skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to some actually unnecessary bike lanes in a "bedroom community" and if so where?

Or is this all just conjecture?
You should download and explore WeChat (微信）. It seems like facebook at this point is now chasing functionality that's been present in Chinese apps for several years. WeChat lets you order food, buy train tickets, etc in addition to the messaging. The comparison I've heard is that in software B2C China is ahead by 5 years, B2B USA leads by 5 years. And China is defining new C2C and O2O. Hardware is a toss-up.
How accurate is CMU Sphinx for speech recognition compared to what's inside Alexa?
Well whaddya know, Apple's standalone 5K display might include a built-in GPU: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/01/5k-thunderbolt-display-i...
The new gold line extension gets pretty close! Try to get within walking distance if you can.
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Or you can just put your database in backup mode.

We do not need a perfectly consistent file system backup as the starting point. Any internal inconsistency in the backup will be corrected by log replay.

- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-ar...
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Are iOS jobs just not posted enought to make the pie charts? No Swift, Objective C, "mobile" etc.

Very cool tho
The difference between Uber and other subprime lenders, like mortgage companies, is that the recipients can actively become lower credit risks. They can just drive the car. At the rates Uber pays, probably around a full day a month.

So not only is this expanding credit options, it's expanding labor options.
"on-demand logistics which is a totally new field at this scale"

I've heard this argument before, but how can this be taken seriously? Take DHL, or UPS - they do orders of magnitude more (in transactions) than Uber does, and I know it's not exactly the same, but I'd even argue that any parcel service is a lot more complicated than Uber. Hell, even the tiny postal service of my country ships the same amount of packages each day as Uber has rides.

The tech side of Uber is (dare I say it!) trivial (well the 'ride sharing' part, not the AV research side). It's the regulatory and plain business model angles that must be costing them.
> Xchange, which caters to people who have been rejected by other lenders, isn’t intended to be a moneymaker, said an Uber spokesman.

I'll be interested to see if that can continue in the long term. Consumer finance is an industry with an incredibly high profit margin, probably a lot better than Uber's core business will ever be.
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Google have a much bigger play now, they've built VR into Android N along with reference headset/controller design and apps like YouTube specifically optimised.
Sphinx is pretty awful (remember the time before good speech recognition existed?). Alexa is far better.

Kaldi is much better, but very difficult to set up.

None of the open source speech recognition systems (or commercial for that matter) come close to Google.
Time for a "taxi driver" firmware for Garmin devices? They're pretty open iirc.
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If it's anything like named storms[0], Generation Alpha.

I'd also like to go on record as saying that all of the recent generations are just poor imitations to the original letter generation, Gen X. We complained about lack of decent jobs, debt, and emptiness the wealthy, long before you kids, and we did it better music too. You're welcome.

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Thanks for pointing out the negatives. I will put in a fix for that.

I have it on my list to create some media queries to display the charts smaller on some of those smaller widths. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

The trend diagram is a great idea. I will work on that as time permits.
The threat of nuclear weapons is still strong. Look at North Korea, just this week we had another missile test. Thankfully it wasn't a nuclear missile, and the launch failed, but the intention to improve their missile capabilities is clear, and they've conducted 4 nuclear weapon tests in the last 10 years.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YN5UU

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17823706

Considering the irrational leadership (and also considering the usefulness of North Korea to China if they ever wanted to conduct a proxy war), they pose a definite threat.

Another example is Pakistan. They're a country with clear links to Islamic fundamentalism, as well as one with nuclear weapons. The potential for something to go wrong in this situation shouldn't be underestimated, even if Pakistan doesn't launch the missiles themselves you could have a country like Saudi Arabia looking to get control over a nuclear weapon either by buying one or through underhanded means, and a desire to do so could be rationalised by the threat posed by Isreal and the US.

Lastly, we have the US. Despite rhetoric in line with nuclear disarmament, their continued military support of Isreal is pretty much the only thing blocking a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, and Obama has started a program for a new nuclear weapons arsenal, one focused on a larger number of small weapons. The decrease in size but increase in quantity is concerning, as it implies the US way be aiming for weapons they can use strategically in war.

As for fascism, there's a very real possibility that Trump will be elected (he's currently slightly up in the polls vs Clinton, plus Clinton is under FBI investigation and could be indicted before the elections conclude). Trump is a known liar, but if he follows through with what he's claimed then he does lean towards fascism. We'll have to wait to see how things pan out after the election.

We also have other countries which oppress democratic change in their country. Whilst you couldn't call them fascist per se, I'd argue that this oppression represents one of the worst traits of what we know of fascist dictatorships.

I could go on. The point is just because those threats aren't as prominent in people's minds doesn't mean they've gone away.
https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server

Takes the pain out of it
It is a fact that students at top tech schools (think Caltech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, etc.) study longer compared to students at comparable liberal arts schools. I believe it takes time and practice to get good at anything. Students at tech schools in tech majors just spend more time practicing their craft. Obviously that doesn't mean some English major can't pick up math, computer science and physics later in life, but such people are the outliers.
I think we can assume those whose income is just a state pension or just a BI won't be able to afford cruises...

As with a pension, many of those receiving a BI will have other sources of income, so I think it is a good match. And if you look at my link about Denmark, you'll see that Denmark is to do away with forced retirement. Their pension starts at 65, while their forced retirement age was 70. "Current employment legislation allows companies to dismiss employees when they turn 70, but Frederiksen said the legislation should be changed to reflect the modern workforce."

So even in the country with supposedly the best pension scheme in the world, people still want to keep working beyond 65.

I don't see much point in small-scale tests of a BI. They'll tell us how a few receiving them will behave, but they won't tell us how businesses or the economy will behave when everyone's receiving them. And it's the latter we really should be wanting to understand.
Or CB radios in 1974.
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Or Second Life in 2004.
2-4 apply to every taxi firm these days too
I wonder what you included in your requirements?

For me things I value are encryption on the backup-host, and de-duplication. That lead me to obnam, and attic.

rsnapshot is a nice tool, because it only needs to transmit things that have changed, but without encryption it isn't something I'd personally want to run again.
Heavily funded startups like zocdoc have bugs in their primary use case
that includes the persons DOB. I wonder what would happen if the individual had used the wrong DOB when creating the request. Could (should?) yahoo say 'That doesn't match our records' and require a new request?
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LSTMs can handle negation. See http://k8si.github.io/2016/01/28/lstm-networks-for-sentiment... for a pretty nice example.

I think there are some papers out of the IBM Watson group on question answering where they use ConvNets. I don't remember looking a the negation case specifically, but Question Answering generally has cases where that is important.
It's not a simpler language. It's a less powerful one but as a result it has a lot of ad-hoc special case features to cover subsets of functionality that Scala provides with a few powerful features applied consistently.

(If you want an actually simpler language, look at Ceylon)
Bubble bursts when you realise very few and even less are actually having a proper look at your web page, that's why niches are more profitable for indies than generalist content.
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You are not counting consumption of plastics, electricity generated by oil, combustible used by construction vehicles building the roads and buildings he uses, etc. But even by that sort of accounting, $100K sounds like it was intended to be hyperbolic ;)
But lowrisc wants to be a full processor with MMU and everything able to run Linux (just without a graphics card)?
For the current month swift has 15 and object c has 10. Each chart displays the top 10 that have at least a count of 15.

I think I am going to change this to simply display the top 10 for each chart and remove the 15 min count requirement.
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SO if a woman does not drive she is suppressed? So far no woman was elected as a President either in US. Guess women are oppressed there?
Troy Hunt's Pluralsight course seems to come highly recommended [0]. I haven't got around to doing it myself yet, but it's on my list!

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I love how their demands are just repaste verbatim of the parts of the law that grants them authority.
It's a bit ironic that something that uses a lot of macros becomes hard to read. Even the link provided by marquisee in a sibling common seems to have almost a ratio of 2:1 of "signal noise" (or (too) densely coded meta-code) to the amount of "actual" code.

Have there been any (recent) discussions on how to make this stuff friendlier? I mean, one could always just bootstrap lisp on top of ecl[1], like clasp[2] does, and either generate rust code, or just machine code -- but even for plain rust it seems it should be possible to this stuff in a friendlier way?

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worth it to have a more verbose syntax and/or keywords for this stuff -- it really does appear to me as a usability barrier -- not just because it's new and strange. Reminds me a bit about perl's use of "sigils" which I never quite thought made a lot of sense personally. I'm firmly in the camp that if you want more syntax than common lisp or smalltalk, you need a really good reason for every bit you add. And while I like a lot of things about rust, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't an area that really needs improving. Kind of like how C++14 tries very hard to get rid of a lot of stuff.

[1] "Embeddable Common Lisp" https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/

[2] https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
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Technically correct, the best type of correct.
Looks like Swift made it to the top 10 last month though http://www.gosmartsolutions.com/hn/?id=11611867
Is this relevant because open source? Chrome has speech recog built in for a while now..
Well, if the ADHD drug in question is Adderall, which is an amphetamine, the mechanism of action and effects are largely similar. And Desoxyne IS meth. Methamphetamine actually metabolizes into amphetamine in the body.
I didn't follow that piece of news closely but I thought it was just native support to make products like Oculus's GearVR more usable but you will still need something like gear vr to make it work?
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I think you and I are on the same point for this so there isn't much point going further.
I think transcranial stimulation could be an interesting possibility for exploration. Currently crude therapeutic devices if TMS could be more finely targeted you might be able to get around the "wiring" problems. I think as you mention humans learning to "see" might be a part of the solution too - meeting the machine half way - as it were
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> And why the hell are there still TVs being produced where overscan can't be turned off?

Because you wanted the price of a new HDTV to be $200. Consumer electronics are focused mostly on price, rarely on quality. The menus for most of these devices are incomprehensible and the new fad is IoT and Smart TVs, not usability. HDMI has a flag you can set to say "please don't overscan", but I know of absolutely 0 TVs that respect it.

Also, because standards and legacy content means that content is produced for older standards. Backwards compatibility in broadcast TV has always been important. With a simple converter box, you can view signals from the 1950s on a modern TV. So we can't just turn overscan off globally for everyone.
Oh good, an anecdote. Those are always indicative of larger data sets, and definitely not meaningless and heavily biased.

It's pretty irrating to support stigmatizing/banning a drug that millions of people use and get therapeutic effects from based on a few unrelated anecdotes.
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There are a couple of cool P2P companies out there like http://www.streamroot.io/ or https://www.peer5.com/
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Thanks for the elaboration I get the impression that we're pretty much in agreement, but my use of words is a bit sloppier (my apologies, I'm working on it).

Based on how you use the term 'meaningful', I think you're right in your conclusion. I don't see a problem there myself, because from my (current) perspective nothing is meaningful in any kind of objective sense (I'm pretty much as zen buddhist, or well on my way), but I've had many discussions with non-religious people / atheists who seem inconsistent in this regard. So I get what you're doing here.

Either way, discussing this has piqued my interest in the topic again. Thanks for that.
Firstly, remember that "socialism" is a dirty word in US politics, but not in EU politics. The UK Labour party does claim[1] to be a socialist party. Their homepage[2] has a link to "affiliated socialist societies".

However in this case, the tories are just scaremongering.

[1] They're not really socialist anymore, since Tony Blair & New Labour back in the 90s at least.
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You mean the place where all the corrupt money from the rest of the world is kept?
I'm aware its probably not an accurate portrayal, its just the kind of thing the UK/AU/NZ hears a lot from americans and we don't quite understand the narrow minded logic.

While you're right that the doll bludger should "just get a job", you thinking that isn't going to change the fact that they won't.
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Nope, but most people who take public transit regularly already have a monthly fixed-price subscription. So that trip is pretty much free already, unless people start commuting by taxi...
Interesting! I wasn't familiar with that MCI commercial (I don't live in the US), but I can see what I wrote has that type of tone.
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Surely someone can solder it onto an USB stick, SATA interface, etc. with the added circuitry of supporting those interfaces.
> And making this place more welcoming to Curtis Yarvin by focusing discussion on the technical merits of Urbit and ignoring his personal views is a signal to a lot of other people about what we as a community value and what we don't. And I think it's a bad signal, because it alienates people with valuable and important viewpoints that we ought to be finding ways to be more open to, not less.

So if someone working on an open source project were to blog, completely separately from the open source project, their personal views on, say, abortion you'd be OK with it if whenever we tried to have a discussion about that project people started discussing that contributor's views on abortion?

If not, what is the criteria for deciding what kind of unrelated personal views are OK to bring up in technical discussions?
This 12-year-old just trolled anti-vaxxers in the most brilliant way
I had the same question a few months ago. Unfortunately working from Asia wasn't an option, but I'd still suggest reaching out since the Khan Academy folks are very helpful and encouraged me to interview if I was ever back in the US.
I'm trying to get on to the beta program, but it's almost 2 months and haven't received any invite. Do you have a spare invite that you could share with me?
> in some cantons the franchise was only extended to women on February 7th, 1971

It's worse than that. One small place didn't extend it till 1990.
I don't really understand why people put themselves through that stress without getting a personal equally high payout. I mean, the stress he faced was pretty much as big as the ones startup founders face. But startup founders have a chance to end up rich or with a much bigger business. What could he gain from it? A bonus?

And as a side note: If the text about his work sounds like your work, you can gain a lot of more performance, fun and results if you spend some of your time learning more indepth how everything about your job works. The debugging drudges become less once you know enough. And not all of it can be learned just by doing.
This is an essential piece if you're interested in this topic: http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps....

A lot of the features WeChat offers seem to make sense - it surprised me.
To me it seems like they're realising that there aren't actually that much money to be made by taxiing people around. Now they need another infusion of cash to transition or expand the business, hoping to find some other source of profit.
Or, they're investing precisely because they will.
They recommended it themselves but are solving more:

> If you're interested in that approach, I'd encourage you to check out sandstorm.io. This solves the problem for applications like a blog, email, or gitlab. What it doesn't do is make decentralized applications easier to build.
Do you have examples?
Ah sorry, I was wrong. I thought that KeePass was proprietary and that KeePassX was a free software replacement. :P
The only thing uber has over most taxis in Germany is that they’re cheaper. And that they don’t have proper insurance.
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Although given the relative performance, I can't imagine who'd pick the arm option currently, unless the pricing difference is truly extreme. There's just too many downsides to arm servers at this time: it's not just total overall performance, but particuarly single threaded performance (which affects e.g. latency that your readers experience), power usage (affects costs), and of course availability of software.

It's getting close, that's for sure - and there may well be some niche where it already makes sense, but I wouldn't know which one.

Probably the best value proposition is that the gap is likely to shrink, and investing now may help you prepare for a future switch when it makes more sense.