skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as i know there are some issues with canvas text measurement and accessibility support. So it's just hard to use it for data visualization and infographics.
Take a look at W3C accessibility graphics topic
https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/graphics.html
This is cool. I feel like it's more interesting and practical to apply Redux to game development instead of React though. Redux's "Time Travel" idea is really neat - I want to see something like React that acts as a view layer and uses Redux to model game state.
But does anyone know if it's possible to do TTS with the recently released libraries?

Thanks for the links, but to my ear the samples on those links don't hit the mark. The Wavenet samples in the original article cross the threshold for me. So I'd like to try some short length dialog tests, especially as I've read elsewhere that 1 second only takes 4 minutes on a K80.

Any light anyone else can shed on this would be great.
yeah I always find that to be interesting - they look more like curios from mexico at that point than those dignified, time weathered monuments we're accustomed to.
I just want you to know that you've highlighted my point far better than I did.

From the responses I've gotten, I feel like people think I'm saying the south doesn't have very real problems with race. It does. But the daily reality is much closer to what you're describing.
I believe most call it "demand".
I hope you have a plan for your paying users when it breaks in production.
IE 6-8 supports VML, so Graphics switch to VML if SVG is not available
SVG is the best vector graphics format out there? Most other popular graphics formats are raster.
Google-backed blockchain startup Ripple raises $55M from big banks
Everyone should cover up their laptop webcams, says FBI director James Comey
Conference papers include a copyright notice with the name (and year) of the conference.

Papers that aren't published at conferences (preprints, technical reports... etc) don't have any standard format for this. Sometimes (especially for preprints) it's left out in expectation of adding the copyright notice in a future version, sometimes it's left out because the document is in a very preliminary stage and hasn't been officially published and sometimes it's left out because people just didn't think of it and there's no standard format that includes a date for things that aren't published to a specific venue.
Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
I think microservices can work well, but also agree that it's easier to start with a monolith. It's hard to go out and create perfect microservices. In my experience they emerge from the problem much like how an amoeba gets big and breaks off at natural points.
I think it depends on the context. Sometimes when I'm emulating my bro mario I do enjoy the CRT filters.
Apple’s 21% Rally Is Tough Pill for 295 Funds That Bailed
Oreilly Media are probably stoked about this, a new art discovery for us more cover images for them.
China, India, Africa, Indonesia, Russia (regional government offices), for this and for many other countries IE6-8 is common case. It's just a fact.
That's exactly what Nix [1] tries to accomplish. You should look into it.
I have been using it for about six months and has worked very well for me, especially for haskell and python development.

[1]: http://nixos.org/nix/
They'll turn json into a dumpster fire to, it's just tradition at this point.

I think xml with it's great validation and inter-operability is still the best choice for something like HL7 though.
This looks like almost a direct copy of one of Matt Stine's popular talks.
Nobody mentioned it presumably because it's a racist view.
The way I see it PayPal essentially helped an established incumbent monopoly (US credit card companies) with issues at the time maintain and extend its global relevance, lock down domination of cross-border consumer payments, meaningfully extend US intelligence sector surveillance, and continue to fuck the little guy. Only Europe and China are building a resistance now, 15 years later. That you have 5 or 10 rich people coming out of that little cash-cow who feel like publicly playing god with humanity's future or that they deserve some kind of respect for the 'achievement' is pathetic. Any number of people could have built that better, or with morals. If they had any sense they'd be ashamed at what they've done, and how it has seemingly irrevocably crumbled in to bigcorp screw-the-customer service mode. Besides, we all know the real e-vehicle revolution has already happened, right here in China.
Look up backdoor roth and mega backdoor roth.
I get that tone as well, but I think the author actually convinces himself by the end of the essay that his new outlook is actually a more mature one rather than the artistic compromise he initially describes.
>>I am surprised that YC would make this page so remarkably mobile-unfriendly.

You are surprised? Are you forgetting that Hacker News itself was, as of a few months ago, a horrible experience on mobile?
I'm not really sure why consumers or ISPs have a reason to be excited about this. I'm beginning with the assumption that the custom shaping rules will only take effect once a bandwidth cap is reached (otherwise, why would someone self-limit?). If a consumer reaches their bandwidth cap it means some service will suffer. Letting them choose which one suffers the most doesn't seem like a killer feature. For ISPs, it doesn't matter how the bandwidth is distributed once the cap is reached.

Maybe there is some use case for metered connections or data caps?
The most forked repositories are interesting to look at. That's a lot of forks for a few recipes! Udacity courses showing their numbers.

The relative number of contributors to Font-Awesome is also quite surprising.
Please add (2011) to the title.
There are people who can (or in some cases must) opt out based on occupation. For example, see https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/teacher-retirement... for a brief discussion of some of the mess.
Why do you have to be down? Cant you set up a forked development server and get OSM up and running then do the transition?
Especially ironic considering sama/YC funded Scribd. Really shows the quality of their work!
Thinkpad x230 with modified Intel ME firmware - no more root kit?
Sounds like you are on the verge of investing Erlang!
Costs around $3k for a carrier license.
WISP quality is very uneven. It's rare to find one that has the right combination of business acumen, network engineering, and rf engineering to run successfully...

IME when correctly configured Canopy is one of the most robust last mile fixed-wireless systems on the market (though LTE may change that), but it has to be configured correctly.

The main feature of Canopy is GPS synchronization of tx/rx timeslots so you can reuse spectrum. A lot of WISPs bought it for that and then never changed settings because they didn't understand how the sync worked and didn't want to change a setting that alters timeslots and break sync. Never mind that there is a built-in calculator to help you figure that out...

Getting 5-20% packet loss upstream indicated they were doing something terribly wrong. Perhaps they screwed up timeslots and the AP received interference from other APs causing errors when listening for your SM, perhaps they didn't add control frames after their subscriber count significantly increased, or they simply oversubscribed the AP. The most widely deployed Canopy version (gen2 PMP100, came out in 2004 and still widely deployed) could handle up to 10Mbps down & 4Mbps up. Selling 8M/2M plans on that platform is a bit ambitious but unfortunately all too common.
What I've learnt from this successful CEO who had only $3 left in his bank
A friend of mine graduated from Cambridge University 13 years ago, went on to work at a top consulting firm. Just as his career advanced rapidly, he abruptly quitted and invested all his $20k saving into his new venture. $20k quickly dried up and one morning, he woke up to $3 left in his bank.

Miraculously, the next day after, he found $30k in his bank, giving him the breathing room to continue. Today, his company has staff close to 100 with offices in three countries, aiming at disrupting an age old industry.

That $30k is not god sent, he simply earned it. Months before that $3 day, he already anticipated empty bank account, so he offered to work for free for his "imaginary" client. He busted ass all month, and this client loved his product/service so much and he voluntarily put $30k into his account, hence miracle I mentioned earlier.

Today, I sat across table from him, asked him, whats your advice for an early stage startup.

He did not hesitate: flawless execution. cash flow. Ideas, products are secondary, the most important is your will to find that first customers who really love your product.

I further asked him: what if I'm so indecisive, I don't know who will be my customers, my product can do so much.

He replied:"Find that customer who badly need your service, and simplify it for this customer."

It reminds me what Groove founder Alex Turnbull said: "the fundamental keys to success are simple but hard: first and foremost, make something that people badly need or want."

P.s. Please have a look at our product offering in the link, and let me know in the comments what you think. Any feedbacks are appreciated. Thanks!

http://audiencemojo.com
Bah. If I want to deliberately look stupid on the Internet there are much, much better ways that don't require a dedicated key.
Carla Hayden: new librarian of Congress makes history with an eye on the future
I think its important to note, for those who complain Tesla can't compete against pumped storage or other utility scale storage methods, that Tesla is able to have this deployed in 3 months (this is partly because Tesla can just drop racks of batteries on site and be up and running, and partly because of the regulatory environment after the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage complex leak fiasco).

Edit: This will replace the need for peaker plants first (generators of last resort, very expensive, only run a handful of hours a year), and as the cost drops, will slowly push out base load coal and natural gas (by increasing the capacity factor of solar and wind). "Batteries are the new peaker plants", as it were. [1] [2] [3]

This is what it looks like when batteries are used to offset fossil fuel generators (instead of curtailing excess wind and solar, it'll be soaked up by utility batteries such as these). Frequently, depending on renewables output, the spot of price of power can go negative. This means someone gets paid to use that power. This is where utility scale battery storage shines, as its happy to gobble up that power, being paid to do so, and can later be paid to release that power when demand is high.

Edit 2: If Tesla can book this revenue in Q3, combined with their vehicle sales push, they're going to be GAAP profitable for the quarter, which will allow them to close the Solar City acquisition. Well played.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant

[2] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/dueling-charts-o...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/batteries-...
How can take healthcare for better living
Where does it say that she memorized the words? I've never heard the song but I've heard about it and know the "hide your kids" bit. It's not like she's reciting the Gettysburg Address here.
> dozens of repos

ha. I wish I had this many repos. We have 1000+ git repos. To be fair, a ton are open sourced and there are reasons why it's done this way, but still.
EDIT: if i pay someone more than $600, i have to file a 1099. sorry - all of this seems quite irrelevant, but personally i'm tired of having people claim that the small businessman is being repressed by excessive regulation and government tyranny. The small businessman is being repressed by the state of the market and the large businessman.
As someone just arriving to React - should I just learn React Router v4?
Yes, but it's not the new large one.
On the cusp of an AI revolution
The author, Jerry Salz, is a gem.
Anybody know why the first approach to Mars is 20 light minutes? Musk mentioned that the fastest approach to Mars is 4 light minutes!
So you are dividing the world into a classical and modern/postmodern halves.

When does your modernism start? What triggers it? Is it the Avant Guards of the late teens and 20's, unleashed by the horrors of the WW1? Is it the loosening of realism by the Impressionists in the 1880's set free by the early widespread use of photography? Or is it earlier with Gothic Churches, whose vast open spaces were structurally freed by architectural innovations like external flying buttresses, that allowed the insides to be illuminated by massive stained glass windows colored in new pallets by minerals imported from Asia and Africa?

Or do we start your modernism all the way back in 1420 and Brunelleschi's development of linear perspective? It was only in this time that the Classical Era was first defined as such -- retroactively, rediscovered thanks primarily due to its preservation by Islamic scholars over preceding centuries.

The forces of technological change, war, trade, and migration have always been at work. They were in Greece in 300BC when those Classical texts were originally written, in Constantinople during the sacking 4th Crusade in 1204, when they were taken from their ancient libraries and brought to Western Europe, and they were during the second half of the 20th Century, when what is now called Post Modernism emerged to critique key aspects of their organizing logic.

In all those times we were Modern. I don't think we have ever not been.

And before you dismiss those pesky, ugly Avant Guardists, especially since you are doing do in the context of networked computer machinery, I suggest you read this excellent article by Lev Manovich "Avant-guard as Software" https://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/espai/eng/art/manovich1002/mano...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502878
Thanks for proving my point. You jumped to the assumption that I'm a racist or sexist, and you even put it in writing. Now I report you to HR, you have a black mark on your record and won't be getting your annual bonus / raise / promotion.

And hey look, perhaps I am, who can tell these days. Telling somebody to smile is sexist now apparently. "island of cannibals" is racist, but I dont know which race - all of them I guess.

Give me any topic of conversation and I'll tell you who it offends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register...

I suspect it was deliberately chosen to do this for the purposes of testing the disk; the sequence is random-looking so it exercises all the bits, but is also deterministic so that written data can be verified by reading it back and comparing without having to store a copy of all the written data somewhere else.
Why do you all rely on oil? Just use batteries...

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I think it's important to note that they are not "replacing fossil-fuel electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries".

They are putting fossil-fuel supplied electricity into batteries to use at a later date.
This is what all experience indicates is correct.
I'd never heard the term rent-seeking until I started reading HN and learned it was a term used by economists.
I use Pepsodent and it contains hydrated silica. Why is it not safe?
I find it weird how technological process sometimes plays out. We have been complaining for decades about how green energy is unreliable and that we need innovative storage solutions. And now batteries somehow seem to be good enough and we are like: "Hey, why don't we put a bunch of batteries in a container?" Proving ones again that economy trumps technology.

The next really big thing after green energy will be recycling. Not that it matters to our generation.
It's interesting just how long it can take to unlearn habits from previous programming experience and find a way to do things in harmony with the current tools you're using. Probably the more experienced and senior you are, the harder it gets.
That's 99% true, but Southern California also has periods of time when there's too much _solar_ power and they need to take some solar systems off-line!

(See http://www.vox.com/2016/4/8/11376196/california-grid-expansi...)

This may alleviate that problem
Water evaporating is a major component of the hydrologic cycle. That's generally what happens to water that ends up in the Mediterranean, so we'd essentially be taking the water that ended up in the ocean and putting it into an inland sea instead.

Now that would probably have consequences for the Nile Delta, particularly in terms of saltwater intrusion... but the the Nile Delta is already somewhat screwed this way.[1] But I'm a meteorologist and not a hydrologist, so don't take my word on it.

What I can say is that large bodies of water moderate temperature around them and create wildlife habitat, as North African lakes apparently did during the Pleistocene. The ecological impacts might be unpredictable, but they're definitely not unprecedented.

Also when you say "reduction of water to current cities", you sound a lot like people here in the U.S. who think they will get less Colorado River water if it's stored in Lake Mead than if it was in Lake Powell. That's not how politics works; and storing the water in two dams only increases evaporation so everyone gets less water :(

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Delta#Sea_level
> Tesla's contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day

This is < 0.1% of the total number of homes in SoCal, just to put it in perspective.
I recently noticed that reactjs/react-router redirects to ReactTraining/react-router. Does anyone know why that is?
The problem is the second assumption of Elo's system, per wikipedia: "if a player wins a game, he is assumed to have performed at a higher level than his opponent for that game. Conversely, if he loses, he is assumed to have performed at a lower level."

But you can't assume that about lawsuits. If the client should have paid ten million in damages, the better lawyer might limit the award to nominal damages. But the same nominal damages loss might be a disaster in another case the lawyer should have won.

Lawsuits aren't zero-sum, bilateral agreements to compete like most sports. Parties aren't just competing for a 'win,' but looking to maximize gain or minimize loss.
Would modern c++ with a decent framework be that bad for web development? I imagine you'd have to do a bit more wiring due to the lack of reflection etc, but that isn't an insurmountable problem.

Edit - There a quite a few frameworks out there. This one seemed quite nice: https://github.com/ipkn/crow
Chicken meet Egg, we have to do both things does it matter in what order it is done. Oil can be stored in a tank, renewables really are playing catch up in terms of storage.

This is a great step forward for getting off oil.
I believe this statement is short-sighted, and I would strongly recommend child-proof packaging for this product.

If a child eats a tube of toothpaste, it's not great for them[1], but eating a significant amount of caffeinated toothpaste would most likely kill them.

This is a problem because people don't normally store and secure toothpaste the way they do bleach or pesticides, and also because this product is formulated to have an interesting and attractive taste - i.e, it presents a kind of "attractive nuisance".

Ref [1] http://www.poison.org/articles/2015-dec/toothpaste

"It is unlikely for a child to have anything beyond short-term stomach upset from eating toothpaste. In rare cases, if an excessive amount of fluorinated toothpaste is swallowed, there can be more serious problems. Fluoride can lower the amount of calcium and magnesium in the body. Toothpaste formulated to help with sensitivity contains a second ingredient – a nitrate – that can also cause more serious problems if large amounts are ingested. This is unlikely to occur from unintentional ingestions by children, especially of over-the-counter toothpaste."
How would autopilot be "conservative"? It's right there in the word: Pilots itself.
Good catch! Updated.
Why doesn't Panasonic just cut out the middleman here? Are they afraid of making their own deals in america?
I wonder what happened to Bloom Energy. Wasn't their technology suited for this kind of use?
Brett Smith: Starting Out at Software Freedom Conservancy
Obviously Java didn't succeed as a desktop application development language, but the JVM and the java eco system has succeeded by any objective measure. I see your point that what matters is what does a person say "NO" to.
I think that attitude is perfectly fine, and hey one day you might find that you do want to go to lunch with colleagues and have a chat about the weekend.

All I'm saying is that it would be a shame if we created a work culture were that was simply not possible.
Sadly, there are some that haven't seen the film.

A classic.
That said, at least he isn't trying to get our POE.
The biggest need for storage is to offset the intermittency of solar and wind, and to help shift peak solar generation (typically 12-2pm) to match peak demand (typically 4-8pm). Reliable and affordable storage is a prerequisite to wide scale solar and wind generation.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/californias-duck...
I Saw the Future Through Microsoft's Hololens
Because they changed orgs and Github redirects it for you.
It's not exactly intelligence, people, especially children, dislike and distrust anyone who is different. At the same time, there were a number of people I remember in school who were very smart (1% or higher) who made friends and got along really well for the most part. Usually, they found a club or something and just kept the same set of friends through high school.

It's people who are intelligent but have a troubled home life, or are also different in other ways that end up having a very lonely time compared to more average students.
Does this mean that before I can add any features to my product, I have to wait for them to be part of the data standard?
"Panasonic is quietly selling grid batteries in the U.S." http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/panasonic-batteries-america/

They've also done some larger grid storage projects in other countries, and with partners other than Tesla.
Right-Wing Billionaire on the Supreme Court? Why Not, Says Trump
NYPD Seizes $18,000 During Pocketknife Arrest
BULLSHIT!

I can easily check the code in at the end of my television spree.
Apologies if this has already been answered but I couldn't find it in the comments below: does anyone know the date of this interview?

EDIT: Figured it out. Probably June or July as he mentions OpenAI was 6 months old and it was founded in December 2015.
Sure - but I think alternative source folks are excited about this because at scale batteries allow solar and wind to be used to power larger swaths of the grid more dependably. That's a pretty exciting concept.
Yeah... seems odd to describe it as "massive"
San Diego has plenty of tech future. Startup scene is rich.

Amazon is here now (Solana Beach; disclaimer I work there) - and hiring.

Google is coming.
also, whoever / whatever transcribed this did a terrible job. 'accelerate the transmission to sustainable energy'...
Does this explain Peter Thiel's vigorous support of trump?
EDIT (since being flagged): The reason I think this is relevant to the community is that Thiel's work on startups is brilliant and his support of Trump is, to me and I suspect others, mystifying. This story provides a possible explanation. YMMV. I LOL'd.
You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
I wouldn't mind my mac being inside of my phone though, with just (properly working) wireless connections to an external screen, keyboard, touchpad and wireless charging.