skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the unsuspecting consumer expects a working device, it would be in the suppliers best interest to keep updating to not be held liable for damages. It's debatable how reasonable that expectation is nowadays. Otherwise the consumer would be liable. I don't think this counts as an unavoidable accident unlike a hail storm might.
Thats fine. The only option that makes sense to me is the highest plan. It's all or nothing
Put yourself in OP's position: would you rather _not_ know?
So you can PAY to see ads just like cable TV.
As a huge Nix fan, I think it's perfectly acceptable to say non-linux package management is an abomination, linux package management is a mess, and nix is not (yet :)) ideal.

Engineers shouldn't assume something is done well because nobody is doing any better. Some things suck and there's nothing to blame but other priorities or sheer laziness.
I gotta ask, what's wrong with Judæo-Christian ethics and win-win solutions? What's wrong with getting along, with doing well by doing good, with honestly trying to be pleasant to others? Would that be the end of the world?
I was interested. Thank you very much.
Would be helpful to add JSON API.
"FPS: Maybe"

That's awesome.

I grew up in the US, so had no awareness of this system, at all. It was really surreal reading about it (and the French Minitel, etc.) when the Internet started becoming popular; it was inevitably compared to the existing services that provided some of the same capabilities. I was like, "WTF? Why didn't I have access to anything like that when I was a kid? That sounds awesome!"
Pretty happy custom domain + free Zoho mail user. 25 free users with 5 GB of email storage each is a pretty amazing deal you get without paying a dime.

Although, to be perfectly honest, I don't use any other product offered by Zoho.
You could make a very nice 'private cloud' with this machine, or even a 20-core setup if 64GB of RAM is what's going to bottleneck you.
I hope it works out for them. Amazon's age it's showing, their site it's clunky and unresponsive at times. Sellers misrepresent their wares all the time. They're outright banning some products which, for a store, it's a very opinionated move if you ask me. And don't give me the "the Apple Store doesn't carry the Fire" crap, Amazon bills itself as the "everything store". It works sure and customer service it's still miles ahead the competition (this is expensive and something that it's always overlooked by the competition) but they're neglecting the storefront by trying to be "everything".
Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t
> We don't want it so that everyone is forced to build everything from scratch every time.

We don't want this either :) Let's not boil the oceans.

Nix and Guix are both a hybrid of build-from-source and binary package management systems. The package recipes and management tools describe how to build some software from source, and then transparently provide binaries for those recipes when the binary is available from a user-approved provider of the binaries.

But, by providing the full build recipes, all the way down to the bootstrap, users can easily rebuild binaries from source to check that their selected binary provider is honest, or to find reproducibility bugs.

In the case of a package recipe for some software that does not have source code available (a binary "blob"), the recipe would just download the blob from somewhere. We don't package those things in Guix, whereas Nix does. Although, it's not hard to make custom recipes that would do that, if you wanted to.
CAs are already highly generalized, we are just conditioned to only think of the famous ones like the Game of Life.

All you need for a CA is a space in which to map your cells (in an arbitrary number of dimensions, with an arbitrary mapping), some state for each cell (maybe a real, this is arbitrary) and some transition function to compute the next state of each cell from its current state and that of its "neighborhood" (which again is arbitrarily defined.)
If you could do that with the actual Minecraft legos (or just legos in general, but the minecraft legos are the write size and shape already), that would be killer. Probably have to take an angled sideview and a top view, at least. But yeah, would be very cool.
Misleading title. It's a tutorial to setup HDFS with S3 and not a discussion on why you should move your billing database onto ephemeral storage (which was what I expected from the title).
128GB RAM for $270? How is this possible?
Nix is isomorphic to JSON + lambda + let-rec, made lazy.
How often do you socially interact with those global friends, in person? I'm all for learning awesome computer skills, but there is a time to be a child, and a time to be an adult. I wouldn't exchange growing up in the woods with BMX bikes, skateboards, and vine swings with the neighborhood kids. For sitting behind a computer all summer vacation, messaging people on the internet. I now have a career, and friends all over the world as well.
But but but... science!
image kernels are 2D convolutions, and you can think of them as extensions from 1D convolutions. In 1D, understanding the frequency domain behavior is much easier since you don't have to worry about spacial frequency and 1D frequency is something most people can intuitively understand.

look at FIR filters, they are essentially 1D image kernels.
5 mins to hurl something down your throat, and hired help for everything else. Everything. Else.

Also stimulants. Lots of stimulants -- and blood transfusions.
No! They absolutely can not! OS updates do not come via Play services... Why can't people understand that Android is open source? An Android OEM can (and does) modify their Android distribution anyway they like UNLIKE a Windows phone OEM. The fact is any OS update directly from Google would probably brick an OEM phone not that Google can unilaterally decide to update someone else's phone anyway.

Samsung bails, Google and Android is screwed...
You're right.

Although those security updates have been out for a year now, so technically Google doesn't update their phones for three years yet and we're yet to see this commitment happening. Based on their track record, my confidence level isn't exactly high.
Do you correctly pronounce "Nikon" as "Nee con", then explain to your English-speaking friends that that's how it's pronounced in Japan even though Nikon marketing doesn't even use that pronunciation in English-speaking countries?

Do you correctly pronounce "champagne" the French way around your English-speaking friends, even though the French pronunciation sounds almost nothing like "sham pain" so of course you have to explain yourself every single time you say the word?

Does actual phlegm emerge from your throat whenever you correctly pronounce the Greek letter chi at the end of TeX and LaTeX, or do you just say "lay tech" or (god forbid) "lay techs"?

Most importantly, do you say "guh noo slash lin ucks" and go around correcting everyone who doesn't? Because if you do any of these things, please, please, please stop. Please. Please. Seriously, it is so not worth it.
If an end-user is using a markup language at all, you've already screwed up as a developer of usable software.

If you're going to use a markup language, at least use one that supports basic shit like underlining text, or typing the sentence "21." without it thinking you're trying to start a list.

No matter how users are interacting with the text on your site, do usability testing. If you do usability testing in good faith, and Markdown comes out as the winner, then use it, with my blessing.

Don't base your usability decisions on gut instinct or knee-jerk reactions. Which is pretty much exactly what every site using Markdown currently is doing. AFAIK it's never been studied in front of a fair selection of users.
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If you're using Gandi (a registrar I would strongly recommend), you can set this up from your Gandi domain dashboard: Click "Manage mailboxes" and create a forwarding address. Example: https://i.imgur.com/qRmho7J.png - The MX values for your domain need to be Gandi's default email servers.
A couple years ago I was watching Hulu and noticed the ads always felt like they took much longer to play than they should.

I got out my iPhone and timed the seconds as they counted down during ad time on Hulu. Each second of ad time on Hulu took 1.34 seconds of actual time to pass. They were telling you for example, that there were 2 minutes of ads about to play, but the 120 second countdown would actually take 160 seconds to pass.

I stopped watching Hulu altogether after that discovery. I think I checked back in more recently and they had stopped doing that, but it's still a little telling about where their head is at regarding ads and their customers.
Source on productivity? And whether or not individual workers are more productive, French mega-corporations seem to have much less of a global reach than American or German ones. I can't think of many French products that are common in the US other than cosmetics (that's an anecdotal argument though).
Great summary, one caveat: You often won't see full deductibility of your state income tax because between state income tax, property tax, mortgage interest and/or childcare, you find yourself subject to the AMT.

I would also like the ability to do something similar to the way a business can depreciate an asset over time. How about the opposite: IRS tells us how many years you can spread an _appreciation_ out over. Currently the tax code penalizes the guy who works below market for years and then sees a lump sum payday. Why should it?

That said, I'd be happy if we just did away with dual-basis of ISOs and eliminate the rube goldberg AMT credits.
There's currently only info and animation on arrays, and I haven't even pursued the nuanced differences of Static/Dynamic arrays, ring buffers, etc. But I hope that, over time, I'll grow this into a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of all the common data structures, from hash maps and linked lists to binary search trees and heaps. Let me know what I did and didn't do well, and what you'd want to see next.
'Library Anxiety' and What Librarians Do to Help
I don't believe there is any difference, and have stated as much. But principles are supposed to be the things you seriously inconvenience yourself to defend, not the things you use as a convenient excuse to make things more convenient.

I mean, if you just said "property is theft!" as a justification when you lifted peoples' wallets, it'd seem a bit like "situational ethics". When you have an intellectual beef with someone while pirating their intellectual output in the form of literature, though, that's really going the extra mile. It may not be complete hypocrisy, but it sure has a lot of the appearance thereof.
Note: the video is hosted on YT, but you can find the whole transcript plus some useful links and screenshots below the player.

Also, I would like to gather some feedback and ideas for my next webinar later this month. It will be an advanced coding session about AWS Lambda, covering more complex scenario such as Alexa Skills, Kinesis, Cognito, CloudFormation, etc.

Here's the registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/685101884609607936...

Thank you all.
The more I see of what goes on under the covers, the more surprised I am that anything works at all. As an example, every gtk+ program I run spews thousands of errors to the console. Why? Are they bad? The programs seem to run anyway, never crashing more than one would expect. So … why the console spam?
Also, you can add email aliases - even for other domains. This is how I have my email setup. For $5 a month it's worth it for me.
Did it really? That leaves barely 38 hours a week for vital things like: sleep, health, family time, friends, etc. You know, real life stuff™. She can't get those hours back, and given her "work ethic" seems happy to keep spending her deficit.
It also seems very easy to misinterpret, because it says that only about 50% reciprocated, but what does this mean? A considers B their best friend, but B does not? Maybe B has someone else who is their actual best friend, but are still close to A. Maybe A and B don't agree on the term of the relationship they have, but, if you asked them how much they like each other, you'd get the same answers.
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Whoa. The way you're using those stats doesn't make sense. Trade volume is heavily skewed toward the use cases of those who make trades often; i.e., day traders. A user who makes a $100 trade once a month comes out to affecting trade volume an average of $3ish per day. Meanwhile a user who makes $100 trades 10 times per day is going to affect trade volume by $1,000 per day. So trade volumes could easily overrepresent a day trader by 33,333%. In other words, a day trader could easily have 333 times as much effect on trade volume as a once-a-month investor.

So maybe people who make frequent trades are doing it between cryptocurrencies, which makes sense, because if you're day-trading cryptocurrencies it makes sense to trade for other cryptocurrencies, as that avoids regulation. But we don't have any data about what percentage of users are day-traders. If anything, the fact that Eth/BTC trades are only the percentages they are on that chart indicates that this isn't the case.

And incidentally, people who make frequent trades are the ones least likely to pull their money out of the exchange to somewhere safe, because it's going to be the biggest PITA for them, since they'd have to do it so often.
I greatly respect scheme, and yet I like the nix expression language too. Scheme's claim is you shouldn't be using x more bloated language than it, but the nix expression language is smaller and simpler than Scheme; it beats it at its own game!

More practically, I can't think of anything that I wanted that Scheme offers but the nix expression language doesn't.
One Rack to Stack Them All
Do you really own the same priv as i do? Because i sit with a superb phone on august 5th patch.

Dedicated Comma, dot, numbers keys? Buy a laptop. Or stay with priv, double-click alt and voila! Use all those buttons you named - write numbers and put comma in between without doing anything else.

I regret accidently upvoting your unsubstantiated rant
Coming to terms with the fact that I'm one of these people has been a mixed journey. Still working on/figuring out if this can be "unlearned".
The GNU C Library version 2.24
Yes.

Edited to expand: I already sandbox my personal and work lives thoroughly, so it's not going to cost me anything of significance beyond the job if I lose the job - not that that's not significant, but it's not my whole life, either. If, to a good first approximation, everyone where I work hates me, then I'm already going to lose the job, because with that many people looking to put a knife in my back, someone is going to succeed.

The odds that knowing this is true will make it possible for me to change it are effectively negligible; on the one hand, if everyone where I work hates me because of my own behavior, I'm not equipped to change anyone's mind, and on the other, if everyone where I work hates me because of something that isn't actually under my control, everyone where I work still hates me and I'm literally the last person in the world who's going to be able to do anything about that. Either way, I'm screwed in a way that foreknowledge isn't going to do anything to help; the best that'll happen if I find out ahead of time is nothing, and the worst is that I'll make my situation even worse. So where's the benefit in being told?
> Either way, what good do you see coming of its revelation in this context?

Either OP changes his behaviour to better-please his colleagues, thereby improving their work dynamic, or he cuts them, thereby improving his circumstances. Without accurate information, he's unable to make an informed decision.
Very cool, I like the in-line buttons that animate. It really reinforces what the text is saying.
> SF people, home owners, are voting on SF policy. Do you want to lose half the value of your house?

Its more complex than that, as SF people voting on policy also include renters, and even if rent control insulates them from directly paying for price increases, market price declines save them money (and both increases and declines affect local costs of other goods, so they affect CoL even if they don't directly affect existing renters rent payments.) But, renters are largely people who have decided the trade-off of quality for cost at the current price does make sense, so they are less likely than outsiders who might want to move to SF if it was more affordable to make trade-offs that impact the qualities that they prefer in SF for lower prices, even if it would reduce their cost of living.
Surround him with like minded kids, for example:
1. Well sorted family
2. Ambitious, hardworking
3. Creative, but not crazy self-destructive

He's not going to be successful flying solo, the question is, who will be his peers? For example, if he's that gifted, get him ready to attend a school like Phillips-Exeter where his connections set him up for the future.
Hmm...are you sure? Think about the price of a mile of fiber. Then the cost to have it hung on existing poles (which will need specialized trucks and workers certified to work on live power poles) then the cost to have it spliced. Finally the cost to turn up the connection, terminate the fiber. I'm not sure about 10's of K, but I'd be surprised if this will cost less than $10k total even if done on the cheap (cable from eBay etc).
Amazon Japan raided by anti-monopoly watchdog
Ya, the thing is they probably couldn't. Not really. It's not just about money. Think about how many big companies (including WalMart!) have plenty of money but don't have the internal talent or culture to really drive change and innovate in ways they never have before. Companies are funny things. A lot of the time they can do what they can do and really just can't do what they can't do no matter how much money they throw at the problem. Sometimes (though definitely not always!) an acquisition can really help.
When two programmers argue and both think the other sounds crazy, it's usually because they are saying the same words but meaning different things.

SwellJoe: Go back and substitute "source verifiable" every time davexunit says "reproducible" and everything he says makes sense.

davexunit: Read everyone else's comments from the POV where "reproducible" mean "reliable bitwise replication" without consideration of scientifically reproducible experiments or source verification, and everything they say makes sense.
Ask HN: Speech recognition software bugs in 2016
Hello and sorry in advance if this topic is not suitable for Hacker News. My question is for anyone who has experience with speech to recognition software and techniques (as a user or developer). What are some of the most common mistakes or shortcomings currently exhibited by this software? Relevant links (research, meta-analysis, etc.) would be tremendously helpful. Thanks.
Don't know why they still force you to watch commercials for anything that is on FOX even when you pay the upgrade.
Ah! Then guix is not wrong-headed, at all. Carry on then.

I have no problem with Guix being ideologically pure. Only with the notion that you can't have a reproducible build without forcing everyone to build it it themselves, which it seems is not the case with Guix. Cool.
They're probably warnings rather than errors.
I'm going to take a wild guess: yes :)
As noahnoahnoah's comment alludes to, there is kind of a problem with elevation differences on Earth being small. For example, the vertical distance from sea level to the summit of Mt. Everest is only 0.1% of the Earth's radius.

If you made a globe with a 1 foot diameter, Mt. Everest should then be on about 0.2 millimeters above the surface (if you choose to represent sea level as the surface).

Edit: this problem is less dramatic if you make either models either of local regions, or extremely large models (because relative to the size of a region like the Bay Area, the highest elevations in the region are fairly high).
Sorry if I misinterpreted your post. Glad to hear that we're on the same page.
FSF got their definition into the doc, as a first-class peer of the OSI definition!

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/commit/1d4f...

That's major!
TOML #because it allows comments

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
No, it was because he saw them reading a book he thought was about manipulation. I don't think a reasonable person would lose respect for another because they saw them reading the latest best-seller.
Got any case studies where that worked?
I doubt she worked 130 every week
They have an ad-free tier. Some people prefer to pay slightly less for the ad-full tier.
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This is super cool but it's unfortunate that it clamps negative result values to black.

It's probably worth mentioning that there are a lot of ways to implement convolution with a kernel, and the kernel can be of any size, not just 3×3. The explanation here shows how to implement the output-side algorithm nonrecursively; http://www.dspguide.com/ch6/3.htm gives this for the one-dimensional case. But you can implement it on the input side instead (iterating over the input samples instead of the output samples), there are kernels that have a much more efficient recursive implementation (including zero-phase kernels using time-reversal), you can implement very large kernels if you can afford to do the convolution in the frequency domain, and there's a whole class of kernels that have efficient sparse filter cascade representations, including large Gaussians.

(To say nothing of convolutions over other rings.)
Me too.

But I realize that "someone" could lose his job by sharing such (or any) details.
Unlike cable TV, you can pay more to not see ads.
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Or like most any magazine.
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What about retraining a truck driver's kid?

You're not comparing apples to apples.
What are the blood transfusions for?
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I've worked at a startup with poor work culture, long, long hours, and super detrimental to my time and personal health, and it crashed hard.

It gave me a lot of experience but I'm not sure the resulting poor health and burnout afterwards made it worth it.

Success is not guaranteed by working hard. At best, it increases your chances of success, and probably not by a whole lot.
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SSL and PGP for the web?
I would use it if it didn't prompt me to upgrade to a paid plan every 10 seconds or so...
For 11.99 you get that for all but a handful of shows, and they tell you exactly which shows when you sign up.
Semi relevant, I just spent the last two hours getting an ancient machine printing to modern copier.
Yeah, more or less.
Location: Riverside, CA (USA)

Remote: Willing, but not preferred.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, C++, LaTeX, git

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/94n4h3d1qrckgbg/ScottM_Resume.pdf?...

Email: scott.manifold@u.northwestern.edu

Recent graduate with a Mathematics background, but in the process of transitioning towards a more developer role. Some combination of quantitative + software work would be great, but really just looking for opportunities to learn and grow (and of course do good work).
What did you switch from where the customer service was decent?
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Windows Secure Boot exploit discussion :)
Will be released tomorrow.

In the meantime, you can ask us questions here or at #rtchurch on irc.aurora-irc.net or irc.rol.im :)
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