skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall reading that the reason it was (is) favored by lawyers was because WordPerfect did more accurate word counts in documents than Microsoft Word did. When lawyers submit briefs to some courts they have restrictions as to the maximum number of words contained in the document. Microsoft Word did things like count page numbers as words, thereby inflating the word count and reducing the number of actual words that could be in the document.
71 Sad but True Quotes About Life – They Love Quotes
Affinity products are fine and fast and stable, but there are many things they don't do. Tracing for example: Corel Draw does tracing beautifully.
> There is no practical way of knowing when Alexa has heard a keyword and recorded content around it.

This is incorrect. If you want to know what your device has heard and processed (or failed to understand), you can look at the Alexa app on your phone. It will tell you what it thought you asked for and what it told you or played for you, and you can replay the recording of your voice request.
The renamed themselves to CA Technologies and were bought by Broadcom recently for $18B.
ML.NET is a machine learning framework which is aimed at providing the E2E workflow for infusing ML into .NET apps across pre-processing, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, and model consumption.

The base framework comes with a variety of transforms, trainers, utility apis for loading varies forms of data (e.g. csv's, tsv's) to build custom machine learning models trained with your own data.

Using the API you can build a variety of models for scenarios like Sentiment analysis (classification), forecasting, recommendation and also leverage pre-built Tensorflow models for scenarios like image classification.

The samples repo provided shows you a variety of scenarios with ML.NET.

https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples

@zamalek, would love to learn how we can improve the API to make this stand out :).
yes, its an overreach that they should be able to demand and expect the state to protect their inane detail as though that has any value to society or the economy.

a system optimized for rent seeking on the color red is overreaching.
That sounds horrible for everyone ... the shopper, customer, and everyone else in the store.
From what I've read Pichai was a champion of the project though and gave the director the cover he needed to bypass standard procedure.
Probably the only way to make this work reliably would be to build dedicated grocery delivery warehouses populated by picking robots.
As an antimarzipanner I was hoping to learn that its production harms the oceans or something along those lines.
Jetson Tx2 4GB module is expected to be <$200 and released in Q3 of 2019. It's expected to replace the TX1 in price but double the CUDA cores. It's pretty much a budget version of the current TX2 since Xavier started rolling out.

[1]https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/buy/jetson-tx2-4gb
Slack deactivates account after travelling to Iran
Lawmakers look to change SEC's securities definition to exclude cryptocurrencies
Show HN: Trapped in Elon's Mansion, a play about Elon Musk in iambic pentameter
Google does a lot of things people don't like, but among huge companies they're still the 'good guys' in some ways. Its a big part of their brand. Isn't it nice that one of the world's biggest companies cares enough about losing that to change its plans?
I'm not sure I follow - just capturing packets from them tells you how much they're sending to their respective motherships, e.g.[1].

Amazon of course is not exactly conspiring to try and get me to buy more stuff from them (they're very upfront about it), which makes them both more crass and also easier to trust in some ways than Google.

1: https://www.iot-tests.org/2017/06/careless-whisper-does-amaz...
Wow, this is great, I'll give it a try. I love the artistic touch too.

You basically made a CMS and web designer app for the web on mobile, which is 90% with the users, this is a wonderful concept.

Is this the new Tumblr? :)
Whatever's convenient to dispose of people in the way of the status quo. Remember that the feds really started rounding up pot smokers on a large scale for the first time as a way to legally get rid of Vietnam war protestors. It'll happen again, and next time they'll have an infinite pit of dirt to dig through.

Nobody is 100% law-abiding or morally clean. Nobody. We're definitely all vulnerable to prosecution and blackmail. People who think they have nothing to hide aren't using their imagination properly.
> The theory is not falsifiable.

That is fundamentally wrong. At the worst you would have to run an experiment with many earth-replicas and individual changed variables. Quite impractical but not relevant for determining falsifiability of a theory.

But more importantly models don't just have to fit data of the past, they also make predictions of the future which will automatically be tested as time advances. And pretty much all climate models do not make a singular prediction they map some input domain to an output domain. Decrease factor A by x% and the global averages of effect M will stay within some confidence interval with the mean y% lower etc.

Of course it is complex, but complexity is no excuse to throw up your arms and claim we can't possibly know anything when it's inconvenient.
I don't suppose there's any chance of San Francisco passing Castle Doctrine laws regarding property inside owner's vehicles? It would probably solve the problem in short order. The problem is that these thefts have no repercussions for those performing it, so of course the thefts will continue to rise.
Would this be more impressive to you if it were React or Angular? Your users don’t care that it’s Nunjucks or Sass. Nunjucks and Sass are perfectly fine.
This. Pichai's comments before congress didn't say it was cancelled. What he said ammounted to simply stating "we don't yet have a release date"
Ask HN: Getting over interview anxiety?
Hi HN!

So recently I applied for a software engineering role at a startup. A week and a bit ago I had an interview where they and I chatted for a bit and got to know each other a little, which I thought went swimmingly. Yesterday however, was my technical screen. I was confident but nervous beforehand, but when it started that's when my mind froze, I couldn't think at all and I was just a bumbling mess. It was by no means a difficult problem and almost immediately afterwards and when the pressure was gone the solution became obvious to me, but by then I knew it was too late to change anything.

Stuff like this happens to me all the time. Not every time I'm being judged in person, but every time I'm being judged where I need to think and I _need_ to succeed and I'm not in a position of power. I just get so much anxiety and my mind completely shuts down. It has caused me to fail things I shouldn't have. Not only technical interviews, but e.g. my first driving test I just freaked out and so couldn't pass it. Examinations at school I am fine as I don't have another person in front of me judging me.

The software engineering job I am currently at is a consultancy agency, but probably the only reason why I was offered it a few years ago was because I didn't have to do a technical interview. If I had, I probably would have failed that too.

I couldn't sleep at all last night, the night after the interview. And the email I was dreading I received this morning. As soon as I saw the rejection I just burst out crying uncontrollably. It took me an hour to regain my composure to send a reply email thanking them for their time and wishing them success. I broke down not so much because I failed, but because of _why_ I failed. Even now, hours after the fact, I am still quite shaken.

I was wondering if you or others in this community have experienced something similar, and what steps you have taken to remedy it?

Thank you all so much in advance!

Jess :-)
ML.NET is really a framework which provides ability to build custom traditional machine learning algorithms for a number of scenarios like (classification, regression, recommendation etc.).

ML.NET is also extensible, which means we can absorb other leading deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Accord.NET through one consistent API providing a uniform way to do ML in .NET.

Here's a link to the samples:
https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples
The misrepresentation of the purpose is what brings it into phishing territory. By misrepresenting the purpose, you're also misrepresenting who you are and what your intentions are.

Something that's already phishing will still be phishing even if the purpose is misrepresented. Something that isn't otherwise phishing, however, can be made into something akin to phishing by misrepresenting the purpose.
I mostly use it to set alarms and reminders, it's much easier to say "Remind me to do something in an hour" than go find the app, set up the correct time, and write the description.
I recall they built https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ which is simply amazing, particularly the data itself which provides a lot more detail in case you want to dig in yourself:

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
Build serverless app to track web stats. Get it featured on Hacker News and use the flood of traffic to demo what was done. Very meta. Nice job.
I think the idea is that if the court decides that Qualcomm isn't enduring any immediate financial harm, then there's no need for an immediate remedy (like an injunction).

Instead, they'd just let the civil court case proceed, and either it'll be settled out of court (with Apple paying Qualcomm some amount of money to cover existing sales, plus agreeing to a licensing deal for future sales) or they duke it out in court, where (if Qualcomm prevails) Apple is forced by the court to pay some sort of judgment.
Show HN: Crowdsourced Epistemic Rationality
Ha they even included a clip art of L Ron Hubbard [1]?

I'm really curious who drew all of these pieces. 10k images is a ton of work...

[1] https://twitter.com/Clipart1994bot/status/107548368574555750...
Thanks. It was a team effort. We’re working on a medium article. The dataset is Geonames.
This is giving them a lot of benefit of the doubt. Do you have any evidence?
I used Kong in a project recently. Very bare-bones, You need to build your own client for it. Overall, it felt like a blackbox where things magically happened. Totally hated it.
The way to think about ML.NET is really a higher level framework which comes built in with traditional ML trainers, transforms etc. and through its extensibility allows .NET developers to also use other leading frameworks for deep learning e.g. TensorFlow and standards e.g. ONNX models using one uniform set of APIs.

You can learn more about ML.NET here:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/machinelearning-ai/ml-dotn...
Remedy?
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-agrees-to-hand-over-data-in-echo-...

Not exactly as you described, but fairly close.
Imagine an undeclared cyber war broke out. Out of curiosity, how 'far' from being able to defend themselves are most serious companies? If they had 3 months to prepare, do they save themselves from getting breached without going offline?
You would only (in this example) need enough bandwidth to satisfy the traffic of your immediate friends and family you interact with online.

Your IM client is already doing that.
Not necessarily to the public though.

Perhaps a more apt analogy would be your house is burgled while you are away, do the authorities have an obligation to tell everyone in the neighborhood or just you?
> By misrepresenting the purpose, you're also misrepresenting who you are

Wha?
I was recently wondering why we don't have a neat way of organizing smell, sort of like a periodic table... surely there's got to be a way to think about smells in a more structured way
You tell me. You’re the genius.
Link? That sounds incredibly interesting
I'm really curious what this building is:

https://2um6b944etm332zlf4pb7a19-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Very cyberpunk.

Edit: the filename says it's "Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center" https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/shizuoka-press-and-...
> Founded by aerospace engineers Sara Spangelo and Benjamin Longmier in 2017, and backed by funding from NASA, the US Navy, and the National Science Foundation

Whenever you break the law, it helps to have powerful friends.
All seriousness aside, the "domain seizure" actually made me laugh. I guess there was deliberately a bit of humor it. Random hex numbers scattered all around, glassy blue, and a massive red "THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED," feel at least a little tongue-in-cheek.
Do you really need a data scientist?
Hmmmm. I'm not sure. I can't seem to access it any more either. Sorry! :(
I think it is because the newer phones all use intel modems.
I wonder how many would-be customers of the affected phones are now self-upselling to a younger, more expensive model. This could be surprisingly painless for Apple. Lure people into stores with relatively cheap offers, then declare them unavailable: if they did the same thing without Qualcommm's involvement, it would be an illegal sales tactic.
I suppose it may also be because dinosaurs are awesome.
Ad tech loves mobile-first as it's the easiest space to commit fraud.
I'd argue Tyk is easier to extend Tyk, as they include many plugins already baked-into their OS gateway. If you want to extend Kong with some custom plugins I think Lua is your only option. With Tyk you can use pretty much any programming language to write your middleware. Gets my vote
Frontend boilerplate/template code and examples of use would be exactly how you get a consistent user experience.
There is also the Zariski topology of Spec Z that is the topology of numbers in the sense of algebraic geometry. Or of Z[x]
I am having the same problem. I have two decades of experience, but now I have a large gap in my employement. Most recently I spent 7 weeks interviewing with a company for a position I was super solid on, and then after 7 weeks, 3 in person interviews and being told I was "in background check phase" -- even though we hadnt even signed a single document/filled out any paperwork I was ghosted for two weeks and then told "we are not adding to the team at this time"

I'm basically suicidal at this point. I have no freaking idea what to do.

I apply to many many jobs and get through multiple conversations and then either ghosted, lied to or rejected.

I would like to know if someone can run a background check on me and tell me what others might see?

I spoke to a friend and they said they know others who are experiencing this as well -- and effectively I am experiencing age-ism now that I am in my 40s
What is your monetization strategy?

Browsing your site it is hard to see what you will charge for, and I am confused by the inclusion of some sort of token system. (It seems directly in conflict with the desire not to be beholden to an outside company to use the hardware if they are tied together?)
When you look at the job postings in your browser, and do a simple string search for ".net" (so not a regex search), it doesn't show up all that often. E.g. if I look at this month's posts (4 pages), I see it 31 times. By contrast, Python shows up 251 times. I suspect the posts were searched with a regex like /.net/i without escaping the ".".
> 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.

The President of the United States thinks it's a hoax (from snopes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warmin...):

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee – I’m in Los Angeles and it’s freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2013

NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2014

Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014

Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air – not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014

If you want solutions we need to stop elected politicians that go out of their way to block solutions.
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"In a statement to website Mashable, Slack said they "prohibit unauthorized Slack use in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea region of Ukraine" to comply with US regulations."

Wait. What?
The State Department is a Slack user so there's that. https://apps.gov/products/Slack/
If you use a custom domain with those services you can still place a file anywhere you want.
Taken from another commenter:

> according to the indictment, it was a few spearphishing emails with .docs attached, followed by keylogger and other malware installation.

Junior Sysadmins straight out of a bootcamp can negate that.
The base ML.NET framework comes with a variety of numpy alternatives, datatypes for heterogenous (IDataView) and homogenous (VBuffer) data, a variety of transforms for data pre-processing, feature extraction (e.g. OneHotCodeEncoding), Missing values, normalization etc. handy for common ML scenarios like classification, regression, recommendation etc. you can find the full list here.
Types:https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning/blob/master/docs/c...
Transforms: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/machine-learning/res...
Not every hack are related to your personal data.
Thanks for the links.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Two Chinese Hackers Associated With the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information

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There was a recent paper from Uber, that GA works well for weights, so I wouldn't drop that area right away.
You're awfully unfamiliar with the history of computer science if you truly believe that dynamic typing is some sort of recent invention or that static typing is some panacea that solves all of your problems.

Both systems of type checking have existed as long as... Programming languages have existed, essentially and, sadly, so have the endless comparisons and flamewars.
This site is still up.
Love this photographer, thought I would add a couple of more links:

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/masashi_wakui/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/masa_photo_jp
Adidas’ Recycled Ocean Plastic Shoes Will Reportedly Net $1B
Because like writing this exact comment its not really doing anything. I'm not accomplishing goals reading your reply, I'm not really forming a connection with you or anyone else on these type of sites. Once you use them for a few years you start just seeing the trend of the front page coming before you even get to it, and it just turns into a positive feedback loop for the belief system you adopted from the subreddits / HN you visit.

I should be working on a CSS grid layout I've been fighting with all week but instead I'm checking comments on HN. Fortunately I've gone from doing it four times a day to about two - in both cases, while im eating - but nobody needs to be "informed" every single day. You'll pick up the stuff that really matters even if you wade out of the stream for a while.
Using DevTools to understand modern layout techniques
This is true. It starts with China, it's their fault, but if your customers are compromised as a result they need know to protect themselves, or it spreads like a virus.

IBM is not to blame for the initial attack. But any further attacks that result from their silence can have a good share of blame laid at their feet.
They really named it Procreate?! (Yes)
I would _love_ to know where are those public sector projects where the requirements are “roughly static and well-specified”.
Tell HN: Google Fi horror story
Upshot: I don't know if mine is an isolated instance, but if you're considering or in the process of switching to Google Fi, especially if you want to use it with your iPhone, think twice.

TL;DR:

The ugly:

- My number wasn't ported after a week of activation despite calling customer support every day, and I have strong reasons to believe no one gave a damn.

- I got sub-2G speeds with their LTE in a fully-covered, densely populated area; never figured out why.

- Customer support has absolutely no troubleshooting material for iOS.

The bad:

- Phone support wait time ranges from 40 min to 60+ min; same for online chat.

The good:

- You can fill out a form and they'll call you back.

- Call center reps were polite and friendly (but weren't able to help me).

- At least no retention BS.

The full story is over 2000 characters, so I'll put it in a comment / comments.
This happens all the time. Its called “anonymous tip came through a tip hot line”.
The founder of an old cult that would eventually become the Jehovah's Witness predicted that the apocalypse would begin on October 2, 1914, the day Jack Parsons was born.
What are you confused by?
Aren't HPE and IBM precisely the types of companies that states turn to for IT infrastructure?
Not that I doubt it's happening, but I'd have thought that lethal injection would poison the recipients of the stolen organs?
The company's interpretations of US regulations obviously.
Unfortunately not

eg,
http://downthem.org/
You can't service them or have a business relationship with them per US law?

I can't get certificates for .ir domains signed, I can't add .ir domains to shared hosting providers, etc.
That's how social security works and it works great in countries with little immigration not in countries like the US where there have historically been.
I disagree, the intended audience clearly isn't Japanese and splitting the word up gives it visual balance. And using the katakana here is really just for visual effect anyway, it almost doesn't matter what is written there, just that is is something in Japanese. The reverse of this is why we have the sometimes amusing "Engrish" on clothing in Japan. What the English says or is intended to say doesn't matter as much as the fact that it is English, just a stylistic choice.
This seems pretty straightforward. It is a violation of just about every competently written terms of service from a US company to transact business in these countries. For a complete list, see https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/... and https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
I was actually thinking about the Homestar Runner character. She is pretty bad.
The original article stated that they do know how it works but the device malfunctioned and detected a command where there was none without the owner even being aware that it was activated.
To be fair, it's often unclear what you need to do to comply w/ sanctions, and being found non-compliant can bring down some really heavy penalties.
And yet some people are wondering why GDPR has a data retention policy that aims at keeping personal data around for the least amount of time necessary.

Companies should be made accountable for such blatant abuse of user data.
Pardon my ignorance, but what about Tor keeps the FBI from being able to take a site down? Is it distributed or something?
I think the title should be "State offers frontend templates and documentation" to make it clear how the public sector is helping an industry and how that's a beneficial use of resources
Are you sure about that? My local Trader Joe's has a half aisle of just chips, many flavors of frozen wontons, at least four different kinds of marinara sauce, 10+ kinds of salad dressing, bagels with every possible topping, and the list goes on. The selection seems pretty good to me.