skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily a function of the speaker but of the low-pass filter on the output. Unfiltered samples played back at 48 kHz will mirror the audio content at 0-24 kHz to 48-24 kHz, and repeat that pattern at every 48 kHz multiple. (This is not quite exact because DACs emit step functions, not delta functions, and slew rate comes into play, but it is a rough approximation.) This happens even if the sampled signal is a sine wave.

So, any output stage after a DAC necessarily incorporates a low-pass filter to eliminate the aliasing artifacts. A cheap low-pass filter will allow these aliasing artifacts through. You can simulate this e.g. by digitally upsampling a, say, 8 kHz sampled signal to 48 kHz without any interpolation.
They're way worse than UV rays since they're far higher energy, so if this is as bad as the ozone hole it could be pretty bad.
From the perspective of employees, if they didn't collapse in strikes, they would have collapsed for them due to outsourcing and automation (Which was the fate of manufacturing in America).
Very neat to hear, as I've been trying all sorts of different vodkas since one pivotal tasting. So I knew a Frenchman who was in the wine business and thought the market was too saturated, too tough, so he looked into spirits and saw vodka's large (~30%) market share and jumped in to the ultra premium space, the shelf above Grey Goose. His trick was to hire a skilled French distillery to run the vodka through 9 times, effectively cleansing it far beyond what most processing would be like (at the time). I had it over ice and can absolutely recall the pleasant experience drinking that came through. It was like no other vodka I'd had.

In the 10+ years since, however, I can go to my local shop and pick up a made in Texas (!) vodka distilled 6 times for about $20 a liter. Is it as good? No. Is it leaps and bounds better than what I remember from college and in general drinking out and about? Drastically better.

People look at me funny but I claim to be able to taste the copper still pots used in the making of Titos. Can't really over OJ, but if it's stiff enough. Just not my thing!
Did you read the article?

The point you are making here is PRECISELY the point that the author was making in the article: that a lossy format can be far, far smaller. He then goes into the details (from a high-level point of view) of what kinds of losses H264 incurs.
> my decanter

Myhrvold in Modernist Cuisine recommends to use a... blender. It really works ;-)
My own experience confirms this. I am not addicted, I started well after thirty and I only smoke real tobacco. Instead of mental fog on a month without tobacco I am getting the previous default state of mind, and after a pipe, I am getting very cool focus.
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More specifically, it sounds like it's one of those places where developers got to do things in production that didn't make sense.
Yep, it's insulting in just the same way it's insulting that people now program computers with high-level languages like C++, Java, Erlang, Python, Lua, etc., instead of using patch cables or punch cards. Or in the same way that people now just get on a jet airplane for $200-500 and fly across the country, instead of using a covered wagon and worrying about being attacked by natives.

The "house red" isn't something that everyone likes. Would you go to a restaurant that only has one dish for dinner, with no choices at all? I wouldn't. Most people seem to like dry wines; personally I hate those. Ordering "house red" is likely to get me something I don't want to drink, so why would I do that? That's like going to an ice cream shop where there's no choices, and I get served some tapioca with nuts in it (i.e., ice cream I really hate).
Call it Function as a Service if you prefer.
And even then, you need a few kHz bandwidth for the low-pass filter. Those high frequencies are greatly attenuated.
Not sure why this was downvoted; it's making a very good point.

There are a lot of cheap Android phones in the wild which are used primarily, or even exclusively, for voice and SMS. These devices count towards Android's overall market share, but they have very little effect on web usage.

Even beyond that, studies have consistently shown that iOS users use the web more than Android users:

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-beating-ios-in-web...

(Old study, but no reason to suspect the results have changed dramatically.)
There is no need to look in the fine print for reasons why this model could not be all around beneficial. It's right there in the headline: private corporation finances education degree.

Dyson have all the interests to do so, as it will attract talent and every drop of the student's time is devoted to learn material that will be 100% applicable to their day to day functions in the enterprise.

In more general terms, if all education worked this way we'll only be studying the inner workings of vacuum cleaners (or computers, or anything else that is a commercial product) and not abstract math, theoretical physics or philosophy. It might work in this particular case, but a society should be vigilant in not selling out to commercial entities all means of education.

Again, I am very happy of this particular project and hope it can reduce unemployment -- but wary of saying "Aha! Why don't we do this everywhere!?"
And thus, botnets were borne.
Is that the metric you want to choose to decide how happy you should be about a given situation?

Comparative performance with people in the same demographic and income range seems a lot better. Otherwise you can pretty argue ad absurdum that yeah, you aren't starving, you aren't dead so everything is good! R-r...right?
This is a screenshot of my google search from 2 days ago:

http://i.imgur.com/BNAcSsn.png

I've been using Lambda quite a bit, I think it's SO amazingly useful. Tasks that are highly parallelized and CPU intensive can literally be infinitely scaled out. I find it weird that their poster child use case is still always a reactive event like watching S3 and formatting images. There are so many use cases for directly invoking a lambda directly from your code.

Imagine a case where you had to parse a million documents with a relatively expensive computation, let's say 250MS per document. Maybe you have a solid machine with a few cores that's running your server, but even then you can't have the server cpu locked for so long, so naturally you'd need some sort of worker server set up. With a good machine and multiple cores, maybe you get 8 running at once. With a lambda, you can forego the worker server altogether. Just invoke a million lambdas directly from your application server, completely parallelized.

Theoretically, you've taken something that would take 70 hours and had it run in 250ms without having to set up any additional infrastructure.
I read about this, this morning and immediately thought of this Mark Cuban comment on building universities https://youtu.be/UgdNTzul27k?t=1m18s
Agreed. Discovering a simple mathematical model which matches the bee dance is really neat- it explains how an apparently complex phenomenon can be captured in a relatively simple piece of neural circuitry. The rest seems to be wild speculation.
For what it's worth, the used car market there is very cheap - no tax on buying/selling used cars, and an abundance of good vehicles.
Cigarettes except your last one roll it yourself real tobacco contained additives that made you neural system very succeptible to nicotine, there is biochemical evidence for your case. Were you using plasters like Nicotinelle to quit, or just took off on a bare will?
ok, but their flux is vastly lower.
I'm also an expat kiwi (in the US) and definitely agree re the shift about 5-6 years ago. It's not just the house prices it's also the potential salary. Higher housing costs (and you get a lot less for that money in NZ) and lower wages isn't ideal when contemplating the move back.
I had background in data science insofar as I had taken a statistics course, learned quite a bit about machine learning, and just generally done a lot of CS (but I had barely done any data viz/database querying/applied statistics). For people with only cursory experience with CS, the need to learn a bunch of new languages and tools (R, Python (+pandas/scikit-learn), MongoDB, SQL, maybe more) will probably make the content much less easy.

The courses did not push me to work that hard - all of them had just one deadline which was the project submission, and there were usually 2-3 months between deadlines and I got away with only seriously working on it the last 3-4 weeks most of the time. That being said, the projects were of good quality - pretty substantial, with good rubrics, and good ability to choose from easy options or do your own things. And, once again my extensive background in CS and ML probably made things easier than it would be for many people.

To be clear, I did not mind the courses not being that deep since I did not really want to be really busy with courses while working full time. I just think if these are for getting into being a professional in the field, they are not quite as deep as I might like for that.
OP is upper middle class, at best. Let's not use rethoric that would only apply to people that are actually considerably wealthy regardless of the comparative entity you choose to rank them against i.e billionaires and millionaires.

A couple trying to buy a nice house with their combined salaries isn't insane. In particular when that is the norm they were used to and who is slowly disintegrating.
Or if you can get them laid. Or a whole hell of a lot of other incentives. Humans are suckers for bullshit incentives. Just see how thoroughly the notion of "achievements" has taken over gaming for one instance.
I'll check it out and let you know what I think. Thanks~
"Unfortunately, when it comes to current event interpretations, I think overall Pinker is out of his wheel house (compared to, say, Chomsky or Ed Herman), and he should be concerned that the media, which is sympathetic to corpoarte and State interests, are eager to solicit his opinions on the present day geo-politic picture"

Really good point I had been fuzzily trying to seize but hadn't been able to pin down without your perspective. I was compelled to highlight that portion of your post in particular.
> In the case of UCSF, a public University that almost exclusively relies on public funding to survive.

Alternative view to that is that any entity seeking public funds should be frugal with those funds.

Would you accept a tax and tuition increase to double (or triple, or quadruple) everyone's pay at UCSF?
People are inhaling large amounts of industrial pollution every year.
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Do you prefer locals to buy the beaches?
Looking over the application, the science claims are wildly overblown. Claims of CRISPR making DNA sequencing free, having a 100% cure rate for cancer, eliminating the need for antibiotics are just on their face flat wrong. It seems they misunderstand what CRISPR is (a highly specific DNA nuclease), and how it can be used in the context of a larger organism.

CRISPR is a huge, important advance, it's not the cure-all to all of biology's real and imagined ills.

Not sure how the political thing is relevant in that context. This election season has been extraordinarily acrimonious, and I'll go on the record that I find Trump's views abhorrent. That said, at some point we're going to have to figure out how to talk about politics in a civil manner, because otherwise the whole situation is going to get even worse.
Exactly this.

There are a huge range of wines that need to be decanted. The effect is not only obvious but marvelous, how they start smelling and evolve into something much deeper, specially on the oldest bottles.

Same with the degradation. I have a vacuum pump for the bottles I left open and the degradation is still obvious.
He didn't say that's his price range, he said those are the prices.

Big difference.
Oof, reading through the discussion on English linguistics brought back some pleasant but loud arguments I had with an Editor pal[1]. She was fantastic at grammar, of structural accuracy, and enjoyed that nature of language. On the other hand, I look at words and conventions and prefer the "let's see how horribly we can break and re-assemble these things and have fun communicating" school of grammar-as-fluid. I think it genuinely helped each of us appreciate the merits and contributions of both attitudes toward English and writing.

[1] Disclosure: She's recently become my screenwriting editor on retainer
Are you saying the alcohol will be gone overnight? I doubt that.
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OK, I have to ask. This is one of my favorite movies but I still don't get the reference.
Some estimates peg WW1 cleanup efforts to continue for hundreds of years. If you feel particularly optimistic about our future, that war may continue continue killing people into the next millennium.
I meant prohibited, of course. I think that is fairly obvious from the context of my post. Sorry for the lack of rigor.

Where I live it is almost impossible to buy a gun. On the other hand, I can go downstairs and buy a pack of cigarettes with the same ease that I could buy bubble gum. No questions asked, no ID needed, no records.
Thank you for the paywall link
I've been watching the lectures & recitations from 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms (Fall 2011) to brush up prior to an interview. Erik Demane, Srini Devadas & Victor Cossan (Recitations) have been an amazing resource.

I've learned so much and am really impressed with their depth of knowledge and how they are able to convey complex ideas in a very easy to understand way, I can't wait to start the next courses.
Makes sense now?

Actually, no. In fact you didn't answer my questions at all.
I could see this being really, really great for planning/requirements meetings or code review. For those things, it's really helpful to get out of the normal work space and into a slightly different mindset. For building, I agree with the other repliers: definitely helps to be in a closed off area with minimal distractions.
I don't think that this paper is the nail in the coffin that NNT or his groupies present it as.

There are a lot of arbitrary transformations in the data that, while acceptable and in many cases enlightening, are by no means the only way of analyzing it. For example, having a bounded function between the population min and max and then a dual function that goes to infinity may help, but it's not immediatly obvious why.

I find the rescaling of the data to be a fraction of the population (as Pinker did) to be more natural than their functional normalization, in spite of their objections. I also think that analyzing data in a cumulative fashion, rather than simply as events that occurred in a point in time (with uncertainty) is far more appropriate in the ease of simultaneously handling both short-duration events (WWII, US Civil War) and protracted violent conflicts (i.e. Mongol invasion, Hundred Years War). Then, breaks in slope in the cumulative w/ time function can be much more easily discerned. (Also do this with your budgeting/accounting instead of your monthly expenditures or whatever to see if your spending habits are changing). But again, looking at the cumulative function is great for getting a running tally through time but has problems with normalization.

The point here is not necessarily that they did anything wrong, but that it's an ambiguous situation with lots of what Andrew Gelman refers to as 'researcher degrees of freedom'[1], and it's necessary to read all of it critically, and realize what researchers are doing and why.

edit: [1]: http://andrewgelman.com/2012/11/01/researcher-degrees-of-fre...
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Well, if they die close to their 90-ies, and with no cancer, its a decent lifespan. This is what I learned from my granddad, who was great chess player, famous school teacher, and volcanic smoker.
The issue there is it's not actionable. My company did exactly that, but a dollar from a biz-dev deal is worth less than a dollar from a one-time purchaser is worth less than an ongoing subscriber.
> There are plenty of sommelier competitions where they tell apart years and zones very precisely.

There's a documentary called Somm that follows a few people as they prepare for the Master Sommelier exam, it's impressive how precisely they can determine the year and region of a wine.

Example tasting from the doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNmcCCE15E
I fly it at least once a year and it's not THAT bad if you get an overnight flight. Europe to NZ is a much larger ordeal.
Sure, but missing a few in an "sample" list of SoCal doesn't change the fact that the Bay Area has 10x the people working on tech. A list of SoCal might include satellite offices for Google, etc. But Google's campuses in the south bay have tens of thousands of employees.
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Your argument was that minors cannot meaningfully consent to the risks. But smoking is already illegal for minors.

How can a company be held liable for people who choose to use their product illegally? This doesn't make sense.

(It's different of course if they are directly encouraging children to smoke. In that case, they should have the book thrown at them.)
360ml a month??

That's more than 10ml a day! I know you're going to disagree and try to convince me otherwise, but that is an INSANE amount of liquid.
Years ago, I had a relative who was running a restaurant, and she did a wine-tasting for the staff to educate them on wines and pairings, and I got to sit in on it. It wasn't a blind taste-test, but they opened a bunch of bottles of wine, port, and champagne (only ones that'd be served at a restaurant though, not some ultra-cheap supermarket stuff).

Invariably, I found that I liked the cheapest varieties the best. The $100/bottle port tasted like crap to me ("Grandfathers"? I think that might have been the name), whereas the cheapest port was fantastic paired with chocolate, which was something I had never tried at the time. Same with wines and champagnes; the cheap Asti Spumanti tasted good to me, the expensive stuff was just nasty.

I also think the roll-your-own is a great idea. Wine snobbery is annoying; I try to only buy bottles where they show right on the label what kind of wine it is (sweet vs. dry) instead of a bunch of stupid flowery language about notes and aromas.

I also wish they'd cut it out with the stupid corks. Those make as much sense now as wooden spokes on car wheels, or 50-pin SCSI ports on computers. Screw-on caps are superior in every way.
I'm reading your comment and having trouble figuring out exactly where we disagree.

> Any state that wants to stick around had better be good at defending itself and its interests.

I agree? I'm not sure where in my comment you got the opposite impression, nor why it seems relevant to my argument.

> Was that ever a theory, or was it really just something that people wanted to believe because it sounds hopeful and nice?

"The End of History and the Last Man" was hugely influential in political science circles in the 90's and early 2000's, on both the left and the right. People definitely bought its premise of the inevitability of liberal democracy as eventually taking over the world through market forces and social movements alone.

I would argue it even had a cultural impact outside academia and policy wonks. Even now, when people say they're not worried about current problems because "it'll work itself out somehow", they are implicitly citing Fukuyama even if they don't realize it.

> The backslide can't be too excessive without destabilization, however. (We're seeing that!)

Which is why I'm talking about forces and incentives. I wouldn't be so worried if I could see anything on the horizon that might push things back upward. But the trends that alarm me (breakdown in social trust, loss of trust in democracy) are mostly positive feedback loops that only get stronger with time.
"It is a delightful characteristic of these times, that new and
cheap means are continuously being devised, for conveying the
results of actual experience to those who are unable to obtain such
experiences for themselves; and to bring them within the reach of
the people ... New worlds open out to them, beyond their little
worlds, and widen their range of reflection, information, sympathy
and interest."

For the origin of this technology, we can look much further back in time than the 19th or even 17th century... back to pre-historic times at the origin of storytelling.

Storytelling was the first technology for "conveying the results of actual experience to those who are unable to obtain such experiences for themselves".
I googled it and the same stat on a couple different reputable sites, like that of the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society.
well, the reality is that level of optimism is required for the 800 million people living on a dollar a day, and if they can do it then perhaps those more fortunate could learn something there, as the Somalian I met said, 'nobody promised me tomorrow', or the popular 'yesterday was better than today, and today will be better than tomorrow'...
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When your technology can modify someone's mind's eye view, call me. I will give you all my money if it works for me.
> H1B applier must certify no current American employees harmed by the visa

HCL and Cognizant likely already had a pool of employees with valid H1-Bs ready to be deployed at vendor's location. As those workers were new to HCL and Cognizant, it's likely that no HCL and Cognizant employees were harmed.

Disney outsourced the contract, and HCL and Cognizant emerged as the highest bidder. To go after Disney you'd have to prove that it's somehow illegal to use third-party vendors for parts of the operation.
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> it's insulting in just the same way it's insulting that people now program computers with high-level languages like C++, Java, Erlang, Python, Lua, etc., instead of using patch cables or punch cards

It's hardly the same thing. Someone still has to produce the wine and then it's blended by the machine. For a software comparison it's probably the difference between hand crafted software by a group of professionals and someone picking a wordpress template and adding plugins.

> The "house red" isn't something that everyone likes. Would you go to a restaurant that only has one dish for dinner, with no choices at all?

The "house red" is still a glass of wine from a bottle, just not chosen by the patron. There's still a wine list to choose from for the more picky customers. Restaurants also have something called the "special of the day" or "chef recommended" and that's basically what we're talking about here. You can go to the menu or take the "special."
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Did you actually try this yourself? It presents a login page for me when I do this.
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Nor should we assume that people who disagree with us "haven't looked at the evidence"
Go check out their past investments. It's a joke even by SV standards. It further highlights that they don't have anyone technical on hand that can point out obviously bad ideas. E.g. Gigster.

Gigster can't even filter out all of the bad customers that Godaddy intentionally sends their way. Every additional bad customer costs them in time, money and reputation. Yet they have the gall to claim they're AI powered. Amatures.