skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't see what the huge improvement would be. It's really not that hard to type compared to have voice recognition for all kinds of languages, dialects and accents. Not to speak of "press button, speak into phone, wait for translation, proof read text, press send, wait for confirmation, wait for response, do it all again".

And while whatapp is nice, it's like five, or even ten, years ago nice by asian standards. The "west" fucked up by trying to protect telecom companies revenues so the networks become fragmented. Imagine if SMS instead was a free secure data channel with pubsub features, there would be huge incentives for interoperability.

All in all I think the post kind of shows the different of mindset in the west vs. emerging markets. In emerging markets people use whatever they can however they can. If you go and visit suppliers in china they often have three phones and two desktop clients open at the same time. With built-in translation and sending files, pictures and money back and forth.
I've been writing blog posts, docs and tutorials for Nodal. I hear folks talk about clean code, and know it's something to aspire to. But I don't think I quite knew what clean meant for APIs, until I started to go deep into Nodal. Every time I go in, I come out a little smarter.
How Spotify’s Discover Weekly cracked human curation at internet scale (2015)
Tom M. Apostol, 1923–2016
I like and often use Postgres, but professionally use MSSQL a lot and I vastly prefer it for my use case. It has all the DB features I need for my products and it is easier to manage (when it comes to backups, for example). One could argue ease of use falls under a purely technical standpoint.

Could you elaborate a bit more on why you view Microsoft SQL Server as worse?
Lol lattice-based theoretical crypto has solid theoretical foundations. Finding the correct paramter ranges for applications is difficult and that's why you aren't seeing widespread usage yet, but it's certainly not snake-oil.

And don't get your hopes up about seeing a practical implementation of iO any time soon; it's thoroughly and utterly impractical at the moment, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Is not this the problem of induction in Philosophy?

Are not all the minds subjected to the same limitation?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction)
I could've sworn that Intel actually demonstrated TSX on a Postgres fork they created, but my Google-fu is too weak to find the slides again.
When programmers get weird: The funniest code projects on GitHub
Regardless of what definition of "art" you follow, I feel like trolling as described by labster can certainly be used for good.

Labster himself describes the use of trolling in tricking the reluctant apprentice into learning, or using it to sow strife to further policy making and bring about social change. "Good" is in the eye of the beholder, but I could certainly consider some of those things to be good some of the time.

There is a difference in abusing other people online for entertainment - "common trolling" as labster describes it - and the "sublime trolling" in which he sees art.
Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Has Declared War on Free Speech
From the same incident report: When users reset their password, we’re going to be hashing it with the bcrypt algorithm with a strong cost value.
2 is the bigger issue for me, but from a courtesy angle: I was raised to view talking on your cell phone around other people as impolite.

For those unmoved by propriety: picture the last time you were on a bus (or other public space) and saw a bunch of people texting or otherwise using their devices silently. Imagine this picture where everyone is shouting into their phones in order to overcome the background noise of everyone else shouting into their phones.
Not paywalled. You have to create a free as in beer account, then you can read 3 articles every 14 days.
Even if that made sense it would be wrong; secure encryption (IND-CPA) needs either state or randomness. Most popular approaches stick to using randomness.
This "solution" is a cure worse than the ailment. Those pesky "environmentalists" simply pointed that out.
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Please link them here so we together can discuss it and hopefully make some fanfare!
I didn't say that the Republican platform lacks basic critical thought, I said that Donald Trump's platform lacks basic critical thought.

The wall is the best example. He wants to build a massive wall that will cost tens of billions of dollars. That wall ignores the fact that almost all illegal immigration comes from visa overstays rather than people walking across the border. And the wall would still be relatively easy to get over without someone guarding it.

Last Week Tonight, a comedy show, did a pretty thorough dismantling [1] of the logic behind building it. Scientists, Engineers and Immigration officials would have an even easier time arguing against it. It's just a really stupid idea that he probably came up with watching Game of Thrones (Mexicans == Wildlings) and yet he's used it to help win the Republican nomination.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuaDG7_FBZ8
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Ah, the LA smog always looked a disgusting yellow to me. But I've only see in the past 10 years
A commenter further down said that these trains are supposed to also run on the normal train lines. This probably means that they have to comply with the regular train regulation, which are quite different from the subway regulations and make automatic driving a lot more difficult.
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Looks REALLY cool. By the way, if you have an index or a way to know how far do you go, that would be useful (to get an idea of how much do I know already, etc.)
I feel like I must be missing something, but I feel like tags is just a band-aid. If you have enough files, you will end up with too many tags to manage (think of a tag directory filled with tag files, instead of a home directory filled with actual files), so you'll need hierarchical tags. Or kludge it with "tag/subtag" which looks a lot like a directory. GMail added nested tags, which seems to me like an admission that flat tags is not sufficient.

One problem is that regular people don't know how to organize a hierarchy. General -> specific works really well, but that requires the ability to generalize.

The only use I can see for tags is if you want files to be a member of more than one directory. Other than music, everything I have is generally created for a specific purpose, so tags are not particularly helpful.
We don't encrypt all of the credentials, just the actual passwords.
That's what the Economist, certainly not a lefty rag prone to criticize great engineering feats, has to say on NAWAPA. I quote parts of the article, since non-subscribers may not be able to open the link:

Shifting billions of cubic metres across the country has caused huge disruption. The government says it has moved 330,000 people to make way for the central route. Laixiang Sun of the University of Maryland in America reckons the number uprooted is at least half a million. There will also be health and environmental costs. Diverting river-water northward could promote the spread of diseases common in the south, particularly schistosomiasis, a debilitating snail-borne disease. Reduced flow in the Yangzi may make coastal water supplies vulnerable to intrusion by seawater and increase the potential for drought.

The financial cost is also high. Mr Sun puts the cost of the project at more than $62 billion—far higher than the original $15 billion price tag. His estimate does not include the running of the project or the building of 13 new water-treatment plants to clean the water.

By increasing supply, the government is failing to confront the real source of the problem: high demand for water and inefficient use of it. Chinese industry uses ten times more water per unit of production than the average in industrialised countries, according to a report by the World Bank in 2009. A big reason for this is that water in China is far too cheap. In May 2014 Beijing introduced a new system that makes tap water more expensive the more people use. But prices are still far from market levels. Officials turn a blind eye to widespread extraction of un-tariffed groundwater by city dwellers and farmers, despite plummeting groundwater levels."

So, sure. It can be done and it may be an engineers wet dream. If it should be done is a very different question.
The rationale behind it being that European egg producers will put more care into making sure the raising site is actually clean.
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There still needs to be incentive to lower the cost. For example, to lower costs of clinical trials, companies can invest more in computer simulations and find other ways to reduce those costs. Also this might also force big pharma companies to collaborate more with each other rather than re creating the wheel.
> It doesn't really have to be perfect as long as it doesn't fail in common scenarios.

i agree that it doesn't have to be perfect, but the standard should be higher than "doesn't fail in common scenarios." we should also expect graceful handling of many uncommon but plausible scenarios. we expect human drivers to handle more than just common scenarios, and human drivers are pretty bad.
They're inconsistent. Sometimes the file name comes before something and sometimes after something. It's a lot easier to remember commands if their structure is uniform, and Unix commands usually have the general structure of "program [options] [files]"
So, do you need to convert the string to a string whenever you want to use a mutable string?
For me it helps getting a feel for new languages / environments so I can get up to speed and tinker without losing too much momentum. Also camelCaseMethod completion (e.g. via ccm) can speed up progress dramatically if you know the exact method you want to call.

It's all nice as long as those features don't get in to my way (slow autocomplete, method and block templates that are harder to navigate than writing without help, massive method lists like Xcode shows for every possible message you might want send to that object etc).

I always liked the IntelliJ IDEA autocomplete for Java code as well as e.g. Spring/Hibernate Annotations; it was way more responsive than Eclipse and indeed a productivity feature saving time, alongside its impressive refactoring tools.
Sorry. I was not aware that there was such a low tolerance for a tiny bit of lightheartedness here.

I hope you lighten up.
Peace.
Is it open for international Candidates too ?
Non-Lexical Lifetimes: Adding the Outlives Relation
Why can't cities buy the lower value/marginal farmers out (growing stuff like Alfalfa, or possibly tree fruits at the end of the useful lifespan of the trees)?
Scope is already estimated and contolled by upper bound.
You use a test set of scenario's on which you don't train but only measure effectiveness. When accuracy on the test set exceeds your chosen threshold, that is good enough.

What is the accuracy of the human brain in recognizing traffic situations? It is probably not that hard to get a NN to do better, even if periodically it still causes an accident. This is the uncanny valley effect for self-driving cars. It's not enough to be better than average humans at driving, which i think they already are, they have to be perfect at driving for people to trust them.
Hiring process not mentioned, Relocation offering also.
so, what you're saying is that a woman can work at both google and facebook. gender war over.

oh wait, she sucked at both jobs? carry on.
Sounds like caffeine withdrawal.
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Open for international Candidates ? Relocation offered?
I am quite interested in this topic. There is some research on that field. Some links I collected in the past:

http://thesis.flyingpudding.com/

http://dynampd.ubitux.fr/

http://erikbern.com/2015/09/22/presentations-about-spotify-m...

http://erikbern.com/2015/09/24/nearest-neighbor-methods-vect...

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/qq_netflix-algorithm/

http://www.slideshare.net/erikbern/collaborative-filtering-a...

http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137264

http://www.playdar.org/ https://github.com/RJ/playdar-core http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876724

https://github.com/bmcfee/librosa

http://forever.fm/ http://blog.petersobot.com/introducing-forever-fm

http://musicmachinery.com/2011/05/14/how-good-is-googles-ins...

http://musicmachinery.com/2012/11/12/the-infinite-jukebox/

Btw., as I am developing my own music player, my main important feature/goal is a kind of automatic DJ which automatically selects music and I also especially had a discover mode in mind. However, that main feature did not evolve that much so far because there were so much other things to implement first. For now, it only supports access to files in your file system, and it looks on tags and artist and adds quite some randomness to it.

https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/WhatIsAM...
It's just amazing how much "common knowledge" about food has been shown to be completely wrong:

* Breakfast is the most important meal [0]
* Saturated fat is bad [1]
* Carbs are evil [2]
* You regain more weight after a fast diet [3]

Many will argue but studies have show each one of these to be wrong.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/10/the-s...

[1]: http://www.eufic.org/page/en/show/latest-science-news/fftid/...

[2]: http://www.nature.com/nutd/journal/v6/n2/full/nutd20162a.htm...

[3]: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-85...
The change from CRT to LCD likely is a big contributor to the change of design.
Some of my most popular blog posts have been explanations as to how closed source video game engines work. Some of the most popular conference talks are on closed source solutions to encountered problems.

Dismissing a blog post simply because it describes closed source software is silly.
Massive projects to move water from where nature put it to where man wants it put always reminds me of the Aral Sea story in the old USSR.
Desalination is a bit like smelting aluminium - high energy requirements are kind of built-in due to the basic chemistry.

If you want cheap desalination, look for cheap energy.
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And in a lot of ways, that would be an improvement to randomly dumping files all over the source tree.
While I like Signal, it's essentially dead in the water as a mainstream platform [0]. They were too late, the network effects are too great and they didn't execute the user part very well. The technology can do a lot of good for users of whatapp, but if they would have had a different perspective they could have exceeded that by becoming a protocol for encrypted communication. I think the would even have done a lot more good even just appealing to companies and make it a solution for company communication. Not as romantic though.

[0] I think Hemlis were right when they came to this conclusion.
[1] While it's useful if you need encrypted communication it's a mess for normal users. Not only is there a lot of confusion what it does and how it works, there's a lot of problems with notifications, messages and upgrades. And usage is extremely uncommon outside tech circles.
> Good lord what a cliche name.

This is the name that Google should have used instead :)
The only problem is that "sublime trolling" is something he made up. Tricking apprentices to learn, come on.

He's just playing devil's advocate in a not very convincing way.
When Yahoo Reigned Supreme
How do you find adding new architectures to it? I've been meaning to add some architectures I want to Radare for a while now, but it's a bit daunting due to lack of docs and the build system is argh. And I've also been wanting to learn Rust, so this seems like an obvious fit for me...
Why can’t you find tech co-founders? Start by showing some respect
This dance is crazy: WTF?
Have you ever taken institutional funds for any projects you founded? I did. It's ugly. And driven by pure financial greed. Sucking the soul from the original intent. The same financial greed currently eating the world and ruining people's lives. Sorry. Am I not allowed an opinion?

The only thing your reply right there proved is that you don't know me at all.

I'm also aware of the government/defence dept. backing of the foundations of the internet itself. Thanks.
> a special ticket isn't required.

Excellent, I've been trying to figure this out; whether I will be able to just jump on/off using my debit (or Oyster) card as I currently do on the over/underground.

Any idea how far out of town this ticketing system will be usable? Will someone in Reading be able to use a contactless card without having to buy a paper ticket?
It certainly sounds right up his alley. Grandiose idea, and fuck the consequences.
So now you can text entry without using a keyboard or your voice, good for rsi and good for faster entry, gesture based computing.
When I had a physical job, I had two breakfasts (6:00 before work, then 9:00). And I needed it, or I'd be super hungry. Now, at my desk job, I have a single breakfast.

And in warm weather, I have difficult to eat in the morning at all.
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I'm not so sure about that, we hear the same horror stories about factory farms as well. However, the chickens are vaccinated against salmonella, and that might have something to do with it.
Two thoughts:

1. Half a million people is nothing if your population is a billion. (I'm less willing to hand wave away the disease concerns. Some sort of feasibility study would be nice.)

2. Defer optimization until necessary. Market competition trumps environmental efficiency. There will be no environmental concerns to worry about in Chinese manufacturing if there is no Chinese manufacturing. We can optimize usage later.

I understand that the environmental concerns are real. I'm just trying to put things in perspective.
You'd need to look at death/injury by sector to see its effect. FWIW, I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm inclined to believe OSHA is a good thing. AFAIK most economics/manufacturing research has suggested the health and safety precautions in developed countries are cost-effective. Moreover, it's probably telling that most (all?) other developed countries have similar health and safety agencies.
>> innovation in accessibility

Do you mean business model innovation ?
Not really no. Our bodies have not evolved since the point in time where the access to food was much more difficult, it is perfectly adapted to not getting energy intake regularly.
Worth noting is that Israel has gone through this already and largely handled their problem. In fact, we have already begun collaboration with them: http://forward.com/news/national/318721/can-israel-help-cali...
By "requests made after load of the requested resource", you mean JS XHR requests for example? I'd guess they are also filtered by adblockers, aren't they?
> Ruby 25 and Rails 23, really? I'd expected the opposite.
Is there really a difference between 25 and 23?
Yep. It's funny to me that people turn to Medium for life advice, because Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca etc all wrote it down in incredible detail hundreds of years ago.

I'm half-tempted to do modern translations of those old works and essays.
Thank you for all this interesting information!

With your knowledge, would you consider MRI R&D to be as open for disruption like space technology was until a few years ago?

Do you think the same reductions in cost can be achieved by a group of similarly insanely smart people like those at SpaceX?
It also probably depends on what development tools people use. If everyone on the project uses a different IDE that's different patterns for each of them, but they all have to be in the ignore file.
Slightly OT, but are there any good libre tools for reverse engineering binary file formats rather than executables?
Web development techniques are crying out for an "emperor's new clothes" moment. Approaches like GWT (+ a toolkit such as GXT) seem to be a far saner approach for many enterprise applications. On the other hand, there are large classes of problems for which Rails / Django / et al have shown good results. Vive la difference!
Mostly "I don't know too much about the world, but the white house said they did great". If Europe had any larger responsibility for the conflict, it was probably that it couldn't stop the war from happening (even though this is a complex topic as well). Of course this is also one of the motivations behind the EU.
too much code generators?
With the state of the advertising-supported Web looking increasingly untenable by the day, and mindful of the sources of revenue of our fine hosts here at Reddit, micropayments are a frequently proposed alternative.

Dave's been passing drafts of this article around for review, and there's a second part, both of which I've seen and commented on -- he makes quite a strong argument here, and a better one than his initial version following constructive criticisms by numerous parties. Though I've got questions about the viability of micropayments myself, this is among the better cases I've seen made.

And I largely agree with his indictment of the present ads-supported model.
Desalination is all about cheap energy. Desalination plants produce fresh water at sea level, and that water has to be pumped to higher elevations where people live. It's a hidden, often overlooked, cost of desalination. That makes desalination most economical in flat, low-elevation costal regions.
I use Gmail and other web apps, because I'm accessing remote data through them, and running remote apps to do so is a good idea IMO. However, I think "the Web" is not a good platform for native-like apps. It's not only slow and resource-hungry (I can edit pictures and video reasonably, yet web apps still stutter and hang up), it was also never designed for app GUIs. HTML is a nice text markup language, but it was never meant for GUIs. CSS is nice for styling text, but it's now used for much more. Layout is torn between HTML and CSS. And web apps don't "fit in" with their appearance, and I value consistency in desktop apps a lot. With Qt/GTK, I can change a system-wide theme, and all apps will fit in with each other, which is something web apps can't offer.
And while creating new frameworks may help programmers, it doesn't solve the fundamental issue that the web is not meant for native-esque apps.
Thanks. You can have a look at the tutorial contents in this file: https://github.com/jaipandya/SublimeTutor/blob/master/tutori... which is also accessbile once you install the plugin.
Does anyone know which camera they were using?
As to the quote, you've either misread, or are actually amusingly trolling yourself ;) Given that the whole sentence that the quote comes from actually explains how to detect non-trolls:

"And none of these is the troll, or perhaps some are of a mixed type; for there is no art in what they do."

and as a follow-up, close to the end the essay says:

"And since the one [a troll] who does this on every occasion must act with knowledge, and on the basis of practice and care, he has a kind of art"

With that out of the way, the gist of your comment is totally very interesting and thought provoking, thanks!

edit: or did I just perfectly fall for the troll here? :) still not really sure...