skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah and it's even slower to listen to. I still have a 50+ second long recording from someone that I haven't bothered to listen to, because if they're too lazy to type it out, why should I be expected to wait nearly a minute to listen to it?
Accepting that that's actually true - and we know how flexible accounting is not just when you apply a will to bend the numbers but also when you have a bias (same as working with any data) - then it's only true within the system of "a university is a business". Whether it makes sense from any other perspective is quite a different matter. There are those (like me) coming from cultures where not everything was or is a business, and there is no such believe that making everything a business makes it better.
* Disclosure: I work for Google with the OP, and sit next to him in Japan.

"2. Google dispatched their solutions architect to work with them."

That's not what happened at all. He built the system entirely himself before getting in contact with us.

I think that while very complex machine learning tasks do require specific knowledge, creating a neural network that can do real work is within the abilities a single individual.
Aborting all boys is a bit extreme. Instead, what would happen if you systematically disempowered and imprisoned western men in favor of women, over the course of decades? Then, when only "empowered" women and feminine nu-males are left, their hearts will reach out to the poor people of the third world who they will welcome with open arms into their utopian multicultural society free of evil white men. At which point, the (especially in comparison) hyper-masculine immigrants will rape and pillage and destroy everything you tried to create. They won't want to "integrate" and castrate themselves, they'll happily take advantage of your weak, pathetic pushover of a "society" and attempt to turn it into that of their own. At which point, perhaps we will be completely doomed and we will regress into a dark age where opinions like your own will get you beheaded faster than you can say "toxic masculinity." Or perhaps, the real men of your society will rise up to fend them off, and the real women will return to the home to preserve their bloodlines. And in a few generations, if by chance you aren't already paste on the pavement, you and all of your castrated friends will look quite foolish. A generation of non-breeding suicidal idiots that almost killed the only society that would ever accept them.

I wonder where I have heard this story before.
Is that the actual murder rate or the conviction rate? Remember that women are less likely to be convicted than men are.
Ask HN: How are world class data teams structured?
I'm doing some research into how data science and data engineering teams are structured in tech companies that build SaaS products - in particular, companies that have demonstrated leadership in using data in making decisions or improving the product experience.

In your experience, how are these teams organized best? Does data science and data engineering belong to an "Analytics" org, or does it fall within the realm of "Product"? For companies that use Agile development, does each Product Owner/Manager have access to a data engineer and data scientist, or are the data scientists/engineers in a separate team who consult with Product Owners as required?

Would be a great help if I could get some insights into how these teams are structured within the org.

Thanks!
The approximation is better in this case since you only have the results I return and you can't independently audit every section to see if I'm accurate. Say I return the 7 foot guy from each section, but one section only had a 6'8" guy. Meanwhile there is a section that had 10 7 footers. You can't verify that without seeing my data.
I agree 100%. Right now we don't even know the number of microphones our devices have, much less the contexts in which they may be active. Speech recognition protocols should also integrate low-level encryption standards to ensure access is only provided to trusted parties.
I think I understand your point - but I had a very different angle. What you write actually is fully in support with my point.

You simply declare as "reality" that what you perceive, the model we (our brains) have come up with. But that's exactly it - that's your version of "reality" created by how you look at it - with "macro" sensors. Different sensors would have a different result. In addition we don't even have raw sensor data in our mental world model, instead the data is extremely processed before it is assembled to our mental model of the world. Take a neuroscience course on perception, I recommend. Somebody said we live in a VR world created by our brains, and that is a good fit. Of course the input that goes into creating that "VR world" is from sensors getting data from interactions with the actual world.

If you don't understand what my point is don't say "you are wrong".
I am a native English speaker and a second language Mandarin speaker who learned at early adult age.

I personally consider typing English and Mandarin to be very different. There are linguistic, psychological, and cultural issues at play.

Firstly, the dominant Chinese input system is phonetic (pinyin), which perhaps implies some kind of different mental state when typing.

Secondly, it is the case for adult learners like me but also reportedly for many native speakers that precise Chinese characters are easy to forget. People have visual memories of 3-10,000 characters, but perhaps can write confidently as little as half of them from memory. The phonetic input system presents a context-based suggested intent shortlist and the user is requested to select the character they intended.

Sometimes, in more extreme cases, particularly for native speakers with heavy accents or new second language speakers, users may be unsure which character to select or may even input an incorrect but close phoneme, scan for visual recognition of the correct character, fail to find it, then type a different phoneme.

Frequently, typing Chinese is the only major creative interaction that Mandarin speakers have with modern Chinese text, since writing is becoming increasingly rare outside of a school or government-form context.
The root cert for www.schrauger.com is StartCom Certificate Authority. Isn't it their (StartCom's) responsibility to make sure the owner of Certification Authority of WoSign (the next cert in the chain) is acting in accord with some terms and conditions? Secondly, should the browser vendors remove StartCom CA as a trusted root? Do they not do that because all the StsrtSSL sites would break? Fine with me, personally.

[Edited to clarify who "their" meant]
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You can't type faster than you can talk. Trained stenotypists come close, but there's nobody who can consistently hit 130-150 wpm on a QWERTY or DVORAK keyboard.
Sapiens was a good book overall - it put together the high-level facts fairly well into a coherent and entertaining story. However, that story was also very zeitgeist-y and ideologically skewed, he really tried hard to work the "Out of Eden" story whereby the human race has fallen from our great past into our miserable modern life.

In fact, he had to contradict himself to push that story. In one case, he describes how agriculture is worse for the farmer, because he was sedentary and if the crops failed, he could not move and faced a famine, whereas hunter-gatherers could move. In an earlier part of the book, he describes how hunter-gathers moved over a relatively small area (20x30km IIRC?). But of course, if there was a drought in a world of hunter-gathers and they had to move, they would just move where there is another tribe already, so the drought would cause war, rather than famine. That was never mentioned, it's just assumed there was random free land everywhere.

But the biggest weakness of the book seemed to be his very weak appreciation of the physical sciences, ie he tried to tell the 75,000 year history of humanity, without bothering to spend any time on the context. Much of history is tightly coupled to ecology, advances in tech, demographics etc and his just glides over that. In one particularly idiotic part, he seems to imply that one day, someone just randomly invented math for no particular reason. Hard to tell if he was being glib or actually believes it.

I'll probably give his one a go as well, even though it'll probably suffer from the same issues. For example, it's very in-vogue to view the development of intelligent systems as inventions of capitalist who seek power over the people, rather than the discoveries about the nature of reality. I find the latter much more interesting.
Athletics are a profit center for only a few universities. I doubt though that this includes spending on stadiums. There is also the cost in terms of corruption of the university and the damage done to athletes (especially American football) for little to no compensation.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athlet...
So much of China runs on Windows scripting it's horrific. That is changing, but slowly.
New details emerge in a story by the New York Times including an interview with Choi and questions about his background and allegations of not fulfilling advertising contracts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/technology/a-silicon-valle...
Searching for Goldilocks
I put in "fishing, hiking, & skiing" and the #1 recommendation is NYC.
> You're right that some languages simply lack certain capabilities, but that's an issue of access, not computation per se.

Types determine what computations make sense.

> If you're going to go that route, then yeah the CTT is false -- likewise, TMs can't see inside black holes, so they can't "compute" that either.

Careful! I never said the CTT is false. I only said it guarantees nothing about functions whose type is anything other than `nat -> nat` (up to isomorphism).

> But the "computations" referred to in the CTT are assumed to meet certain criteria, e.g. that there's some API exposed for accessing the relevant information (...) Of course you have to care about external state and access privileges and race conditions and whether the API is usable, etc

These are properties of programs, not functions. Two syntactically different programs may compute the same function, so you can't conflate programs with functions (and hope to make sense).
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Let's see some Steam-using BT customers organize a leave BT day.
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I can type anywhere but there are a lot of places where speech is impossible/inconvenient. I wouldn't want to work in an office with everyone shouting commands at their computer. Audio feedback doesn't work if I'm listening to music from another device. The computer can't here me if I'm playing music, etc.
Honestly I find the complaining of "What about Russia!" to be an incredibly inane argument. Is the NYT really saying, if you want to criticise one countries actions you have to bring up all others?
I had a similar launch and lack of interest, plus people signed up, and never returned. Did you engage the users that did signup in any way? Did you get positive feedback while on hacker news that led you to believe the product is viable? How has you experience been with ux designers and testers been? Heck, do you have a blog I could read about this stuff? :)

My project got very little feedback, just kinda nothing but a lot of page views and about 35 signups out 3,000 page views over 3 months. No activity from those that did signup, very discouraging.
> homicide is not a leading cause of death for most demographics.

That's a downplaying, dismissive phrase. Most western democracies have a homicide rate of 0.5-1.5/100k population/year. The US is an outlier amongst this group at ~4.8/100k/y. But even in Honduras, with the runaway worst homicide rate in the world at around 85/100k/year, an eye-gogglingly high rate, homicide is not a 'leading cause of death for most demographics'.
It's for an academic project which is ongoing (the camera control is just one part of the system). When it's done, I'd be happy to share source (and indeed we may simply open-source everything related to the project to accompany the publication).
from the article:

>Domain validation is hard. It isn't as simple as one may think, and WoSign isn't the first to have a problem. They are still a trusted CA for now, and hopefully they will get their act together quickly.

The vulnerability exposed seems like a basic unit test to me (only assume ownership of validated domains or sub-domains - NOT all domains with a common root (or perhaps substring? the article is sparse on details)).

I had already lost faith in the 'everyone can be a root if they describe their process' model of trust before reading this post, but if software vendors that rely on trust anchors on their users behalf can't be bothered to do even basic due dilligence beyond vendor-sponsered audits, I'm left speachless.

Perhaps my experience with FIPS-140 has jaded me, but after seeing so much more money spent on paper-pushing than actual vulnerability assesment (and remediation), I can't help but feel lost after reading this.
It's more like long term climate forecasts. We know it's probably going to get hotter.
Not an expert, but having dabbled in cljs, I think this misrepresents it. The closure dependency makes things arguably heavier at dev time, but at compile time it allows for a lot of dead code elimination and other optimization that makes the actual output much more light weight. It doesn't slow down development, but allows for a much better product to be deployed.
I would pay 1% equity to someone who would do all the damn VC chasing.
OCaml compiler is designed in an extremely modular style. Actually you can design any syntax for OCaml (including lisp style) and produce the OCaml data structure, then it should work with BuckleScript, that's how Reason works
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"Females were actually more likely to engage in delinquent acts if they reported higher levels of emotional intelligence."

The research is referenced by the article.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/11/dark-side-of-emotional-...

and here's a PDF link to the paper:

Sex differences in the relationship between sensation seeking, trait emotional intelligence and delinquent behaviour
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264956539_Sex_diffe...
Wagon is also interesting for being a Haskell shop. One of the few Haskell start-ups I'm aware of. Super nice bunch of folks.
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Thanks! I have some experience in ocaml compiler internals, I reimplemented camlp4 called Fan. Yes, I made a prototype in 2 weekends and showed it to my boss and got very good feedback
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Turning an article into a clean PDF is a sufficient value addition to deserve an extra six months of exclusive license?

As a humanities type who nevertheless despises the academic uselessness of the realm, let me suggest that the extra six months is given to humanities papers because nothing that happens in them matters, and any value that anyone can contrive to get from them, they deserve to keep.

But maybe that's a little too harsh. Is anything valuable coming out of the humanities these days?
Mark Zuckerberg is on a surprise visit to Nigeria
Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
Apologies for the overloaded terminal emulator on the website which is not letting many people run tin. Was not really expecting to be randomly on HN 5 years deep into olduse.net's run.
Even at the far slower speed the first stage would still be damaged from re-entry. That's why they do a re-entry burn to slow the stage down before the atmosphere gets too dense. There's apparently also some interesting physics on the engine firing dissipating the bow shock which helps keep temperatures down.
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This review didn't grab me -- it seems ad hominem, attacking the messenger as much as the message -- but what does impress me is that Tom Wolfe is 85 years old! At this point in his life, it's awesome that he's taken on a project of such intellectual depth.
Probably the next release will have a better chance, but feel free to give it a shot and let us know how it goes for you. Just use the latest HEAD version of NumPy since there are some specific patches for PyPy.
Be sure to check back on November 11th 2018, which is when the Morris worm will hit olduse.net.
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This is really cool! I took some OCaml code I'd written a while ago and pasted it in and the output was shockingly legible even with the calls to functions in stuff like Caml_int32 and Pervasives. Very impressive!
Yep that's FIS, running atop our now Generally Available release of Cloud Bigtable (https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/). With the HBase compatibility, several folks have swapped out Cassandra for Bigtable (like Spotify, mentioned in our GA announcement https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/Google-Cloud-Bi...).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so I want you to use Bigtable ;).
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SBE is better if you don't have (much) in the way of message format evolution and you intend to read each message in full.

Cap'n Proto has a way better compatibility story, and there's no need to read the entire message just to read a particular part.

SBE is very good for its intended use case: high-frequency trading with tiny, but tons, of small messages. Cap'n Proto is better for use as a stable (but evolvable) message format between systems (e.g. RPCs), or for on-disk storage if you've got a database (like LMDB) that doesn't force you to copy read-only data.
Not until I know the Weissman Score of Zstandard.
I would say that galaxy clusters forming after only 2.6B years is an indication that our models are already wrong.
The architecture, for the curious, is simply shellinabox serving up a shared screen session with tin in it run on a couple of VMs. That doesn't scale super well.

Since it's been 5 years since I put that together, it's probably feasible now to simply compile tin to javascript with emscripten, run the whole thing out of the user's browser, and tunnel the nntp traffic out to the news server. Would scale much better. If someone would like a fun little project..

(In 10 years, the size of the whole olduse.net archive will probably be not much larger than the size of the average web page, and I can upload a single static file implementing olduse.net to IPFS?)
This is general purpose whereas Pied Piper, Hooli et al. focussed on video.
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Use an algorithmic password. Pick some easy to remember keyword, then work some of the letters of the website into the password so each site is unique. For example, your seed could be "horse", and your gmail password would be something like "hgomrasiel". I've been doing this for ten years and haven't forgotten a password yet. :)
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A different and more cogent take is here: http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Chomsky-Puzzle-Piecing/...
There should be VC agents then who take a commission. They could take a commission from the VC so no loss to you.
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How will driverless cars interact with pedestrians?
Ask HN: Google Container Engine vs. Heroku vs. Beanstalk?
A lot has changed since the previous comparisons between the services when it was mostly App Engine vs Heroku one command deployments and scaling.

Now with containers being the new kid on the block and more and more providers allowing easy container deployments, what does HN think about these services?

If you were to deploy a application for your new startup or hobby project, which service would you pick and why?
Not OP but self-employed going on a decade. Have high-deductible (intentionally) insurance covering myself and wife along with tax deferred Health Savings Accounts. In our mid-30s. Insurance runs $400/month and gets a tax deduction. Covered at 70% for just about any procedure/medicine. Not sure of what's typical. We have this done pre-Obamacare (grandfathered plan), but prior checks show within ballpark if not grandfathered (assuming HDP/HSA that is).
Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.
What is funny, is that Tess Stevens, that chick who were working at Wrkiot and was taking credit from Kim's work may have deleted her twitter account, but she didn't with her SoundCloud and band camp accounts https://www.vingle.net/TessStevens
https://tessstevens.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/tessstevens
On a cursory glance, the VP9 patent license is much nicer: it only gets voided if you sue about VP9.

That being said: has anyone actually given any indication that there are any relevant patents in the first place?
No softlayer?
Amazon is testing a 30-hour work week
AUD$4 for a freshly ground large decaffe skinny soy flat white in a takeaway cup.
I've just started learning OCaml. Bucklescript as well as F* and Reason are the reasons I chose OCaml over F#

https://www.fstar-lang.org/
I've compared the performance of Micro with some other editors, see:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
the weird thing is, readability.com/topreads recently had a makeover to make it more responsive.

it really really sucks losing instapaper daily and readability top reads in the same year. imho, readability.com/topreads was one of the best surveys of what was popular in the longformish world on a given day.
Well, my point is that the charity still gets $1000 regardless of tax rate. You could increase how much you give based on your expected tax savings so it costs you $1000 after the tax refund, but it's not automatic.
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