skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I don't think you're a lazy entitled millennial. I do think that you may not understand what doing a PhD involves.

People find academic careers hard for a lot of the same reasons that startups are difficult: there's no clear roadmap for moving forward, tons of hard work is necessary but definitely not sufficient for success, and although you have frustratingly little control over outcomes, it feels like all of your 'eggs' are trapped in one basket.
A new music channel on YouTube going viral. You must hear
Music City, a new youtube channel going viral. There you will find a wide variety of different electronic and non electronic music music.

Channel link:
https://www.youtube.com/c/musiccity1

Some music posted by the channel :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTv-HKjHKhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZCHZmv9qzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5PjW6fYPM
Alan Kay Interview
We don't have statistics for private schools in the US.

Over 100,000 students received corporal punishment in 2011/2012. (And some of them will have been hit on more than one occasion)

http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm
Despite what SV wants the world to believe, business success is 100% based on how much money you can bring to your business/company as compared to the cost to operate said business/company.

I see your point and concede that if you have research in an area with no funding, you are most likely dead in the water.

I don't see how that is any different than a business. The simple fact remains that you have no control over what is going to be "hot" and what is going to be "dead." How many times can you afford to be wrong? That is the ultimate question, isn't it?
How about the inverse process -- speech synthesis? Anyone know what the state of the art is in that field? The tech has been getting steadily better but we still seem a ways away from passable machine-generated audiobooks, for example.
Build a Real-Time Chat Web App with Dart, Angular 2, and Firebase 3
FISA's jurisdiction is to rule on surveillance permits. Not criminal convictions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...

The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

The governing legal code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1805

So:

1. FISA doesn't do criminal convictions.

2. There are no secret courts in the US capable of in absentia trials.[1]

3. Your attacking those who are correcting your factual misapprehensions doesn't play well here. Please don't do that.

________________________________

Notes:

1. If a defendant takes off during the pretrial phase, however, he may be able to elude an in absentia conviction. In the 1993 case Crosby v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law "prohibits the trial in absentia of a defendant who is not present at the beginning of trial."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Exactly, that key is now completely compromised (it was the second it was public). You can still see it here: https://github.com/kaolti/Who-Runs-This/commit/764945d8d968b...

You will need to generate a new key and resign with the new one.
After figuring out what that'd mean, I'm pretty excited for this too.

Seems like it's not to far from being stable (if not perfect performance wise).
Haha, no worries, we've all been there!
Historically it's been around 30%
Study: Religion contributes more to the U.S. economy than FB, GOOG and AAPL
How does it compare to the typical human error rate?
Like thins one ?

WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
This is probably the main misconception: Guile is only included to change the underlying Elisp implementation, not to completely change everything from Elisp to Scheme. The problem is mostly getting maintainers to switch over (as most are old enough to have dabbled in the current Elisp engine at least a few times, if not helped write the original implementation).

So yeah, it's not so much the Elisp in the Emacs source that's the problem, it's how do the maintainers switch to maintaining Elisp inside of the Guile project (up until now, Elisp was maintained as a language alongside Emacs). At the very least, this is how I understand it.
Easy. "Kids, it's time you started paying me rent. Got no money? No problem. I got a lot of chores: cleaning the house, dishwashing, laundry, cooking, etc. Mummy and Daddy are off to catch some Pokemon or whatever."
Because of code style (I do not mean spaces or tabs, it is beyond that). Different developers have different ideas of how a function should behave, where it literally has no effect on how the rest of the system works.
Can someone explain why Google Maps needs/wants access to a phone's camera?
Recognizing the words is just the first step. Getting meaning out of those words is what really counts. When on a telephone call I may miss a percentage of what was said, due to poor audio quality, the speaker's accent, etc., but based on context I can still understand the message the speaker is trying to convey most of the time. Transcribing each word with near-perfect accuracy is unnecessary if the layers above that can handle it.
I enjoyed this piece when it came out in 2015. I think it's worth a read for those who haven't seen it before. The previous HN comments are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9335441 . There's also a followup essay at http://www.dursi.ca/objections-continued/ .

Looking now, I see the author discussed the topic further in a podcast at http://www.rce-cast.com/Podcast/rce-97-jonathan-dursi.html . I have not yet listened to it.
I'm reasonably certain I've written JSON-parsing logic in Haskell that's substantially smaller than this.
Why Americans don't take sick days
Want to Be a Better Programmer? Lars Bak and Kasper Lund (creators of V8 JavaScript VM)
> That's the textbook case of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.

Yes, agreed. And I'm not completely against socialization, but I see little reason to encourage it for this case. If infrastructure and services cost more further out, property taxes for those areas should reflect that.

> When things are not subsidized, the developers only end up building luxury condos in urban areas, which is the case for most large metro areas right now.

This tends to be true because SFH-zoned areas are held as sacred cows, and what increased density is allowed is constrained into small areas. This both keeps land prices high, so developers need to target the high end of the market, and it means that cheaper forms of increased density (say, building duplexes/triplexes/granny flats in existing low-density areas) are literally illegal.

I swear, people want developers to build huge towers and then offer up the units for cheap. Do you think it's cheap to build those towers? Hint: it is not. Brand new, inherently-expensive-to-build housing is always going to be expensive to rent. The solution is to a) permit cheaper forms of housing where possible, b) allowed increased density across a wide swathe of residential area (which can be done the same way as (a), really), and c) accept that new things always cost more than old things. The luxury units of today are the upper-middle class units of twenty years from now, the middle-class units of forty years from now, the working-units of sixty years from now, etc.
Hehe, was for the Chrome store, got rid of it now.
Is this for real? It seems like this should be a massive scandal.
Kim kien tran
No. Addressed multiple times in this thread. Notably: Nixon pardoned by Ford, and Vietname War draft-dodgers pardoned by Carter, without necessity of prior convictions.
I would love to see a breakdown of the kinds of errors these systems make. WER is an interesting broad stroke, but it doesn't necessarily tell me how useful a given system will be for some given application[0] (unless, of course, it is 0). It'd be even more interesting to see comparative error analysis across the selection of these systems. A 0.06 point improvement is certainly impressive, especially this close to the end of the scale, but I'd be curious to see if it lost anything in getting there. It's one thing if this system is strictly better than it's predecessor. It's entirely another if it is now 10% better at recognizing instances of the word 'it', but has lost the ability to distinguish 'their' and 'they're'[1].

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[0] It is like that any viability analysis would be on an by-application basis, so I don't pretend like I'm asking for an insignificant amount of work here!

[1] a crude, toy, and likely inaccurate example. Not trying to belittle the work.
Why shouldn't the audio quality factor in? Isn't it easier to understand 44.1 Khz 16 bit CD quality audio than 8khz 8 bit pcm (phone data).
Yup, or conversely, "everything is fine, everyone's opinion is valid", and you get modern news coverage.

Not taking a side is no more honorable, admirable, or enlightening than taking one.
Google Attacks EU Plans to Make It YouTube Copyright Cop
That sounds like an interesting research angle. The thing about AI research is there are so many open ends there are essentially unlimited research options. If you can pose it as a problem and identify a reasonable programming approach then you have an avenue for AI research. Deep Learning isn't the end of AI research. It is the beginning.
A bit of hyperbole. See the police officer who body slammed the black girl and ultimately faced no sanction at all.
If these speech to computer interfaces are so important, why don't we develop a dialect for humans to speak to computers more efficiently, kind of like the grafiti alphabet on the palm pilot but for speech?
My understanding is that it's a little bit more grey than that. Modification of signals with an intent to obscure the content of the transmission is explicitly forbidden. But obfuscation for other reasons is not expressly forbidden. So there's a question of "is this incidentally encrypted, or intentionally encrypted", which is (again, from my understanding, which is very limited) why I'm calling it dubious and not simply "forbidden".
Wow, you're right. It's so under the radar, I don't know a single person who has ever used it, or mobileme before it. The point still stands though, in the sense that Mail.app is written with the assumption of IMAP/Exchange as the primary use case, and so they have to assume local processing unless they implement proprietary protocols/IMAP extensions. I don't think you get credit for starting with a legacy POP/IMAP client, and then say "this was architected for local processing for your privacy", in the sense that, it already existed that way because most Mail clients prior to Gmail had to treat the MTA as a relatively commodity store. (you're claiming credit for doing something that was always that way by default) If they launch a rewrite-from-scratch end-to-end client for a proprietary email service protocol, and offer features on parity with gmail, but all with offline processing, then it's worth talking about.

Apple is in the same position as Microsoft with the PC. Microsoft wanted the PC to be the center of the universe, the center of the home, and all processing to take place on it, because that meant MS Software would be in control. Cloud based processing commodifies your platform, as the Web helped commodify Windows and paved the way for the iPhone and Mac to be viable and usable (since most of the apps people wanted to run were now web apps)

Apple wants the iPhone to be the new central hub of everything, because that drives sales of hardware and drives lock-in to their proprietary walled garden. By coincidence, this aligns with enhanced privacy, but Apple is beholden to Wall Street just like Google is, and if there was a new product which threatened to tank their stock, and they had to compromise "principles", you'd start to see a weaseling away.

When Apple reaches saturation with their primary business, the iPhone, and they need to drive huge growth, they'll diversify into other areas. If they are driven into services, they will inevitably run up again the issue of having to process inherently personal data in the cloud.
> Writing portable scheme is almost impossible, and frowned upon.

Jesus christ.

I'm sure there are great, rational reasons for this. What were they?

It's really interesting to think that the majority of our software platforms are A) Unix-derived and a bit of B) Windows, and both of those have pretty much taken over industry with Algol-derivatives (C, C++, Objective-C, Java...).

I mean, it's news when a company says "We don't use the above!"

With that in mind, it feels like Scheme is the like the Basques/Finns of the software world, a completely separate genealogical line that perdures to this day in small pockets here and there.
I can understand why an address might be necessary to coorberate that some random signer from the internet matches to an physical US address.

But after I signed, it presented a donate page. I don't want to give them money since they have my addresses. They would have been more likely to get my money if they provided an anonymous donation portal.
When I was a kid I hit another kid in the nose with a wooden block because he was picking on me and another boy who were trying to play peacefully with said blocks.

I immediately regretted it to the point where it is one of the most vivid (and only) memories I have from that period (I was 4. it was pre-school)

I think I meant to threaten him but instead gave him a bloody nose and sent him to the nurse.

I distinctly remember (this said in my 35 year old voice, I doubt it was this clear a thought at 4) vowing to not use violence ever again to solve my problems.

That said, the boy never picked on me or anyone around me again.

There is no moral to this story.
Best I can find is section four here: http://www.utdallas.edu/~assmann/hcs6367/lippmann97.pdf

It seems to be significantly less than 1% - 1.6%
Well, I didn't say that Spotify made the move in exchange for credits. However, since you brought it up:

> Some critics, surprised by such a high-profile company going with what is seen as the distant Number 3 in the hyper-scale public cloud market, have suggested that Google extended a sweetheart deal as part of the move. Details of the agreement haven't been disclosed, but Nicholas Harteau, Spotify's vice president of engineering and infrastructure, told The Wall Street Journal that the company "negotiated hard on price."[1]

> Of course, for such a high profile customer and for the priviledge of a case study, we can assume Spotify has some heavy discounts. [2]

Not "proof," but it's pretty well-mentioned across the industry that Google benefited from this deal probably more than Spotify did.

[1] http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/4500276342/S...

[2] https://medium.com/@davidmytton/how-much-is-spotify-paying-g...
You got pretty good point, wait a year from today, couple of those 5 Driver profiles you mentioned above will be available from Uber .
I will take this to next step, By JUNE 2018 when you have 200 miles(battery) Electric cars are on roads (from Nissan, Tesla), Uber offer above all the 5 Driver profiles . At the end of the day Cars will be parked in your drive way ( if you signup ) and you take care of charging overnight( after 11 PM to get electricity at 1/4 cost) in return Uber will give you UBER Milage credits which you can use whenever you /family rides.

These Uber milage credits are especially attractive to many casual drivers ( non Full time) and also good for UBER as they give only Credits(keeping 100% of fare cash) and it also put pressure on FULL time Drivers cut which is 80% today as more CASUAL driver pool is available in this new scheme .

Parking cars on People garage is economical compared on centralized location As it takes extra time to get cars back to neighborhoods where people need morning rides and also Uber saves on Real estate cost . UBER may have some centralized locations for Cars maintenance/repairs etc..

When 100% self-driving is ready by 2020/2021 ( both from Govt. regulation and technology side), All you have is Electric Self-driving Software Powered Cars (ESS Cars) parked all over in your neighborhood people Parking LOTS ( People get Mileage Credit for allowing their parking LOTS) and unlock and drive TO YOU from your mobile Phone .

[Ford says 100% self-driving in 5 years](http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/16/technology/ford-self-driving...)
We're happy that you're happy. :) Keep the feedback coming; we're listening!
Apple Hires Former Time Warner Cable Executive Peter Stern
I was also there as one of the presenters, and concur, it was a great experience. The strength of the community is absolutely one of the threads that ran throughout the conference. I've been involved in open source a long a long time and had sadly revised my expectations downward, but Rust is going a long way towards restoring my confidence.

Kudos and thanks to the organizers!
> And if you dig deeper you'll find a slightly different story, including the countless cases where groups like B'Tselem brought to court and lost due to proof of purchase.

Land ownership has been hard for Palestinians to prove in Israeli courts. They are often represented by pro-bono lawyers while the Israeli state is represented by very well-compensated ones. But I have no reason to believe that B'Tselem's and Peace Now's estimates are incorrect. Do you? If so, say what the reason is instead of insinuating that they are dishonest.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_land_and_property_laws

Wikipedia is a bad source for anything having anything to do with Israel.

> You are also incorrect about the use of the absentee law, this was used however it was used within Israel after the 1948 war, and the last time it was used was in the 1950's and since then has been surpassed.

Haaretz disagrees with you: http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/jerusalem-vivendi/.premium-1.52... But you are talking about a different law. During the Ottoman period, land where in a way "leased" to families and if they stopped cultivating the land or abandoned it, it would revert to belonging to the state again after a set number of years. Israel choose to uphold this law in the West Bank after the occupation began in 1967. It allowed it to confiscate land that had been left behind by refugees fleeing the Six-day war. It also means that it is much harder for Palestinians to claim ownership of some piece of land than if they had lived in some other place.
That's true, but I wonder if computers will exceed out technical accuracy first, or begin to actually "understand" things first? I suspect the former.
>To say it produces nothing just isn't true.

How do you know? Do you actually have any evidence that torture works?

pavlov provided a source above explaining that there is no evidence that torture is effective. Your response seems to just be "well they must just not be doing it right".
That's very cool, thanks for the link! From the comparison, the audio quality is clearly improved and they eliminated the sort of digital "wobble" that I usually associate with TTS. Intonation is still a bit off, though. Will check out their paper.
You might enjoy "Echopraxia", his sequel to "Blindsight."
Russia bans PornHub
Regarding the PC Principal arc, I feel like they took an idea for one or two episodes and made it into a season. I didn't really enjoy how the episodes blended together either, but I know a lot of people seems to like it.
I removed it now, still looking into getting a new key.
And that does not include any external packets...

Yes, there is no way Emacs will get rid of elisp. That's why Guile Emacs includes writing an elisp frontend for Guile. (There is also a Frontend for ECMAScript and an experimental one for Lua)
GraphQL API Explorer wants this permission:

Public and private
This application will be able to read and write all public and private repository data. This includes the following:

Code
Issues
Pull requests
Wikis
Settings
Webhooks and services
Deploy keys

Why'O whyai?
I'm working on a similar project, http://rationalfiction.io, where you can read hard scifi written mostly by hackers.
Is that your recommended entrée into the Culture universe?
Pardon Edward Snowden
Not really. Why waste time blocking specific scripts when the whole point of the company is to be sleazy?

There's really never a situation where I want to download something from a site like that, because I don't trust them at all and I completely disagree with what they are doing.

It's not worth whitelisting - I can read something else.
Can't seem to find free private repos and unlimited collaborators ?

But good to see GitHub responding - would be keen to hear from bitbucket which I personally use for private repos.
I've read to make tracing harder people use tumblers, basically the electronic form of money laundering.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/17807/what-is-a-b...
> secure and scalable

> over the Internet

What does this really mean? How does this substantially differ from the now-facetious term 'web scale' [1] ?

Modern RDBMS'es offer encrypted communications between client and server [2][3][4], but nothing is stopping a deployer from putting a proxy between the database and the Internet-resident end-user to translate between authentication mechanisms. In fact, this happens in every single API today, where the Basic or OAuth or Cookie-Auth request comes in the HTTP body, and gets made into a database query in a query language the DB understands -- SQL or something else.

GraphQL needs to you bring your own authn/z [5][6][7] much the same way that your run-of-the-mill HTTP API needs to you to bring your own authn/z, so I can't accept 'secure' as an innovation over SQL. "Scalable?" How?

I genuinely think this tech is neat but let's consider what it gives you. GraphQL packages together the query language known as GraphQL, the IDL/typespec language known as GraphQL, the server spec known as GraphQL which a GraphQL-compliant server must implement [8], inside which you have to hook up your actual datastore to the GraphQL server [9][10][11][12]. It's a useful tool to build a client-server system where you're going to make a backend query in the end, but I wonder if its full potential will be realized when there are GraphQL-capable datastores to skip that extra data munging layer you have to implement yourself; but if SQL were passed on the TLS-secured wire instead of this bespoke format that no DB yet understands, would we collectively freak out? What's the difference?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-explanation-of-the-punch-li...
[2] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191192.aspx
[3] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e40393/asoj...
[4] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/ssl-tcp.html
[5] https://medium.com/the-graphqlhub/graphql-and-authentication...
[6] https://github.com/mostr/graphql-auth
[7] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34952792/how-do-i-structu...
[8] https://facebook.github.io/graphql/#sec-Execution
[9] https://www.reindex.io/blog/building-a-graphql-server-with-n...
[10] https://www.compose.com/articles/using-graphql-with-mongodb/
[11] https://medium.com/apollo-stack/tutorial-building-a-graphql-...
[12] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35940528/how-to-connect-g...
I wonder if having all the gear will have a positive effect. Once drivers learn it means that those are self-driving cars it can begin to acclimate drivers to having such cars on the road. And as they see how (hopefully) predictably those cars drive it will increase their comfort level until they may be willing to purchase a self-driving car for themselves. I could also see a small rise in rear end collisions as people think that they can safely tailgate a self-driving car believing that it will not stop suddenly, that it will not act in the unpredictable ways that normally make us cautious of other drivers/cars on the road.
I'll raise you Houston, TX.