skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please bear in mind that the wording on the question means that someone in a homeless shelter or city-funded SRO for a month "used to live in a home in SF". Which is to say that the number is meaningful, but needs to be taken with a substantial grain of salt.
It was pocketsphinx. Automated transcription would probably be pretty sad.
Interestingly enough, in terms of taxes, dense does better:

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/5/13/101-productive-...
> We spend months to migrate our product to PostgreSQL

Which means you presumably saved months initially by using Azure, and got your product to market sooner. Everyone should be aware of the dangers of lock-in, and should carefully consider the value of it vs. the liability they're taking on. But I wouldn't say never use products like this. The value-add can be significant, even taking into account the fact that you may have to migrate off of it someday.
And the odds of this happening are....?

Maybe we should stick kids in suits of armor Faraday cages too, just in case lightning strikes.
Horizontal gene transfer is well established. Existence of a small number of common genes between two species does not necessarily indicate a common ancestor.
Does everything else in your house run open source firmware?

How does source being available tell you whether your device is secure? Are you auditing it, then building and installing the firmware yourself so you know that the binary matches the released source? Are you doing the same with the bootloader?

How far are you willing to take your paranoia?
The article confirms that "AlphaGo was powered by TPUs in the matches against Go world champion, Lee Sedol, enabling it to "think" much faster and look farther ahead between moves."
It's surprising that people on HackerNews don't seem to understand the basics of how the Internet works.
I work for the CDN Fastly and we have something very similar to Fast.com.

fastly-debug.com.

The goal of our site is to gather debug information but I use it as a reliable speed-test to a good portion of the internet's websites. I think this is a good tool like fast.com because unlike the 'official' speedtest sites, if you optimize ours or Fast's you're actually making the internet much faster for a lot of sites for users.
How I learned to code, part I
Disclaimer: I work at Fitbit but speak only for myself.

About simplicity, yes the Alta is selling well as a simple product, but the Blaze is also selling well as a less-simple product.
It's 100% relevant to the tech community as nobody outside our community would get it off hand.
This is known as the Wheel of Reincarnation. Functionality moves to special-purpose hardware then back to software, and the cycle repeats. (The computer term is from 1968 so this has been happening for a long time.)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.htm...
Ask HN: How do I know if I'm selling a pain-killer (and not a vitamin)?
I’ve built and am now selling my first SaaS product, and I’m trying to figure out if I’m on to something here or just beating my head in to a brick wall. I’ve routinely heard things like “this is what we need. Let’s loop back next quarter,” and last quarters leads are converting. But we’re not hearing “Can we have this integrated by Friday!?” or “We don’t need this.” I expect sales to be hard, and doubly so when selling the first dozen customers on a new MVP-level product; is this the kind of response I should be expecting?

I’m persistent (possibly to a fault) but how do I know if this is the right thing to persist on?
Google has always been strategic about announcing what it was doing, even since the early days (I used to work there too). Think about the impact the first MapReduce and GFS/BigTable papers had.

My guess as to why they're announcing the TPU is that they are feeling the pressure from Facebook and other AI labs, and want to reinforce their reputation as being the best place to do AI research. By revealing that AlphaGo was based on this hardware, they indicate to researchers around the world that if you want to build the most advanced ML models you need to be at Google. Same reason they talked about MapReduce/GFS back in the day.
The problems with class warfare are similar to those of racial discrimination.

The problem is not that there is no basis for using a filter but that assuming everybody is identical within a class (or subset, which has a 1:1 mapping to the notion of class) is a logical error.

It is not about morality so much as logic. Suppose I find Italians to be corrupt and untrustworthy. Well evidently there exist Italians who are honest with good intentions. That some of set of Italians genuinely do belong to a mafia is not indicative of the larger group, even if it were so that a majority of Italians were mafiosos.

Of course real life is complicated, people have to resort to satisficing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing) and worse yet harmful behavior patterns aren't limited to any subset of the group. Notoriously there exist robin hoods and bad cops. Choosing not to go down the wrong street is reasonable under satisficing but rejecting job candidates for having the wrong names is.

All of this is to say that discrimination in of itself is not illogical but discriminating indiscriminately IS.
It's not to protect the baby, thefts of children (etc) are rarer than lightning strikes.
This is not a surprise; there's an old saw that I think I first read in a Buffet annual report. It says that financing tends to alternate forms for companies in terms of what makes sense: debt -> equity -> debt -> equity.

Equity offering seems likely to be much cheaper than debt right now; Tesla has great mindshare among consumers, and lots of doubters on the professional investor side.
How to Break Your Addiction to Work (Harvard Business Review)
Depends on how nicely the US asks and how much they can avoid attracting public attention. Germany apparently[0][1] still maintains secret contracts with the US (and supposedly other former Allied forces) despite the supposed "full sovereignty" provided in the Two-Plus-Four Agreement of 1990. Also the lackluster official response to the NSA revelations and other US diplomatic debacles indicates the German government values the German-American relationships much higher than the well-being of German residents[2] (if not citizens).

[0]: http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-10/nsa-uerberwac... (German)

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliiertes_Vorbehaltsrecht (also German)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz
I got the notification today and it looks like they added a sidebar and some form of live preview.

Other than that I thought it's around for a while now.
Ah, you knew the dog before it came to school.
JonL White actually wrote a serious paper about just this idea in 1980: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802797
My vague impression is that there had started to be more and more research on use of ASICs for ML (though I can't say I follow it that closely). Enough of a changing tide that the competitive advantage was going?
Matrix uses the same encryption protocol but is also federated, which is nice.
XOR for fully connected networks, and mnist for convolutional networks
Your anecdote doesn't correct for survivor bias.
Any good streaming solution needs to transcode multiple bitrates and formats. You either need to do that on the source machine or across the network somehow.

Doing it on the source machine is technically easier, but much more heavy weight on machine. Doing it on the network means that the transcode is happening multiple times, which can result in playback issues if you get a source segment from two different transcodes.

I have thought about doing something like this because I work for a streaming company, but have always come to some roadblock like the one above for a "real" application of this technique. I wonder how they have solved this.
A joke about an ancient myth in our tech community is "off topic" - you guys are too stringent with this. I think it's lame.
It's really three levels:

High End - Desktop ( Vive / Oculus ) $600-800

Console ( PSVR ) $400-500

Mobile ( Google / Oculus / ?? ) $99-??

Console vs Desktop vs Mobile -- that's the real issue. The leap from Mobile VR to Desktop VR is huge. PSVR -- remains to be seen what Sony does on the hardware front (PS4.5 with new ATI card, or ??).
Show HN: Voice Operated Home Environment (MS/Cortana)
It's been one of the pendulum swings in IT... actually the company I work for has dumb terminals for most of its employees, and the people in charge of support are very happy (users, not that much).

https://outrunchange.com/2011/11/05/the-computing-pendulum-h...
This theory is now widely questioned. I recommend this paper by W. Ford Doolittle on the subject: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/7/2043.short - also, "Uprooting the Tree of Life", http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10710791.

Basically, the argument is that horizontal gene transfer must have been such a huge part of life at its inception that the notion of a "LUCA" is confused, and we must expect to find a disgusting mess at the root of the tree of life.
Had they been certain the test was right, CPS would have been hovering over the birthing bed and the parents would have risked carting to a cell. That's not what happened.
Local real estate interests and the lack of political will. Sweeping zoning changes are hard work over many years. Those that widely devalue property? Few local politicians have the charisma to ride out multiple elections with that sort of agenda.
Dokku maintainer here.

I think this is a great idea. Companies have to sell a product in order to survive. At work, we pay a small amount of money for the 20 or so applications we deploy to heroku (nothing critical, just your run-of-the-mill chatbot/static landing page) and I'm impressed with the product they sell for such a small amount of money.

Here is some of what Heroku handles for you:

- cluster scaling (docker swarm?)
- resource scaling (docker-options?)
- centralized logging (docker/rsyslog + papertrail?)
- metrics support (diamond/collectd/dd-agent + external graphite cluster?)
- web ui and external api (lol)
- easy integration with tons of services (plugins/manual work?)
- not having to maintain your own servers (hire an ops person?)
- backups (cron + s3/dropbox/idk?)
- security!!! (cron apt-get?)

Definitely worth taking a critical look at whether or not the applications you are running on Heroku aren't providing at least $7 a month in value to you, as the above doesn't necessarily come cheap when you roll your own.
Return Merchandise Authorization. It's approval to return the product and it is a number you put on the shipping label when you return it so the company knows to refund you on receipt assuming it passes QC.
In South Texas, I once encountered a man speaking English with a very strong Acadian accent. I had to listen to him speak for several minutes before I even realized that what he was speaking was in fact English. Accents and dialects are incredibly complex.
Are you serious? Have you read what the FBI has done so far? It's one thing to get subpoenaed by a public servant of a real court, but it's reasonable to be afraid if FBI agents act like they want to serve her papers in person by a fake court named FISA and either shut her up or force into cooperation in something she wouldn't do if given the option.
Your compile error is likely because you use references instead of pointers. Reference as a class member is really hard to get right because it can be initialized only once, and cannot be copied or moved.
I was thinking more of business people than politics, actually. What with the trope that most successful business people are sociopaths.
I'd also like to recommend Power, Sex, Suicide by the same guy, Nick Lane.

It's an absolutely amazing book that explains the origins of mitochondria, why they're necessary for complex life (and this means that complex life is exceedingly rare in the universe), and all sorts of effects the differing genomes of mitochondria and cells have: fertility, aging, and a bunch of other ones.

If you're interested in cellular biology, read this guy.
echo "Tesla to offer $1.4 billion shares, remaining to be sold by Elon Musk.
Musk is exercising options to buy 5.5m shares and will boost overall holdings
on net basis. Developing... " | wc
1 30 176

News articles and tweets are converging at an alarming rate.
In Search for Cures, Scientists Create Multispecies Embryos
Life is a game of chance, but we make our own luck (beyond what we are born with) by making sensible decisions, taking measured chances, and knowing when to admit we are out of our depth.

Yes, midwives (in some jurisdictions) are trained, qualified practitioners. That said, they are not equipped to deal with many, many complications other than by calling an ambulance and hoping for the best.

Choosing to have my daughter born in a hospital instead of a home birth was most likely the difference between having a healthy baby girl and something in the range of severe mental handicap to stillbirth.

Having a child is a huge risk and investment (by every measure, emotionally, financially, socially, economically, etc). Why would you risk having a stillborn child, life with a mentally or physically handicapped child (this is not a shot against handicapped children - it's a shot against people who refuse to apply critical thinking skills to emotionally charged high risk decisions) so that you can satisfy some foolish ideal that being born at home is better than being born around people who have trained for much of their adult lives to keep your kid alive in its first few days?

It ranks right up there with the foolish parents who refuse to vaccinate children against common ailments or choose naturopathy or homeopathy because of "toxic western medicine".
> on a personal note, the desktop client requiring chrome is pretty awful.

Why? I haven't had any issues with it.

I even have a shortcut on linux for dmenu, typing "signal" opens the chrome extension URL, opening the app in a new popup window (not a full browser, just the app in a chromeless window). So it functions just like a normal app to me. This is the `signal` bash script:

#!/usr/bin/dash

/opt/google/chrome-unstable/google-chrome-unstable --user-data-dir=/home/dmix/.config/google-chrome-unstable --profile-directory=Default --app-id=bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk
I'm not sure that interpretation flies if the company never missed a payment.
Speedtest.net provides many different servers, most of which are not on the AT&T network. The IP is not in the AT&T space and the AS path leaves AT&Ts network.

In the end until someone can provide a dump of what is in the routers settings it is all a guessing game.
Google’s CEO sums up his AI vision: “Hi. How can I help?”
More on the culture: "Instances of employees drinking so much that they slept in their offices or under their desks weren’t unusual. Drug use was rampant. Marijuana use was commonplace and, according to multiple former employees, there were even times when managers offered employees cocaine. “It was a regular thing,” said one former staffer who spent five years at Karmaloop."

http://www.complex.com/style/the-rise-and-fall-of-karmaloop
The big surprise here isn't that Tesla was doing an offering - it was Goldman did a huge research note 24 hours before the offering while actually participating in said offering.

Super bad form and just goes to show the community- don't trust investment bankers. Such bad form.
Horizon is only the "realtime db" portion of Firebase and it's only for Javascript, not Android or iOS. The mobile app realtime network connection tech is especially tricky to get right without draining a user's battery by doing things like constantly polling the backend. I have not seen anything from RethinkDB along those lines.
> "Powered by our proprietary and patented peer-to-peer live streaming protocol,"

And now I care about this much less...

source: http://blog.bittorrent.com/2016/05/17/bittorrent-live-multic...
>Former telephone technician(* ) here. What I'm interested in is the connection from your home to our PoP.

That's only relevant if the complaint is about the connection from your home to the PoP. If the technician was sent out to solve an issue with the Internet being slow in general, he/she needs to actually find what the bottleneck is, not call it a day when some traffic makes it to a PoP.
I had completely forgot I preordered a coin until it showed up. By that point I had no use for it. Literally have not used it once.
Not missing a payment because the CEO is taking on personal debt to invest in the company is not really sustainable, and almost certainly a red flag to investors.

Based on the other article I link to, they seem to have been behind on their payments to everyone else as well. And were doing "deep discounts" to keep cash flow high. Clearly a bubble situation in my mind.
I was referring to what happened to Aaron Swartz in the aftermath of his arrest, according to various sources. For a suspected transgression of far lesser significance.

Whether the FBI was involved in that particular aspect of his ordeal, I can't say.
The difference is actually between a product and a service. A service is something that another party provides, and that may - actually, they most definitely will - at some point stop providing, for various reasons. You want to minimize your dependence on any services - especially ones that are not trivially replaceable or that don't come with contractual agreements to cover your costs in case of the service being shut down.

That's why I hate the whole SaaS idea - it turns products into services; something that should be permanent (as long as you can maintain the hardware it runs) into something that is ephemeral and ever changing. It's great for the service provider, but it totally sucks for the customers. SaaS drives entropy in the computing universe.
We're building open source tools and services for developers to build and manage the lifecycle of serverless applications. The AWS IoT Button works as an event-loop for a (simple) serverless workflow. We can use it to demonstrate and validate one of our use-cases and to provide demonstration of our tools (push the buttons and see what happens).

The concept of running our code directly from IoT devices is something we've found pretty compelling but until now it was very much a DIY affair. It's exciting to see Amazon release hardware that does this out of the box, directly running our code, as basic as it might be.
Displaying a a function with changing values, instead of a static one, does change how you process the information. This gives an advantage to computer screens over chalkboards.

I am not sure about the implementation. The author seems new to webdesign. He spends 2 paragraphs explaining how he made the image changes, hint, he used a looped gif. Then he has an idea of an "after image" but then admits he cannot do it. The numbers dancing around at the end is hard to digest. It's clear that one is not moving, but that is about it.

In the comments Rahul posts a graph where circles are plotted and fade over time with random inputs. He then plots various functions where the grouping is obvious and easily digestible.

Overall it looks like a great collaboration. Someone having an design idea but incapable of executing, and something else doing a better technical implementation. While the idea is completely unoriginal, its still a fun story.
Because some of us don't want to use Chrome? How is vendor lock-in at the browser level any better than at the OS or device level?
Ask HN: VCs that would be good fit for PaaS startup
Would really appreciate info on VCs that could be a good fit for PaaS type startup. Given special needs/higher capital requirements it seems it's harder to find a suitable partner.
In the FAQ page http://horizon.io/faq/

Can I use Horizon on mobile devices?

Horizon ships with a JavaScript client library that can be used for building web and mobile apps with frameworks like React, Angular, or React Native. We’re also working on specific platform client libraries that support the Horizon protocol. Client libraries for iOS and Android are coming soon.
Searching for Aliens Using Light Signals
Oh cool, I already sent feedback through the Firebase website but I'll do this as well.
Though is that auditable? Siri's not Free Software AFAIK.
I did it.. So it does work :)

If you use public IP addresses, just use that.. or leapfrog rdp through an ssh tunnel or VPN on a linux instance on the same VPC.

Something like this, to tunnel through a linux instance:

#!/bin/sh
sshuttle -D -r ubuntu@linuxinstance-in-vpc 172.16.X.0/24
xfreerdp +clipboard /rfx /smart-sizing:800 /d:CORP /u:demo /v:172.16.X.X
As a server engineer already having trouble finding a new job, how worried should I be about this?
No, but I think Imagination hinted at that in its new post:

http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/presence-in-virtual-reality-a...
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I use Firefox and hate Chrome. I don't see how this affected by how much you use Chrome
The first number you give is wildly inaccurate. It rises to about 35% in the +/-1 day window around ovulation, with lower probability during a wider weeklong window, and very near 0 for the rest of the menstrual cycle. I'm fairly sure the actual compounded odds of conception from procreative sex at a random point in the woman's cycle is much closer to 1 in 1000.

Also unprotected sex does not necessarily equal procreative sex, which I realize is a somewhat controversial statement, but nonetheless true.
I don't think it's that Dublin is highly dense, it's that the new housing developments are (in comparison to the more spacious, less-planned communities). One of my good friends grew up there, and they lived in a regular neighborhood with normal sized houses and big yards.

The new developments have units stacked high and smashed together. It may not be absolutely dense, but it is certainly more dense than necessary or desired by residents.

Population density isn't a great measure here either, because Dublin has a ton of open/protected/unbuildable space, and even the planned communities have a certain target ratio of public/garden/playground use space.

I think it's more a case of it's the 'burbs, and they'd like it to stay that way.

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?&ty=30&q=dublin%2c%20ca&sat...
People who want to play with it, but don't want to spend 800-2000 dollars on a "real" VR setup?
Instead of paying to get my rights back, I make a point of calling the TSA's bluff. I always refuse the pornoscanner and wait for the in-person pat down. If more people did this, the system would collapse, because - last time I shuffled through some back-of-the-envelope calculations, anyway - even the TSA's monstrously bloated budget comes nowhere close to the cost of hiring enough screeners to pat everyone down individually.

Of course they'd just change their already-arbitrary rules and force us all through the X-ray machines anyway, if we started refusing to use them en masse; but that'd create its own kind of legal push-back, and hopefully something good would come of the resulting mess. In any case, I'm not putting up with their nonsense while there is some means left I can use to resist it.

And I always fly in a kilt, regimental-style. TSA training has improved over the years, but the handful of times I managed to utterly flummox a TSA screener, suddenly confronted with a man wearing a "skirt," went a long way toward making me feel better about the humiliation of the whole exercise.
There's opennms + opentsdb + grafana solutions.
Google? LOL
Datasets on fee-based open access publishing
Nice, thanks fam.
A helmet won't make any difference when riding a bike into a hunk of steel; you will get badly hurt or killed depending on your speed. In that case your only defense is to ride as far away as possible of car doors, don't count on the person getting out the car looking in the mirror before opening the door. Focus your attention on what's happening in front of you, and enjoy your ride.
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