skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large part of the issue is that if you are dealing with phone meetings, audio is severely compressed, and not very similar to the training data that Watson has been taught with. Google Voice might be able to do a better transcription, because they have much more data from phone messages to work with, but eventually it comes down to the fact that voices over a phone line are a lot harder to understand without context processing than voices recorded with a decent microphone.
Many start-ups have 3 founders, and then it is just 3.3% from each founder.

But honestly 10% is a great deal of equity. I think the big difference is between .3% and 1.x% offers. If a company is not willing to offer an employee a point before they have ten employees, they are signalling you are not critical.
It varies by U.S. state...and seems to become somewhat more complicated if callers are all in different states:

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...

> Eleven states require the consent of every party to a phone call or conversation in order to make the recording lawful. These "two-party consent" laws have been adopted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington. (Notes: (1) Illinois' two-party consent statute was held unconstitutional in 2014; (2) Hawai'i is in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place; (3) Massachusetts bans "secret" recordings rather than requiring explicit consent from all parties.). Although they are referred to as "two-party consent" laws, consent must be obtained from every party to a phone call or conversation if it involves more than two people. In some of these states, it might be enough if all parties to the call or conversation know that you are recording and proceed with the communication anyway, even if they do not voice explicit consent. See the State Law: Recording section of this legal guide for information on specific states' wiretapping laws.
That adds a ton of complexity and opportunity for embarrassing bugs/flaws while gaining only slight convenience. As a product manager I wouldn't touch that.
I was thinking the other day you don't see very many or any smokers or obese people in old age homes do you?

The majority of my family on my father's side who are smokers have died of heart disease, strokes, lung damage.

Even at my workplace 9 of 10 people who died were smokers. I think the buddy system where they need to smoke in groups just enforces their denial.

I've seen the "scared straight" situation many times where a middle aged smoker suddenly decides to quit only to be diagnosed a month later with cancer. Only now it's e-cigarettes instead of quitting so they can still be addicted to nicotine but quit cigarettes.

I like to tell them there are worse things than cancer which has a possibility of a cure or surgery. My dad has IPF a scarring of lung tissue and there is no chemo or surgery to cut it out or slow it down. It occurs from many years of small amounts of lung damage in my dad's situation it was blue collar work welding, paint fumes, wood dust, grinding dust etc.
Switch out gofmt for goimports (https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports) to fix the errors on save with your editor / ide
How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons Arsenal to the Public
If you read more stories on that site, you'll see that they all have a remarkably consistent writing style, which suggests they are, at best, heavily edited. Its not beyond belief that some, even many, of them are completely fabricated.
That's really the same point that I'm making. BMI alone doesn't cut it.
> for not taking into account that in the OP's real scenario, the queries were being performed by two different people

gberger's comment was pointing out that the original comment did not take into account that these particular queries could have been performed by the same people.

That said, it could have been phrased more productively.
They're probably doing some basic geolocation based on your IP only for Google News.
And you think this will make people safer?
Source: Chelsea Manning hospitalized after apparent suicide attempt
How we used Betalist to find hundreds of early adopters in one week
Walmart has an entire campaign to help shoppers cut the cord
sama, if you're reading this, I'd love to hear more about

> Senior People: In the early days, hiring senior people is usually a mistake.

I know a lot of folks (including myself) are of the opposite opinion - it's a mistake to hire non-seniors to build the first round. Senior folks can often see pitfalls ahead of time and dodge them, saving valuable time while the company is pre-product/market fit. I can think of plenty of definitions of "Senior" that I _wouldn't_ hire (overspecialized, 'senior' in years only) though. Our disagreement may only be one of definitions [0].

I have seen startups die due to lack of talent early on (I worked at a startup that died due to technical debt, but that's another story). What scenarios have you seen that were caused by senior folks that causes you to see hiring them as a mistake?

[0] More on my opinions on what 'senior' should mean: https://rkoutnik.com/2016/04/21/implementers-solvers-and-fin...
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Why Docker? The Image API Is Everywhere
Excellent! Well-executed design, and the service looks very useful, with a variety of potential applications. I love how this API provides simple access to a uniform data format for these news sources.

"It sources data from individual APIs, RSS feeds, and plain old scraping.." This is what many developers have had to do, solving it each in their own way, and I think it's valuable to have that layer abstracted. Although, I imagine it's not trivial to maintain these algorithms, to keep up with changes in each news source.

Since the chosen data format is so straight-forward, it'd probably require just a thin transformation step to produce RSS or Atom feeds from the API.

Would love to see an open-source, self-hosted option.
I think for everyone this number is different. Depends on your background, years of experience, knowledge about computer science (not how to write in specific language) etc.

I am polyglot (i write in different langauges) and it took me couple of weeks to master Go.

Read "The Go programming language" book, it's really well written and it touches everything you need to know about Go (or most).
Could that be worked around by enclosing the field in quotes?
There's no obvious way to type emojis on Windows 10. Also, most emojis are almost unintelligible at small sizes because of the black and white font and faulty ClearType rendering.

Most emojis aren't even visible on Windows 7.
Code = Law
> I've never heard anyone call pit trading a meritocracy but it was one job where people who didn't have the best pedigree could still get a very good paying job. As is pointed out every day there are fewer and fewer of these types of jobs around anymore in the North America. I think real estate agent and sales are the two jobs that immediately come to mind as jobs that people who don't have a university education can still make great money with.

Maybe among white-collar jobs, but vocational jobs, such as welding, could bring in a lot of money to the talented craftsperson without a degree.
What is the algorithm for success?
Building WePay's data warehouse using BigQuery and Airflow
Depends more on your usage requirements:

- If you're basically just doing a backup and not reading data very often, Backblaze B2 is a good choice, as storage only costs 0.005$/GB (1TB is $5). However if you're reading kinda often, I'd recommend against it, as it's not the fastest to read and bandwidth is 5c/GB (it's mainly intended for backup use cases).

- If you're doing a backup and REALLY not reading data very often, Online.net's C14 is a good choice. Storage is only EUR 0.002/GB (EUR 2/TB) but reading/writing (known as "operation" on their pages) costs EUR 0.01/GB.

- If you need a decent/low latency network, I'd pay for Google Cloud Storage or something similar.

- If you're doing basically anything else, I'd recommend a server from Kimsufi (as you've found), SoYouStart, Online.net, Hetzner or OVH.

- If you're fine with something _really_ low end, another user pointed out time4vps.eu which offers the lowest cost online storage I've seen (EUR 0.002/GB) with RAM, a CPU and bandwidth attached.
No, really no. First of all the values of the variables can escape their scope, e.g. when used as a return value. Secondly, some child scopes outlive their parents, e.g. closures. As the parent comment correctly points out you'd literally need to solve the halting problem to infer all the lifetimes for arbitrary code.
I wonder what the tech crowd would say if government was to order Apple to release windows- and android-compatible OSes, or if it was to rewrite Google's Youtube API terms of use at its convenience.

You guys seem to have a pretty heavy dislike to your cable providers, which is OK, but I wonder how you would react to similar requests towards tech companies.
The information thus gathered can certainly be utilized in ways that may be "scary".

Most don't care anyways.
When I want to download my searches, it goes up to 1 year. Does google not keep more than 1 year of data? Is it required to them to remove data after 1 year?
I've seen it all, live and online. I was referring to those points when he's talking about css misusage.
Except the vast, vast majority of people don't care and use a normal desktop browser with JS on
The invisible ghosts are called "gravitons" in mainstream physics community :-)
> If a handful of early adopters controlled 80% of the IP space, if they were the ones now charging rent to those seeking to utilize that space, would there be such rapid uptake?

The analogies are certainly breaking down here. Bitcoin's volatility is a major impediment to masses using it to store value, probably one of the main impediments. Early adopters driving scarcity impacts the exchange rate but not adoption. Satoshis don't map well at all to IP addresses, regardless of how much or little they're valued.
It's interesting how uniform Andromeda is. Not much in the way of arms.

Also I'm impressed with the resolution available, you can really zoom in an incredible amount.
Could you elaborate a bit? I've heard many criticisms leveled at LDAP over the years, but never that it's insecure or obsolete.
I've had a few boxes from them for a few years, they've been pretty solid. Once I had a server go offline, I got an email from them saying they'd detected an issue, another 10 minutes later saying they'd found a problem with a network connector and it was fixed. I bought an extra server for a month once and the automated system had some issues which meant I didn't get the login info, took them about a day to fix it and get back to me.
Great! Going to give this a try.
> A QAM tuner provides the modulating/decoding of the RF signal over coax. If they are moving away from this then fine but why does that design have "inherent assumptions" that "they own and control the network end-points that provide the video to the display device."?

The old QAM systems broadcast metadata (i.e. channel info) on one channel -- if you wanted an update just have your hardware keep watching until it passes by. Comcast's network is, I believe, an IPv6 system with a bunch of terminals and a set of servers at the core like some big enterprise network.

None of which justifies their refusal, which is well above layer 7
You're right, the "long running daemon" is the serverless platform, i.e. the process that hosts the serverless applications (microflows). In case of public cloud providers like AWS, there is ample spare capacity, so hosting (and charging for) microflows in addition to other workloads makes economic sense.

With respect to the extra burst capacity -- in theory there should be excess capacity available, in practice it varies depending on your cloud provider.

The lack of the excess capacity is usually a financial, not an engineering problem. The cloud provider may offer SLAs that ensure that a customer gets credit in case if some requests haven't been serviced as expected.
Why don't you tell them that?
How to convert data:image/svg+xml;base64 data from natural image?
10 Video Games That Didn't Live Up to the Hype
Here is eastern Canada pitched rooves are capable of withstanding about a metre of snow. Wet snow supposedly has a mass of close to a tonne per cubic metre, a cube of pure water is one tonne at 4C. I can't imagine these devices would weigh more than a tonne (1,000 kg) per square metre.
That article is missing the classic formulation:
"What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away"

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-micro...
Yes, because it was a facile potshot aimed at a better comment that discounted both the actual content and the nature of the problem; not even a daring one at that, this isn't the National Review.
Are the number of garbage objects generated by idiomatic Go and idiomatic Java comparable?

My guess is Go implementation will produce an order of magnitude less garbage.

In Go, an array of structs (= objects) is just one object.

In Java, an array of objects is array object itself plus one object for each value in the array. Except for elementary types, like bool, int, long, etc.
Exhaustion is not unique to our overstimulated age
I see a few attempts by Mozilla at social networks using open web technology. "Hello" was one.

I think the distributed, federated approach such as Friendica (et al.) will be more likely to succeed than this, in large part due to data ownership concerns.

That said, variety in this space is always welcome. We, as the users, can only benefit from it.
Staying fashionable for a given context is a fantastic means of signaling that you're well connected. Even more so if you kick off a new trend.

Fashion based signals then inevitable degrade as they become more mainstream and are replaced by whatever hot new thing that's different enough to avoid confusion with other trends.

Even an ideal meritocracy requires abstractions for efficient communication.
If you are using Chrome, then you don't need to worry at all.

Your browser is uniquely identified regardless of your network location or browsing mode or profile or whatever.
It's mostly oriented so that you can only walk along it -- that is, it's bounded by the road and a barrier, so that you can only really experience it one way.

It is pretty miserable.
Being taught the wrong thing for a couple months by a shitty professor when youre a young adult isnt comparable to your parents hitting you as a child. The professor is not your entire world, your brain is much more developed, and youre unlikely to consider all your waking actions in terms of your professional skills.
Columnar in-memory ETL
This is the major criticism of string theory.

https://www.google.com/search?q=occam%27s%20razor%20string%2...
The FCC doesn't own the spectrum. The spectrum is public a asset. The FCC is the administrator of that asset. I am not trying to nitpick but this is an important distinction.

Originally broadcasters were allocated spectrum and in exchange were expected to fulfill some some basic responsibilities for the public good such as being required to show a certain amount of news content every day. This seems to have been forgotten but these crooked monopolists. They coax and fiber plant also uses public right aways in order to connect to households this is also a public asset.

Their business model is predicated on having access to these public assets(right aways and spectrum.) and yet at every turn they financially gouge customers, provide a substandard experience and prevent citizen from having any choice.
I wasn't in any physical danger. Some people on the street have exes and other sorts to fear. I also knew I could seek shelter from private strangers with relatively little fear because I was male.

Part of the reason shelters are the way they are is because they are desperately limited in terms of beds they can offer. The hassle is a way to keep demand down.

I wasn't going to contribute to the problem.
It was a consulting firm trying to break in with a larger client, so they had to move to other projects. Last I saw, they were working on Android projects.

>Maybe you thought startups were an exception and that startup employees are unique snowflakes but BigCo employees are drones?

No, I just don't think anything can be done without people and that one person is not the same as another.
Cable providers are monopolies. In most markets, customers have literally zero choice as to what provider to use. This means that they need to accept a fair amount of government regulation, because there are no market pressures to act as corrective forces without government regulation. Meanwhile, the tech companies you listed are not monopolies (and when Microsoft did engage in monopolistic behavior, they were found to be violating antitrust and were subject to some regulation, e.g. no more bundling IE with Windows and making it difficult to get other browsers, etc).
It may not be the simplest feature to implement but I do think we have enough tech now to build a pretty solid feature around this.

Also, I wouldn't call it merely a slight convenience when multiple times a day you see the pattern repeat of there being a long pause after you ask someone a question, followed by "sorry, I was on mute."
I mean... I want to believe that I'd be able to say "My time is coming to an end" with that kind of revenue, but I doubt it. That is serious money.
Not to mention respect for meta-standards. Trying to parse RSS feeds is an impossible job. Let alone the RSS/atom dichotomy, nobody respects the standards, or purposely violates them.
Great point. Typing emojis on non-mobile devices is a pain right now. Cmd+Ctrl+Space on Macs brings up an emoji-picker, but I doubt many people know that.

I guess this should be scoped to mobile-only applications. Web services can also use traditional referral links so a memorable referral code isn't as big of a UX win.
> "My conclusion was that cancer is best prevented by removing negatives from life, not necessarily adding positives."

But diet is a complex system. So while there might not be any magical "direct" benefit from eating a certain fruit or vegetable, they could still produce a significant positive effect.

Perhaps the biggest contribution to preventing cancer that fruits and veggies make is to curb negative behavior. They might replace sugary foods or regulate cravings or satiate (all interrelated). And then, this could feed back into promoting positive behavior: more energy which encourages more rigorous exercise. Which boosts the subject's mood and increases their sense of well-being. Which feeds back into their dietary choices. Etc.
Selection bias explains a lot of this.

Smoking is easy to quit for most people, and ridiculously hard for most smokers. When I was 17-20 50% of my friends smoked cigarettes and 80% of my friends quit by the time they were out of college a year or two without any problems. The remaining 20% of my friends couldn't quit for the world. They've tried quitting 20 different ways and never succeeded. I think the difference is some people are just wired for quitting smoking to be hard, but most people aren't. And the former population is way over represented among the smoking population.
Is there any way to dump the raw data?

My wife and I maintain a list of ridiculous oddball Google searches we've made in the past (no, you can't see it). It would be interesting to try to train an AI to find the ones we've missed...
> It turns out despite poor conditions for many racial groups, a shared national identity wins out.

And it's not clear how much of that is present in China.

> If China wanted the US to suffer, they'd just create versions of ISIS for each minority group—persuasive ideologies that present violence as the only option—and watch as the country tears itself apart.

Two can play at that game. (Although the long-term consequences might be unpleasant, as the U.S. has learned about its support of Afghanistan's mujahideen after the U.S.S.R. invaded in 1979.)
I've never successfully watched a video on Twitch. I get a black rectangle with playback controls, and when I press play, nothing happens. Disabling AdBlock doesn't help.
I just want this as a call transcription service.... Good ones are hard to find.
Networks are not endpoint devices, and most networks, especially networks provided by ISPs, are open to an unlimited variety of devices. This regulation is more like a documentation and open connection requirement than like a technical requirement. It's also not a novel kind of requirement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
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Or just go full enterprise and setup LDAP/Active Directory.
Maybe - French troop seem pretty active in joint US military activities.
I'm assuming they don't really have a company(AI/big data company) with out him or someone like him. At that point 5% of 0 is 0.
> Look up the Azul Systems pgc. That is more or less the holy grail, but it is patented out the wazoo, and is a commercial implementation only.

That's what I was alluding to in the parenthetical. According to the paper, C4 trades off a significant amount of throughput for reduced latency. That's what you want for many applications, and C4 is a great advance for those apps, but throughput is very important for most workloads, so HotSpot's GC ends up yielding a good balance.
Do HTMLWidgets really work with Jupyter? I saw there is an issue but it's still open: https://github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets/issues/144

Or are you referring to ipywidgets, not literally HTMLWidgets?
Agree with this. I like the libertarian and anti-government propaganda behind bitcoin, but I suspect few people understand the true benefits of a currency that doesn't fluctuate wildly. Federal institutions of stable democracies like the US, EU, India etc. strive to achieve this stability and its no easy feat. I'm not sure how a currency without a regulating institution would fare but the recent news around bitcoin, ethereum etc doesn't sound very encouraging (although I'm happy with both currencies existing simultaneously).
Do you maybe have multiple Gmail accounts? My first time visiting the link above, it only had 3 YouTube video views from this week. That was before I changed the selector from my work account to my personal gmail account. Then it correctly showed a very detailed log, like that I had opened Spotify 2 minutes ago.
Okssh  CLI selectable ssh_config
It's definitely not.
Obviously there is the potential for certain forms of abuse here, but it could be really useful for creating a record of what was said and what promises were made on the call.

"Oh, you thought it was due on Monday? Nope, transcript says you promised it by close of business Friday."
Most allocations in real-world apps are nursery allocations (that's the generational hypothesis after all), so the speed of nursery allocations, which is what results in the throughput differential here, very much matters in practice.
Why Blair really went to war
MongoDB tips and tricks: Collection-level access control
> to commit to staying in the building after your year in GCT provided doing so is not deleterious to your business.

So is the long-term play here for them to attract tenant to their office building?

I'd wish they would be clearer whether this is a profit-driven enterprise, and if so how they intend to make their money.
UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates
That makes sense, it just seems wasteful on aws's end to have thousands of machines running "for free" waiting on requests that may or may not come. Provisioning more capacity also can't be instant. For a large scale enterprise system it seems like it could be unpredictable.