skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "OCR of short sentences from invoices or similar and fluid speech recognition of often grammatically incorrect sentences are problems of a very different magnitude. OCR is easy in comparison of actually spoken speech recognition -- especially if it is supposed to run in real time"

OCR isn't comparable to speech recognition. Period. The problem needs to be broken into two parts: 1) speech recognition, 2) translation. I was addressing those parts separately. However you're right that translating natural spoken language, which is full of grammatical errors and other nuances, would be a greater challenge than short passages of official documents.

> "and they simply suck for any language than english. its easier to talk to my devices in english than in german. and this is despite my poor pronunciations"

I'll have to take your word for it. But suffice to say there are several competing speech recognition engines, some better than others. So it might be that your devices use an engine that's poor at recognising German. Although equally you might be using one of the better engines. Hard to say from this high level overview. However the fact that they do work against your pronunciation of English is promising as it at least demonstrates how well these engines can cope with different accents - which is one of the hardest stumbling blocks in building speech recognition.

> "not at that size. the power cell would have to be tiny"

Indeed but we've already seen tiny power cells in watches and other modern gadgets. Given the earpiece only really needs a speaker, bluetooth receiver, some kind of DAC, and a battery; half the device could be the battery.

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting this thing would have a great battery life though. But I still wouldn't be surprised if lasts a few hours - which is still comparable to some smart phones (sadly).

> "which would mean that they'd need bluetooth for permanent connectivity. this would drain the battery even more."

I did say it would need bluetooth. But realistically bluetooth doesn't suck that much power. The speaker would easily be a heavier power draw.

To summarise: there are obviously going to be difficulties - clear technical challenges - in build this kind of device. But I do think the technology is now at a stage were we can at least prototype something. And that was the crux of argument. The earpiece might not be a perfect gadget, but those gadgets who are first to market are seldom perfect.
Humanity has little experience with the speed of language evolution in presence of audiovisual recording technology. The Quran did not prevent Arabic dialects from diverging, but it sure slowed down evolution compared to other languages that did not have their own religious texts or got translations only much later. I think it is quite reasonable to expect an even lower amount of change with a vast, well studied corpus of audiovisual material.

(My personal illusion breaker was thermal management of the off-screen survivors: I usually would not dare to nitpick on such a thing, but when the topic has been elaborated so deeply for the ark-dwellers, I just can't switch back to the default mode of happy ignorance that quickly, in the same book)
Do you really want to be "more affordable"?

Personally I want to do high-quality work for people who know what it's worth...
"A Large Scale Test of the Effect of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... , Korndörfer et al 2015:

"Does being from a higher social class lead a person to engage in more or less prosocial behavior? Psychological research has recently provided support for a negative effect of social class on prosocial behavior. However, research outside the field of psychology has mainly found evidence for positive or u-shaped relations. In the present research, we therefore thoroughly examined the effect of social class on prosocial behavior. Moreover, we analyzed whether this effect was moderated by the kind of observed prosocial behavior, the observed country, and the measure of social class. Across eight studies with large and representative international samples, we predominantly found positive effects of social class on prosociality: Higher class individuals were more likely to make a charitable donation and contribute a higher percentage of their family income to charity (32,090 ≥ N ≥ 3,957; Studies 1–3), were more likely to volunteer (37,136 ≥N ≥ 3,964; Studies 4–6), were more helpful (N = 3,902; Study 7), and were more trusting and trustworthy in an economic game when interacting with a stranger (N = 1,421; Study 8) than lower social class individuals. Although the effects of social class varied somewhat across the kinds of prosocial behavior, countries, and measures of social class, under no condition did we find the negative effect that would have been expected on the basis of previous results reported in the psychological literature. Possible explanations for this divergence and implications are discussed."
1. GA is not limited to the rich. Once you're at about the median US income (or 1/3 of what an SV developer makes, give or take), it is within reach. Slightly more than that and it's starts approaching "affordable," especially as a hobby and not a means of transportation.

2. Money buys you things. By definition people with more money will not be burdened by the same things as those with less.
So is HN turning into a copy/paste of Reddit comment threads now?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/4jr1td/the_tsa_...
Copyright requires some creativity ( http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/499/340.html ):

"Original, as the term is used in copyright, means only that the work was independently created by the author (as opposed to copied from other works), and that it possesses at least some minimal degree of creativity. ... To be sure, the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice. The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily, as they possess some creative spark, 'no matter how crude, humble or obvious' it might be. ... Originality does not signify novelty; a work may be original even though it closely resembles other works, so long as the similarity is fortuitous, not the result of copying."
Finally, an instance made for Java!
Serious question: what does Exchange provide that you don't get out of open protocols for calendars, address book, and IMAP mail?

I have used Exchange and didn't see any advantage at all. Perhaps I missed something.
117M LinkedIn emails and passwords from a 2012 hack just got posted onlin
Oh, definitely agree, I just can't stand him at all and have to express it at all times. Drake thinking he could rap on June 27 is borderline blasphemous and if Pimp C didn't want to do Big Pimpin' with Jay-Z, there's zero chance he would be associated with Drake.

I haven't really kept up with rap in a few years so I'll take your word for it but yeah I haven't heard of anyone really either.
This tool exists exactly to highlight cases like yours.

Sounds like your ISP has over-subscribed its connection to whatever IX is serving this to you, and that they're hosting speedtest locally in their network.
Who cares?
We are talking about Java, were is perfectly fine to do "*check()" methods that signals errors through exceptions.
Except, as Bruce Schneier notes, there were zero 9-11 level attacks on the US prior to 9-11 as well. 9-11 was a statistical fluke.
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Sure, but the increased security requirements and the nationalization in the TSA were two different things that were done together; the former could have been done separately -- permanently increased security requirements were adopted after the hijacking sprees of the 1960s and 1970s, and again -- along with some additional temporary measures that were later lifted -- at the beginning of the 1990s justified by perceived threat from Iraq in the run-up to and during the 1991 Iraq War; those were politically likely to be done after a major successful terrorist attack in the US whether or not the functional was nationalized. And, as the ones which went previously, it would have created more security jobs.

The nationalization of the function in the TSA, though, had nothing to do with jobs, and everything to do with liability.
Add some bitcoin mining with the power you still have afterwards
To answer a question that should have been in the FAQ, there are 730 hours in a month. So you can run one app 24/7 under the new scheme, plus have some left over for experimentation.
Speaking of trippy album art...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_%26_Pixel
shrugs I still like to code in C++. Beats having to use JS ;)
I wasn't very clear, but what is a fake bomb? some timer taped to a couple circuits like clockboy and with no explosive residue? Or a real bomb with the detonator removed but with a fake detonator?

How realistic the bomb was would radically change the test.
It becomes a problem when it's used for profiling, such as "Don't hire that person, there's a 65% chance they'll be an alcoholic" or "send a drone to kill that person, there's an 80% chance they're a terrorist"
Great book on similar topic: "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics"

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

Provides compelling case that all politicians tend toward dictatorship with the difference in how fully these tendencies are realized just being in the size of the coalition they have to appease, reward, or bully. With stereotypical absolute dictators this easy to see. On the other end of the spectrum, it is more shrouded. American democracy is theoretically based on a maximum sized coalition equaling roughly the entire population. In practice, the leaders are beholden to and have to influence a much smaller coalition to wield power. Something like the current Sanders/Clinton popular vote vs inner circle super delegate issue demonstrates this pretty well. Fascinating read.
To protect those on the ground, part of the option could be acknowledging that the military can take out your plane if it's hijacked.
No, I think it depends on the mind of the person. But yes, you are more expose by corruption with power and money.
> I never quite understood why unique_ptr and move semantics...

It's not those types, in particular, it's because C++11 allows you move your ownership model into the type system. And then, and this might sound familiar, writing code cognizant and explicit in its ownership semantics leads to safer, cleaner code.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183392
Consider that the one with a problem might be you if you can't even have some champagne.
Multispectral Drone
BigPanda gets bigger bank account, adds partnership
Good!

Or perhaps it would result in only the companies that need that data actually holding it, and doing so with care. I would love to see a big nasty liability poison pill attached to PII
Those who say that the TSA is just a jobs program are missing the point. The TSA is a constant reminder of government presence and the security state, it's effectiveness at security or a jobs program is a minor concern compared to its value as a symbol. And of course, its growing, spreading its presence to highways, rail, and other forms of public transit.
Not surprisingly since this is downloading Netflix content, it doesn't work when I'm connected through Private Internet Access VPN.
> How about recognizing that 9/11 was a troll, and we fell for it? The attackers hated the U.S.'s idea of freedom, but they were too powerless to take away our freedom. So they figured out a clever way to make us take away our own freedom ourselves. And yep, we did exactly that.

They didn't attack us because they "hate our freedom". Sure, they don't like western lifestyles or values, but that's not the primary reason we're enemies. Al-queda intends to establish a caliphate in the Muslim world, and part of that involves attacking allies of the countries that get in the way of that.

Please stop repeating this falsehood. The TSA is horrible for our freedom and completely ineffective at protecting our safety, but we can't evaluate how to deal with these issues if we subscribe to a flawed model of why terrorism is.
The best way is to share your idea or prototype. In what it consists in?
Riskstream calls for ASI Symposium
Artificial Super Intelligence is either a threat to humanity or a savior. Riskstream is proposing an ASI symposium to discuss the ethics, designs and to build a roadmap from AGI to ASI in an open collaborative environment. Will the big AI players join and share?
Think of it this way:

I pledge not to fly again unless there is a medical or family reason to do so, until the TSA is no longer at the airports I need to use.

No more vacations, no more business trips... that pledge (if made by enough people) would hit airlines in their pocketbook rather quickly, and the TSA would be show the exit.
That's very interesting. Can you contrast that with other experiences? Or maybe elaborate more on how this worked? Potential pitfalls?

I'm running an Amsterdam-based company that currently is fully focused on helping local twenty-somethings get going as programmers, because even here in Holland it can be slim pickings for smart, driven people.

But long-term I'm more interested in working with people who often have it even worse, just because of geography, which seems arbitrary and unfair to me. My eyes are currently on the Southern nations - Greece, Albania, Spain, etc., but mostly because it's generally less of a headache what with the EU and my personal knowledge of some of their cultures. Ultimately I don't really care who I work with, I just want to channel some of the money we have here to people who don't have it.
AWS pricing is a bit ridiculous. $100,000 can buy some much hardware even while taking account of the additional costs like electricity and hardware failures.
I've heard of systems like these, which would essentially store passwords as n-length strings, and upon registration/verification simply truncate the given string to n characters.
I have 6809 code running under FLEX09, in my 6809 emulator, running under my XP VM, on my OS X machine. Games, diary software, editor I use to read my (really) old snail-mail records. Still works fine. This stuff is circa the late 1970's, early 1980s. I have paper tape and punch cards carrying my software from previous systems, but it's not actually in use, so... :) Lots of people are using my Flex/6809 emulator, REFLEX, which was first released in 1985 (for the Amiga) and later ported to Windows. It's still getting downloads today, and it still works fine.
If you are interested in VDI without the complexity that comes with AWS check us out at https://www.paperspace.com (YCW15)

a few key differences:

- we can stream directly to a web browser without any plugins

- you can fire up a new machine in just a few minutes

- all of our machines have GPUs that make the experience feel great (we work with architects, engineers, and others that need a fluid desktop experience)

- we are cheaper (starting at $15/month) and our pricing is predictable

[disclaimer: I'm one of the founders]
Probably to find your first user. Get feedback from them on your prototype.
Startups aren't fungible so more info on your startup would help.
Additionally there is a wealth of resources on the Internet: some of my favorites:

How to Start a Startup: startupclass.samaltman.com Watch the whole series, or you might regret it

Lean Startup: http://theleanstartup.com/ Get this book. If you're not a reader become one. Don't skim it; read it.

Founder's Dillemma: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundat... Read the whole book before you go get married to a cofounder
Private jet travel is probably _not_ within reach for the average SV developer.
This highlights the conflict of interest that cable ISPs have. If they provide you good internet service, by either
allowing embedded Netflix (and Google, Amazon, etc) cache appliances into their network, or had add more downstream bandwidth, then you might have cut the cord. However, by giving you crappy internet service, they have retained you as a cable customer.

Lovely.
Skills do require training, but isn't it a mistake to discount "talent" as something that doesn't exist?

Certainly some people are born with much higher and lower levels of intelligence which is the result of genetics and not environment or training. It is generally accepted that 75% of intelligence is inherited and not the result of environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Talent can be just another word for intelligence, and therefore can play a large role in whether someone is a good programmer, chess player, or many other disciplines. That doesn't mean that someone with higher intelligence/talent doesn't need to train, it means that given an amount of training, someone with significantly higher in intelligence is going to perform better in many areas than someone with lower intelligence.
Data Visualization with ggplot2 Cheat Sheet (2015) [pdf]
730mpbs to fast.com while only 700mbps on speedtest.net (with 853mbps up).
That's far from guaranteed to work. And are you going to be paying for the F-16s on hot standby around the country?
I think the more pertinent question from the example given is: "Did I work for colossal douchebags?"
I designed and wrote a lot of BFD in 1989-1991, and then the binutils that use it like nm, objdump (which was actually written as a way to debug BFD, but turned out to valuable in it own way), strip etc as well as some changes to the crt0 emitted by gcc. I started working on BFD before we hired anyone at Cygnus.
So we're judging ideas on their novelty rather than applicability now? Something that appears on reedit can't be good enough for HN?
The averaged length is likely to be close to the length of the median Chinese person's nose.

It would not in any way be accurate in terms of judging the fact that is the length of the Emperor's nose, but it would be the best possible guess China could possibly make based on the information then available to it.

You could as easily ask America how many grams of cocaine George W. Bush used while avoiding overseas military operations. And if you can ask that, you can also ask whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would make a better U.S. President.

You don't vote on facts. You vote on opinions. And if you want to know "America's opinion", more responses will yield more accurate results.
In the university I graduated, the professor definitely will mark plagiarism and give an F, unless a strict rule of sourcing followed. Most openjdk source has the first line a usual header. Maybe I am a late student of JDK. or may be there the court may prevail an exception. Finally you have to consider yourself what do we mean to contribute to open source?
Likely because the TSA issue is something they expect to see infecting the train transport system if it existed and that the car is figuratively and literally a symbol of freedom and the ability to escape the rules of others in the American culture. (Source: I live here.)
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I'd bet this is a move to make the ISPs that are throttling them look bad. If people start to use it to check their speeds and they are downloading Netflix content from Netflix and the ISP is throttling, it will look slower than it is and more people will likely complain.

I like it. It's suitably evil!
Many of Stephenson's books have some hint of Purpose to them. Either the characters are working towards their own purpose a la Avi and HEAP + Crypt or are being guided by people with a purpose like Fraa Erasmas in Anathem or Hacksworth in Diamond Age.
Google I/O 2016 – Keynote 360 – livestream
The author states upfront that she is an alcoholic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723190
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The same guy wrote the code in both places. Therefore he did come up with it "organically".
Why not? Xor it with a random constant if it's sensitive to zeros. But you aren't going to get any more entropy out of it than any other method.
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=rangeCheck+fromIn...

Indeed, quite a lot, but I dont think that was the point.
As a reference the archive of all Reddit comments from October 2007 to May 2015 is around 1 terabyte uncompressed.

You could do exhaustive analysis on that dataset fully in memory.
I enjoyed thinking about why language might not change as much in the next 5000 years as it has in the past 1000. For one thing, widespread literacy and a relatively stable canon of literature should keep successive generations mutually intelligible. In the case of the novel's space society, I find it at least plausible that media archives from earth and thousands of hours of The Saga being viewed by all educated humans would freeze the spoken language in its current state.
Private jets are typically much smaller and have a correspondingly lower potential for mayhem. Yes, there's overlap, there are small airliners and some big private jets, but overall the risk is different, so there's no reason to expect the security measures to be the same.
Let's say I have a machine that runs one cron job. It looks for work, writes a few files if it finds some. Over a three day holiday weekend, no work is queued so the machine hardly does anything. And it's on a vlan so there's little to no broadcast traffic hitting it.

Tuesday morning I ssh into the box. How much high quality entropy do you think I got from the nearly deterministic network and disc traffic on this machine? Maybe a few bits.

What I'm hoping comes of this is that we can find a better set of inputs for several/random, and that we can use more conservative estimates of entropy from the sources that are already used. Also I hope we find a way to treat intel's hardware RNG as a low quality input (currently it's a no quality input.)
When I click the link it loads and scrolls me all the way to the bottom of the article... very annoying.
Preliminary results of studies about Body-Worn Cameras for police
I was running an AWS spot instance for 3D rendering/modeling for a while, using one of their GPU instances. It's my only Windows based workload, and I only do it occasionally, there aren't powerful enough laptop GPU's - so it was a decent option. The remote connection wasn't a problem, but it was a pain spinning the spot instance up and down.

In the end I just built a PC with a GTX970 at home instead which I use with Splashtop remotely now. I also setup a Belkin Wemo switch if I need to reboot it remotely.
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Champagne at 9:30am? It makes my mind foggy and I wouldn't get any work done for the rest of the day.
Like amazon we can only offer Windows 7/2008 as part of our licensing. We will offer Windows 10/2016 as soon as it becomes possible to do so. In the meantime, we offer a BYOL option that allows you to run whatever you want on our cloud
Oh man this is awesome. I can't wait till people start calling thier ISPs claiming they aren't getting the speeds they pay for, only for the poor agent to have to explain how peering agreements work.
Poulsen is one of the few journalist's names I recognize, and while I'm not entirely positive about Wired, I've liked what he's written for them.
> effectively skim off of the top of the market

The problem with this point of view is that it implies they are just taking, and not providing. HFT provides a more accurate market price by providing liquidity at small price differences. Whether what they provide justifies their cost is another question though.