skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This become even more awful when the target language is not English because English is used as a pivot language: there is now two rounds of errors. I’ve heard from a researcher specialized in the AT field that a rule based Japanese to French system exists and is quite good but I’ve never seen the system itself.
Maybe I'm old. Maybe I had old-fashioned parents. But it boggles my mind that people can get to be old enough to go to college without knowing how to mail things.
Apple apple apple. Geez.
This is troubling:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4206948-nvidias-inference-p...
Ah, I remember that one. It fits the time frame. Thanks for reminding me of it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
btw, if you're in Atlanta, or interested, you should come have (free) lunch with us sometime at Square Atlanta.

If you're experienced, and interested in Go+Java infrastructure/tooling work, hit me up: I'm trying to help get an Atlanta PlatEng (“Platform Engineering”) presence off the ground and might be hiring soon…
This whole release is mostly a performance and stability release and so far, lives up to the hype.
Apple repays €14B in “illegal aid” to Ireland, so EU drops court case
> iOS uses machine learning to study how you manage your notifications and recommends how to deliver notifications in the future based on that.

This seems silly to me. I never have so many notifications on the lockscreen that I need help organizing them. Different notifications require different actions; ML can't possibly know the difference. For example, I never click Google calendar notifications but I usually want them on top. It will be confusing when everything is out of chronological order.
As of iOS 12 Safari does this automatically when you use the share sheet.
Reading the fine print on their site it says offer only valid in the U.S. and would be delivered with in 4 weeks. Are you a U.S. resident or could that be an issue? Hope you get it
Thanks to everyone for the advice, what do you think about "Build your projects and publish them instantly online"?
They are, and California voters passed a ballot initiative limiting the rate property taxes can increase. End result: nominal tax rate above of 1 percent, effective rate at around half that.
I just subscribed because of this!

And yeah probably. Per my post-subscription notice:

6-8 weeks
There's an international form and the deal still applies! It's just $10 instead of 5

(scratch that, they make it $20 CAD after everything...)

https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired
I disagree. It is possible to make decent, good, and perhaps great security that is easy to teach and not too inconvenient that users will rebel. I think it is unreasonable to keep someone from using GnuPG in a legal fashion because average people cannot use it. You will never find signing software with sufficiently bulletproof security that average people can use. To suggest such also implies that average people need to regularly perform notarial acts, which I think is imaginative.
Thats a lot of work. What everyone wants is a cut of the winnings.
I think it's in part due to publishers artificially inflating print prices verses ebooks. I frequently find books on Amazon where the Kindle ebook is more expensive than the paperback.

But like you I have also gotten rid of almost all my print books, although I bought one from a bookstore yesterday. Impulse buy.
How Ninja become gaming's first crossover star
The tail recursion optimization problem
Yes, and for some things (auto rows) it works great almost always, just not mixing auto columns, auto rows and flexible widths with unknown number of items.

I love it for things like multiple column forms with a combination of labels and inputs. This works great when I know I want 4 columns. a max/1fr max/1fr (with auto rows) gives me columns and rows that flow with unknown sized labels and inputs like this:

Label | Input Label | Input
Label | Input Label | Input
Label | Input Label | Input

But for some things it just doesn't work very well like when you have a gallery of images. I really, really want this to work, so I haven't given up on grid for this, but making an unknown number of columns based on a variable widths in a multi-screen layout just sucks the life out you.

Here's an example article from css-tricks on this topic, but notice you have to either give up flexible number of columns, or flexible widths, you can't have both. If you have both, you have flexbox. :P

https://css-tricks.com/auto-sizing-columns-css-grid-auto-fil...
May be they are Modules with feature toggles and evolution just turns on/off what is there already.
I've actually gotten significantly less jaded in 2018. I attribute that to finally doing something about my participation in the toxic cesspool of internet politics, quitting my steady diet of outrage porn, and looking at the big picture.

The absolute best thing we can do for our cynicism is read Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. Once you see the ways our otherwise intelligent, well informed, and good-intentioned minds mislead us, you realize that there's a lot less to be jaded about than you thought. But even before reading Factfulness, I made a lot of progress just by reading a lot more history and philosophy, and a lot less Facebook, Twitter, and Google News.

The whole urgent vs important dichotomy that ruins our ability to manage our work also ruins our ability to manage our understanding of the world.
The freedom to conduct business is one of the core freedoms that Americans value. When Americans talk about freedom, they are including the freedom to form a business and create whatever business arrangements you want.

To American values, restrictions on how you do business are as infringing as restrictions on individual rights.
I just tried this one, (and another one, Journal which both seems to be Google 'editors choice'), but I found that both only had 5 possible moods (basically: exstatic, good, meh, bad, terrible) , and I fear me data will just be 90% "good".

Do you know if it can be configured to have more levels? Or if other apps have more specificity?
Yeah I'm surprised to see how many companies in the valley still pay low wages compared to the FANGs. I can make anywhere from $120k-300k+ depending on the company.
I'm saying the idea of just making a misstatement doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of fraud. You have to do something with intentionality.

Oops, I mean I didn't say that. The head of the San Francisco SEC office did.
I don't think it is just a re-skinned Bing, the people behind DDG have done a lot of work to built features around the "10 blue links."

The question is: Do you trust a trillion dollar company, with everything to lose if it is revealed that they are misusing user data [1], or do you trust a 50 people team who is trying to get you to switch using FUD techniques.

[1] ..and by the way, have waaay better results than their closest competitor
Could it be that kids who only can multiply with a calculator are worse off than kids who don't have access to a calculator? I'm thinking him not having the text-books.

Either way I think it's interesting to consider what intellectual tools like computers are doing to our ability to think. A similar thing I read somewhere how kids no longer are able to use keyboards since they only use their phones.

And what about asking Alexa or Siri for the answer to everything? Not learning languages because everything can be machine-translated. Do such tools in fact make us dumber?
Maybe you'd be interested in a smaller camera like the Sony RX 100ii? Seems like it might be perfect for high-quality off-the-cuff photos, and with a big sensor and an f1.8 lens it ought to do very well in low light.
Darknet markets had a huge boom around that time, too, which could also correlate. I think it's more likely the cause than Snowden, as I think more people care about drugs than privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market#Silk_Road_and_e...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2013-01-01%202...
And meanwhile the bloke who stopped the WannaCry outbreak is holed up waiting for a court date..
I wonder if the day will come soon when tow trucks feature inverters and outlets as a standard feature, in order to help "gas up" a stranded (electric) motorist.
Because relationships between investors and their financial advisors are regulated, and you don't want to create even the appearance of such a relationship when you write a column for mass consumption.

It's the same CYA reason that people will respond to a question about law with "Here's what the law says, but I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice".
Electron 3.0.0
What do you gain if the lawyer has to reveal it anyway? If you don't trust the lawyer[1], just give a hash of the document to the people who would be affected.

I don't see what role the blockchain plays here.

[1] and who's to say there aren't multiple signed hashes on the blockchain anyway?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Board had (at the least) considered restricting his social media so that his messages require approval from someone else.
Walmart employees think they can dethrone Amazon
Has anyone ever seen a worn out lightning or dock port? I've seen plenty of damaged cables and plugs, but not the port itself
Thank goodness. The lack of 3rd party password manager integration was infuriating. Glad LastPass is usable natively.
Although the author's opinion appears to be intelligent design:

"As a consequence, all purported evolutionary trees and sequences become highly suspect, including such icons as the whale and human series. For they are based on similarities of traits between species, and similarities are an unreliable indicator of common ancestry as implied by the trees’ typically low adjusted consistency indices. Instead, similarities appear to be the result of a designer reusing design modules in different species to meet common goals.

Ewert’s article represents only the first step in evaluating and developing his framework. Still, the significance of this research cannot be overstated. The dependency graph model explains why subsets of the biological data crudely fit a tree pattern and why so much of the data is incongruent. It also makes clear predictions on the results of future studies on the distribution across species of both physical traits and similarities in molecular data. Finally, it should lead to a robust and innovative research program based on the intelligent design framework. "
> Could you explain exactly what about the Jones Act causes the problem, and how it does so? A casual glance failed to enlighten me.

The Jones Act requires Puerto Rico to use only a small number of US merchants for shipping to and from the mainland. Because those few merchants have an oligopoly, they're much more expensive than any of the alternatives. This raises the cost of everything that's not produced on the island itself, which directly or indirectly inflates all prices on the island. As a result, the island's exports become prohibitively expensive as well, which means that they can't really afford to buy much, but they also can't produce anything that's cheap enough for other places to want to purchase them.

While the Jones Act technically applies to all states, Puerto Rico and Hawaii are uniquely affected by it due to their inability to ship anything by ground transit, since they're islands. (Hawaii also suffers due to the act, though they have representation in Congress that has enabled them to secure waivers at times and other exemptions to mitigate the impact. Puerto Rico does not.). Air shipments are not an option - air is always orders of magnitude more expensive than either ground or sea - shipping over water is always the cheapest.
> GnuPG is considered obsolete

Not in banking anyway. It is widely used to protect ACH files and many other exchanges between banks (at least in the US).
Tariffs were a source of bitter controversy between Northern and Southern states from the very beginning. It wasn't until the 1840s or 1850s that controversy over slavery became the dominate dynamic.

Northern manufacturers wanted high tariffs on manufactured goods and low tariffs on agricultural products. Southern farmers wanted high tariffs on agricultural products and low tariffs on manufactured goods--to placate Europeans so they'd buy Southern agricultural products, and to check the economic power of the North. And of course the Federal government relied on tariffs for income--the Articles of Confederation being considered a failure largely because the Federal government had no independent source of income--and as a foreign policy tool.

Everybody was at odds.

(Note that it was also common back then to impose export tariffs, which added considerable complexity to the debate. Today export tariffs are largely unheard of in the U.S. but perhaps ripe for rediscovery. Though we recently loosened restraints on the export of crude oil and natural gas, so it probably won't happen any time soon.)
I'm doing freelance EE hardware design.

About 5 years into my career I worked for a small consulting firm that did a lot of mechanical engineering and a little electrical. The owner could not find enough work for the mechanical guys and was tired of the ups and downs of consulting so he closed the business. I asked him if I could continue working directly for one of his old clients and he said sure. So that would give me one customer if I wanted it, but I would need to find more.

I was pretty young and wasn't sure I could do it. I interviewed for one full time job with a startup. At the end of the day I met with two people: 1) my previous mentor who was consulting there at a high level and 2) the CEO. I was open and honest with my mentor and told him I wasn't sure the startup was right for me, and I was considering striking out on my own as a freelancer, like him, even though I recognized I was probably too young to do that. He, being a compassionate and reasonable person, encouraged me and said "well, people should do what they want to do". So, when I met the CEO, I felt I should tell her what I was thinking - I was leaning strongly toward consulting work. Why was I so honest with her? I don't know. It's just my style. But, she blew up. She started yelling at me, saying "You are too young!
People become consultants after years and years of experience for a reason! Let me tell you what you need to do! You need to get a job!!!" And she basically threw me out of the building.

From that moment on I was resolved to prove her wrong and become a successful freelancer. It's now 15 years later and I am sure I made the right choice. All my advertising is via word of mouth / previous clients. I've been busy every day I wanted to be busy.
Astronomers Spot Unprecedented Glow Around Neutron Star
I don't think licensure is part of the definition of "engineer"
Announcing SafeTalpa's Open Beta: A defense against polymorphic malware
There is one mediocre elementary school in Mountain View that serves a poorer, hispanic area. Other than that is pretty good. Better than most of California, not as good as districts with high Asian populations in the bay area like Dublin or Cupertino.
This is an attack on character and a bit disingenuous. If a rich person proposed a good idea, would we not listen to them because they are rich?
So how does these car-less cities manage followings:

- Truck delivery to businesses such as large stores/shopping malls

- Ambulance, police car services

- Disabled/old people wanting to move around

If you allow any or all of above, you still need roads for vehicles only, traffic lights etc, right?
The simple way out of that conundrum is to make it free to list (perhaps with an option to upgrade to a "premium" listing for a recurring fee), and charge for the actual bookings made through your site (you'd need to experiment to figure out whether flat fees or a percentage worked better for you).
> I don't see the open web being appreciated or respected by the Google of today

I'd generalise it more, "I don't expect the open web being appreciated or respected by any business." Business is to make money, preferably now, open or not is irrelevant.
It actually makes a ton of sense. Imagine a scenario where parking downtown were actually impossible.

You would then want to drive as far as you can, park, and take the alternative in.

It's made for people that don't live walking distance from a train/bus line, but also don't want to deal with the traffic/cost/overall hassle of going by car end-to-end.

There are 80 Park‑n‑Rides throughout the my metro area.
The benefit of the model I proposed is that from the perspective of the agency receiving a notarized document, they only have to make a single API call to validate any notarized document. Their system becomes much easier to validate and trust.

Otherwise, they'll have to have one system for US, one system for England, one for India, etc.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013182
A central banks job is really only to control the flow of money. There’s a few decentralized alternative models out there. That’s what bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies are.

I really don’t know what the second part of your comment is getting at though...
Ripple Pea Protein Yogurt: High Expectations Crushed by (Very) Bad Taste
Looks like the closer sides pillars sunk.
Huh. Canada takes engineering quite seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#First_design_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Trade doesn't really work like that. If I say buy a car off you it doesn't mean you've won and I've lost, just that we've done an exchange. If the government bans or taxes the exchange it probably just makes us worse off. Similarly with China trade there wasn't much of a problem till the stable genius decided to get worked up about things and it will probably cause both sides losses.
Right. So we are comparing (in US) 13000 deaths annually and one major incident with no casualties - and in the coal case, it's "yeah we know it's not ideal, so we are slowly moving away, but really slow because you have to be realistic here" and in the nuclear case it's "OMG OMG OMG radiation no more new stations ever we have to forget the whole thing now, it's too unsafe did I say RADIATION?!".
Maven by GM is like this. It's a little bit clumsy at times[1], but it does the job for hourly rentals (the primary purpose of the app). The cars have Android/iOS chargers in them. As far as I can tell, you would be in quite a bit of trouble if you ran out of battery.

[1] If the internet connection is weak, it will attempt to update trip information before letting you unlock the car. You're better off turning on airplane mode.
Or encouraging people to take the train into SF. Of course, not everyone has a convenient train option because the patchwork of cities makes it incredibly difficult to drive a joint transit initiative.
How much longer until every project is written in its own language? This doesn't actually bother me: there is so little difference between the proliferation of new languages that "mastery" is kind of a meaningless term. Previous languages are tweaked for a particular task from a base language, and the project / application is made a bit easier.

In other words: writing a custom language for each application in the name of efficiency or more elegant patterns seems to make perfect sense.
If you’re using tasking/ project management system just create the task with your ideas moving forward, keep track of your task numbers. Whenever the a-hole try’s to steal it, and he makes a task, make sure to update his task as a duplicate of your task.

My other suggestion is keep things close to your vest. If you have the power to implement changes just start doing it. If you don’t, start making branches and developing proof of concepts. Start showing your manager before including the a-hole in the ideas. So that if he try’s to steal it, then your manager has already seen it from you.

Also if he’s doing it to you, your not alone he’s doing it to others too.

Whatever you decide to do, if you can get a trusted coworker to also do it. Then there is a pattern of behavior that can’t be ignored.

My other suggestion is, get your resume in order, start interviewing. Forget the a-holes name the instance you walk out the door.
You can do a straddle and get the best of both sides.
Also 2FA via text now works. Not the most secure solution, but it's cool to see improvements in usability.
I assume this is identical to using Word:

Format > Font > Advanced > Scale: 105%, Spacing: Expanded: 0.5 pt

Making a font for it is a nice marketing ploy, but not sure there's anything new here...
The fact that PayPall can do something does not make them immune to critism, or jouranlistic review. That is precisly the check on private company that is supposed to occur in a free market: they do something bad, and the bad thing gets publisized do people can make an informed choice on if they want to use the service.

As an aside, there is an arguement to be had on if there should be legal recourse against PayPal, or even if they would win on the merits of a civil suit if brought.
Wow for $10 I can get a printed edition shipped internationally for one year and the key... that's.... something. Probably first time I will subscribe to an online magazine.
It'd be so useful to have a diff feature/version history of posts on HN. If someone missed this comment they'd never know it was modified.
I hate having to think in such cynical terms, but I fear you are right.
> You were uncivil

I started being uncivil after they started being uncivil. Why is it me that is to blame here? I mean, they seem to be so agitated that they are downvoting me 3 days later!

> you insinuated that other users were astroturfing

Where did I do this?
thanks for the very conving article! I've been a facebook and twitter sceptic for some time, but didn't realise it's successors are here!
This is not actually true anymore, but it might have been true a few years ago.
I use (and pay for, ~$50/mo.) an awesome plugin called Gmelius. It really upgrades the gmail experience to a professional-grade system. Also lets you strip out a ton of the unnecessary gmail web chrome.
Yes, but proving intent is the easy part of this, what with Musk's propensity to trash-talk short-sellers.
I've never been in a NYC elevator that didn't smell like human waste. Even if all stations had elevators, the immense heat on the platforms seems dangerous for babies and seniors. I always bring a fan to keep the little one cool. Too bad we can't seem to elect someone that will fix our subways.
> Now that the EU actually wants to do something about it, the law is being denounced as lobbied by big media, but, to the contrary, the current status quo only serves Google et al.

Do you think these regulations will make it more difficult for smaller companies to arise in any space where they are relevant?

If so, this legislation favors incumbents. It provides them with a nice little moat in the form of higher start-up costs.

The EU does not pass legislation out of the kindness of their hearts. There are lots of people in Brussels bargaining on behalf of clients who are first and foremost interested in the health of their businesses. Granted, there is a lot of feel good propaganda about "protecting the people."

As this site is a community centered on the creation of new companies it is normal that this legislation would be looked at negatively here. Since it will stifle small companies.
If you can't be a self-sustaining region without being a tax haven then maybe you shouldn't be a populated region.
Perhaps you should go read the thing, you might be positively surprised. The first thing you want is there, the second is a more complicated question. Sometimes some of your data is actually really needed, e.g. when required by the law. GDPR is a compromise: you have to state explicitly where the data is going and you better keep it safe, under the threat of a possibly hefty penalty.

This ^ is a shortened simplified statement. You can argue semantics or maybe that I'm just flat out wrong if you wish, but that'll mean you read the GDPR, a win in itself.