skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My context:

Person A says 1 does of product A is Amount X.

What I'm saying is: That's not entirely relevant if we don't know how many doses people actually get.

I agree about irrational, among other things.
You can also use .LOG at the start of the file and every time you open it, Notepad will insert the current date/time.
Also, it's simply just not the direction we should be going in (especially in the US, which is already overrun with cars and sprawl). We need to make the roads more bike friendly, and that doesn't mean adding bike lanes everywhere. How about lowering the speed limits?

People just need to get over the goddamn fact that sometimes another traveler is in your way, and that doesn't mean they're doing anything wrong. The person in front of you turns left and needs to wait for other cars. The person in front of you turns right and needs to wait for pedestrians in the crosswalk. The person in front of you uses a slower vehicle.
Should math professor force students to use $180 textbook, written by his boss?
Can you name these popular 80's hair bands?
NSA works fast these days. Just kidding. ;)
I'm more surprised they managed to even get Material-UI to pages like this. Their UI/UX team is doing something right.
The sentences are still grouped together immediately above my post - in your post. This isn't some blog post quoting snippets from some other link, or a book quoting sections from another resource. I also strongly disagree that these things are inherently harmful, if that's what you're indeed saying. They can be misused to harmful ends, to be sure - but what would you have me do, ditch quotes entirely? Quote only entire books? Chapters?

Quoting entire paragraphs may not be sufficient to provide proper context, and especially if being willfully misinterpreted, can be potentially harmful.

But well intentioned quotes, immediately under a post providing them in their full context - which is the case in my post you replied to? I'm hard pressed to see that as distorting your meaning and harming discourse. If you have specific grievances as to how I have, please state them. If my understanding is distorted, there is harm to discourse regardless of whether or not it's visible in the form of distorted quotes.

The many questions I'm asking are my attempts at understanding the context of your statements, to avoid such distortions. The couple that you've answered have clarified some things. A couple more have been mooted by indirect responses. Many others are still relevant and unanswered.

Even now, I'm a bit unsure if you're saying that I've done harm, in the specific post I made that you were responding to - or if you're making vague generalizations again, this time about sentence level quoting on the internet in general. I'm assuming the former for now - but please correct me if I'm wrong. I would ask, but that's clearly not working out for me.
I'm sure this is true for some people. But humans tend to adapt their levels of happiness fairly rapidly, even when they predict they would be extremely unhappy. For instance, many paralyzed folks end up feeling not as bad as they would have thought. In a decent prison, it's quite plausible that you might adjust rather rapidly.

Still, forcing someone to continue to exist is cruel and they should have the option to opt-out, after a cool-down period and counseling and other safeguards.
You do realize this is the website for 80-hour-work-week, launch-startup-in-3-months fans, right? This isn't the place for nonsensical "work life balance" (which really means "i'm lazy and don't want to do good work, i just want to waste everybody else's time").
I think the endgame of a car is an artificial womb - moving you around, self-adjusting for maximum personal comfort - but with you being the one that tells it where to go.
Thank you! That was very interesting. I had assumed that they were interpolating GPS data, but I guess not. It seems they are smoothing it, though.

That being the case, perhaps I should write the program I was thinking of writing. Even though GPS elevation data is really, truly horrible I think you could probably use statistical techniques to get good data with enough GPS traces. Even routes that are mildly popular can have thousands, or tens of thousands of rides per year. Each one of those rides on Strava has GPX data associated with it. I'm sure it would be more than enough.

Unfortunately, I have about a million other projects on the go :-P
Stubbornness of Linux kernel maintainers. My understanding that your proposed behavior is the behavior on FreeBSD and OS X, and people have proposed bringing Linux in line.
It's about purpose.

Either you are basically a human robot doing spec work or you can drive your own creative output for goals larger than yourself.

People don't know what they are capable of until they are pushed beyond limits they thought they had. The future isn't made by cautious people, it's made by being better than anybody thought could be accomplished.

"Create advertising units for campaign 3,401 of 16,032" isn't something where "beautiful" or "meaningful" comes into play. It's just drone work.

get to that as early as possible in the company's life.

We don't model startups on how a 30,000 employee company works. Completely different beasts.
I feel like I have no control whatsoever over my government.
Here's a somewhat-similar tool that uses Delaunay triangulation: https://github.com/timbennett/delaunay

The frontend has a few issues and seems to break after running more than one or two images, if anyone wants to submit a patch.
Don't forget the cost of momentum. On a bike stopping and starting is a huge tax on you where as in a car it's just moving your foot from break to gas.
It can't be good for the health of society either. All those little anger-inducing tweaks add up, shaping national sentiments and thus voting patterns.
Fingerprint unlock allows 5 fingers on file. Maybe if you attempted an unlock with a different finger (pinky, say), it locked out that method until you'd used your passcode instead?

Similar to the idea of having a second PIN on your credit card that allows access but indicates acting-under-duress to the bank.
"...serving a dummy page."

It could also be less than a page. It could be a dummy resource. For example, in the case of an ad server and a smartphone app that has some screen space reserved for ads. You might want your own resource to appear in that space instead.

Another example is reverse engineering API's and protocols for popular web services, social media, storage, etc. In that case you might want a "dummy server" that serves certain responses.
Why does the page have a weird scroll smoothing effect?
Do you mean:
Speech to text (called "automatic speech recognition")
Speech to identity of the speaker (called "speaker id")

?

(Also, "voice generation" is called "TTS" or "text to speech")

There are multiple world class open ASR systems using DNNs. Check out Kaldi.
You're really putting your finger on something here which is the American attitude and sense of entitlement that infects both sides.

I experienced what you are describing when I moved to London for the last 3 years. Congestion in London is really bad, not just cars, but public transport and pedestrian traffic as well. The city has worked really hard to optimize everything for the massive movement of people. Vans and motorbikes sometimes go onto the pavement (ie. british for sidewalk), and sometimes pedestrians overflow into the road. Buses often go into the oncoming lane to get around other buses with the full expectation that oncoming traffic will make room for them. All of this happens with a fraction of the road rage that you experience on much less congested US streets. Part of it seems to just be an unspoken moral duty and perhaps even comradery of everyone doing there part to help everyone else get where they're going.

That's not to say that it's all rainbows and unicorns in other countries—tube/rail commuting in London can be pretty traumatic, and if there's a strike or mechanical problems the knock-on effect through the system can be dramatic given how stretched it already is—but San Francisco transportion is drastically unoptimized (eg. BART 4-trains/hour per line vs Victoria Line 33-trains/hour) and it's not going to get better by quibbling over rolling stops and warring between drivers and cyclists. There was a time when the American people had the sense of duty and self-sacrifice to get on with massive transportation infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway System (however misguided it may have been in hindsight), but now it's all about entitlement and NIMBYism and fighting over the crumbs from a decrepit and inadequate system.
Nope! That's the beauty of it: mathematical, real barriers to decrypting.
There aren't many Teslas in any area.
Yeah, there are a lot of clever ways it could be done, but with completely closed platforms we are just at the mercy of our proprietarily coded overlords.
I wasn't trying to imply that Apple has forged a perfectly secure complex system, but rather that they have (likely) legally and practically prevented themselves from being compelled to betray their users. While forcing Apple to hand over a password they have stored in plaintext is quite definitely in the legal realm of accepted behavior, I don't think a judge could reasonably order Apple to devote engineering time towards defeating their own security system in order to make the prosecution's job easier, especially when it is not actually assured that the effort would be a success and any success would preclude the same work from being used in subsequent prosecutions.

I was merely skipping the caveats (back doors, implementation error, leaky behavior, etc) and giving benefit of the doubt with regards to honesty of intentions.
Amazon acquired Ivona, a polish TTS company.
If there's a reasonable risk that this situation might ever apply to you, then just don't turn on TouchID and always use the passcode.
It's more a question of having a method codified into law than being stuck with that method. Instead of producing the drugs the states in question will probably just switch to another method of execution.
It was fixed in iOS 9.0.2.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205284
Really not all companies even with a badged security allow this, in many places you need an authorization/pre-registration if you are going to come in late (say 2-3 hours past normal work day) or during weekends.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can read it cover to cover or download it.

By agreement with the publisher, this book is accessible by
the search feature, but cannot be browsed.
Not exactly discrediting a source, but:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-frank-shaw-on-why-...

anyway I think we know how windows 8 turned out in the long run.
Surgeons, pilots and code monkeys
I suspect that stop signs serve an additional purpose, of calming traffic in neighborhoods. Long stretches where car drivers don't expect to slow down, will increase overall speeds. This is already evident on long neighborhood streets that don't have stop signs, and where they are now installing speed bumps at the request of residents.

Perhaps not a planned benefit, but the inconvenience of stop signs also funnels car traffic onto the larger trunk roads, leaving the side streets for cyclists -- a cheap and cheerful way of separating car and bike traffic.

On the other hand, I suspect that stop signs are also just a cheap traffic control device that works with minimal case-by-case design, especially in neighborhoods with narrow streets. Alternatives, such as roundabouts, tend to involve complete re-design of an area with at least a 50 yard radius, for instance eliminating visual obstacles and parked cars.
Or just a bullet to the back of the head. Execution in the US is downright odd - the endless delays, the ritual, the use of doctors... it's all sort of macabre.
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The problem is that Starbucks uses Powermat pads which are incompatible with Qi in most smartphones. Powermat has most public locations while the Galaxy S6 is the first, maybe only, phone that supports both Qi and PMA.
Amazon's monster erotica book ban helped shape CloudFlare's stance on censorship
My knowledge is probably 10 years out of date, but the Asterisk guys used Cepstral.
> IDK when the reference date for that xkcd chart is.

From what I can tell it was last updated in 2011[0].

> But either way, why should we let someone subject us to even slightly just a tad potentially harmful in a directed manner? I'm not cool with that.

We're talking about so very slightly very much just a tad harmfulness that if we were to be consistent about it we'd have to take issue with every single thing in our lives. This is beyond "I'll stay at home, external world is dangerous" levels of harm. So why are we suddenly singling out radiation, and not say risk of getting driven over by scan-vans? Or risk of accidentally angering a cop and getting shot to death, as it happens in the US from time to time? In my opinion, we're privileging the radiation issue way, way too much.

[0] - http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/04/26/radiation-chart-update/
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Alan Turing connection, Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge... noise is useful for producing patterns.
> What I'm saying is: That's not entirely relevant if we don't know how many doses people actually get.

True. But then if we count up the reasonable upper bound of possible doses you could get, like "several thousands times a day times amount X", and it still adds up to "not harmful", should we keep being distressed about it?
> Among the leaked info is the startling revelation that, “nearly 90% of people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets.”

Granted this is a cherry-picked time period, this remains a damning revelation. As far as i have heard, even the most pessimistic grumbles have not suggested such numbers.
Identify the Unregistered Drone
If they have information that was only present on your device or your iCloud backup, and they already can't get at your device, how exactly does parallel construction help them explain the fact that their evidence includes information that could have only been obtained one way?
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The inequality can sting if you compare yourself to others.

HN is probably the largest general purpose public forum frequently visited by multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires, so there's always somebody blabbing on about their "investments" or humble bragging about exiting or buying a tesla or some other rich person nonsense.

The onslaught of dumb can sting when you realize most people just forcefully repeat the opinions of others without much original thought.

If you read for "what's new" information, it can be marginally useful. But, the "what's new" is filtered through the bubble of what isolated nerd people think matters (containers! go! san francisco! google upgraded their toilets!) and not necessarily where the biggest opportunities or impacts can be had in the world these days.

But, even with all that, there's still a lot of good information people provide. People will chime in and kindly offer their experiences and personal knowledge about specific or esoteric things with the rest of us who don't know as much as they do.
Thanks. Yeah, as I commented elsewhere, within regional markets, most fuel is sourced from the same refinery, and is effectively identical.
You make it sound like Apple is trying to trick you into enabling it, like they have default-on checkboxes everywhere to turn it on. IIRC they only ask once, during the setup wizard, and you're forced to make a choice (no default behavior). So just don't turn it on and you're good.
That reads less like new information and more like an activist campaign to stop the use of drones.
Thanks for the additional info. I didn't realise the business jet space had consolidated.

Most of what I know about Lear is Chrystal Shanda.
They buffer the audio in a ring buffer constantly, so that the audio can be checked for a wake word. If the wake woRd triggers, then they send the contents of the buffer. The buffer shouldn't be super big. (E.g., one or two seconds). They use it to train their wake word model.
This is probably why NYC wanted to ban Geiger counters in 2008.
AFAIK there are a few that produce such results that they can not be distinguished from a real person. None of the really good ones are open source, and the best ones I have heard of are not even for sale.

The best implementations make an advantage in markets so they are well guarded. We do not know about the best implementations, because we did not notice a thing. For example some phone operators have replaced their customer services with TTS / STT solutions. Because people tend to lock up when they realize they are talking with a computer, they have had to make those systems sound very natural.

I know a few are pretty crappy ones, but a few are plain spooky. Customers that tend to joke and flirt with the computer, hoping for an emotional response, probably are most likely to notice them.

Then there's the case where the US intelligence services demonstrated their capabilities to a politician (senator/congressman) by recording him, and producing a voice clip of him saying something like "death to america" so well that no one could distinguish the speaker. It also seemingly passed further voice analysis. Google it up, pretty interesting read.
Not related to overwork or sabotage, but the "talk it down" is expected in certain cultures and has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation
By "shutting it off" you mean they inserted themselves in between the battery and device and instantly cut power at the right time. Not something that you can easily do to an arbitrary device (especially if you have to give the device back).

And I don't know for sure, but I feel like that one was fixed at some point.

Edit: Yep, superuser2 links to the CVE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423257, https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4451
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They certainly think they are. What with an office in Israel and all.
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Let me be the first to say it.

YUCK!

What's the point to living if you have the means, but don't live a decent life?
Just to spoil it for others, who are living decently? Is this how this guy's gonna define himself?

You know, programmers already have a low social reputation for being geeky. Down mod me all you want but that only proves this is a circle jerk.

Please don't do this. If you do have to do this, don't advertise this. Please don't.
Some of us worked very hard to be here, we would want programmers to be looked up, not down.
+5 Insightful.

I know I personally like to keep the opinion people have that I am overworked, whether I actually work hard or procrastinate - it's just a really convenient social shield, not only against failure but also against random requests from people. When people notice you have too much free time, for some reason they feel obliged to start inventing things for you to do.

I think it's an alternative to just saying "no". Some people are assertive and can simply refuse a request. Personally, I find assertiveness very cognitively taxing, not to mention socially, so maintaining a bubble of "he's constantly working on something" impression helps. It's probably not the most ethical approach, but it's a coping strategy.

As for self-deprecation of your work, I know I've been guilty of this at times to cover for stress and lack of motivation. It would be true that the particular piece of work is not the best thing I can do (and I can always point to examples of a better work), but fortunately people immediately assume (without me having to suggest anything) that's because of being tired, or new, or something, and not because I am having trouble finding the motivation to pursue a task at 100% of effectiveness. This buys me necessary time to sort my motivations out and hopefully regain the energy to do a better work next time.
My electronics side projects during university were what got me my jobs, post-uni.

Also, one key: Do the difficult stuff you're dreading first. Always. A lot of famous successful people point to this habit as the main reason for their success.
Youth Movement
> Fact 1: Ahmed claimed to have "invented" this clock in a video.

Which he did. He invented his particular clock arrangement. Not clocks in general... he's like... 3000 years too late on that front. Yes, it wasn't a complex project... but he's 17, who cares. Has no relevance to the subsequent school or police action.

> Fact 2: [...] Who plugs in an alarm clock in English class?

Teenagers, ones showing off their stuff to friends in particular. Has no relevance to the subsequent school or police action.

> Fact 3: [...] He did otherwise.

Because teenagers always listen to teachers, right? Worst case - confiscate it until the end of the day, maybe a detention. Has no relevance to the subsequent school or police action.

> Fact 4: There is no legitimate evidence that this incident was based on race. Plenty of white kids getting kicked out of school for toy guns.

Well... the police statements at the time were certainly racially ill-advised, but I'll give you this one under extreme charity. If you don't think that being brown skinned and named Ahmed Mohamed had anything to do with the over-reaction then I have a bridge to sell you. This is pretty obvious from you "legitimate evidence" dog whistle... as there's plenty of circumstantial and social evidence, but I doubt you'd call that "legitimate".

So far you're 1 for 4 here, not doing well.

> Fact 5: His dad is a known political agitator

Literally has nothing to do with Ahmed. So.. again has no relevance to the subsequent school or police action.

For being "against me" the facts you provide are pretty junk.
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That sets an unhealthy social norm for the people who look up to you -- that the only acceptable state is unhappiness.
If this were a story about migrant workers employed by Google, would you feel differently? I suspect so; our standards for living spaces are not arbitrary. That this man chooses to forgo them despite his salary is certainly his prerogative, but this "hack" drawing admiration points to a central failure of both housing in the bay and the culture at large that values future profits over basic living.
I'm pretty sure, for me, it asks before allowing the carrier updates.
I'm not quite sure why I was getting down-voted. This is what I (admittedly should have included earlier) was referring to: https://youtu.be/meEyYFlSahk. Try the password and before the system can register the password attempt, cut the power. I'm actually curious if this is something impossible to fix, almost in a mathematically provable way.
Yeah, I thought it was the Sun Tzu first too, which could as well be on his list. Thank you for compiling them.
But the compiler's output will be polluted with these false positives, making it harder to see actual errors. (Also, there's a compiler flag to prevent codegen on error, which comes in handy sometimes.)
My Facebook friends probably won't get it. But maybe you will?

In real life I'm not a drone evangelist/advocate. But the whole idea of registering a potentially autonomous robot that could look like a bird or insect--that opens the door to some interesting questions.

Are we only concerned about collisions?
Will we need specialized drones that exist to find rogue drones?
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I notice that your examples don't include the "'begging for re-engagement from someone who doesn't need to use your app' email"
Here is what I was referring to: https://youtu.be/meEyYFlSahk

Seems more of a mechanical setup, rather than this guy's video. Like put a kill switch ON THE PATH (i.e. before signals reach) the "Okay iPhone, register this failed attempt" destination.
Ahmed Mohamed Accepts Scholarship to Qatar