skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular technique has its problems, as has been mentioned by other people. I would think inverting and cancelling is much more useful in situations where you can isolate the background noise in real time. For example, I do a little hobby music production, and I've heard of this being used to isolate vocals:

Because the vocals are sometimes the only thing that's perfectly in the middle of the mix (balanced left/right), you can invert the left channel of a mix and then recombine it with the right to cancel out only the balanced tracks (so you're left with essentially an instrumental). Subtracting the instrumental track you've just created from the full song (again, by inverting and recombining), you should get the vocal track by itself. Fun stuff, right?

I'm not sure how well this works, as I've never done it myself, but it would seem like having the exact signal is important. As people have said, the fan noise isn't predictable enough to cancel using that technique. On the other hand...

I recently read about a machine learning application using K-means clustering in which you feed the algorithm sound from two microphones set up in the same room and it's able to separate the audio by who is speaking. I'm not sure how well such an algorithm would work when one sound is significantly louder than the other (such as quiet fans and people talking), but it certainly points to that being a possibility.
> Apatheistic Agnostic

Actually I call myself an apathist among my friends. I don't care if there's a god, but if there is one, I doubt if it cares about me, and I doubt that it cares whether I believe in it or not.
Spry: a programming language inspired by Smalltalk/Rebol and written in Nim
There's no way that can be correct, they only did 80 million bookings in 2015: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-growth-idUSKCN0RS2Q...
In fact, a couple of bacteria are usually good for you. It keeps your immune system occupied. Over-cleanliness fuels development of allergies, as I can attest for myself, having to cope with all sorts of food, pollen, dust and animal allergies.
Facebook is one of the single most creepy things here in the future. I think if you time-travelled back to, say, the '50's and tried to explain FB to people they would just not believe you. They would think that aliens had brain-washed people before they'd believe that millions of people just blithely hand their personal lives to a third-party.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cellular-automata-machines

The greater part as I remember it is on ideas and applications; a substantial fraction covers their particular system.
Edward Teller's “Atom Alphabet”
Very well put. The issues in that first year made those of us who weren't programmers feel like we could be. It was thanks to them and COMPUTE! that I actually did become one, and eventually a consumer of Walter Bright products!
But what you are missing is that it is not primarily about the costs. The prices elsewhere are higher because those grocers want the prices to be high. They make more money from it, and there is insufficient competition to force them to lower prices.

Where I am, for example, the base price at Safeway/Vons/Pavilions for any of the cheaper produce items is $1.99/pound. It goes up from $1.99: $2.99, $3.99, etc. Nothing has a base price of $x.49/pound. This pricing scheme has little to do with costs!

(Bananas are the only exception for $x.99---depending on the location, they can be $0.69 or $0.79/pound---and there are a few items below the general $1.99 base price: like carrots or jicama, available for $0.99/pound.)

Furthermore, they do mark items down at a times. So a fruit that is normally $1.99/pound will drop to $0.99/pound for 3-7 days. This is partly because of seasonality, but mostly for marketing. It is only one item at a time, for example. Under no circumstances will they mark multiple items down to $0.99/pound simultaneously, even if the items are both in season (which is easy to judge by looking at produce markets, farmers' markets, and more sensible grocery stores). It can be frustrating to know that it is high season for peaches, but the powers-that-be have determined that this week they're marking grapes down from $3.99 to $1.99/pound, so peaches can't be discounted.
> what do you hope to gain by talking to them?

They're people in my community. I like to be friendly with my neighbors, if not actual friends.
Yea thanks, will change it! You are not the first who is pointing that out. About toggl.com - it is a well established company. Only way how i can compete with them is build better things than they. Currently i don't even want to think about competing, i just want to build something that people use and are happy with it.
Looks like he is either farming karma, or running some kind of experiment. I found several visited links in his submission history (and all of them reposted 5-6x).
Thanks for putting this all so eloquently.

I'd even go so far as to say, the fact that so much of us are talking about this rhetorical device (one I think is pretty childish and distracting) means he's missed the mark in writing a persuasive essay. A lot of us aren't talking about the merits of using Facebook vs not, because we're talking about that dumb neologism instead. Shakespeare, he is not.

Which is too bad, because a lot of his points are worth discussing--not necessarily agreeing with, but at least discussing. Like, what value are people getting in return from Facebook? Why are people OK giving away their content, exposing their eyeballs to ads, being tracked, etc.? Is it that they don't know? That they know but don't care, i.e. have different priorities in life?

What alternatives could there be to this service that so many people (even in the comments here) find value in using? Facebook is bad, rah rah, but people want to connect and it's there and it works. What would you ask people to do when we all shut down our facebook accounts?

All these questions are being lost because of "useds". That's too bad.
How Bayes’ Rule Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Here is an example [1] that just is a simple equality comparison on an indexed column falling back to a sequential table scan.

[1] http://blog.endpoint.com/2014/04/custom-plans-prepared-state...
Remote controlled 'roboships' will take to the sea by 2020
Sounds interesting, but is it doing anything which targets the generated output towards potentially crashing bugs? afl works so well because it's looking at the internals of the program, trying to force it into new states, not simply generating random inputs with verisimilitude.
I don't really disagree with that, but it seems only tangential to the OP article. "The storm" here is the process of Britain extricating itself from the EU, which everyone agrees will be very complicated and messy regardless of whether Brexit is net good or bad. The Economist is just arguing that a power vacuum at the start of this process is bad.
As someone who has never used Facebook, I often feel like I am talking to members of some sinister cult when I meet someone who asks me about Facebook and I say I don't use it. The surprise and weird eyes they give me really unnerves me, it's not just a website to some people, it has become a integral part of their life and has seeped into their mind.

It has gotten to the point that I am deliberately rude about it, feigning complete ignorance and saying things like "what's that, one of those stupid social networks?" or "why would anyone want to use that?" -- in the hope I momentarily shock them out of their brainwashed state into a moment of clarity where they realize not everyone is a member of this virtual cult.
I second that. It is very much like saying there is free healthcare in Venezuela.

Fruits and Vegetables are cheaper in Mexican stories, Indian (dots) stores and Chinese Stores than say Walmart or Target. But they are in substantially lower quality. Of course if you are regular and you personally cook then you will have a very good understanding what which store has the cheaper and best stuff. In my experience Onions,Mangos from Mexican/Indian stores at par with expensive Onions in Walmart. Only Indian stores understand the subtle differences with Mango breeds. We go to Chinese stores mostly for fish and vegetables like Brocolli, Kale and Carrots.
Even if devs had control, it's difficult to know which version is actually on the database without pulling it up (this is a timesink), especially if you have multiple environments/configurations.

AFAIK there's no way to diff/history of stored procs in the database (and certainly not against your VCS), so large companies usually do comment blocks at the top of each one.
I downvoted this because you're criticizing Stallman's rhetoric (which I agree is not hot) but not addressing his points.

Given that he's not great at communication, but that you do seem to understand what he's trying to say, what do you think about Facebook?
I'm not saying that "used" is invalid per se, but rather that it is a perspective that is not justified simply by the fact that Facebook has an advantage from the user. I think your last question further clarifies the problem. Human beings are clearly used by viruses. Unless they use a virus to drive a gene into an organism. But sometimes things are harder to discern: are human beings users or useds of tobacco? Or of cats (* )?

In the end probably it all depends on a value judgement: who gets by far the most value out of the transaction? But then Stallman should just say plain and loud what he means: that Facebook is useless to the people that spend their time on it.

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(*) as cats are clearly parasites hijacking the human nervous system.
> and order Britain to honor its obligations as an EU member apart from immigration.

Free movement of EU-citizens is a core obligation in the EU. You can't honor all other obligations without honoring this one. The ironic twist is that for people from new EU member states, there is a transitional phase where movement and work permits can be restricted and the UK explicitly opted out in the case of Poland, because at that time they were in dire need of cheap labor - and now they're complaining.

In any case, there's no question at the moment if the UK needs to honor all EU membership obligations: Until the UK government decides to invoke the exit clause, the UK is a full member with all privileges and all obligations - and it seem they're not in a rush to do so. However, I fully expect them to be sidelined in all upcoming negotiations, especially the ones that don't require an unanimous vote. They've already thrown away the improvements that Cameron negotiated in February, those were under reserve of not leaving the EU.

Fun times ahead, for sure.
And then if you have UAC (or whatever it's called) turned on, you'll get a warning that the .exe you're about to run is unsigned, right?
Ok good riddance then. Maybe a second movie will come out.
That and economies of scale forcing the small farm's prices higher.

I do wonder how often small farms hide price discrimination behind "economies of scale" though.
I noticed the me behaviors of the OP with another article two months ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Are%20There%20Barbarians%20at%...

I count 7 repost. It's not usual.
As a part time MC, I can attest that inverting and recombining channels of a song can occasionally lead to a decent instrumental. That being said, with little talent or background, and using freeware, it will not be perfect. It will be much better than using the original track, but it will certainly be noticeable that you are not using the instrumental. Great for practice though.
I can present two counterpoints:

1. Advancement: Having immortality would reduce the need to re-learn and re-experience everything over and over again. While the learning and experiencing process in itself is innovative (because just like life itself, it evolves through mutation between one specimen to the other), you could argue that having a 200 years old Einstein around wouldn't be bad for science.

2. Resources: with immortality, the issue of family will be very different. Being young forever, you probably wouldn't feel as great of a need to raise children (which serve, among other purposes, the assure your genetic continuity after death). A rich, self centered, immortal population would probably see a decline in its numbers.

The idea of immortality is appealing and frightening all at once. It would create a completely new society and world order, and I'm not sure it's a world I'd (forever) like to live in.
Don't forget that this is a proof-of-concept and is not meant to be an reliable solution for you to replace GeoIP with, but rather a concept to play with thoughts.

The first thing that comes to mind would be combining this with peer-to-peer pinging - which if the swarm is big enough could potentially provide a fairly decent geolocation mechanism.
Speak for yourself. My father and I have a policy that everything we hunt that isn't a varmint (pest control and the like, due to our removal of other apex predators, including dealing with invasive species like coyotes) we also eat. From squirrels and turtledove to elk and moose, and I'm pretty sure that the value of good meat gained by my father's hunting of the latter and mule deer before my mother said NO MORE! (due to the taste) at least covered the expenses of his hunting, which weren't huge. A whole elk or moose goes a long way (I don't remember much about the deer phase, but mule deer aren't small).

So make that at worst 50-50. And there's a lot of poorer people out there for whom the annual deer is a significant and cheap source of high quality meat.
Changing the spelling doesn't help. It's a pretty ugly word that I definitely used a lot as a child, and it took a while to get out of my vocabulary.

edit: I also used to say "jewed down" as a kid. There's stuff that's better just to get rid of.

edit 2: I've actually had people passionately explain to me why saying "nigger-rigged" was not a problem.
Not being in the EU is not nearly as big a deal as leaving the EU. They need an entire framework for dealing with the EU that doesn't currently exist.

It's like Britain just drank some poison, then went into a shop and said

"Hi, I drank some poison and you're the only person that sells the antidote, What kind of deal can you give me on that?"
And actually toxic!
> The General-Director of the Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Prof. Dr. Alfried Wieczorek, told Ars why the museum had decided to take legal action: "As far as we are concerned this case is not about harming Wikipedia, or of us fundamentally disagreeing with this project. On the contrary: we have great sympathy for the Wikipedia project, and share with Wikipedia the object of spreading knowledge. But in this case, the question for us is who should decide whether and especially how our holdings should be made available. Even if one supports the free public accessibility of cultural items on Wikipedia, it is difficult for us to comprehend that a single Wikipedia author claims the right to decide on their own to release to everybody the results of work created with public funds on Wikipedia for free and thus also for commercial use."

So, while it might be ok for wikipedia to publish images of public-domain work, it is unconscionable for wikipedia to publish images of public-domain work that someone else subsequently makes commercial use of. (And it's important that the museum get a veto over whether the public should be allowed to see certain works at all.)
I think their point was the training data may have a lot of white guys. I don't know what Nikon used but if they just googled the web for images they'd probably end up with quite a lot of white subjects.
I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not been used in over 10 years (and some from the same time frame that are still in production).

It has been really hard for us to open source things lately - our last project took more than a year. I did find it on this page: https://github.com/nasa/earthdata-search. We are still working on open sourcing a couple more of our projects.

We've been told one of NASA's recent goals is to significantly improve the open source process so hopefully we'll see more of the current projects become open source.
Linked in to me seems like myspace. It seems to be full of spam. Its interface seems be still from the mid 2000s. I guess there was no facebook competitor like there was to myspace so they seem to have won.
Tragic and nonsensical decision. Just one more avenue for our cultural heritage to be locked away for eternity, when technology is on the cusp of allowing us to share that heritage with everyone worldwide for the first time in history.

How would this affect things like gutenberg.spiegel.de? Would a German digital transcriber of a PD work then hold the German copyright for that digital version, until 70 years after the transcriber's death? Ridiculous!
AirBnB does not share who's renting rooms. A significant share of the hosts use that to dodge taxes. Now AirBnB could collect and forward those taxes but well, they have no incentive to.
Very relevant to the recent hoopla about that Russian face-recognition/social-media tool.
I think we'll look back at movies like "The Terminator" and its slow lurching robots with a wry sense of humour. Instead the future is going to give us robots that can move so fast that they're just visual blurs.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
Nah, I shop at both Safeway and Whole Foods, and the comparable products are cheaper at Whole Foods (vegetables, fruits, and meat) on the whole, except for the very high end items.
It's overly reductive to consider any code that interacts with a database an ORM. Broadly speaking, the big claims ORMs have made are 1) the ability to automatically map between an object model and a relational data model and 2) portability between database vendors. #1 falls apart when the object model becomes complex enough to suffer from object-relational impedance mismatch. #2 may work for smaller or simpler applications, but you're generally going to have to take advantage of vendor-specific database features to achieve optimal performance with applications that have anything more than trivial scale or performance requirements. Going with stored procedures generally means giving up on both #1 and #2 in exchange for a more flexible design (relational model can be very different from your object model) and higher performance (at the cost of having to hand-write all your own SQL, of course).
I doubt if they are scared. MSFT had $105B cash and short-term investments at the end of March. Worst case they'll just lose a quarter of their piggy bank.
throwaway github account then? :)
Sure, but the balance is entirely context-dependent. But hey, I guess this is where all polemics fall down.

That said, where is the academic problem in refactoring into the db and decomposing ORM queries into straight SQL where necessary/desired? I'm not a Fortune 500 Systems Architect, but I'm under the impression that this is a fairly straightforward process. Now, management of the systems will necessarily incur extra complexity, but that's a second order effect that should be assessed in the decision process as part of the cost estimations. Extra technical debt, for sure.

So, choosing one is technically cheaper and more simple and maintainable. Choosing multiple may be faster (or, in many cases, "academically satisfying"), but more complex with a steeper learning curve. Be sure to hire the best of the best!
Reading the economist lately I note they are going on with the same neoliberal patter that they always have, little oblivious to the fact that neoliberalism is what we got to this place. (A few weeks ago they were gushing about a congressman from Nebraska who had an intellectual epiphany when he learned there was a town named Chicago with a University of Chicago in it that has an economic department...)

If they showed some empathy for the "little people" from time to time, things might have worked out differently.
How Romania brought broadband to a whole country–and who got left behind
OK, what now?
I'm generally in favor of letting companies like AirBnB, Lyft, Uber, and Turo operate in cities. But I completely agree with you that it's infuriating to see the word "sharing" being used to describe them. They're platforms that make it easy for people to operate various kinds of small businesses - or sometimes maybe micro businesses.

I suppose they think it's good for PR to peddle the warm and fuzzy concept of "sharing" but in most people's eyes it just makes them seem more deceptive and untrustworthy. I'm generally a fan of what these companies are doing, and I worry that pushing a false description of themselves only sets them up for stronger backlash.

A much better term than the "sharing economy" for these kinds of two-sided marketplace platforms is the "access economy". The fundamentally new thing they provide is much easier access to both buyers and sellers. As a traveler, AirBnB gives me access to lots of vacation rental listings, many of the them reviewed and to some extent vetted by the crowd. As someone looking to rent out my home, AirBnB gives me access to millions of potential customers, who are, to varying degrees, vetted by other hosts.
thanks for taking time to look at it closely! I'm aware some aren't that much useful, I'll try to redid a list when I have some time. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear.
It's a pleasure to make your digital acquaintance, I feel the same way.
Sharing has some different meanings:

- give a portion of (something) to another or others.

- use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others.

The first one has a lot of positive connotations, and 'sharing economy' startups are definitely taking advantage of that, but I think the second is a totally valid use of the word when talking about 'home sharing' or 'car sharing'. It's actually hard to think of a better term to describe those.
Agreed. Not to be creepy, but is this the place you're talking about? https://www.yelp.com/biz/gourmet-dumpling-house-boston-3 (Food is very important to me)

They seem to be known for their shanghai soup dumplings. This is a great book if you like eating out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GSYYQ2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Basically, if you show up at an ethnic place and order what the other ethnic people are getting, it's hard to go wrong.

That's why it's maybe more of a thing in the states where you interrogate the waiter. In Asia, each restaurant does one thing, because the competition is so intense.

In the states, you expect to get broccoli beef in every Chinese restaurant, so they sort of have to offer it. Once you talk to the waiter, everything will be made clear.
Ah, that would mean that I would have the libraries handle the resolving. I was currently only thinking about keeping the single socket which is used in order to only use the parsing functions from the libraries.