skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the world we live in, some set of sounds are associated to small animals, other to big animals.

except even that is not generally true, e.g. "small" sounds larger than "big" ("i" being in "chirp" or "squeak").
Compare with "slow" and "quick".

I call BS on the whole thing.
I do wish you asked more specific, technical questions, rather than the 80% generic fluff.

But i recognise that might require quite a lot more framiliarity with a dev's work.
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> the Egg Board is a “checkoff” organization into which egg farmers are required to pay

> “Can we pool our money and put a hit on him?” asked Mike Sencer, executive vice-president of AEB

Sounds like an Omeletized Crime Ring to me.
> And remember, nothing was broken in a way that a machine would notice, so automated acceptance tests wouldn't have caught this regression.

I'd like to nit here that visual regression test harnesses for web application development do exist. [1] [2] [3] Using something like Sauce Labs you could conceptually have these tests run on Windows machines in the cloud.

However, having implemented visual regression testing in the past in various projects, I can personally vouch that it's a huge waste of time. Your tools will break all the time, your tests will break all the time, and you'll generally have a bad time.

[1] https://github.com/chenglou/node-huxley
[2] https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS
[3] https://github.com/bradgignac/janus
Why is a pill that makes you more like what you want to be an awful idea?

I'm not making any statement about the effects of the drugs in question; if they don't work or have bad side effects, obviously, that's bad, but my point is that people seem to think that drugs, even when they work and have reasonable side effects are a somehow bad or shameful route to self-improvement, and I don't see why that is.

If we're talking about famous people, what about Erdos?
> If a derivative of the label were, for example, being used on another wine bottle without licensing, it would unambiguously be copyright infringement.

To be honest, I don't think the copyright is the most important part here, but rather trademark laws, as another user noted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442882 since it'd be causing a disrupting confusion, IE making consumers believe they buy a product which they actually don't buy.

The problem with fair use is that it's ambigous. Only courts can declare fair use with authority; an artist claiming fair use for their work has no authority, in the sense that they can still get sued, and neither do their lawers hold defining authority about this aspect. This, effectively, creates a large legal gray zone. eevee is arguing from the perspective of a creator, and people seem to get a little worked up with elaborate, imaginary examples. The important part, though, is the idea behind the post, that being: Artists are subject to a lot of legal insecurity. Copyright is one of the most empowering and simulatanously most crippling insecurities. Remixes and DJ-sets on youtube and soundcloud, publishing street photography, creating fan art, as some examples. All of these are to a varying degree both legal and illegal, most importantly depending on your specific location. In my case, my country knows a case similar to fair use: if said bottle label was reproduced in a recognizable manner, and it was a major part of the work, it would be an infrigement. If it was a minor part (dubbed 'padding') of the art work, it's considered a sibling of US fair use. But only courts can decide either. And artists often aren't well-funded, hence avoid anything which might smell like a lawsuit, hence freedom of expression is hindered in a significant way, for no particular reason but lack of legal clarity. I'm just writing all this, because you seemed very emphatic in your view. But this is a really ambigious topic, which requires a lot of consideration and empathy on all sides. So I wanted to add a little perspective. /edit: not you, swhipple, but hn seemed very emphatic, while you, swhipple, seemed to recognize a need for clarity, so I wanted to add some perspective under your considerate opionion. Pardon my misaccredition. I didn't mean to sound rude or devalue your view as inconsiderate. Your "It isn't entirely binary. I support expanding fair use in ways that benefit the public while not hindering artists." made me chime in.
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I've never seen a management role as something related to individual performance. I think it's rather clear that a one person team won't work better with additional manager. On average though you won't get uniform team nor a team that gets along well. And even if you do, it has its own dangers. Manager is there to make sure things happen even when people disagree on them, and to make sure the best option wins any argument, not just the loudest. It's really often like juggling with dogs and cats. That are on fire.
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"six weeks of brain training, with 10-minute sessions three times each week"

Average couch potato could do miracles to his/her oxygen uptake with that amount of hard aerobic training. Ten minutes running uphill at full speed, stop when you're out of breath. Catch breath, do again. If you started with coopers test result of 1500m, you could probably hit 2500m at the end of the training.
That is, unless declining battery costs make storing PV power more economical. James Nelson, a California-­based energy modeler with the Union of Concerned Scientists, says this intrasolar race will be good for the environment: “I’m glad we have multiple technologies that can help the transition from gas power plants.”

I agree with his remarks in principle, but really, there is far more abundant Na/K in the earths crust than the currently touted Li. And the Li would probably go to better use in ~65C melting point salts(by weight LiNO3 5%,NaNO3 6%,KNO3 23%,CsNO3 44%, Ca(NO3)2 19%, although the Cs would be the limiting resource if the competition for Li usage wasn't there)[0].

[0] http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/9b519cf6102a9b10fc60ce9035594865/ra...
If you stood on something acting as a lever that reduced the weight on your phone, you could probably make it work...
In a world of _very_ poor options for energy storage, molten salt seems to be, from very rough calculations, something which might scale to what Tom Murphy ("Do the Math") refers to as a "nation-scale battery" -- up to two weeks of stored generation capacity.

My own very naive and rough back-of-the-napkin calculations suggest that a total thermal storage facility roughly comparable with existing US oil storage tanks in Oklahoma could provide that capacity.

More generally, the strength of molten salt is to even out supply to variability in either demand or incident sunlight. Note also that concentrated solar power requires _concentration_ -- you cannot focus _diffuse_ light (e.g., hazy or overcast conditions), though PV still delivers some power under such circumstances.

But PV is instantaneous, and other storage options -- batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage (CAES), flywheels -- are either limited by material and/or sites, or by costs or engineering challenges.

Salts are plentiful, as are insulating options. Thermal energy systems are well understood. The concept is inherently distributable (no need to put it all in one spot), and, modulo spills, generally environmentally benign.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1viied/grid_sc...
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Is there a reason for being unable to tell the difference between "r" and "l" that makes them special?

Otherwise, as an italian, I have gone through the motions of learning to

* distinguishing long and short vowels in english. Ship vs sheep took me a looong time.

* going from ~7 vowels in italian to 14 in hungarian

* learning a few more consonant sounds in both hungarian, spanish, and english (I still suck at "h")

while I would agree they all still require conscious effort for me to produce them, distinguishing them is not a major issue with enough practice.
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I have the same experience. I've personally emailed with [and gotten replies back from] both MPs[1] as well as one member of the EU Commission. I should note that it was replies from them, not their secretaries/letter-writers.

Subject was software patents and the TTIP and I spent about ~30 minutes writing an email (succinct, sound arguments, references, etc; an angry rant probably won't get a reply).

[1] Member of the European Parliament
CSP works best where your sunlight is intense and rarely obstructed by clouds, fog, haze, dust, etc. Pretty much desert.

Which is precisely where you don't find a whole lot of people.

Cooling systems (for the cold end of your Carnot cycle) are a challenge if water's limited, though there's no reason generally nonpotable water, even salt water, could be used for the open loop.
Who else is a close contender for what RMS is doing? Only ones I can think of are Eben Moglen and Bradley M. Kuhn, but they're far too dry and analytical for a mass audience themselves.
but in this case, to be able to generalize you would need speaker of many languages, otherwise it quickly becomes "people who know english can guess the meaning of adjectives".

Moreover, I fear the same would still be true because they speakers would presumably already need to know english to participate in the study.
Learning to code really comes down to understanding algorithms (logic flows, and decision trees), a little bit of math, and the syntax in question. That's all you need to get something done for the most part.

Getting good/great at programming means understanding more and abstract concepts in addition to features of the environment you are working in.

Most programming tasks, once an initial project is started/templated out, can be done by someone that is effective, while not being a "great" programmer. It's a trade off.
My mother is 70, and she runs her own website, mentors people online, hosts all kinds of guests at home, maintains a food garden, writes on sunny days in a gazebo she had built for her, cycles through creating small side businesses, pirates movies, goes on long strolls around her village...

I must remember to ask her if she's too old to enjoy life.
Yes. This is my irk with people who complain a lot about artificial preservatives and "chemistry" in food, as if The Companies conspired to poison us all on purpose. While some of those substances were added for purely "capitalistic" reason ("moar better taste/color, moar people will pay moneyz!"), most of them is what enables modern food sale and distribution - it's what makes things not spoil on shelves and be safe to eat after buying.
Perfectly reasonable? More like fighting windmills, I'd say.
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Yeah, not all features of C++ are for students. But writing highly efficient code if one's aware of the copy-move semantics is almost straightforward.

I can't remember when some larger projects rewritten in C++ turned out to be slower. Build tools, developing tools are superior to those 10 years ago, and the compiler(s) is still the best optimizer there is for production code.

Working in C++ today is easy. I sometimes feel a bit strange when I find that I'm oblivious about some hardships C++ developers had in the past, and today I didn't even know you can do it the hard way.
React team drops Slack for Discord chat instead
Hopefully they can crack the case.
> They also joked about killing Tetrick himself: “Can we pool our money and put a hit on him?” asked Mike Sencer, executive vice-president of AEB member organization Hidden Villa Ranch. Mitch Kanter, executive vice president of the AEB, jokingly offered “to contact some of my old buddies in Brooklyn to pay Mr Tetrick a visit”. (AEB apologized for those statements when contacted by the Guardian.)

Goodness. Good thing these guys are multi-millionaires appointed by the government, otherwise they might get in trouble for threatening to have someone murdered.
There's a lot of prejudice along this axis and it's mostly acceptable in SV. Fortunately it's not universal!
Choosing to sleep at school or work is not the same as being homeless. As far as I know, rms wanted to pursue his own interests, so slept wherever he was allowed, rather than live a more traditional lifestyle involving paid work and board.

And if rms is not a hero, then who is?
Data exfiltraition of air-gapped computers
That's electricity only, though, right? The last time I looked at numbers that was a third of actually energy consumption, the rest going for heat and transport. (That was for the UK.)

Not that I'm saying liquid-salt batteries is are a bad thing; if they work, they'll fill a much-needing-filling hole in our energy infrastructure. But they only solve a small part of the problem.
Ok ok ok. I've updated the article a few times to fix copy errors, if you have specific suggestions I'd be happy to hear them. It's very hard for most people to copy-edit their own text when it's still fresh.
Sorry, I should be more precise. I don't think the pill itself is an "awful idea". What is a bad idea (IMO) is relying on a pill specifically because you don't want to exercise, which has been shown to work, and has too many interrelated benefits to mention.

I think stimulants are fine--Erdős took amphetamines, lots of kids take Adderall, and most mathematicians probably drink tea of coffee.
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It will not be over easily though.
Has anyone been using Light Table as their go-to editor/IDE for big projects?
It's hard not to think of Stallman's crusade against the major powers as not requiring courage, and his endless fight for other people's freedoms as not a noble quality. He's basically a civil rights warrior.

Out of curiosity, whom do you consider to actually be a hero in the modern day?
Target has been profiling people by their offline purchases long enough to be printed in books.
No, actually, I haven't. But it's quite telling that the concept of a nation has no greater significance to you and those who share your sympathies than the economic prospects it offers. And were I to emigrate, it would be to a country that I actually shared some cultural, ideological, or other sympathies with and not just the one that offered me the most free stuff, and I would actually make a good faith effort to assimilate into it and not demand special treatment and endless accommodations.
Use snail mail to thwart spies, Assange tells journalists
I've been a loyal Uber user from their second month of existence but if Google offered me the same service for 10% less I would switch. I think this turns into a profitable but lower margin business than people think.
Ah, I see. Either way, I was eager to switch at the time as webkitgtk had a bad bug in it that would cause dwb to insta-crash on loading a page about once an hour and which wasn't getting fixed. Qutebrowser is based on Qtwebkit and didn't have the same issue, so I jumped ship pretty early in its development.
> That the underlying study was reported in a rather minor journal

Cognition is one of the top journals in cognitive science. Definitely not a minor journal for this kind of work, and plenty of their reviewers are statistically competent. So my prior would not be that the stats here are bogus.

I share your skepticism of their result about more synesthetic people being more able to guess the meanings of foreign words. The effect size there looks tiny, the motivation is a bunch of hand-waving, and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't replicate.

On the other hand I'm inclined to believe their result that people can guess the meanings of certain foreign certain words with above-chance accuracy (about 60% for big vs. small). It's just a version of the well-replicated bouba/kiki effect[1], plus the idea that this can influence words in a language, which doesn't seem far-fetched at all.

What I'm most concerned about is that people might be picking up on similarities between words beyond what the authors identify as "cognates". The sample languages are Albanian, Dutch, Gujarati, Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, Tamil, Turkish, and Yoruba. 4 of those are Indo-European and might have obscure etymological relations that show up as a few overlapping letters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
ah. yeah. From what I read nothing is as effective as exercise. I recently stopped bicycling to work... and am a lot worse for it. Just sayin' if there was a pill that was as effective as exercise, I'd take it.
Data breaches at small retailers on the rise
Anyway, thanks Randall and Mr Bill!

Mr Bill has an entirely different meaning to those of us who watched Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bill
1% faster?!

And what do you mean by "most real-life problems"?
HN is rather biased towards web development, so...

C++ is used for real life problems from web browsers, to physics engines, fluid solvers, photorealistic renderers (in fact, pretty much all software used to make most visual effects CG for movies is in C++), autopilot systems, and pretty much everything in between.

And as yet, there's nothing else that comes close to allowing both high-level abstractions/encapsulations and low-level memory alignment/allocation/control as and when needed, which is important for high performance and memory efficient (bit packing, tagged pointers, etc) code.
>Would you prefer the new norm to be the owners of that automation forcing those locked out of work opportunities from birth into worse and worse living conditions, because in the automated future their labour has no value?

i don't think that is inevitable; there is a lot you can do - shorter working days come to mind. Also mind me but technology is also creating jobs, a hundred years ago there were no programmers, that's a profession created by technology. A hundred years ago there were more jobs in assembly, nowadays work is more varied - employment is more specialized and there are professions that nobody thought of back then.

The worst you can do is to label off a large percentage of your population and to refuse to educate them. You end up in a situation where many shops need to import H1B workers.

>The indifference and apathy of bureaucratic communism comes from lack of choice, starting with who to vote for.

I think that in the soviet block most people were working on the construction of Egyptian pyramids - projects that were not productive in any sense, everything was subordinate to the the military industrial complex, etc. There are many non democratic countries in the world, but here you had it that the bureaucracy was totally out of touch with reality, that's a quite unique situation.

i think that this would be the real danger - a ruling elite that is disregarding any feedback and which is totally out of touch with reality. One can argue that this can't happen in an enlightened democracy, i am not so sure about that.
A more apt reference would probably be Rorschach from Watchmen.
At least this sort of stuff should deter Hollywood from any plan of a RMS biopic, so all in all it may be good thing.
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> Case in point: if a very popular Github repository (such as the one for the Linux kernel) decided to start using LFS for some of their files, they would instantly alienate all of their users. They would no longer be able to properly fork the project, or even clone it to get its binary files stored via LFS. Nobody would be able to send a pull request to Linus as a result without considerable effort.

Odd example. Linux doesn't use GitHub pull requests.
I have always considered his work on Lisp machines back in the early eighties heroic. When Symbolics stopped sharing their developments, he endeavoured to match them feature for feature, single-handedly, and give away the reimplementation for free. To quote Steven Levy, "RMS had single-handedly attempted to match the work of over a dozen world-class hackers [1], and managed to keep doing it during most of 1982 and almost all of 1983". He saw what Symbolics created, and then reimplemented it and gave it away.

Greenblatt noted that he was out-hacking the whole bunch of them. Gosper called it incredible.

When Stallman finally couldn't keep up, he set a new goal that he hoped would solve the problem permanently. GNU.

There is, of course, the other side of the story, although I find the dismissal of the complexity of the features RMS was matching a little disingenuous - how complex they were seems irrelevant compared to the fact that he was doing it alone and Symbolics was doing it with a bunch of world-class hackers: https://web.archive.org/web/20080112153822/http://dlweinreb....

[1] Some people on HN define "hacker" as "person who can code". The definition in use here is older.
The headline is not English or American and is not correct as written. It does convey the gist of the article, but the errors grate.
AEB leadership really has egg on their face after those FOIA'd emails.
His bio describes him as, according to his own words, finding himself between apartments periodically and thus sleeping in the hacker space. Technically, that makes him homeless, even though not literally out on the street. It is possible to be homeless without being out on the street. (I have had a college class on the subject, so I am aware of official definitions in use.) (Edit: Also, on one occasion, his apartment burned down, leaving him without a home. I think that surely qualifies as homeless.)

I already stated what makes a hero in my mind. My father fought in two wars. He got a purple heart. I am currently homeless, and literally out on the street. So I am experiencing things far harder than what rms endured. Hardship and heroism are not the same thing.

That's just my opinion. If you see him as a hero, you are entitled to your opinion. Having known people who did put themselves in harm's way and paid a real high price for it, I can't say that sleeping in a hacker space rates the same as what it takes to get a purple heart.

Anyway, I am not planning to argue this further. I already responded to a different reply making much the same point you made. So I am not sure why you are repeating what was basically already said to me.
I was looking for a cloud MongoDB provider, so I found MongoLab then I tried to register. It didn't let me because my password didn't have a number in it, do you want to know the password I used? Here's the password:

U\"&%x#vdE

Their support site has more ridiculous password rules. Like one capitalized letter, one number, one lowercase letter, one non-alphanumeric, etc.

I asked the support and he said this:

Not all of our users are as savvy with security concerns.

I told them Google allows "aaaaaaab"...

I wish them to get rich with their non-savvy users, best of luck to them.
My sense is that LT is amazing if you happen to prefer coding in ClojureScript or similar, and otherwise you should probably just use Atom. (Also based on Electron with a powerful plugin system.)
According to the spec [1] it's for both mobile and fixed devices:

"LoRaWAN™ network protocol which is optimized for battery-
powered end-devices that may be either mobile or mounted at a fixed location. "

[1] http://www.lora-alliance.org/portals/0/specs/LoRaWAN%20Speci...
Ask HN: What is your drive encryption/ file-syncing setup?
Hello HNers

I've been looking into the various cloud-storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Spideroak), P2P syncing services (e.g. Sync), pre-encryption software (e.g. Boxcryptor)...

Then I started looking at drive encryption in general (e.g. TrueCrypt) and decided it was time for an Ask HN.

What's your setup and what are the pros/ cons?