skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great news for Neo4j, and for the thousands of organisations that are just starting to realise that they have an unmet need that graph technology can solve.

What we are seeing here is the 'commodification' of graph, a trend that happens in technology in general. Companies that launched ten years ago, on a massive investment with their own proprietary graph technology - I'm talking the likes of Twitter, Facebook and so on - today the same features could be implemented with a fraction of the investment. They'll do this by leveraging Neo4j.

This funding we'll broaden the reach of graph technology, while reducing the overall cost for individual organisations to adopt. Social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection systems are all now easily within reach. Check out our own free and open-source recommendation engine, which was built on top of Neo4j, for example: https://github.com/graphaware/neo4j-reco.

We live in exciting times. While the commodification of what we call 'graph 1.0' is in progress, what Tesla's head of A.I. Andrej Karpathy brands "Software 2.0", that is the intersection of machine learning and software development is rapidly picking up pace. We're only at the beginning of the hype cycle on this. And guess what? IT is an established fact, is that graph is playing a central role in this transformation process.

We are proud to say that our organisation is at the forefront of using graph technology to derive insight and meaning from unstructured data - we call this GraphAware Hume. We're really excited about this!

As you can see we're are pretty passionate about graph technology, and Neo4j in particular, and in our opinion we're at the beginning of what is going to be a very transformative adoption. If you're thinking about exploring how graph might fit into _your_ organisation, of course feel free to reach out.

Disclaimer: GraphAware (https://graphaware.com/) is Neo4j's solution partner
Perhaps. But GCC lacks those same improvements from Sony, simply because Sony went with LLVM instead, doesn’t it?
Excellent! Building tools to automate and solve your own problems is such a satisfying endeavor. Unfortunately, the majority of people lack the skills you have and remain frustrated.
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*dont look at it as plateauing
Like the blog post mentioned, 99.9% of users already have JS enabled, and this number is only going to go up as websites rely more and more on JS. For them, this is a purely beneficial change, with no downsides. It's somewhat selfish for you to ask that your system be made more secure, even at the cost of security for 99.9% of other users.
Hopefully to more people in tech joining unions. Plenty of other well-paid professions are unionised (eg. doctors). For full disclosure I've been a member of Prospect, a non-affiliated union in the UK, for a few years. One of the advantages is free access to legal advice about employment issues.
I've seen a similar situation play out at a startup and I can see your point. However, I think there's a difference between talking to potential customers about requirements they have vs. promising to deliver a solution for them on the spot.

IMO you don't have to, or rather shouldn't, close the sale when first reaching out to potential customers like this. The goal should be to simply validate the problem statement - if that's done with enough potential customers you should move on to the next part of planning and building the initial implementation.

To your point, new information might still surface at this point, which could lead to the project being dropped. Having not sold (promised a solution) to anyone at this point, the likelihood of unhappy clients is rather low.

All that said, I think calling this initial work "sales" might give the wrong impression here, as I would categorise it more as market research. Whoever is carrying this work out should be very aware of this and not actually close the sale on something they are uncertain can be delivered in a profitable manner.
From the article:

> The Home Office has also [planned] to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries around the UK to help those without smartphones, or without the necessary digital skills, to apply to stay in the UK.
Then again, it didn’t help GNU Hurd, or othe GPL-licensed systems. So my guess - given a number of examples - is that it’s not the license that helped Linux.
I would've also appreciated some acknowledgement of the fact that one of their official Twitter accounts was tweeting links to a crypto scam during the outage.
Yeah, this.
Passwords are obsolete - actual security would involve keys. The fact they have to care about automation for security instead of availability is a sign they have already lost. If you have a disposable EC2 server administration password accessible you are already doing it horribly wrong because you /will/ get attacked frequently.

Javascript is opening an attack surface for what will certainly turn into an arms race anyway instead of ending it.

Given that they aren't pushing a new standard for what has already been a problem for a long time while introducing a vector for abuse both to and from it google can be criticized for both of those sins far more.
Nice open source icon pack (480 icons)
Right. 100k probably included their end of National Insurance, recruiter fees and all that hidden costs that don't end up in a persons final compensation.
Yeah, I've been meaning to make a better spatial audio demo, I've just been swamped lately. The capabilities of the spatial audio are actually pretty impressive with Web Audio (and thus in howler as well).
> The SSPL is not an open source license.

It seems like it is to me, it's just extremely protective of the source code owner's rights.

> "Thou shall not compete with MongoDB."

Sounds to me like, "thou shall not offer MongoDB, and your own custom tooling, in your cloud without talking to us about licensing fees or making your cloud tech open source."
Not just Apple Pay anymore, they also use it for certain transit cards and student ID cards. New phones can read tags and launch the appropriate app (via notification like Camera gives you for QR code reading): https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/2018-iphones-background...
md5sum(userid + ip)

That way you don't log private user data (EU laws etc) and it can't be used to lock someone out of their account.

The only way around this is to attack from a lot of different IPs and that, too, is very easily detectable and solvable in a user friendly way.

Really, how hard is it? I would expect this to be the default for big companies by now.
That's a funny way of spelling "realistic".

These companies want The Right Stuff, and it's easy to tell if you yourself aren't it.
Neural net universe is in Python and you can use Python to build production pipelines.
I highly recommend reading the book "Countdown to Zero Day". Stuxnet was incredibly sophisticated and explicitly targeted at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp...
I guess it all comes down to whether one thinks free as in beer is "freer" than free as in freedom. Freedom has a price.
We've been making steady improvements since 2.0 as you can see in the changelog: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/releases. Once I get a little more free time, I'm planning on adding and merging in some exciting new plugins and adding some highly requested features for the 2.1 and 2.2 releases (hopefully before the end of the year).
The more sugar, the better people like it.
Email has recurring costs to run. They need to process every email you receive and send and therefore any email service that actually wants to continue running will need to charge a subscription fee.
> The Home Office has also signed a £91m contract with French company Sopra Steria to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries

Just £1.625 million per library? Does that seem a crazy amount to anyone else?
How do you know this had ZERO effect on the witnesses? I used to be a climate change denier, and I’m not anymore. This is probably due to enough people like you convincing me to get informed. But people like you who knew me 15 years ago probably despaired (incorrectly) that they didn’t impact me.
> There shouldn't be a "process" set by Google when it comes to sexual harassment, employees should be able to sue, that's the process,

Except that, under the law, the company’s response (including the absence or inadequacy of any process) to certain situations is part of what determines if they are sexual harassment.

> sexual harassment is a crime

No, it's not, and if it were the process would not be for employees to sue, because crimes are prosecuted exclusively by the government in the U.S. legal system.
You may want to check this out:

> Short hands-on challenges to perfect your data manipulation skills

https://www.kaggle.com/learn/pandas

Also this:

> Things in Pandas I Wish I'd Known Earlier

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/rasbt/python_reference/bl...
I thought "everything is a file" referred to user land.
You might "enjoy" this book about conflict in the age of global warming: "Ultimatum" by Matthew Glass -- it's like "West Wing" with a little more action in it: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimatum-Matthew-Glass-ebook/dp/B002...
I don't think Canonical would look kindly on someone shipping 'Ubuntu' with 3rd-party modifications to critical system-level packages, at least without participating in the Ubuntu Desktop certification program.
So this is a smartphone app because they want to use the NFC in the smartphone to scan the passport.

Does anyone know how the NFC in a passport works? If it just communicates the passport number, then it seems like they could allow a fallback where the user types in the passport number, without any loss of security.

(Because if that is how it works, all you're really proving is knowledge of the passport number, not possession of the passport)

EDIT: According to this StackOverflow post[0] the NFC reader needs to supply the passport number, date of birth, and expiry date before it can retrieve whatever data is on the passport, so it can't work the way I described.

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/30772/what-nfc-...
>I fall into the "Build before talking to customers" trap constantly. Even though I know it's "wrong", it is hard to escape it because of the simple problem of not knowing who to talk to.

There isnt necessarily a 'right way' to do things.

I have received terrible advice from marketing/business people. Showing people my MVP was fine for some customers, but others didnt trust me based on a low quality landing page.

While I wanted to make everything perfect and add a feature before presenting it, I was pressured into showing people.

What I thought they'd say, they said. What I thought they wanted, they wanted.

3 years later, things are fine. I worry I created some skeptics that spread negativity(which I've seen).

There is something to be said about building your vision.

As a note/recommendation, don't be absolute in either. Ask for feedback from friends along the way.
This is the most under rated comment in this thread.

Don't know what the Google management is thinking at this point in time. But I'm damn sure, unless you are making it rain hundreds of millions in dollars, and you are a part of these pre-unionizing exercises- You are very likely getting marked up as a trouble maker, and may be already a part of purge lists.

This is also a small industry. You don't want your name to smeared as a person who comes with a high trouble/contribution ratio. Nobody wants to hire people to do their jobs, and get employees running their part time political projects with their fellow colleagues in paid office time, on office issues.

There are also a huge range legal landmines you are likely to step over even without active knowledge that you are.
Or the security/PR nightmare that would happen when someone used one of those that was poorly implemented and said “I paid with Apple Pay and all my money was stolen!”
So...

When Christian churches tell congregants that tithing 10% saves your soul, are they engaging in fraud?
>Oracle to the CIA.

I was unable to confirm it.

Anyway the advice of sell first build later and talk to customers sound very smart, it's just that it I don't see much of success stories based on that process.

On the other hand, build something basic, put it in front of the people, measure and iterate based on the measurements have so many examples. Like pretty much everything out there.

So yes, the stuff on the article sound smart but is it?
> To save the world we need: a substantial price on carbon,

No we don't. Global warming is a self-reinforcing effect. So there's no point to slowing down emissions. No point at all. Even if you get it to zero, the resulting concentrations will still accelerate into the right. Even if you get it negative at the same rate we're producing it today (which would eliminate all human co2 contributions EVER in ~60 years) would do nothing but delay.

So why bother ? This avenue is closed, and useless.

We glued a grenade to our hand, and pulled the pin. Messing around trying to insert the pin back in provides nothing but comic relief. We need to adapt. To limit the damage, and fix things.

As you say, only direct geoengineering can work. On the plus side: doesn't require global cooperation. On the downside: that'll make someone clearly directly responsible for the (MUCH worse) effects global cooling will have, especially locally ... so it's extremely incompatible with how current green parties think and "influence policy".

Whereas the current "complain and do nothing but token efforts" is very good at getting constant attention, votes and money. But only if the problem keeps getting worse.

So just like everyone they accuse, green and leftist parties themselves are dependent on global warming happening and getting worse. Maybe that, too, is a reason why we have nothing but token efforts. Also, they would have to admit that "mother nature"/gaia is definitely NOT going to save our ass, even if we stop polluting.

Additionally, Gaia, so to speak, has already decided to inflict global warming on us, as a punishment or just because, take your pick, effectively for what humanity did at the end of the 19th (not 20th) century. So we need to inflict further damage on the ecosystem artificially controlling the temperature to prevent worse. But that'll futher destroy habitats, and on a much larger scale than what we've seen so far.

Not eating meat, capturing co2, lab-grown meat, even nuclear power ... just can't work. Only geoengineering can work.
Considering what's a stake for citizens and the govt, one wonders would it make sense to partner with a commodity hardware manufacturer and split the cost of the device? Use recyclable parts and encourage people to return them for a fee?
> there's no way to search "startups using x" for a generic technology, like serverless or NoSQL.

Smells like a side project waiting to be built.
Awesome, thanks, I will definitely check this out.
My favourite are pages that embed videos using a huge collection of different third party embedding tools. It usually takes 2 or 3 rounds of whitelisting to get the video to even show up, and another to get it to play.
It’s not so much about the fact that taxes are levied as that there is a lack of accountability for how it’s used.
Nice! let me try to guessduct where this ghost character 彁 came from... it was in the 70's ,maybe something to do with the soda pop named coca-cola, was written in some old sign in a vertical way? : ) if you take a look at their logo , maybe the ghost of someone who died of thirst , was the thirsty ghost and wrote something like : : 口可 (mouth thirsty?) twice in the wall with a brush...Its interesting to read the story about how the chinese name of coca-cola was choosen. Other theory is that it was a karaoke singing ghost who died of boredom after the beer finished...may have something to do with "brother" or "turtle" haha, who knows...anyway very interesting read this post on japantimes is.
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They don't have it because they aren't digital at all; a Class D amplifier essentially is to amplifiers what a switching power supply is to power supplies. They're still 100% analog, but they use a different driving method compared to their traditional linear counterparts to maximize performance.
It would be more interesting if there was styling for light and dark mode, so you would be able to switch between depending on user preference.
> I've run into projects run like this, but I would love to get some driveby pull requests.

In that case, you canmake a driveby issue. This will be preferable for them and easier for you.
Agency: 'Oh yeah that feature is not supported, but don't worry there are rumours it's coming'

Government: 'Great let's base our whole system on this'

:|
I never learned. (I think the first time I used a typewriter was senior year in HS.) I went to a "prep" school and we didn't have classes for secretarial-type stuff.

I type quickly enough and have developed good enough typing muscle memory over time that I've never quite gotten up the incentive to properly teach myself to touch type but I would almost certainly have benefited from both typing and shorthand classes at some point.
This is the context in which companies end up with slick players who's primary skill is to reframe the metrics and sell the idea of progress regardless of what's going on in reality.
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Or an anti-competition suit?
iOS definitely supports NFC for third party apps. Here’s the documentation:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc

I just played with the Yubico iOS SDK just the other day and it supports my Yubikey 5 flawlessly.
>"If you're going to invest $20, $40, $60 in a tarot reading and you find it's irrelevant to you, or did you no good, why would that being any different than going to a reiki treatment and finding that didn't work?" she asked. "Would you charge a reiki practitioner with fraud?"

She makes an excellent point, but not the one she intended.
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I don't recall the RFC number but it is in the standard specification.
Indeed, and Neo4j has scaled out horizontally for reads since 2011.

However, the really hard problem with scaling graphs is scaling writes, i.e. partitioning. In my mind, no one has solved that well today because you can't just slap it on top of a partitioning algorithm that's designed for data without explicit relationships (think documents, key value pairs). In order to gain something other than a checkbox feature and "sharding claims" you have to partition based on the shape of the graph at the time of insertion, but also revise it continuously as the graph evolves over time. That's a non-trivial problem that no one has solved today. (Yes, we're obviously working on it here at Neo4j.)

The good news is that you can get really really far with the replicated horizontal scale out model. "Big RAM is growing faster than big data" as you've probably heard and today there are massive Neo4j deployments in production using our third generation scale out architecture (Raft based, multi clustering, causal consistency).
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I wish that machine learning wasn’t being mislabeled as AI. It’s pattern recognition, not intelligence.
Yes, I'll build this next week. That's why I added a toggle "Dark Mode Activated" on the bottom bar. You will be able to switch between both. :)
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I actually stumbled into some - stocking stuffer aisle of Barnes and Noble had a few John Green titles. As of Nov 1, they’re still stocking those shelves though
> I don't think that wading into a conversation you fundamentally don't want to be a part of...

I was replying to a comment that claimed that

"no real process in place for situations of misconduct in the office [..] would be like Google not having a process to investigate and resolve site outages - it would be unthinkable"

This to me is clearly a confusion between two completely different things: what Google produces, and what are Google's internal ethics. iPhones are not worse products because working with Steve Jobs was a nightmare. I value the distinction.
This article seems like a giant non-sequitur. Just because Silicon Valley was founded with investment from the military doesn't require they continue to take this investment. Georgetown University was saved financially by selling slaves, I hardly think anyone would argue that this fact means they should continue to deal with slave traders.

You can certainly argue these companies/employees are being naive or unpatriotic or whatever but Silicon Valley's original source of funding is irrelevant to this discussion.
Looks nice!

One observation: your select options are unreadable in Chrome on Linux. You probably need a colour other than white for the option text.
...or you can raise them to have a net positive impact on the environment, like Ben Falk.
> But I hit a Gell-Mann amnesia moment very early. [...] The author says: Airlines complain that they are losing money because so many flights are nearly empty. But airlines haven't complained about that in a while.

Is that the article being wrong, or is that just an older example? Keep in mind the article itself is from 2015, and all of the examples presented might not be up to date (since the author was listing ones that they've noticed over time). That's nowhere near what Crichton described: "You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect."
She told MPs the Home Office could not be blamed because Apple "won't release the upgrade we need in order for it to function".

Wrong. The Home Office should have checked with Apple before developing the app.
Christian churches shouldn't be telling anyone that, because that's not how Christianity works, but if they did, yes I think they would be.
Might have some issues with ITAR with the first two, since OP is not an American citizen.
>Having said that, is there any other kind of witchcraft than fake witchcraft?

It seems like an obvious question for a skeptic (it's all fake) but from a cultural and anthropological point of view, what constitutes "real" and "fake" witchcraft is an interesting question. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence linking beliefs about witches during the times of witch-trials to any particular pagan or old-world religions - such beliefs being predicated on the Christian premise that witchcraft was explicitly Satanic, and practices like fortune telling tended to persist across cultures.
The article seems to suggest it can't be used with even Linux b/c Linux isn't under the SSPL. So the license seems to in effect make the software effectively unusable

Which in a way isn't their fault.. there is a weird license lock-in that seems to happen with licenses and it really forces your hand to use a particular license for practical reasons

I know for instance Clojure is all under the EPL - so it makes it a weird licensing issue to use it with GPL code (The way I understand it is that you can, if you basically treat it all like GPL code.. maybe?)
Most reasonable people on HN stay out of these threads. You're not going to change anyone's mind at this point.