skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zynga to Acquire Small Giant Games, the Maker of Empires and Puzzles, for $700M
comma.ai has never ceased to impress me. Im interested to see if they will begin a transition from level 2 to level 4 as OpenPilot becomes more polished.
Thanks for this comparison, never heard of Tyk before.

OT: Your frontpage is very slow (Chrome v.71) - it loads but takes ages to scroll down.
Yes he did -- He co-authored an influential deep learning paper in 2012: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub40565

I think his contribution at that time was mainly clever ways to drastically scale up existing neural net techniques, but just scaling things up 100x or 1000x seems to be a large part of the magic of deep learning.
Who Gets to Look Out to the Edge of the Universe?
A person can't be wrong that they have consciousness, but they can be mistaken about about the character of their conscious experiences.

We tend to think that we have a very continuous constant stream of attention and thought but in reality if you learn to pay attention, you'll see that your mind is pretty erratic and experience is not at all like your memories tend to represent.
Pretty cool, what was your motivation/inspiration?
People here complaining about the grocery delivery, it's been fantastic for us. We don't use it for meat or produce, but we do buy a lot of specialty products specifically from Whole Foods that other (closer) retailers don't have. Things like vegan cheese, specific gluten free items, etc.

We buy most of our meat and produce from another local grocery store, and now we just order the odds and ends from whole foods. This saves us a bunch of time so we don't have to make two stops.
It's not "attacking the motive" to question whether a source is reliable.
Affecting 100K passengers... how come this is not top 10 in HN?
I have suffered every kind of audit, many times. I know of many technical facets of every business I worked for that would never have been a part of any of those audits.

Do you know of any published Amazon audits that describe in detail what specifically around Alexa is audited, if anything?
I am in my 30s too, and I remember reading articles saying that DHS had hundreds of thousands of hours of wiretapped conversations they would never get to because they all needed to be manually reviewed.

When the company selling a suspiciously cheap home speaker ('stocking stuffer') is the same company that boasts of having infinitely scalable computing ability and is the only cloud vendor that meets the Pentagon's procurement requirements, people are justified in thinking that Amazon's ambitions go beyond 'making it easier to order online'.
There's a popular idea that it is bad to judge others. I disagree. I think we will judge others whether we like to admit it or not and also that many of the people I have met who claim not to judge anyone have also happened to have been some of the most hypocritical people I have ever met. I think the important thing is to judge yourself and your own judgements on other people, at least as harshly as you find yourself judging others. Put your own opinions of other people up to the coldest possible light. Judge more, not less.
I can understand how you'd think that, reading the text of the rule in the Restatement. However, at common law - and as shown in the examples if you'd keep reading - there has to be some detrimental reliance. Being able to use a product isn't in an of itself to your detriment. However, hiring someone based on that understanding might be.

A, knowing that B is going to college, promises B that A will give him $ 5,000 on completion of his course. B goes to college, and borrows and [[[spends more than $ 5,000 for college expenses.]]] When he has nearly completed his course, A notifies him of an intention to revoke the promise. A's promise is binding and B is entitled to payment on completion of the course without regard to whether his performance was “bargained for” under § 71.

(detrimental reliance in triple square brackets)

I have a hard time imagining a case being granted summary judgment for the defendant just because Oracle's customer sales rep told him "we don't really care."

In all honesty, the legal issue is more likely to be whether the person on the phone had apparent authority to grant a license. Even if a promissory estoppel theory would work, the person speaking to you would still have to be in some position (or appear to be in some position) to bind Oracle to a promise he/she made.
It's surprising that they aren't better at competing with Instacart even though they own the whole store.
I disagree with points 1 and 2 (and therefore 3). If a friendly AI is built and matures first, then it can protect us from unfriendly AIs trying to mature and take power. (Others call this idea a "singleton".)
AWS DynamoDB with Clojure
The key words are fraudulently and by disguising as a trustworthy entity. If they clearly identify themselves as oracle, asking about virtualbox usage, then it's not phishing.

> They are literally fishing

You can "fish for info" in a hundred ways. Only a small subset of that is "phishing".
If you do use Home Assistant, you may be interested in Rhasspy: https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy-hassio-addon

This is an external service I wrote that does offline speech/intent recognition with pocketsphinx, and forwards structured JSON events into Home Assistant for use in automation scripts.
No, it's a bug in GitHub. It should be a 404, or at least redirect to my fork, where that commit was actually made.
Russia again successfully tests ship-based hypersonic missile
> "convince businesses that they're going to be impacted financially"

Yes and no. My take is this: there's too much time and energy being put into why and who does or doesn't believe (it's human-made), and not enough focus is on "solutions" (to the higher waters). Often this distraction seems to be generated by politicians.

I wish I had $10 for every time I've seen an article misuse the phrase "climate-change deniers" My sense those people are very few. That is, flat out deniers are few. Most everyone else sees it coming. The debate is why it's happening (human vs natural).

Even if we settle on why (which we won't), it seems to me Amtrak, etc. are still going to be impacted. At some point we need to focus on the ends, and let the means go.

Note: I realize that __if__ we settle on human-made there is, at least in theory, opportunity to slow the change. I understand that. My faith breaks down on ever being able to agree on why. It's as if the building is on fire and we're so busy debating why the fire started that we've forgotten we still need to do something about the fire.
Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2018 by Levels.fyi
Nextcloud 15 released
No I thing arstechnica did that...
http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/TN/TNpage.html

> we are using the word "Topology" in the general sense of "geometrical arrangement" rather than its usual mathematical meaning

> perhaps the title could have been "Topography of Numbers" instead.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+topology

> 2. the way in which constituent parts are interrelated or arranged.

> "the topology of a computer network"
Whether the intent is positive or negative is unrelated to whether it's phishing. You could phish someone's info and then send them a gift basket.
You can store around 1000 hours of recorded speech in a gigabyte of flash memory that costs $0.25. For most people, that could hold their entire conversational activity for a year. Storage and off-line upload (perhaps during a software update when packets are flying around anyway) isn't difficult.
Gluten Free Antarctica
>I can't help but be jealous of those who function on 6.

Don't be. Hell I can "function" with my shoes tied together.

I can "function" with some marijuana and some whiskey in my system.

I can "function" on 4 hours of sleep. It's an awful day and I'm more rude and impatient, but if I did it for years I'd be telling people I can fully function on 4 hours with no negative side effects.
Thanks - we’re painfully aware and are lookig to change it so it’s more usable :-/
Voice commands are the future . “Turn off kids bedroom” “remind me about ... later today”, “call wife”, “set timer for 3 minutes” - it is so much faster then fumbling through the UI
They're very useful for very limited things - "Set a timer for 30 minutes" or "Wake me up at 8am" is easier than doing that yourself. Even dictating a short text in a pinch is nice. Think "in the kitchen" with wet or dirty hands.
They simply fake something "reasonable" to get a warrant, or more likely search without one at all...cops have a lot of latitude in the field. Even easier is pulling over people in cars and "accidentally" finding the stolen items while "looking for weapons" or whatever else.

If they want to get you and you aren't a multimillionaire with good attorneys, they can.
Collective negotiation is nice. It has the ability to affect markup (which is important) but it can't solve underlying costs.

In other words, UHC is a step to lower costs, but it will still be more expensive than a good free/mixed market solution.
Yes if you go to the sites via the links to the domains in the article they don't have the santa hats. I had to check for myself.
Epilepsy warning required here.
New technology is scary, old is not. With the third party doctrine the only way to really protect yourself is to not participate in modern society in any way.
is it just licensing? Doesn't it do its own thing in the vfs layer and perhaps others in a way that it wouldn't be accepted upstream either way?
I frequently use voice commands for both my Android phone and for my Amazon Echo, which is the only way to interact with it. I even have my phone wake up and unlock from the sound of my voice because it's so convenient. I do it when I'm driving, when I'm in my bed and my phone is plugged in and out of reach and when I'm just too lazy. Outside of that I use my Echo for shopping, adding things to the shopping list as I'm looking through my fridge, timers, recipes, music, asking factual questions and more. I love voice activated features and don't find them super-awkward in the least.
How exactly would that work?
What is your degree? Can you get hired in that at all? Then, after getting hired in that, spend the next two years becoming the go-to tech person there. Take on any programming projects that they have, but if they don't have any, become the unofficial IT person.

Then you've got experience, not just a degree. You've proven that you can walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Leverage that into a "real" tech job.
"You're not in California anymore, Timmy!"
This is the same as the posters for “Isle of Dogs”, where the juxtaposition of the English words and equivalent kanji is rather strange.
The Green New Deal Is Good for the Planet–and the Democratic Party
It does seem to indicate that the President was able to escape prosecution, though:

> The judge imposed “heavy fines” and a “scathing rebuke” to the speeding drivers, who didn’t include the president. He didn’t show up for court.

(I had no idea speeding laws predated cars - and speedometers! - incidentally.)
>There is no evidence that Mr. Jones sanctioned or was even aware of the social media project. Joe Trippi, a seasoned Democratic operative who served as a top adviser to the Jones campaign, said he had noticed the Russian bot swarm suddenly following Mr. Moore on Twitter. But he said it was impossible that a $100,000 operation had an impact on the race.

Interesting considering Google CEO's testimony last week alleging $4700 spent on Google Ads by Russian interference operatives.
I applied to matching jobs for three months about five years ago. Also did the same earlier this year for three months.

My advice: skip this site and weworkremotely.com. Both are complete wastes of time based on the responses.

If you’re in IT, your best bet is LinkedIn (for a referral) or Careerbuilder/Dice/Indeed. At least those will result in face to face interviews.

Also find companies you like and apply directly on their website.
I switched to Affinity and never looked back at Photoshop/Illustrator. That being said, I used them at a hobbyist level, nothing very complex, so while it was an easy transition for me, it may not be for everyone. But I've seen quite a few people state they have moved off of Adobe products over to Serif. I've been very happy with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
Teamwork may be learned via non-sports means, and that is a xD20 roll away. Bowl for that, and I shall bowl for Columbine; may we even bowl together.
Absolutely brilliant piece of software, I'm a huge fan. It's extremely easy to get started with, and a very pleasant way to spend your time, whether you're a professional artist or not. Imagine building stuff in minecraft but 10x more convenient. And the developer keeps making it better and better.

A few things I've made with it:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GY8D3

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2VleJ

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ryqk2

Follow the developer for a lot of awesome and inspiring examples:

https://twitter.com/ephtracy

Also I've made a little collection of my favorite artworks:

https://www.artstation.com/rayalez/collections/184272
Very disappointing. Irgit shouldn't have won a single suit: fashion design is not copyrightable. Courts overreached here, especially as Irgit purchased this design and did not make it herself.
This article reminded me of Geoffrey Landis's "Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition" [1], which seems like an interesting idea (easy access to water ice has some real benefits) except that the polar ice cap is probably about the most boring place on Mars to land.

Some place like Korolev crater might be a good compromise, with (possibly) easy access to water ice while retaining access to non-ice-covered Mars terrain.

[1] http://www.geoffreylandis.com/pole.html
Often? For what kind of device? Input devices don't need to be fast, and storage is usually better off with a shared folder anyway.
This is false. iCloud data doesn't contain phone call contents or iMessage data contents. Yes they gave access to metadata, but this is China where privacy basically doesn't exist, not a western country.
I don’t have an answer, except for "accept as little data as possible, avoid having centralized control". Basically decentralize all the things, especially control. It is unlikely that empty words will help you if taking down your site could stop something illegal from happening.

Due to this I disabled comments on all my websites, because I no longer had the time to moderate them. My GNU social instance only shows others the content I explicitly like or re-share — that’s active moderation with a white-list.

If unsure, don’t run the service. Just provide the tools others could use to run it and allow the others to accept money to fund their due dilligence.

I’m working on Freenet, and the kind of change I would reject off-hand is one which would give me more power. If some sort of control is needed, find a way to implement it without getting power yourself.

Besides: From your title I expected to see a question about copyleft — there the answer is: Use the AGPL which requires people who use your code to provide the code to all their users.
Yeah, but Windows built-in ZIP support still blows a number of goats, which is why I use 7zip... and the latter is the real reason I'm gobsmacked that Winzip is still around. 7zip's not as pretty but it does support every archive format I've ever used or needed.

EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
It actually works exactly as you describe. We generate SQL query to return aggregates based on SQL supplied in Cube.js schema. We never fetch raw data from SQL backend. Architecture overview can probably help to understand: https://github.com/statsbotco/cubejs-client#architecture
That's the funny thing. Email is perfectly good enough, but there is a psychology of not wanting to send too many messages or disturb people. But posting lots of pictures on Facebook doesn't feel like that. Otherwise email is a great social network for people you already know.
Being able to hold up my watch and say “set a timer for 30 minutes” is significantly better than fumbling through menus.
CSX is what you’re thinking of.

Amtrak is passenger only. They share track with CSX and many others.
You can't just will this to happen by saying it. The reality is very different. Either their brainwashing works so well that tons of consumers AND other companies buy into it and follow along, or maybe they're onto something.
What a fascinating read. Especially Ferrarini‘a comment at the end. I hope she get a lot more royalties than what the article is saying.
Does that mean no iphones can be sold in all of Germany effective immediately?
Northeast airspace is overcrowded, as is I-95. Not to mention that Amtrak mostly gets money for NEC from the fares, so pausing it is a non-starter without serious government cash infusions.
Thanks for the feedback. What would you expect to see? We are probably doing it but could do better at sharing that info.
Yeah, but everyone has a plausible case to play victim if the evidence threshold is 'scary things that could exist that we currently have no evidence either way for'.
This sounds very close to how I started out with a similar project, named Rhasspy: https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy-hassio-addon

I ended up using a set of JSGF grammars (one per intent) to generate a statistical language model for use with pocketsphinx. Rhasspy also features a web-based interface for creating custom words -- I have a mapping from Sphinx phonemes to eSpeak phonemes so you can iterate over a pronunciation until it sounds right.

As you mentioned, the wake/hotword stuff with Sphinx isn't terribly robust. I've been Docker-izing Mycroft Precise (https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise) to address this.
Not a legitimate complain at all--the jury is still out as to whether it will ever be possible to create a quantum computer capable of breaking current asymmetric primitives.
I made a one-page bash guide a few years ago, which is what I consult when I forget things (like string variable operators). Near the bottom of the page is a short list of the best books and websites I've found on the subject.

http://www.adamponting.com/mac-terminal/
I just read an old JS book that shows you an advanced IE only feature where you can insert elements in the middle of a page using eval('document.all.something something'). So nostalgic now </marquee>
Invest 6 more months and complete Lambda School
I wouldn't expect a SoC that's not even targeted for mobiles to "power manage them well". Mainstream phones are completely irrelevant there.
Radar. Various companies are already marketing counter-drone radar systems. Drone propellers are particularly non-stealthy, and also help discriminate drones from large birds.
I use this in the same way for location based reminders ie. "...when I leave work" or "...when I get home"
The last time this went up, someone made a comment about disabilities being relatively rare. I wanted to add a point here:

In the United States in 2015, 11 percent of noninstitutionalized adults reported having a disability (National Council on Disability (NCD). The Current State of Health Care for People with Disabilities).

Disability in mobility and in cognition were most frequently reported (5 percent). Data from the 2009 to 2012 National Health Interview Survey found that 11.6 percent of United States adults 18 to 64 years of age reported a disability (defined as serious difficulty with hearing, vision, cognitive ability, or mobility [walking or climbing stairs]).(MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 May;63(18):407-13.)

That makes disability more than 5x more common than being a natural blonde.
That sky background is a 3MB 1080p video file. Very unnecessary and removing it will fix the problem. Also please remove the scrolling interference, it just makes it hard to continue through the site at my pace.
You don’t have much granularity to work with though. It’s either good enough, weird, or not edible.

Produce is already sorted by at the processor for auxiliary products such as sauces and processed goods where the consumer would never see them.

The stuff reaching store shelves is already supposed to be premium. Then you have a company like Imperfect Produce will take whatever is at the bottom of that group and deliver it to you for about the same price as going to the grocer but alongside an anti food waste social good marketing angle, which I think mostly works on the fact that all that produce has already been judged to be good and you can’t tell so you might as well alleviate some consumer guilt.

Also how much market pricing power could put on a $0.50 cucumber. We’re literally talking nickels between categories.

What you’re really missing out on is that picking out food activates some finely tuned gatherer senses that people find both enjoyable in the moment and when cooking/eating the food; “I bought some great avacados this morning”.
It already exist, called wifi-router. Which are mostly overpriced Linux servers on a flash drive.
Hi Shaan, I appreciate when services get creative with monetization approaches. The 10% fee of first year income is quite interesting. It seems like a good way to charge for education because it incentivizes the educator to put the student in the best earning position possible.

Are you able to shed light on how you are able to protect Flockjay from anti-discrimination laws? My guess is perhaps your students become "independent contractors" that makes it not subject to the Civil Rights Act? Does this mean that as a student I would be unavailable for hire as employee and would have to commit to enter into service agreements as contractor instead? Or is the risk not on Flockjay because they are not the one making the hire. If that is the case would this not put companies that use Flockjay at risk of breaking anti-discrimination laws?

From https://flockjay.com/diversity

> We aim to promote diversity and inclusion in our application and training process, in the hiring partners we work with, and in our own company. [...] Diversity includes race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic/educational background, geographic location, and age.

From https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/fu...

> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, or ethnic origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits discrimination against employees 40 years and older; and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of disabilities and requires that employers reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities who can otherwise perform a job. As with other labor standards, independent contractors generally would not be covered by anti-discrimination laws.
About 30% of all sites have HTTP/2 support. I don't remember where I saw this. I'm curious why the number is so small because nginx has HTTP/2 out of the box. But if your primary users are using Microsoft IE/Edge I have bad news, this browser has worst HTTP/2 implementation. When we do research on streams prioritization Edge showed that it works like ordinary HTTP/1.1. Safari implementation is based on SPDY, so It has priorities but they never been used in our experiments.
#1 why is this so important? Once in a while you get the lesser piece, the other times the better. And I assume that products which don't have a sufficient high quality will (should) not be delivered.