skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, rcs looks like what I want
http://jodypaul.com/SWE/RCSTutorial/RCSTutorial.html

but it is still kinda complex.

I just want to provide redo/undo to any text file independent to any text editor.
AirBNB solution: remain on your apartment's fire escape in a hanging tent
It depends heavily on the quality of the midwife and how well they can recognize complications. If they miss something (which very likely would turn from from a required test in a hospital), by the time the baby has stopped breathing, it might be too late to save them.

"Planned out-of-hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in-hospital birth (3.9 vs. 1.8 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P=0.003; odds ratio after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths per 1000 births; 95% CI, 0.51 to 2.54). The odds for neonatal seizure were higher and the odds for admission to a neonatal intensive care unit lower with planned out-of-hospital births than with planned in-hospital birth." [1]

"Midwife home births had a significantly higher total neonatal mortality risk than deliveries by hospital midwives (1.26 per 1000 births; relative risk [RR], 3.87 vs 0.32 per 1000; P < .001). Midwife home births of 41 weeks or longer (1.84 per 1000; RR, 6.76 vs 0.27 per 1000; P < .001) and midwife home births of women with a first birth (2.19 per 1000; RR, 6.74 vs 0.33 per 1000; P < .001) had significantly higher risks of total neonatal mortality than deliveries by hospital midwives. In midwife home births, neonatal mortality for first births was twice that of subsequent births (2.19 vs 0.96 per 1000; P < .001). Similar results were observed for early neonatal mortality. The excess total neonatal mortality for midwife home births compared with midwife hospital births was 9.32 per 10,000 births, and the excess early neonatal mortality was 7.89 per 10,000 births." [2]

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1501738
[2] http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(14)00275-0/abstract
Yes and no, if the first conditional is moved then the behavior of the function would be different. You could for example specify a fromIndex of -1 and a toIndex of -2. That would result in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of an IllegalArgumentException. Arguably, it doesn't matter but if it's different than it wouldn't necessarily be compatible with other calling code.

Of course that still leaves two other arrangements of the remaining code.
> So what if they turn out to be wrong later?

A peasant picks up a rock and due to a local legend decides it prevents tiger attacks. So, they carry it around for the rest of their lives. Not a big deal right?

Well, what if they have their tiger rock, hippo rock, fire rick, snake rock, cancer rock, martian rock, ... Until they are not willing to leave the house without 150 pounds of rocks in a backpack.

Individually each issue may have been tiny. But, each and every one of them are also a drain. Also, they may get eaten because they falsely assume they are safe when in imminent danger. Or in this case you might assume your fighting when in fact your just making things worse.

So, even if the cost is low and it might be true, avoiding wrong ideas is still valuable.

PS: As to actual direct harm, sure shoot em. But, that's really not what I have been talking about.
You jest, but sometimes that's exactly what you need for short-lived programs¹. Bump alloc and free on exit is super fast if your space complexity is bounded.

¹ http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-over...
I'm confident that Amazon won't kill off Alexa (due to its success). I am not so confident that if this isn't widely successful or even in the future this will be killed off just like Revolv and bricking the device . It is good that Alexa is getting competition though.
They had those at my university. I loved them
Vysor was written in early 2015. VideoEncoder was not available until around December 2015.

But yes, I've switched.
What You Didnt Know About North Korea
Who are you responding to? I can't see where anyone is insisting that everyone else should change.
I wonder if Atlanta has better restaurants or just slow service.
Building a Secure and Manageable Container Software Supply Chain
Most Android phones only have an h264 encoder.
So it's echo/alexa by Google?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X4WHP5E

Is there going to be a patent war?
Amazon Alexa can now but put on your Mac Menu Bar
Until being the only person without one is seen a sign of guilt.

Similar to bodycams for people like teachers or police. People argue they can wear them if they like to protect themselves against accusations, until they are so widely used that opting-out is not longer an option because it's seen a sign you are hiding something.
kinda looks like my wife's essential oil diffuser. it'd fit right in if i wanted one.
This has already happened in SF. You need a permit to install a new garage door on your house, including a review of how well it fits the neighborhood character (in the subjective opinion of the reviewer).

Yes, the real estate developers and construction unions have screamed, for decades. It passed anyway.
Except not really because Vulkan is apparently not very good.
Most travelers are repeat travelers. Exactly what vetting is being done for Pre that can't be done once in person that sticks with the person for 1-2 years and is renewable in a similar way as Pre?
Which is why they did a second test, tested the baby, and did a third test.

More screwed up is the fact that it took weeks to get the correct result, and that innocent people have to live in fear of CPS coming and taking away their newborn.
Most interesting is comparing it to the ISP speed tests:

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/support/speed-test.html

http://speedtest.charter.com/

http://speedtest.xfinity.com/

Fast.com is reporting about 1/2 the speed of these for me (2 seem to use the same Ookla speed test).
Awesome. As someone who has been using it in production for a while now, I can say NSQ rocks.

http://nsq.io/talks_and_slides.html contains interesting links too.
How to Catch a Cat Killer
A small word of caution: I'd strongly recommend against using a huge java heap size. Java GC is stop the world, and a huge java heap size can lead to hour long gc sessions. It's much better to store data in a memory mapped file that is off heap, and access accordingly. Still very fast.
Komodo has remote debugging for pretty much all of its major languages.
You can but garbage collection will kill your performance for very large heaps. You either end up needing to use off heap memory to take it out of scope for garbage collection or using many small JVMs with more reasonable sized heaps.
Covert Propaganda and Molding the Mass Mind [pdf]
Doesn't sonos already have integration with spotify? Or is that only available if you're paying for spotify?
You say that like its a bad thing.
I busted my back yesterday at the gym with improper form on a dead lift.
If I had some kind of assistant watching me to correct my form then I would not be eating pain killers now trying to get an appointment to see a doctor all while having tingling sensations in my feet.
But can anyone extract an algorithm from the paper? :)
It is probably both.

I'm a Comcast customer. When I run speedtest & tcpdump the traffic, i'm nearly always talking to something .comcast.net, and it is just a few hops away via traceroute.

When I use fast.com, I'm talking to various ix.nflxvideo.net hosts, all at least 4 to 6 hops farther away.

The amusing thing is that I get better speed with the fast,com (140Mb/s) than with speedtest (133Mb/s).
The easiest way for the government to acquire biometrics on every citizen is to make non pre-check so painful that people willingly go the pre-check route. What's next? Don't want to wait 5 hours at the DMV for a license? Just let us inject this little tracking chip in your neck.
They sell the ability to use your data, not to access/see/download it. I can use all the data for ad targeting, but in no way I can actually see it.

Advertisers buy the attention, Publishers sell it. Google is the intermediary that connects the right advertiser to the right publishers, and charges x%.
Hey Journalists, here's a free headline to spin this the other direction: Microsoft Drops Feature Phones to Focus Renewed Energy Towards Windows Mobile.

Microsoft dropped a (albeit semi-profitable) division that had nothing to do core competencies nor with what Microsoft is actually interested in in the the mobile space. This should be cause for celebration for Windows Mobile.
Everything in the mind is biologically mediated. That doesn't make every mind problem a disease.
What does "it wasn't exactly optional either" mean? For whatever it's worth, Mixology course sounds terrible even as someone who partakes in alcohol.

"Other industries have moved on from this sort of model"

Source? I've worked for a few corps outside of strict tech focus and that was not my experience.

What's the end-goal of this anyways? You can't moderate social interactions, so if your company stops doing alcohol-related events, your teams are almost certainly still going to go to happy hours. I get that this would be a problem if every corporate event solely revolved around getting rip-roaringly drunk, and that would be needlessly exclusionary, but I also doubt that's the reality outside of some really fringe cases. Although maybe that is how it really goes down, and I've just had a sheltered workplace experience
I'm not comfortable with this either, but I recognize it's hypocritical-- after all, smartphones have microphones AND camera and are internet-connected running proprietary software.
Having recently moved to the Bay Area in the last year from Texas, I've been observing the NIMBYs and I've determined that it's very nuanced issue.

I live in Dublin, CA, one of the far East Bay suburbs that is actually constructing tons of highly dense, brand new housing. And I've closely observed long time residents and neighbors debate and challenge the developers putting in this housing.

There are the obviously impractical folks, complaining about the aesthetics of highly dense townhomes/apartments and how they "ruin the hillside" with their "cookie-cutter" looks. But this is a relatively small group making a fuss. They're an easy target for the media.

But there are those with practical concerns. Increases in burglaries and auto theft because thieves target newly constructed communities first due to easy pickings [1]. Schools that become so overcrowded that kids are being taught in mobiles because the schools can't build fast enough to accommodate the growth [2]. Traffic that comes to a standstill because the two lane roads can't be expanded fast enough and toll roads become the only rapidly deployable option [3]. Mass Transit that becomes standing room only due to the influx of new residents [4].

There are solutions to these problems (more police, more schools, more road construction), but these services are often not financed by the housing development authorities. Recent attempts to get the developers to shoulder more of this cost is often the next fight these communities face. Some of these things take a decade or more to resolve.

Given all of this, it's understandable why some just go the easiest route possible and decide to block all new development. I'm not saying it's right, but hopefully this gives you a bit more context. It's not just long time residents fighting change for no reason.

* [1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04/07/dublin-residents...

* [2] http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_28252721/dublin-grap...

* [3] http://abc7news.com/traffic/new-i-580-express-lanes-now-open...

* [4] http://www.ktvu.com/news/100269984-story
There is a large difference between being a PRISM partner( broad hoovering of all data )and a party to a narrowly-scoped warrant or subpoena, as Amazon would be.

Meyer would do well to cite the specific statute that makes noncompliance into a charge of treason. Otherwise she's clearly lying to spin the actions of Yahoo for PR points.
>This is why it's in the hands of airports to push for any particular change. They're not running for office.

They rely on federal funding for new infrastructure, which brings more air traffic, which brings more gate fees, which results in more money for those running the airport.
Our best practices are killing mobile web performance
The Mercedes thing is interesting. I hadn't been paying attention to it until I began to notice a pattern -- whenever somebody in my town was driving as if the rules of the road and basic humanity did not apply, the vehicle was usually a Mercedes. I've been wondering about it ever since. There are definitely benign Mercedes drivers on the road, but the brand seems to attract more than an ordinary proportion of jerks. (This is the kind of thing one notices a lot as a cyclist, and Mercedes owners are responsible for more than their fair share of near misses with me.) I looked for the same pattern with other luxury vehicles, but it doesn't seem to apply to BMW, Audi, Porche, or Maserati. Since nobody in my social circle owns a luxury vehicle, I remain intensely curious about who, exactly, is driving these things. Does it have something to do with being the kind of person who is willing to buy a vehicle with ho-hum performance, expensive repair bills, and poor fuel efficiency? Have you got a link for the "language of cars" you're talking about?
Wow. Is this a home consumer connection? What is the cost?
In my experience working in the Bay Area, this is hardly limited to startups. I worked at over a dozen places if not more, from startups to the giant technology companies, and all but one had massive amounts of alcohol on premises and drank in the office. I've been offered drink in interviews that to me said implicitly: either drink this or you're definitely not getting the job. I've seen coworkers leave work drunk and drive. I've had friends who are recovering from cancer and shouldn't be drinking admit to me that they felt pressured.

It's not an issue of whether there is a drinking problem, but how big is the drinking problem? In my experience, it's everywhere, at least in the Bay Area. I'm not sure about other areas, but I doubt they're much different. It's hardly a wonder that frat culture and brogrammers exist with this amount of drinking, nor is it a wonder that so many things are built to sub par standards, often by sub par people.

It really wouldn't be that big of a deal if people were mature and tolerant of others who don't drink, not like the asshole bosses described in the article. There is a wide variety of factors why one might not drink, many of which one may not want to share: alcoholism, religion, health, doesn't like the taste, doesn't want to get retarded, needs to drive after, still needs to do work (yes this comes up often), etc. Especially for recovering alcoholics, no job is worth drinking over. Stupid assholes in charge, don't understand that and then they wonder why their company is failing when they're doing their best to keep away qualified workers.
I'm also skeptical. This is a problem where it's fairly easy to get 80% there but nearly impossible to get 100% there. Most speech recognition apps have trouble with thick accents. From there, imagine stumbling speech or people who change their thoughts in the middle of a sentence. Then there's the lag between input and output - you often can't translate a phrase or sentence until you know the whole thing and then you're adding computer computation time onto it.

I think this type of technology is inevitable, but I think we're still 50 years away from it being ubiquitous.
Already full for me: "Heroku SSL Beta is full, please try again later."
Unless you use Amazon video, music, or AWS.
It's blocked in Canada.

https://i.imgur.com/TsItIkD.png
If this (the concept/reasons behind fast.com) gets promoted correctly to (non-techie) consumers, then this could serve to get a conversation going at least as it pertains to consumer-centric concerns such as net neutrality, non-fraud business tactics (Dear ISP, I pay you X money so I expect Y level of service), etc. Sure, net neutrality and fraud are not new topics...but within the technology space, they're often difficult for consumers to wrap their brain around, and of course not in the best position to call out their providers (whenever bad behavior occurs). Simple demonstrations like this help to arm and inform the regular Joe/Jane to make better decisions related to how to spend their hard-earned money.

Although I'll admit that I'm a biased fan of netflix, kudos to them for doing this!
I'm not convinced that is entirely true.
Thanks, I don't mean to pick on your comment specifically, but enough people repeat that idea that I wanted to point it out.
>Why doesn't netflix just try to by-pass ISPs by rolling out their own service?

Because it's hugely expensive. Fios cost Verizon ~30 billion dollars and it only covers a fraction of the USA and large parts of it are already outdated.
They have the money. Could end up being very profitable down the line.
The counterpoint is that it's still true if I modify "startup culture" to "culture". It may be more in-your-face when it's about colleagues, but drinking-as-socialization is an American (and European) pattern, not a startup one.

It goes for college parties, it goes for dinner with clients at big companies, it goes for 4th of July barbecues, and it goes for fancy Sonoma Valley wine tastings. At a certain point it feels like pretense to blame it on startup culture - startup culture is largely an intensified, sped-up version of everyday culture, and everyday culture is plenty focused on drinking.
That doesn't mean that they don't collect that information, however. They collect it, and then they use it to target ads at you.

A simple, plausible way this might invade your privacy in a meaningful way is that your home conversations will start being factored into the ads that your shown. Knowing this about Google, I can infer based on the ads shown to you, to some extent, what you are talking about in private.

Granted, the information is incomplete, and it is a noisy signal, but it is a signal nonetheless.
> he uses many real-world cultures as sources for his world building

Yup, like Kwisatz Haderach which is in Hebrew.
The 2 reasons Tesla will be Number 1
"preview of the caller" -- you mean, you get a picture or video before they answer?

NO.

Edit: Apparently this is preview of the caller, not preview of the called. I'm OK with that.
All AWS accounts have a "limits" which have the default limits as to how many instances that you could launch in that region.

The reason is so if you fuck up a scaling script for example you can't launch 1000 machines and take all the capacity and then bitch that you won't pay for it.

It's a stop gap.

However, aside from the hard limit of 100 S3 buckets, all other limits are configurable at the request of your AWS rep
Voice controlled computer interactivity doesn't appeal to me, and double unappealing is the skynet factor to the whole thing.

Home automation doesn't need nor should it require signing over your privacy.
Roughly, usually when simulating a fluid you have to consider the interior. Think of this as roughly scaling cubically in three dimensions. In this paper, they make some simplifying assumptions about the internal dynamics of a fluid that allows them to simulate with only a representation of the surface, which is lower dimensional and which will perform better (quadratic scaling under mesh refinement).
Komodo does not use any Java what so ever. The only traces of Java you could find is syntax highlighting support and in the name of JavaScript. We're not a Java IDE.

It does not have native Puppet integration at the moment. You could add your vote here: https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoEdit/issues/803
>MW just asks, why assume these other states stop existing when you observe them?

Do the others really assume that? Don't they still account for quantum erasure?
I'm curious about this AWS feature mentioned: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazo...

We've experiemnted with something similar on Google Cloud, where an instance that is considered dead has its IP address and persistent disks taken away, then attached to another (live or just created instance). It's hard to say whether this can recover from all failures however without having experienced them or even work better than what Google claims it already does (moving around failing servers from hardware to hardware). Anyone with practical experience in this type of recovery where you don't duplicate your resource requirements?
Access to my attention, you say?

And now they want to put a speaker and a microphone under their control in my home, you say?

Yeah, let's stop this nonsense.
Just like your phone and computer, which you use almost all day and have a microphone, internet connection, and backdoors.
Correct: it does have a spotify integration, but it is only available for paying spotify customers.
Does no one you know use an android phone?
There is knowledge as in what someone knows, then there is knowledge as in what is known to be true. The internet has an abundance of both. And there is a clear intellectual divide between those that can and cannot distinguish these two.

For the most part, what we know says more about us, and the truth value requires proper validation. What is known, on the other hand, is what has already been properly validated. It's the objective evidence and insights that have scientific integrity. Studying the subjective knowledge of masses leads not to any advancement of facts, but to anthropology.

Today, if I say something racist it just paints me a racist. Yet there are those who still take the words of random people, detach them from the speaker, and attempt to validate them themselves with gut and instinct. Or worse yet, take common sentiment and intent as validation. To them, it's about kinship and common sense, about right and wrong, though for the most part they don't know what the hell they're talking about because they are incapable of proper validation.

These two forms of intellect are incompatible. Ultimately, all it boils down to is knowing that your gut cannot recognize the truth.
Yes, but that's not what the person I was responding to said. They said the NSA would record every sound in the house, which would require a detectable amount of bandwidth even at low bitrates.

The hotword detection (OK Google/Hey Siri/Alexa) currently happens on the device - it would be terribly inefficient to do that in the cloud. If a security researcher notices their Google Home is transmitting significant amounts of data without them using the "OK Google" prompt, that would raise eyebrows.
Only the whoishiring account is allowed to make posts like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Yeah so you better know exactly why you want these and how to use them
Or Netflix has a global index on the streaming speed for all movies, per ISP: https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com
Behind the Hashtag: PlutoFlyBy
i think you're really wrong about this one. people are tired of tying their google accounts to additional services. they really did need a fresh start in messaging
Is that true even for 4K content (of which there is little, but still)?
They get more data, same with free (80% or whatever is unmonetized) youtube uploads.
Could you use a less significant line as your example?
Situations like this intrigue me, where the ethical thing to do is not the moral thing. Morally, it's reprehensible that a man as smart and distinguished as Boies could make an argument like that with a straight face, but, ethically, he's doing exactly what he should do as an attorney for his client. And he can can use that ability for good as well as evil, as evidenced in his work for the Justice Department in the Microsoft anti-trust trial. It's perverse and gross, and he makes more money in a year doing that than I'll make in my lifetime.