skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been so long since I heard the name Corel that I recognized the name but not what they did?

The other day there was a post about Lotus Notes. Now this. I'm not sure I can handle all the nostalgia.
Does anyone know more about the etymology of the closing quote “I want her to get screwed in green and yellow”?

I assume this has something to do with those being the colors of the Brazilian flag, but when I googled all I found was this figurative translation: https://www.kwintessential.co.uk/blog/learn-a-language/idiom...
> then why are people constantly up in arms whenever yet-another-Facebook-privacy-scandal surfaces?

Who is? Outside of HN I haven't heard a single thing about it. People don't care.
Deep Learning meets Privacy
Took the words right out of my stdin. Had I not caught your comment out of the corner of my eye, I was about to post word-for-word the same.

It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.
It seems like that would reward misinformation. You're saying that people could argue in their small group for a particular position that's not widely-known, but in most of those cases nobody will be there to argue against them, and they can say whatever they want. It would be better if people familiar with the issue voted and people unfamiliar with the issue left that blank on the ballot, instead of making it a lottery of whose supporters end up unopposed more often in small groups.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/12/20/qualcomm-g....
Can't we treat the receptors as black boxes, and ask people to describe different smells while we also perform various measurements on the gasses, and then perform various data analysis techniques?
Am I correct in seeing that neither is available on Apple products? Is this because of some technical difference or is Apple putting up barriers or some sort of open source issue or something?
I've never used Whatsapp. Been aware of it since its days as a dedicated button on Blackberry phones and webOS apps.

I say that only to say that I'm not going to join it (Facebook owns it, c'mon mate) and those who allow me to influence their technology choices will not either.
I would love to have an always-on always-listening home assistant which did not ship my audio stream off to a cloud I don't control.

The fact that all the current listening assistants do ship the audio stream to the cloud has nothing to do with CPU power and everything to do with a desire to collect as much personal data as possible, and as far as I'm concerned they can pound sand.
Swarm Technologies settles illegal launch for $900k
Why you should be using pathlib (Python)
Not sure how that's going to be possible, but there's a need for big companies to "fork" open data before massively manipulating it. And merge with main system if everything works for them, hence contributing positively instead of screwing everything up.
This has been my experience as well. I guess my initial hang up is some of the companies that I am interested in are so huge that my usual strategy of finding a hiring manager on linkedin is much more difficult. Where as when applying to a company of 500 employees, they probably only have a few hr people, vs XYZ fortune 100 company has potentially hundreds.
Thank you. Posting clickbait titles like this should be banned.
It understands “take me to the closest” and doesn’t give you a list but “take me to the nearest..” does.

Reminds me of some of the chatbots that I use to make. No matter how hard I tried to test them, they always worked as expected. The minute someone else used it, it fell apart. Subconsciously, I knew what would work and what wouldn’t.
Yes, that was the general way they marketed their services: “we’ll help you stress test your site, except we don’t verify whether you own the domain we’ll point our traffic to”.
My concern is zx2c4's attitude. Especially towards TunSafe and the author. He claimed that there are interoperability and security issues, only because it was closed-source, firstly. No proof was given though. Then it became open source, haven't seen any claims of security/interoperability.

An independent implementation of Wireguard is a good thing, but zx2c4 apparently doesn't want that. I can't explain the zealous fight against it otherwise.

TunSafe's author Ludde also made µtorrent which he so often says. But depending on the version you have it's either good or infested with adware. Although the later one is not his fault anymore, I still wouldn't mention it without the version number that was still good.
We really should be demanding that Waymo be opensource by default from our congress though. May take a few more generations to overtake the current old-brain congress though.
There's a big difference: having a GPS in my phone means I never have to worry about buying or carrying a map with me ever again, at the cost of potentially revealing my location to someone who I'd rather not know it.

Having a voice assistant means I don't have to spend a few seconds typing, at the cost of having everything I say potentially overheard by someone who I'd rather didn't hear it.

By my quality metric, the first is a big win at a small cost while the second is a tiny win at a huge cost. YMMV.
It is a likely sort of GitHub bug. It's pretty well known that GitHub stores all objects for all forks of a repository in a single git object database and it has added guards to git (some of which have been upstreamed into git itself) to keep it from navigating objects outside of a particular fork.

It's a small, easy to miss detail in this screenshot because you are looking for the lack of something, but under the commit title is where GitHub lists the containing branches and tags of the current fork, and in this case that line is entirely missing.

(GitHub should maybe have a more explicit negative message in this sort of case: "This commit does not seem to be included in any of this fork's branches or tags.")
Matrix.org foundation is being founded. It has taken some time, but is quite close already: https://matrix.org/blog/2018/10/29/introducing-the-matrix-or...

The Matrix developers are familiar with XMPP, and have it covered in their FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq#what-is-the-difference-be...
The key there being 'so long as it's owners agree'
What hacking and reverse engineering have been done on the servers that back the Alexa network?
I bought a air filter with a smell detector. The smell detector can detect a fart and then ramps up the fans, but it can also detect some feelings/emotions like anxiety. This makes me believe our subconscious can pick up these feelings as "smells".
Can’t blame them. Wall St. and their financied politicians cashed out technology leadership for short term gain.
that's just myth, my 1yo wakes around 630-700 and 3yo would sleep even until 0720 if i would let him (sometimes i have to go to his bed and need alarm to wake us and not miss kindergarten) and i know luckier people whose children wake up even later and we are putting children to bed around 1915-2000, i don't think it's extremely late, can't really imagine much earlier unless moving dinner before 6
Ex-Google AI Chief Joins Apple’s Executive Team
Where do they usually get the market research data from?
I agree with that in general, by the way, at least in theory. But those institutions have been tested like crazy in the past few years, to the point where fundamental things are changing (some immigrants going to other countries like Canada, etc).

I just think it's depressing to think that we've built zero miles, ZERO miles of high speed rail in 10 years, when China built 8,000.

Let's be realistic, it's China's embrace of capitalism through Special Economic Zones that's truly led to their vibrant economic growth. So I'm not advocating for central planning. I'm just saying that resting on our laurels based on the idea that America was once so far ahead, without realizing that we're not THAT far ahead anymore, is a mistake. (seems like you're saying similar things though)
lol, no we shouldn't

It would leave 99.99% of people high and dry.

Facebook fills a niche that personal websites don't. Love it or hate it, your computer illiterate grandparents aren't going to create a personal website, and if they did, their grandchildren aren't going to visit it unless their parents make them.
And somewhere there's an active intelligence officer ready to respond "thanks!"
Has anyone used the in-store navigation feature in the Target app? It works on items that are in stock - it shows you the aisle number. Tap on that and it shows a store map (with the correct floor you are on) and the location of the item and your location. It’s scarily accurate. I’m not sure of the technology behind it.

Edit: a word, and also this was on iOS.
> then why are people constantly up in arms whenever yet-another-Facebook-privacy-scandal surfaces?

People are not up in arms. Some group of media and tech people are up in arms. Most do not care. Heck, most do not even hear about the latest scandal.
Source: previous O.T.O. member and Initiate, as well as an Initate of another particular Secret Society.

Um, no. Sorry. I don’t know what you read; but maybe go check out ‘The Book of Lies’, or a number of Crowley’s other, more taboo and dark pieces of literature.

Ritual Magick, especially as Crowley and Parsons participated in, may include the likes of summoning archangels and demons, the use of altered states including the use of extreme hallucinogens and other drugs.

While I agree the philosophy of the O.T.O./Thelema is not that revolutionary compared to many Eastern schools of thought; its rituals and practices are far from it.
People need to wake up on time, check what time it is, find out if someone tried to contact them while they were sleeping, and see if anything interesting happened in the news.

So of course they are going to look at their phones.

I hope the statistic is completely wrong because otherwise there seem to be a ton of people who don't know how to use a phone properly.
It's the best thing I've ever bought. Whatever bad thing can happen is still worth it. It's a trade-off I'm actively choosing.
talk about efficiency
I sometimes think retail locations seriously misunderstand their business.

It’s only partly to sell things, because their main business is actually smoothing out supply chains. As a customer, I want my supply of things I need or want to not be coupled to other people’s buying timings or supplier timings.

Stores switching to just in time stocking routinely fail at this, because variance is non-zero. This in turn destroys my ability to just go there and buy something, and hence the value the store provided.

I have the same problems at most grocery stores, these days, where routinely things I want are transiently out of stock.
I really don't understand why anyone shops at Whole Foods. It's insanely overpriced compared to any other grocery store I've ever been in. The 3-4 times I've been there since the Amazon acquisition have resulted in $0 in savings. Nothing I have to buy is ever on sale or discounted via Prime.

I find Trader Joe's, New Seasons, and local coops to be much more affordable and better quality of varying degrees for each.
Interesting notes: Qualcomm has to place 668.4 million € (or maybe double that!) in bond to enforce the injunction (technically there's two separate cases, each with this bond amount, I haven't quite figured out if they actually need to pay both to be effective), which is to ensure money is available to pay damages to Apple if higher courts reverse the decision.

Also, Qualcomm made claims about how the Apple devices work based on their own reverse engineering efforts. Apple claimed those are wrong, but declined to provide enough evidence substantiating that (saying that their supplier had a higher interest in keeping the details secret, so they couldn't reveal them to the court), which is why they lost.
Can you buy them for $199 in quantity?

A phone is actually a very nice and reliable piece of hardware. It has everything you need CPU, GPU, DSP, two cameras (front and back), a backup battery, a screen and wifi/lte to upload your data.
> they're still raking in the dough from their original product category.

I'm not sure which you mean The Apple II product line, or desktop computing in general?

Either way, pretty sure neither would be considered their cash cow.
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I don't follow. How did that get us "into this mess"? Maybe I am confused about what exactly you consider to be "this mess".
Whatever religion posses you will have overlapping symbols that are in conflict with the occult. This is intentional. Occultists create subversive symbols to filter out trojan horse intellectuals (EG: The Church of Satan). People who seem smart and capable of deep thought but are actually being coached by a religion and only wield rational thought to serve their religion are pretty common and undesirable to have around when mindhacking. It also creates an "us-vs-them" paradigm that improves community at the cost of wider social ostracism. Anyone who has argued with a christian trained in apologetics on hot button topics knows what I'm talking about in regards to trojan horse intellectuals. So by adopting "bullshit" (like antichrist worship) that directly conflicts with "other bullshit" they can dereference the pointer to the religious back door. Then occultists build their own back doors and reprogram themselves to do what they want.

Obviously major religions want to be the only answer. As any hacker knows as long as more than one person has admin privledges on a network, there is no guarantee control over that network can be maintained. All major religions say that the apocalypse will start when people turn away from them. The result is increasing radicalization as a religion dies out which helps it hold on a little longer.

As for the Eye. Yeah good luck finding constancy in an interpretation. It's the symbol the visual center of the brain is most tuned to. It's going to be everywhere regardless of whatever meaning people ascribe to it.
If the company isn't willing to pay for your travel, you shouldn't work there. Serious companies will pay for travel.
I've used both, Kong is more "pluggable" and easier to extend in my experience. Also, the ecosystem and community around Kong is much stronger than Tyk's which is amazing.
Right.

Appropriates a handmade native Brazilian bikini, has it made in China and makes $9MM.

Sues others for making similar designs.
> You don't have to be a developer but you do need a level of technical background higher than that of the average computer user.

Unless the technical skill of the average computer user has decreased substantially in the last 10 to 15 years, that shouldn't really be the case.
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> "The debate is why it's happening (human vs natural)."

There is no debate. When people say "climate-change deniers" they mean "rapid anthropogenic caused climate-change deniers"
I was the TV "remote control" for many years growing up. If you ask my dad about the lights, he would say I had a bug when it came to turning them off.
It's not clear to me it is different. You still have a divergence of motivational coordination between public fire teams and private ones. For one a private fire team can force public ones to stay committed to areas by not heeding evacuation orders...
Parliament.uk beta , this NHS beta design, GOV.WALES beta, etc. all look like GOV.UK. Are they related in any way (same developers?), or did they just thought 'hey the main gov website looks great and is open-source, let's do the same'?
You totally underestimate the utility. Getting a voice assistant was life-changing for me. GPS comes nowhere close.
I went to Syracuse University and the police force there are a joke. They're your average overpaid, overworked hillbillies who will smoke a cigar in your face while issuing you a ticket and send everything less than a SWAT team to break up a house party.
That's one way of looking at it. There's little we could expect Amazon to do to prevent this given they already store the data.

On the other hand: There's little we could expected Amazon to do to prevent this given they already store the data.
For all the folks lamenting Siri: that was likely just the prototype. I'd bet good money that Apple is working on something far better than a personal assistant for the home—that's just how they got their feet wet while staying competitive. Siri is going to be a robot in your home one day—not just a bubble on the credenza. In order for that to happen, their best talent needs to be focused on that.
This paper [1, pdf] seems to show that you could build one for a few dollars.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/884.pdf
Voice commands are useful if you are having conversation with friends and a question comes up that group wants an answer to. I find it more social to ask a phone with a voice command than to open the phone, type a query into google, and search for an answer.

Of course Siri defaults to an incorrect google search on nearly every question, so this often doesn't work in practice...
Microsoft's deep learning "train/inference" framework is CNTK, which exists alongside ML.NET (although as it's sorely lagging other deep learning frameworks and I'm convinced it's not a priority for Microsoft, they've basically given up on it).

I think the target use case for ML.NET is really putting existing machine learning models into production in .NET. That's not limited to deep learning (it supports "traditional" ML models like logistic regression out of the box), but a first-party wrapper for tensorflow models is useful (which previously required vectorizing everything by hand and passing to TensorflowSharp)

Training vanilla models is "nice to have" but the real value is in putting trained models into production.

Generally speaking, the ML.NET API still needs a lot of work. I think they're partway through switching from a "LearningPipeline" API to a "Data/Transformer/Estimator" API, but some of the documentation refer to the former, some to the latter, some new methods still require legacy classes, the naming conventions aren't clear and not all of it is strongly-typed so you won't know until runtime whether you've passed the correct Transform/Estimator, on the whole it's a bit confusing.

That being said, it still hasn't hit 1.0, so I think the team is aware that the API needs further work. If they standardize 1.0 on the Data/Transformer/Estimator, blow away the legacy classes and update the documentation, it will be a pretty nice framework for production.
Why do you think they are mutually exclusive? Generating functions, geometric series, difference equations, integrals over discrete probability distributions, elliptic curve cryptography, general linear programming and optimization, eigenvalue analysis in graph theory, stochastic optimization, all these things involve calculus to solve discrete algorithmic questions.

In fact I’d argue it makes calculus more important than what is typically understood as “discrete math” because in order to have the mathematical maturity to really understand the meaning of major discrete math results and theorems, it requires understanding calculus first.

If you “just” study discrete math mistakenly believing “that’s where the value is” then you’d end up with a shallow understanding of discrete math, lacking ability to extract value from it except in some narrow sense from rote discrete math application-specific coursework.
Amazon Next Day Shipping Bug
That's all it can be a bug. Myself and two other people I know place orders with Amazon this week and paid for "1 Day Shipping". When all of our orders went in, they were scheduled for delivery in 7 days! Luckily, I checked my order and changed the "Delivery Speed" to "1 Day" and finally got mine in two days total. My two friends weren't as savy; one recieved thiers after 3 days, and the second is still waiting.

Has anyone else encountered this? I mean it makes sense given their volume that they'd punish less astute purchasers, but wow, really egregious behavior!
The answer is less deep than that. Hacker News is now regularly used as a recruiting tool. It may be that bigger companies are now also posting every month. .NET has come a long way though and I have a friend who is using it at his place, but from anecdotal evidence I see a lot more Python and JavaScript than anything.
A workplace by definition satisfies homophily because everyone is there to do the work of the same company; you all have at least that in common when you walk in the door. Emphasizing other factors of homophily like gender, ethnic background, etc. is far more corrosive to workplace social connections than almost anything else you list.

Why? Because those are involuntary attributes. If ethnic homophily (for example) is a precondition of social connections then you immediately destroy or prevent any existing connections that cross ethnic boundaries. And I should emphasize that there is absolutely no research that homophily along involuntary attributes is necessary for forging social bonds, either at work or in general.

If your idea of workplace homophily is that everyone at work should be just like you, then yes, that is discrimination and it's counterproductive to the idea that people should feel safe and supported at work.
I actually happened to spend the week of Thanksgiving in Scottsdale (incl a lot of time in old Town), and yea, it doesn't really compare. Weather, hills, pedestrian density and behavior, complexity of street signs and road rules, etc etc etc.
good to know, thanks!
> We're in a capital constrained economy.

I don't understand this. Aren't there a lot of resources mostly idle, such as billions of dollars of cash balances at large corporations?

Or perhaps it is easier for hedge fund managers and others in FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) to invent and play with various derivative instruments than to do the harder work of investing for a real, tangible return that benefits people, rather than some notional, intangible ledger balance somewhere?
Just speaking for myself, but there is no way I'd ever give any app (except possibly a personal journal/writing app) that kind of data. In my opinion, who I bone is my business, and it is my responsibility to get tested regularly if I'm having unprotected sex with lots of partners.
It's also my only clock at home. It also has the side effect of being a super bright blue screen which immediately wakes me up.
Apache Tomcat 8.5.37 available
is PHP serverless :thinking:
While I typically agree... unless there's an image of the packaging on that cheesecake that indicates someone should've caught it, I'd put far more blame on the store for having a bad item in stock.

There's also some stores where when an order goes in, an IC shopper just picks up the bag and doesn't do the shopping themselves.
The people who have "hacked and reverse engineered" the Echos don't have access to what happens on the server side. We are facing a situation of either trusting or not trusting, because verification isn't possible.

There should be a word for believing that someone is working for your interests even though you have no reason to, as a counterpart to "conspiracy theory" which implies that you believe that a group is working against your interests without having a good reason to. It's like people have a conspiracy theory where Amazon is conspiring in secret to help them.
>all look about the same.

They look the same and they look great! Also they are functional, lightweight, accessible, etc. One pearl in the sea of bad design that is the Web :)
Interesting. So one could identify areas of a product that a company needs to keep secret, and sue for patent infringement saying your reverse engineering shows they are infringing.
Can't they just move them?