to X11 and getting X11 handles back, which—on the X11 server side—would be toll-free-bridged to GPU handles?

You could take any code that makes OpenGL calls, and just switch out the DRI OpenGL driver for an X11Client OpenGL driver, and it would all suddenly be network-transparent (with not even that much overhead for the loopback case, because these are high-level commands streaming over the socket, not pixbufs.) An X11 "display server" would be made into, in effect, a network-transparent "virtual GPU." (Which, of course, you could also implement yourself in software—xvfb would handle X11GL messages just fine, doing internal Mesa software rendering in response.)
Well I have bad news: every purchase from every merchant is assigned a trust score. Obviously online merchants have fraud detection.
Two hundred years from now, GPU's will still be scarce and expensive thanks to all the solar powered crypto mining satellites in orbit.
C++ initial purpose was for Bjarne never to write plain C code, after his experience rewriting his nice Simula code into BCPL, he swore never to use such low level languages again.

There are plenty of interviews where he tells how C with Classes came to be.
> The need to pay US taxes in USD is not a software problem it’s a risk mitigation problem. If you accept pesos/whatever for your car and the peso crashed you might owe more in taxes than you where paid and even if you do the transaction today you still need to buy some USD with pesos to put aside for taxes.

True, though that's simple enough to hedge.

> So, if by ‘some’ you mean multiple trillions of dollars of demand every year then ok. But, that’s rather trivializes what a trillion dollars means.

Absolute numbers don't matter, relative ones do. The demand may go to trillions, but that would be down from tens of trillions.
They should add:

Early Rejection will make it even easier for students to abandon the idea of building their startup after graduation.

Then It’ll be perfectly balanced, as all thing should be.
My experience as well. That's why I have two batteries and a battery pack. Although I'm not doing much filming right now, it's more hassle than I expected.
Of course it depends, but this is where having a mission statement is really helpful. I've been in this position before and what seemed like a hard decision at first was super easy once I reread the mission statement. "Oh wow...option B clearly fits into the mission while option A does not."

I would encourage every company, large or small, to work on a real mission statement that can be committed to for the long haul.
If you were magically transformed into an octopus, communicating with humans would be easy; you could still write.

If you were born an octopus, you wouldn't know how to write, but presumably you would be a lot more familiar with communicating with other octopuses.
I did manage to setup the notebook and cuda on my local machine. I have an older GTX card.
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not only the Semantic Web, but semantic anything. All the millions of taxpayer funds spent in semantic research...
Everyone that never put their foot into a CS degree.

Even Clipper had support for closures.
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"friendly" in this context means "has similar politics". That's generally what the article was pointing out with the off record meetings with the Clinton and McCain campaigns.

The article talks about the Clinton campaign's attempt to influence these journalists, but not the extent to which they were influenced.
> That’s all good in theory until you have the prosecutors put a “B” by jurors who are Black that they want to exclude.

So why are allowing prosecutors to exclude jurors? Would it not make more sense to only allow exclusions with cause?
>Umm, sorry for being flippant, but are we reading the same news about US foreign policy last 18 months...? :-/

Not sure. I don't recall any news about the US going to war or halting trade with any of its previous allies. I don't remember reading anything about the five eyes agreements changing. Do you have other news sources?

The phrase being used is "ruining relationships". Maybe you have a different definition of "ruined" if you think Trump has ruined any relationships with allies.
We actually are on the semantic web for healthcare. See:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=RDF_for_Semantic_Interop...

Other fields are moving towards semantic also
I have some insight here because I did a postdoc working on anatomy ontologies in the UK. A big part of the problem with the semantic web is that lots of people in European academia use it as a collection of buzzwords for making grant proposals sexier, without understanding or caring what it actually means.

Instead of saying, "Give us money to build a webpage", they say, "Give us money to expose metadata annotations using a RESTful API on the semantic web."

I would prepare conference presentations where I was just filling slides up with BS to fill time.

Devs from other universities (gotta check that international research box!) understood the technology even less than our team did. We provided them a tool for storing RDF triples for their webpage so they could store triples about anatomical relationships. They wanted to use said RDF store as their backend database for storing things like usernames and passwords. facepalm

So you have all these academics publishing all this extremely important sounding literature about the semantic web, but as soon as you pry one nanometer deep, it's nothing but a giant ball of crap.
There's an obvious problem with enabling people to opt-out of fraud detection. But I suppose Apple could offer other ways to confirm your identity, e.g. 2FA.
iOS photos does this natively in search, too.
I thought Freebase [1] was the most promising "Semantic Web" technology, with a powerful query language (MQL) and an application platform called Acre [2]. I'm biased because I worked at Danny Hillis' adjacent company, Applied Minds, and met with the Freebase folks to talk about graph databases. I went to one of Freebase's Hack Days, and I could feel the energy around building applications on a semantically-aware global database.

Unfortunately, they got acquired by Google, and Freebase eventually shut down. Thinking back now, I wonder if there would have been a business model in hosting private data graphs to subsidize the open source data.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase
[2] - https://opensource.googleblog.com/2010/08/acre-open-source-p...
People tend to dislike sarcasm on HN. I, on the other hand, appreciate it when it is well used. You've earned my upvote sir (or ma'am)
Web API's happened instead.
The one we're talking about is since Monday. There are others in place, displayed in tablets/screens, dynamically generated and cryptographically secure. This is printed, like the fraud-ridden Chinese codes, so it's vulnerable to the "sticker attack".
It's not just React, it's ReactXP.

Remember 2001, when everything was named XP - WindowsXP, AthlonXP, etc? The name is almost nostalgic.

And being Microsoft, I'm surprised it's not "ReactXP.NET for Windows Server by Cortana".
Only Firefox and Chromium-based browsers support MediaRecorder. I use Firefox and have for over 15 years now, since it was in beta, but native browsers (Edge/Safari) are my 2nd choice and what I recommend to others by default due to power usage. That's why Apple restricts you running whatever you want on their devices, and they're correct in doing it.

That employer is an entity that more than likely only develops with and expects everyone else to use Chrome, which in this day people have realized is shameful, lazy behavior. If you don't want to support other platforms and all the diversity that entails then you're in the wrong business. I'm glad the tide has finally turned in public opinion on that front. Chrome is the new IE.
Actually it improved, what C++ compilers cannot prevent is for people to write C code with a C++ compiler, beyond outlawing it as bad practice.

Copy-paste compatibility with C is a burden on modern computing, but it was also what contributed to C++'s adoption during the early 90's.
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WordPress is _easy_. It most definitely isn't simple.

Highly recommend watching: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
I really liked the concept of Voxel Quest. did you stop the project?

recently I saw two posts related to volume rendering, this and dreamworks' VDB. I immediately thought about voxel quest. I liked it supporting smooth surfaces, not like minecraft.
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That would be a good analogy if there were government price controls on sugar packets at Starbucks. Or if electricity was free. As it stands, it's a pretty poor analogy.
Both the BFR and the New Armstrong, based on what is currently known about them, will be able to lift something better than the ISS (e.g. a Bigelow habitat) to orbit in a single launch for considerably less than either ISS or SLS.
You should look into Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com/). You don't have to pay anything up-front and instead agree to share a % of your income once you get a job over $50k. I have no insight into the stress levels of their students, but from everything I've heard about Lambda, it's incredible.

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with Lambda School at all, just really believe in what they're doing and the way they are doing it. @austenallred is the guy to speak with.
> The allowance for copyright law to exist in the USA is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"; with a similar intent to patents to eventually bring more quality things into the public domain. So yes, anything outside of that, regardless of invention of non-science/useful-arts, and regardless of profitability, is fair game.

Can you give an example of what is outside of science and arts that you think is fair game?
Walmart will use VR to train employees
Why would anybody who’s any good do a 1 month contract to hire?
I love the Nitrokey products and recommend everyone to try them out. The Nitrokey Start is a fully open source GnuPG token just in software (gnuk). Their pro and hsm rely on a smartcard, of which the code is not fully open (based on Smartcard-HSM for the Nitro key HSM).
The article above talks about the Clinton campaign's attempt to influence reporters by feeding them information. Now it seems like you think Clinton was giving these people marching orders.
We're getting there with CSS grid. First, we have to deal with the usual "You actually have to put div A inside div B in order to do X. Now which one gets the semantic tag? And what happens when we also need div C as a container to fix Y problem? "
As it happens, the relevant case law is New York Times Co vs. Sullivan. According to that case, libel liability still applies when the information published is both untrue, and was published "with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not."

In other words, a policy of publishing without investigation would not limit libel liability. If the information is false, and the publishers did not have a good-faith belief that it is true, then they might still be held liable.
Not a bad comparison, but I think Google Wave was doomed from the start. As they say, it 'filled a much needed gap'. It wasn't quite a forum, it wasn't quite an IM chat system, it wasn't quite a wiki, and it had no clear advantages.
Is there a way to diff 2 branches?
It's been replaced by the Decentralized Web as the latest fad (also with the backing of Tim Berners Lee). Let's see how far this one goes as well (though I'm really rooting for it to succeed).
I thought the addition of elements to HTML5 like nav, main, article, etc. was the end result of the semantic web.
This is useful anecdotally. I also am polite and cordial with police during traffic stops. Pull over promptly and make sure they have room to safely approach your car. Stay professional. I never know why they pulled me over, even if I was speeding, but that doesn't have to be confrontational. 5/6 the result is a warning. But I figured that was just because I'm white.