skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like Apple was very reluctant to remove the account given the Dash is the sort of app they want people to make.

So I am not surprised they gave a lot of leeway to the developer.
As one of the other commenters, I wasn't suggesting that Apple is purposefully accusing innocent developers as part of a nefarious plot; I was suggesting that they might be mistaken, and obliquely hinting that it would be nice if they'd respond to the controversy with actual proof, as the article title (apparently falsely?) claimed they had.

> I don't see Apple getting anything out of it.

Refusing to admit innocent error is a very understandable course of action. If, of course, that's what they're doing. From where I stand the entire situation is completely muddy, and I don't think the linked article clarifies anything.
I'm willing to believe anything bad about the Nazis. Upvoted!
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hehe, it's also implemented in git-repo: `git hub open`
Better devs should have better options than less skilled developers, so if you have a high hiring bar you will be dealing with competitors trying to get those same employees. I don't think 10% over a standard offer would cover a competitors offer.
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Yeah that's a good setting.

The parent is correct though, Y doesn't work. I thought it did, so I opened it up to check, and turns out that I didn't realize this because I tend to do Vy instead of Y.
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Because they're in an arms race with review spammers, and telling the spammers how they were detected causes them to evolve new, undetected behaviors.

It might not be fair, but it's logical.
You can customize the font face and font size. It even supports proportional fonts!

You just have to hand-edit settings.json to do it. Go into File/Preferences/User Settings and copy the editor.fontFamily and editor.fontSize lines from the left panel to the right and edit them to what you want.

What bothers me about the font rendering, though, is that for some reason they have disabled ClearType! Everything uses grayscale antialiasing instead of subpixel antialiasing. So for my eyes the text is harder to read than Visual Studio and all my other apps.

I know a lot of people don't like ClearType, but I took the time to go through the ClearType tuner and adjust it to my taste - mostly going with darker, heavier rendering than the default - and now ClearType text looks wonderful on both my high-DPI displays.
It was obvious from the title and its posting on hacker news that this would be some kind of slick 3-D printer article. I was, very happily, wrong. Bravo for a much more interesting take on this project.
Hmph. I remember when "session management" was echo startx >> .loginrc

I sure miss being able to understand and control my machine...
I think a major reason is still probably customer confidentiality. They've got to play it on the defensive.
How do you like the office plans? From what I've seen Google seems to mainly use open offices.
I have used Zoho for a while now without spending a cent.

Would not mind paying a few bucks for the service though, email is a such essential tool for everyone these days anyways.
You might like the Filco Minila, I chose it after way to much time spent looking for my ideal daily driver. Liked it so much I bought a second one for home.

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I suspect it's because that would reveal what signals their abuse detection system is looking at, making it easier for malicious actors to bypass those checks. It's very common with these types of systems to keep the details secret.

Unfortunately, it does create a frustrating situation when you're on the other end of a complaint.
Apple has often made mistakes in the removal of apps.

Usually they just apologise and put it back up. It would be very uncharacteristic to stubbornly refuse to acknowledge and rectify the mistake.
While I appreciate being informed what does or doesn't make me a fool by internet strangers, I don't think that was the concern of the parent post. I believe their concern was that they would be seeing work related content popup while they were on their personal Facebook account thus mixing work/personal life.

I think the point of making it a completely separate account is to ease companies fears of users getting sucked into the endless scroll vortex while at work, and I would doubt they'd be jumping you back and forth and showing you notifications from personal/work Facebook when logged into either service. It would also be an obvious security/privacy issue if project info was popping up in users personal notifications.

Whether or not they are going to link the accounts on the backend for their data mining purposes, was not the intent or subject I was addressing/speculating about.
> Yeah, that is my main concern too. Maybe instead of tallying up/downvotes verbatim one could do clustering analysis on the voters. Votes by people who have similar voting-behavior might be of more interest to a user than votes by voters who have uncorrelated or even inversely correlated behavior.

That's the essential idea behind Amazon and Netflix recommendations so it is quite workable.

>> It would be better as a baseline to use the forum's memory as a filter for each user

> Not sure what you're suggesting.

I'm saying you have this massive haul of threads of which the majority are never referenced because they happened in the past. Normally users need to search this backlog but often don't know the right search keywords to begin searching. Thus they ask the same old questions of the old-timers who become crankier and crustier by the day because of this.

Since the same questions are asked multiple times you should be able to tally the answers together into a cogent form in a similar way to the method that autotldr bot uses on Reddit to summarize news stories.

Then you could present this information in a currently running thread that appears to ask the same questions.
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very hard to make it work. need a way to automate new leads - a blog/newsletter/vlog can all help here. but must also have the heads down time to do the code. and the management skills to maintain taxes (i am still paying off a tax bill from years ago).

i recommend putting all efforts into finding a jr web dev role (try both local and remote) until you can save up enough money to freelance with peace of mind.

either way, blog blog blog. its your safety net. lots of good advice on this site: http://robcubbon.com/habit-hamster-wheel/
That's a good question. I usually use remote drives."sshfs" is usualy the easiest option to setup on a linux box. And when well configure the speed is great
Which are the countries where doctors don't have an accreditation board? The history of physicians controlling who is allowed to join their ranks goes back centuries, at the very least.
App Store fraud cannot be tolerated.

Really? The integrity of user feedback data, inside a tool for loading software onto a toy (that functions as a tool just often enough for users to convince themselves it's not a toy) is that sacrosanct? What is that data used for? Surely something more important to the world than helping people get find their next fix fastest?

Seems kinda myopic on a grand scale. Has Apple has never done anything cheeky to help their business get ahead? They have a $1.8mm manipulation budget. But they know which toes not to step on, and which toes nobody will hear a scream from. So my use of "manipulation" instead of "marketing" sounds childish.
What if the fake reviews were paid for by a competitor, so they would get banned?
WTF? Is this really true about the thousands of dollars for virtual weapons? I know little about the modern gaming world so I would love a little bit more context.
This was fantastic; it's quieter than I would have expected.

Not Really Related: There are a few MMORPGs that have "soundscapes" in big cities that sound much like this. Guild Wars 2 in the human city is one that comes to mind.
So there's an incentive to write fraudulent, positive reviews for your competitors apps. Noted.
Microsoft said that too about O365, and its true -- for Exchange and Outlook only.

The reality is that to access all O365 products, you need to have access to CDN domains and live.com authentication infrastructure, and you need to constantly monitor errors in the network because cloud scale services change IPs all of the time.

I'm sure FB will be similar.
The first of many hiccups in their batch processing.

For two weeks they sold Coffeist without knowing the manufacturing process burned off the Vitamin A and C. They promised an update via email to customers but instead posted a blog update, while re-labeling and selling the remaining product at full cost.

The last instance of mold occurred just last month inside and out of sealed 2.0 bottles. Machinery leaked mold before the bottles were wrapped. Numerous customers and several batches were contaminated - with no contact from the company.

Other problems have included varying consistency from batch to batch and formula changes of viscosity without warning, and then the claims from users that have found roaches inside of the Soylent-branded boxes containing the bottles (not inside the shipping box).

The problem here is their approach. To discover this information you have to be connected to the community and keep yourself fully up to date or else you may find yourself unknowingly consuming a tainted batch. So far Coffeist has been the only instance in which they reached out to customers, despite there being several to many contaminated batches of their entire line - from bars, bottles, and powder.

The whole point of Soylent is that it's convenient, worry-free, and nutritionally complete. When I have to vigorously check my bars or bottles for mold, improper mixing, or to see if the expiration matches a contaminated batch - it's no longer convenient or worry-free. When they don't know for two weeks that manufacturing burns away the vitamins - and they re-label to sell it at full cost - it's no longer nutritionally complete.

"If you notice you have a bad batch, contact us," is not the approach I can trust for a new contender with no market trust. For a company that totes 100% transparency, they need to work on their customer outreach.
There's a lot of moaning about the resolution of 326ppi, but does anybody find that to be an actual limitation in practice? Just because other devices get a higher figure doesn't mean you get any practical value from those higher figures.
Didn't the dash author say that it was inexplicably removed with no warning. Now this press release says otherwise...

For people saying this was already in top of app store, well, there was rating manipulation. That's why it was on the top (?)
Yes I am serious. You providing no context isn't helpful either, thanks.
The actual proof might be subtle statistical analysis on customer data, or something else difficult to present.
> I think a very small percentage of people are future obsessed about the AI revolution. In the HN echo chamber it might be more but the majority of people don't give it a second thought outside of, "NO SIRI! I SAID WHERE IS..."

Ditto. Outside of HN, I barely ever hear people talking seriously about AI. Perhaps the OP is more farseeing than I am, but to describe the world as "on the cusp of an AI revolution" still seems a little farfetched to me.
Shouldn't iOS 9s "App Thinning" feature take care of that for you?
Excessive consumption of sucralose can cause diarrhoea, which sucks if you think this product can replace your meals.
Rust for bare metal firmware, specifically on ARM, as a replacement for C/C++ with static analyzers.
I am a SRE, I've done software engineering for years, and I do ops and lots of capacity planning at the moment. I have no intention to denigrate anyone.

The word you should have focused on was 'magic'. In the same way that magic does not exist, it is not possible to plan future capacity with accuracy. It can even get worse if the system is of limited size because the time spent on analysing and planning can quickly cover the savings.

The only way to have good predictions is to already have the systems running in production [for months], with a [mostly] static user base, running applications that don't evolve, and never add any additional service. Given these circumstances, we could have good metrics on current usage and make good prediction on the future... except that to be at this point the hardware has had to be bought already.
Why do they make you do the coding exercises if you went to MIT or Stanford?
It's a total first world problem, but none of the headphones that FB provides in the vending machines are actually noise cancelling. There are Sennheiser HD 280s (huge over-ear headphones, quite comfortable, good sound quality and do deaden surrounding noise a little), Apple Earbuds (meh) and a seemingly easily-breakable Klipsch in-ear set that I can't remember the model number of.

The headphones are very reasonable for what they do (and of course, they're free to you, so even better) but in terms of actual noise cancelling you'd have to buy your own. Of course, FB pays developers well so spending $300 on a set of Bose QCs is no problem at all, but a lot of people don't bother or see the point when there are free sets in the vending machines.
Ask HN: What path would you recommend for learning Machine Learning?
I have been into Machine Learning a bit but haven't really been able to find an ideal path that I could follow to become good at it. All I ever did was take part in Hackathons, use python's scikit-learn library for different in built algorithms, and compare the results. This feels quite blant. Could you guys recommend some place where I can learn about all the different algorithms and apply them from the scratch? Tutorials, blogs, or any other readings as well as videos are welcome.
Facebook wants to take over your social life. Yelp wants to take over your decision-making over where to eat. Google wants to take over everything that generates marketing data. These stupid fitness trackers want to take over your workout routine. Hell there was even a connected vibrator that transmitted data to the mothership about users' masturbatory habits!

They're collecting this data now to use it against us later. It is influence to them. Think about Yelp, or Netflix's recommendation engine -- both are very subtle influence devices that can funnel your unspent dollars into the hands of whomever they want, provided they show you the right combination of words and pictures to make you agree with them. Features like recommendation engines slowly build trust with societies of users, acclimating them to into accepting the recommenders' recommendations with less critical thought than before. Then, once you've surrendered your free will, the recommendations become bigger. The service makes a grab for more of your life data. Soon, many will have deferred a good chunk of their life's decisions to recommenders (because real thinking is hard!) and, broadly speaking, individual taste will congeal even more into a single, bland, profit-driven thing.

(I do believe we are already partway through this transition already, and the worst is yet to come)

Facebook et al are like drug dealers. First hit's free... and after that you're addicted
This is exactly why I don't see how a company would be concerned. Lots of b2b relationships exist and are based on trust with legal ramifications for when that trust is broken.
I have a friend in med school and his experience doesn't sound like tech hiring at all. From what I can tell, med school isn't hard because of rent seeking, but because there is frankly just a very large amount of things you have to learn in a short amount of time. They also have to work extremely long hours on certain rotations. I was shocked at how little sleep he could get on some days.

On the other hand, he seems to not have experienced the bullying described in the article, so maybe that part of it is the rent seeking you describe.

I do think that tech hiring is a little ridiculous at times, but if doctors mess up, people sometimes die. It would make much more sense for them to go through accreditation like engineers do, in my opinion of course.
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Only move they had left really.
Do you have to listen to music or have noise cancelling on the entire day to get that silence?
San Francisco is a sanctuary city for counterculture. As more counterculture becomes acceptable outside of sanctuary cities, more marginalized people remain or come to the sanctuary cities partly due the history of catering to marginalized people.

I think that would be a decent way for you to see a possible outcome in that field too in order to create a conclusion.
Largely because a lawyer who hasn't gone to law school won't be able to practice in most places, due to their guild preventing them.

That same guild has coordinated a test & accreditation process that largely spans their industry.

Whether or not this process has led to better lawyers or legal procedures is an open question, but the software industry has no such standardization, testing, or work embargo, so they are largely not comparable.
Have they fixed the remnants of the update security hole? I haven't been keeping up, so they might have done that already, but I thought I'd ask.
I agree with you on everything, except the "easy to remember" part. Git's UI is very convoluted and inconsistent. Designing a good UI is really hard, but I see too many people fall into the "I learnt it, so it must be easy!" trap.

Congratulations for making git-repo, by the way! It looks extremely useful.
Ah interesting the article didn't mention that. Do you have a source that their research was limited to managers?
So if you want to get your competitor banned from the App store, just post lots of spammy positive reviews for their product? How would you defend your app against such an attack?
"You are grounded until you become a doctor!" - One chinese dad to his young son.
But probably not enough to convince people to change jobs.
So if I want to remove a competing app from the app store, all I have to do is buy them a bunch of fake reviews and Apple will ban them?
Agree with most bits, but the hours thing is ridiculous in med, in a very bad way. It doesn't have to be either... (Slowly changing for the better).
The cycles I've seen in Germany are pretty similar to the same style as the rest of the western world: typically flat bars or drop bars with somewhere between 3 and 15 gears. So a huge variety, everything from commuter to cruisers to speed to hybrids.

In the Netherlands, it's rare to find speed or even higher end street bikes parked in any of the massive bike stands. They're all mostly old-school cruisers (what some people might call scooners). They don't go very fast and it's not uncommon to see a 2nd person just sitting on the back cargo mount.

Also, I find it interesting Germans have the same word for drive and ride. That's one of those common language mistakes you'll hear Germans make when they say, "I drove the bus."
Considering that aphrodisiacs don't exist, and hammers have for thousands of years, I see a small difference.
You are arguing against things I never said.

1. I suggested taxing consumption and assets instead of income. Income taxes would fall to zero to be replaced with taxes on consumption and assets. You might have to pay more tax on your consumption and assets, but you would have more income to pay for it.

2. Consumption taxes like VAT are hard to avoid given the way they compound through the production chain. They really are very efficient taxes and any regressive nature can be mitigated with other transfer payments.

3. A wealth tax applied directly to the asset (the asset owes the tax, not the owner of the asset) would also be very efficient and hard to avoid. It would encourage the productive use of the asset rather than hoarding.

4. All taxation is stripping people of property they already own - income tax is stripping you of your labor after all. That is what taxation is.

5. Taxing wealth would not stop the poor from becoming wealthy. If would actually help the poor to become wealthier as the only thing they have of value (their labor) would stop being taxed.

I do agree with you that a change from an income based taxation system to a consumption/asset based system would be unfair to those that have paid income taxes all their lives and saved and are now taxed on their savings. The solution would be to have a long transition period (25 to 30 years) where each year the income tax rate fell and the consumption/asset tax rose.

All of this is rather academic anyway since the rich and powerful will never allow an asset tax to be implemented - the last thing they want is to start paying tax. As Leona Helmsley famously said "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
There are a number of papers tackling a similar task [0][1][2] for anyone who is interested. There isn't enough information to tell exactly what is going on with Deepgram, but one way to approach this would be to construct a shared embedding space for words/phrases and speech. These types of embedding spaces are powerful [3][4][5], but not magic.

Cool demo, looking forward to seeing more detail about what is going on. However I would quibble with the STT WER quoted above. Maybe in noisy environments with unknown speakers (and no voice normalization) this is accurate, but the kinds of clean speech in the demo perform really well in modern recognition engines (on benchmark data, to be fair c.f. MSR 6.3% and IBM at ~6.9%).

Most word searches over speech to text work over soft matches (or ideally beam search over most likely partial phoneme/word part matches), rather than hard matches so it seems like a bit of a straw man comparison in this case.

[0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub42543.html

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01032

[2] https://sigport.org/sites/default/files/gloveNNLM_kaudhkhasi...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03044

[4] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~reedscot/files/icml2016.pdf

[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2539
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The presence, or increase, of suicides does not mean that medical school is too "brutal." It could very well mean that young people are becoming worse at coping with stress. Or perhaps students feel more pressure because of their perceived consequences of their failures: basically no alternative career path that would provide the same standing as medicine, whereas in previous generations, med school dropouts could go on to dental / law / cushy corporate gig more easily. This could be one of the consequences of rising inequality.

I'm not disputing anything here, just want to discuss this logically. I've been in graduate school, and it wasn't that hard, and yet some of my peers would freak out constantly. And some wouldn't.

I will say that there's definitely a hazing culture across all professions in America that's completely unnecessary and inappropriate.
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I'm fairly certain Microsoft is like the gold standard when it comes to office spaces. I have always been super impressed when visiting any Microsoft campus.