skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux uses a similar thing: functions that return pointers and that can fail typically return the negated error code cast directly into a pointer: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/err.h#L23
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>Someone invents a service that does that. Slowly ads take over.

The problem really is that no one wants to pay for services, or no one is willing to try charging for their services. Ads are the "safe" option, but it will also make your users leave in the long run.

I was pretty baffled when a publisher wrote that they would rather make money from ads on their site, than make money from people buying a subscription. Service like Twitter, Snapchat and what not seems to be the same way, there's no desire to try anything but ads.

It is still my belief that at some point some large seller of physical goods will announce that they're pull their online ads due to lack of profitability. After that the entire online media business will be forced to charge their users, and we'll all be better off. Maybe it's just wishful thinking.
I agree, just with the caveat that .NET returned back to its roots.

The original implementation was based on COM, the idea to implement CLR instead came afterwards.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net...

So, WinRT is nothing more than COM+ Runtime brought back to life, with some of the lessons learned in all those CLR years.
It's the side effect of running a very learn architecture. It also has a side effect of not being able to secretly subpoena your chat history after the fact too. Now with E2E encryption they can't even do that easily.
Core charges in two ways: power connector that attaches to the 3.5mm headphone jack, or via the attachable plate that allows wireless charging. Thus, you'll probably be able to attach a small external battery pack to make it run all day.

That said, I'm more interested in figuring out how to get offline speech recognition running on Core with something like PocketSphinx and only relying on the 3g connection when needed.

All this has got me thinking about what the smallest Android boards/devices out there are and how I could get a Raspberry Pi Zero connected to a cellular network. Need to do more research on this.
Matrix will hit exactly the same problem in a few years. The solution is certainly not to restart with a clean slate every few years and fucks to you if you wanted compatibility. That's Google's approach, where every few years they trash an old service and - maybe - replace it with a new one that works in a different way.

There's no simple answers to this. I can tell you it's absolutely not a protocol issue - the protocol issues are ensuring graceful degradation remains possible during advances, which XMPP does well - but a political one. Profile specifications, which indicate groups of XEPs which the community expects to be supported, are part of this. Certification might also need to happen. Maybe monetary awards, even.

One of the biggest things currently driving server implementors to get the XEP support, and server maintainers to deploy it, though, is folk like inputmice driving the market with Conversations.
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There was an interesting Intelligence Squared US on Affirmative Action

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1...

The side arguing against affirmative action basically claimed they're for the idea of fixing the inequalities but that affirmative action with colleges is actually a net negative. In other words it's not making things more equal it's making them worse.

Their argument was basically that most kids inserted into top schools by affirmative action fail because they aren't at the level of the other students. Because they fail they don't become the things we want them to be come (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc) and so the circle of inequality continues.

Where as if instead they went to a school with more students at the same level they'd more likely graduate, get the good jobs, and their kids would then make it to the high end schools. A win-win.

I don't know if it's true or not. They claimed to have lots of studies to back them up. But regardless it was interesting food for thought.

I'd love to have a more diverse workplace both in race and sex. I don't know the best way to get there.
According to https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation they are using duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net to make these calls.

That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead?

Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?
I'm not saying that you are misguided or not educated enough.

I have a problem with the principle of disregarding someone's express will based on a claim that he or she is manipulated and unable to speak for themselves.

That is dangerous for a free, democratic society based on the rule of law. If you disagree with someone about what is good for them, you need to convince them, not ignore their will.

And that has nothing to do with the extent to which I agree or disagree with your opinions on the subject of media contracts. We may well agree on a lot more than you seem to think.
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For scientific workloads, double precision is a must have. The 7 digits of FP32 is not enough. In my lab, we haven't updated our Kepler based GPU since 2013 for this reason.
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Well, look at it this way: The AI is really not so different from us in intelligence (although presently dumber), but it's different in motivation. It's has only one single "desire", namely to understand you and write music that connects with you. It's not trying to fool you, it's trying to understand the human experience itself, and tell back to you what it is seeing.

Isn't it OK to let ourselves be moved by its love letters to humanity?

Every Monday, there are hundreds of tweets from Spotify users who declare that the Discover Weekly algorithm understands them better than anyone, that they want to marry it etc. (This is a remarkable testament to neural network AIs. Not many people want to marry Netflix or Amazon's recommender system, to put it like that!)

Of course that only finds music for you, it doesn't create it from scratch. But given the immense size of the library it searches through, that's impressive enough that many really get the feeling that it knows you, understands you. I hope generative algorithms will be that good one day, and I won't waste time worrying that it's fake once they are.
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Which this tool doesn't integrate with...? Ultimately, that's always the problem with these "get-started-quickly" tools.
They made a mediocre (but reasonably watchable) film about this called "Devil's Pass" (or "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" in some regions) - I won't spoil it for you, but their possible solution made "Yeti" look quite mundane.
To clarify: "about this" makes it sound like the film was a documentary. It really, really wasn't.
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Really, I don't understand this holywar.
I just put .editorconfig for each project I'm working on and that's all.
Visually, I'm feeling comfortable with tabs, 2 spaces and 4 spaces width itendation.
Linux is free-as-in-speech software. That means I could clone it in a week and sell a competing product when, say Ubuntu, starts to implode. Free-as-in-beer software doesn't have that.
They returned to the original design of .NET.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net...

Using COM and AOT compilation, instead of the CLR and JIT.

That is why Windows 8 eventually introduced the WinRT, which is basically the COM+ Runtime of Ext-VOS, but using .NET metadata instead of COM type libraries.

The C++/CLI syntax was re-purposed for C++/CX and Windows Runtime Library became the ATL replacement for this new improved COM.

.NET got improved AOT compilation story instead of NGEN, and COW was improved so that .NET could have a good story for writing and consuming WinRT components.

EDIT: It isn't COW, rather RCW and CCW.
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It's from the priority date, which was Aug 29, 1986 making this expired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent_in_the_United_S...
you mean lossy?
Do a FOIA request for the staff directory?
Vista 64 was preinstalled on the family computer (HP Pavilion m9458fr bought in july 2009 for 416€ on eBay hp_marketplace_fr). I have installed linux on a second partition like for my previous computers, but on my previous computers, I was using windows 99% of the time. With Vista 64, I have been unable to find drivers for my expensive scanner, nor for my printer. This was so much annoyance that we (my wife and me) were using linux more often than windows.

After a couple of months, we made the complete switch (deinstall the email client on windows and create more gmail accounts).

Now, I boot on windows less than once per year. I have to thank the driver problems of vista 64 (and the other minor defects of Vista 64) for making this migration possible (it is difficult to leave a system we are used to).

My only problem now is that I would like to buy a new computer and I am worried about the full support of all my future hardware.
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> It is interesting that 15 years later, with Ogg Vorbis not only providing better audio quality at a given bitrate, and Opus apparently even better, MP3 is still abundant.

MP3 requires far less memory to decode than Ogg Vorbis does. This was a big deal at the time as RAM cells added cost to the MP3 decoders.

Now, with CELT (which later became the Opus codec) this was not true. But it took a long time to get there.
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That kind of thinking is caused by living in a system where so many questionable lawsuits are brought before a court that you get used to the idea that what ultimately matters is the quality of each party's legal team. What you are forgetting is that there are many cases where the facts and the law unambiguously favours one of the parties. And in those cases, no amount lawyering up will matter, because judges are not as a rule incompetent. In a system where fewer questionable lawsuits are brought to begin with, the clear cut cases will become more visible, verdicts will be less controversial, and people's faith in the system will rise. To the extent that some cases are not brought, because the facts don't support them well enough, that's a good thing. To the extent that some cases are not brought, because the law is unclear, making a lawsuit risky, that's a problem for law makers to solve.
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Humble brag/narcissism. One of the main ingredients to fuel social networks.

It's not that it doesn't exist in physical gatherings, it's just way more concentrated online because of convenience.
> That pricing will not discourage too many people directly---because you price it exactly at a point where not too many people are discouraged.

Except that you're admitting to discouraging 15% of the customers. If there isn't enough parking for everyone then the shops much prefer people to be cruising around so that as soon as a space opens up there is someone to take it, rather than not showing up in the first place because they can't afford parking.

> (Interestingly, your mix of parkers would shift towards more people who value their time more than their money. Affluent customers are good customers!)

You can't actually make more money strictly by losing profitable customers, even if the customers you lose are below average customers.

> Like a congestion charge

It is like a congestion charge, which have exactly the same problems.

> Congestion charges worked out well for Singapore and London.

They keep poor people off the roads so rich people can use them, anyway.

> Charging for parking is relatively easy and does not require high-tech.

People don't use the high-tech stuff because it's harder. Either way you need something vs. the alternative where you don't need anything.

> Politically, it's a good idea to hand out the fees from parking at the same level as the people who can decide about it. So if local opposition could derail the scheme, you have to hand out the proceeds very locally. Otherwise you get the political dynamics you describe.

The problem is there are no "proceeds" -- the money is going to come from the local residents whether it's parking fees or taxes. The only way you can save anything is to have fewer parking spaces, which nobody is going to allow until after there is already a better alternative in place.
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It's not guaranteed to be unique?
Why are some firms already doing quantum encryption?
I'd still love a dark theme in GitLab, but it's just not worth the effort to maintain it.

For late-night, in the dark work I often use the darkroom mode of F.lux instead.
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Catching up to past innovations is a different matter from actually innovating fresh ideas.

Personally I think AI is so far away from doing anything on a human-like scale that none of us will ever be alive (or our grandchildren) to be fooled by such advances.
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TeamViewer has been hacked. They are denying everything and blaming the users
> The bigger mystery IMO, is the absence of reported blast marks or damage to the terrain one would expect from testing explosives.

Mid air?
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Guess what? The rest of developed world has laws giving vacation as a right to
employees. And to all employees, not just to coders.
>Mahler losing so many of his children

I think he lost 1 child, not many. And it was a few years after finishing Kindertotenlieder.
I think it's a spectrum.

"Looking at how people pay in Massachusetts, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen California first hand."
(practically identical)

"Looking at how people pay in the US, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen Germany first hand."
(probably mostly the same, but I haven't been to Germany recently)

"Looking at how people pay in the US, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen New Zealand first hand."
(Looks mostly the same on the surface, but NZ relies heavily on a system called EFTPOS)

"Looking at how people pay in South Africa, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen Kenya first hand."
(probably very similar, but from what I gather there are some differences. I haven't been to South Africa)

"Looking at how people pay in the US, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen Kenya first hand."
(very different. M-Pesa is king in Kenya)

"Looking at how people pay on Venus, I would think that our approach wouldn't have made any sense to someone who hadn't seen Earth first hand."
(theoretical maximum difference)
Do you assume that coders can't be racist?

Some one makes and manages their websites heck white supremacists and other extremist groups were one of the earliest adopters of the Internet because it was a media that allowed them to speak freely.

You can't say kikes and niggers on TV you can't even say it on licensed radio but on the internet you can call for all the gassing and cross burning you want.
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Yahoo Publishes National Security Letters After FBI Drops Gag Orders
“The FBI asks for so much, because it is banking that some companies won’t know the law and will disclose more than they have to. … The FBI is preying on small companies who don’t have the resources to hire national security law experts,” he argued.

This is something police officers routinely do, to people with vastly less resources than companies like Yahoo. It is sanctioned because all the "bad guys" must be caught. Why is it a problem when the FBI does it?
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Nice visualisation.

The data source site (http://data.london.gov.uk) is really good too. Click the circles for more data. For example, the recycling one reveals air quality info. I can see why they won an ODI award (http://theodi.org/news/odi-2015-award-winners). Much better than the national one (https://data.gov.uk).
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Looks fantastic. Never heard of the game, how do you usually market it?
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So...

Tesla and Faraday are in electric car business now...
It seems to me Siemens should look into this market as well
I read your earlier comment last night and noticed that feature didn't work for me either. I was just about to email support this morning when I saw the replies, so I double-checked and it's now fixed for me too. So it wasn't just your account.
"they argue"

They speculate, you mean? Those are all "just so" stories...
What do they use live chat for?
Not sure about the "financed" distinction, but the Alioto case pretty much put Look Magazine out of business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alioto#Political_career
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We're (I am) looking for assistance in writing examples, tutorials, documentation (currently using JSDOC to generate API documentation from comments), and additional test cases. A good portion of documentation is started and hundreds of test cases already exist. This library is already being used in production applications.

Any help/criticism is greatly appreciated!
I don't know about the timing, but I have a relative in the industry and he told me it's actually the case. Everyone and their mom is on Yahoo chat when it comes to commodities.
Do you have a citation for the "50% of male teachers leave"? I'd be interested in the details. Thanks!
That's probably not true. When you're just socializing in real life, you're probably sharing all kinds of meaningless "updates" about yourself. Statements, jokes, expressions, etc that aren't important individually, nobody wants to keep records of and you don't care if they get missed. You wouldn't ask your friends to tell you those things because they're so trivial, but they're still how people enjoy each other's company. That's a lot of what friends do when they're together - share minutia. To me, Snapchat is kind of like that but on the internet.
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The future is now! [0,1]

[0] http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizgVZ8rjKA
Do you know what their reasons are? I'm really curious, because that seems the obvious choice for me (assuming your wife is earning enough).
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I'm not denying that Cuba is a poor country. I've pointed out that other Caribbean countries are equally poor, or worse.

I'm arguing that you can't simply point to "Communism" as the reason for Cuba's poverty.

BTW, if you believe the numbers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener... then Cubans get at least as much food calories as those from the DR and Jamaica.

You think Cuba under the corrupt mobster-friendly Bautista was a "leading country ... in many indicators." Well, I don't disagree. Then again, it was also a regressive country in many indicators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista#Economy_of_C... .

Which indicators do you think are important? Are there other non-Communist countries in the Caribbean which are worse off than Cuba, using those indicators? If so, how can you simply point to Communism as the reason for Cuba's ranking?

Again, I point to Puerto Rico, which has a high GDP but increasingly terrible debt crisis, to show that a simple indicator like "GDP" is insufficient.

If the US decided to block all bank transactions and trade to/from the Bahamas, as it did Cuba, do you think the Bahamas would be able to maintain its current economy?
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Joe Beda.

https://www.eightypercent.net/post/old/00273.html
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It's impossible to get reliably statistics in a federated system. (Which of course is the entire point.) but looking at the little data I have from people sending me bug reports over XMPP at seems that a lot of Conversations users are running their own servers.
The problem is not that the extensions are not implemented (Both prosody and ejabberd in fact support all the extensions Conversations does.) but that a lot of public servers out there are second class services for their operators and are not properly maintained. In that case you can either contact them and ask them to upgrade or ask yourself if you want to have an XMPP account on a provider who doesn't maintain their servers.
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I couldn't agree more with the points you raised. Social media services have their place and they can be a valuable tool.

By the way, I'd never heard of the term "self media" but I think it is perfect. I'm going to start using it now.
As far as I can tell, it just sent it through a deep learning network. Cool, but not exactly the same as an AI reconstructing the movie. It's just a distorted version of the original, and Warner Bros was not entirely incorrect in requesting its removal (though it doesn't hurt them much to allow it, because it's so heavily distorted).
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I honestly don't think you get it. I've lived through all major social networks and the only one I've shared stuff on is Snapchat. It's a major breakthrough for me.
So when the same is done to males it is not being assholes for some reason?
I'd love to read a chapter about why would someone choose Common Lisp instead of, say, Clojure (with all the JVM ecosystem behind it) or LFE (with the Erlang ecosystem behind it). What are the use cases in which CLISP stands out and offers a benefit?
> Raising kids is often hard unfulfilling manual labor

As opposed to a job, which is often hard unfulfilling mental labor?
Well, there are for example all those libbfd-related issues that caused running strings(!) on unstrusted files to be unsafe.
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Yes, although the particular technique used here (variational autoencoder, or VAE) doesn't benefit from increasing the code space due to a particular penalty (KL divergence against a fixed N(0, 1) Gaussian prior) during training. So even by making it go to 1000 digits in the code space, the model will probably still only choose to use 5 or 10 dimensions unless the KL penalty is relaxed, making it closer to a standard autoencoder.

An autoencoder with a much larger code space could be an improvement, or some newer works such as Adversarially Learned Inference / Adversarial Feature Learning [0, 1] or real NVP [2, 3] could probably do a much better job at the task, at the cost of increased computation.

Also something like inpainting parts of the frames with pixel RNN [4] would be interesting.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00704

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09782

[2] http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~dinhlaur/real_nvp_visual/

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08803

[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06759